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Our big bet on mobile games at Game Developers Conference 2018
Posted by Benjamin Frenkel, Product Manager, Google Play Instant We've been working hard to make Google Play the premier platform for game discovery and a place for you to grow your business. In the...
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Activity Recognition’s new Transition API makes context-aware features...
Posted by Marc Stogaitis, Tajinder Gadh, and Michael Cai, Android Activity Recognition Team Phones are our most personal devices we bring with us everywhere, but until now it's been hard for apps to...
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Stay secure with default-on mobile management
We recently introduced several features for G Suite to help keep your data secure. As described in our earlier post, this includes basic mobile management that’s on by default. Keep reading for more...
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Funding 15,000 web and android scholarship in Africa – to provide employable...
Posted by William Florance, Head, Economic Impact Programs Africa's digital journey is rapidly gaining speed. According to the recent data, over 73 million people came online in Africa for the first...
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[Video] Hamilton app built in 3 months with Flutter reaches 1M+ installs
Originally posted on Flutter's Medium by Martin Aguinis Hamilton and Posse, a design and development agency in New York, had three short months to develop and launch mobile apps for the hit Broadway...
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Android Studio 3.1
Posted by Jamal Eason, Product Manager, Android We are excited to announce that Android Studio 3.1 is now available to download in the stable release channel. The focus areas for this release are...
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Google Media Framework for Android is Deprecated
As previously announced, as of March 15th, 2018, the Google Media Framework (GMF) for Android is deprecated in favor of the IMA ExoPlayer plugin. All development and support for GMF has been halted. If...
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Wear OS by Google developer preview
Posted by Hoi Lam, Lead Developer Advocate, Wear OS by Google Today we launched the Wear OS by Google developer preview and brought Android P platform features to wearables. The developer preview...
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Introducing new Android Excellence apps and games on Google Play
Kacey Fahey, Developer Marketing, Google Play Congratulations to the latest apps and games featured in the Android Excellence program on Google Play. As a reminder, these collections are refreshed...
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Android Studio switching to D8 dexer
Posted by Jeffrey van Gogh, Software Engineering Manager D8 now default dex compiler Faster, smarter app compilation is always a goal for the Android tools teams. That's why we previously announced...
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Protecting users with TLS by default in Android P
Posted by Chad Brubaker, Senior Software Engineer Android Security Android is committed to keeping users, their devices, and their data safe. One of the ways that we keep data safe is by protecting...
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Time to Upgrade from GCM to FCM
Originally posted by Jen Person on the Firebase Blog. In 2016, we unveiled Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) as the next evolution of Google Cloud Messaging (GCM). Since then, we've been working hard to...
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Use your favorite password manager with Android Oreo
Security experts recommend strong, unique passwords for each service that you use. For most of us, however, it can be difficult to manage credentials across multiple websites and apps, especially if...
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DNS over TLS support in Android P Developer Preview
Posted by Erik Kline, Android software engineer, and Ben Schwartz, Jigsaw software engineer The first step of almost every connection on the internet is a DNS query. A client, such as a smartphone,...
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Android Things Release Candidate
Posted by Dave Smith, Developer Advocate for IoT Earlier this year at CES, we showcased consumer products powered by Android Things from partners like Lenovo, LG, JBL, iHome, and Sony. We are excited...
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Allow users to install any app on their managed Android devices
Until now, G Suite users with company-owned Android devices and those with work profiles could only install mobile apps that had been specifically whitelisted by their admin. In some organizations,...
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Protecting WebView with Safe Browsing
Posted by Nate Fischer, Software Engineer Since 2007, Google Safe Browsing has been protecting users across the web from phishing and malware attacks. It protects over three billion devices from an...
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Congratulations to our US Grow with Google Developer Scholars!
Posted by Peter Lubbers, Head of Google Developer TrainingGrow with Google in partnership with Udacity, is awarding 5,000 Nanodegree program scholarships to help aspiring developers in the US continue...
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Time to celebrate the 2018 Google Play Award nominees
Posted by Purnima Kochikar, Director, Apps and Games Business Development, Google Play This year's Google Play Awards will take place on Monday, May 7th, kicking off the week of Google I/O....
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Say Hello to Android Things 1.0
Posted by Dave Smith, Developer Advocate for IoT Android Things is Google's managed OS that enables you to build and maintain Internet of Things devices at scale. We provide a robust platform that...
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