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#IMakeApps: One developer’s life on the road
Sterling Udell and his wife Teresa always loved to travel and the opportunity to hit the road full-time was a dream for them. At some point, they realized that software development was a...
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Enter the Indie Games Festival from Google Play
Posted by Patricia Correa, Director, Developer Marketing The indie developer community released several fantastic titles on Google Play during 2019, showing the technical skill and innovative design...
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PHA Family Highlights: Bread (and Friends)
Posted by Alec Guertin and Vadim Kotov, Android Security & Privacy Team In this edition of our PHA Family Highlights series we introduce Bread, a large-scale billing fraud family. We first started...
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Get ready for the Game Developers Conference
Posted by Kacey Fahey, Games Developer Marketing, Google Cross-posting from the Google Developers Blog. Join us online or live* at the Google Developer Summits during the Game Developers Conference on...
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Flashing Builds from the Android Open Source Project
Posted by Mitchell Wills, Android Build Software Engineer AOSP has been around for a while, but flashing builds onto a development device has always required a number of manual steps. A year ago we...
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Five (of many) new emoji coming to Android this year
Each year, the Unicode Consortium reviews a seemingly infinite number of proposals that result in a list of emoji to be added to smartphones. Then companies like Google design the emoji for their...
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The path to DX deprecation
Posted by Leo Sei, Product Manager on Android Back in 2017, we released D8, a new faster dexing compiler to replace DX, producing smaller APKs. In April 2018, we announced D8 as the default option in...
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New admin controls for third-party app backups in Google Drive
What’s changing Admins can now choose whether their Android users can back up data from third-party apps, such as WhatsApp, to their G Suite accounts. Previously, admins didn’t have specific controls...
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How we fought bad apps and malicious developers in 2019
Posted by Andrew Ahn, Product Manager, Google Play + Android App Safety Google Play connects users with great digital experiences to help them be more productive and entertained, as well as providing...
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Feeling all the feels? There’s an emoji sticker for that.
Have you ever been so overwhelmingly filled with love that it moved you to tears? Or, perhaps you’ve laughed so hard you felt sick—and wished your phone had an emoji to convey that feeling? Whether...
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Detecting Memory Corruption Bugs With HWASan
Posted by Evgenii Stepanov, Staff Software Engineer, Dynamic Tools Native code in memory-unsafe languages like C and C++ is often vulnerable to memory corruption bugs. Our data shows that issues like...
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Handling Device Orientation Efficiently in Vulkan With Pre-Rotation
By Omar El Sheikh, Android Engineer Francesco Carucci, Developer Advocate Vulkan provides developers with the power to specify much more information to devices about rendering state compared to...
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Safer and More Transparent Access to User Location
Posted by Krish Vitaldevara, Director of Product Management Trust & Safety, Google Play Last year, we made several changes to our platform and policies to increase user trust and safety. We’re...
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Turning it up to 11: the first Developer Preview of Android 11
Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering Android has led the way towards the future of mobile, with new technologies like 5G to foldable displays to machine learning built into the core. A hallmark of...
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Native Dependencies in Android Studio 4.0
By Dan Albert, Software Engineer One thing that NDK users struggle with is managing native dependencies: Library authors need to maintain support for both ndk-build and CMake (and hope that their...
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Android Studio 3.6
Posted by Scott Swarthout, Product Manager We are excited to announce the stable release of Android Studio 3.6 with a targeted set of features addressing quality in primarily code editing and...
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Data Encryption on Android with Jetpack Security
Posted by Jon Markoff, Staff Developer Advocate, Android Security Have you ever tried to encrypt data in your app? As a developer, you want to keep data safe, and in the hands of the party intended to...
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New music controls, emoji and more features dropping for Pixel
A few months ago, Pixel owners got a few new, helpful features in our first feature drop. Beginning today, even more updates and new experiences will begin rolling out to Pixel users. Help when you...
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Update on Google at GDC 2020
Posted by the Google for Games Team Last Friday, GDC 2020 organizers made the difficult decision to postpone the conference. We understand this decision, as we have to prioritize the health and safety...
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Update on Google at GDC 2020
Posted by the Google for Games Team Last Friday, GDC 2020 organizers made the difficult decision to postpone the conference. We understand this decision, as we have to prioritize the health and safety...
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