What’s new in Android gaming
Posted by Greg Hartrell, Head of Product Management, Games on Android & Google Play In March of this year, at the Google for Games Developer Summit, we shared several new tools and services Google...
View ArticleMeet Google Play Billing Library Version 3
Posted by Steve Hartford, Product Manager, Google Play Google Play is committed to a healthy ecosystem, where developers succeed by creating high-quality apps that users love. Many developers realize...
View ArticleBringing @Twitter’s DMs into Android 11’s Conversation API
This blogpost is a collaboration between Google and Twitter. Authored by Aaron Labiaga with support from Fred Lohner, Suzanne Xie, and Alex Ackerman-Greenberg from Twitter. Direct Messages for the...
View ArticleMessenger and Conversations
This blogpost is a collaboration between Google and Messenger from Facebook. Authored by Aaron Labiaga with support from Caleb Gomer and Samuel Guirado from Messenger. Messenger is ubiquitous in the...
View Article11 Weeks of Android: People & Identity
Posted by Dr. Stefan Frank, Senior Product Manager, Android System UI This blog post is part of a weekly series for #11WeeksOfAndroid. Each week we’re diving into a key area of Android so you don’t...
View ArticleAndroid Developer Challenge: the winning apps, powered by ML
Finding the right words faster in Gmail. Helping you pick the most popular dish on a menu with Google Lens. Automatically captioning videos or podcasts on your Android phone with Live Caption. What do...
View ArticleAnnouncing the winners of the #AndroidDevChallenge, powered by on-device...
Posted by Jacob Lehrbaum, Director of Developer Relations, Android Developers like you have always played an important role in Android innovation. Over 10 years ago, when we first launched the Android...
View ArticleNew features to acquire and retain subscribers
Posted by Angela Ying, Product Manager, Google Play Subscription continues to be one of the fastest growing business models for apps in Google Play. As your subscription business evolves and becomes...
View ArticleOn-device machine learning solutions with ML Kit, now even easier to use
Posted by Christiaan Prins, Product Manager, ML Kit and Shiyu Hu, Tech Lead Manager, ML Kit Two years ago at I/O 2018 we introduced ML Kit, making it easier for mobile developers to integrate machine...
View ArticleNew tools for finding, training, and using custom machine learning models on...
Posted by Hoi Lam, Android Machine Learning Yesterday, we talked about turnkey machine learning (ML) solutions with ML Kit. But what if that doesn’t completely address your needs and you need to tweak...
View ArticleAndroid 11 Developer Preview on Android TV
Posted by Xiaodao Wu, Developer Advocate With the rise in quality content that’s keeping us glued to the big screen, it’s no surprise watch time on the TV continues to grow. As users spend more time...
View ArticleRead Along: Grow child literacy with on-device ML design insights
Posted by Di Dang, Design Advocate From our Machine Learning-themed week together, we’ve delved into an ML Kit x CameraX Codelab, and we learned how to train your own custom models and integrate them...
View ArticleFull spectrum of on-device machine learning tools on Android
Posted by Hoi Lam, Android Machine Learning This blog post is part of a weekly series for #11WeeksOfAndroid. Each week we’re diving into a key area of Android so you don’t miss anything. Throughout...
View Article11 Weeks of Android: Privacy and Security
Posted by:Charmaine D’Silva, Product Lead, Android Privacy and FrameworkNarayan Kamath, Engineering Lead, Android Privacy and FrameworkStephan Somogyi, Product Lead, Android SecuritySudhi Herle,...
View ArticleUpdate your G Suite mobile and desktop apps before August 12, 2020, to ensure...
Quick summaryIn 2018, we began making changes to our API and service infrastructure to improve performance and security. As a result of these changes, some older versions of G Suite desktop and mobile...
View ArticleSystem hardening in Android 11
Posted by Platform Hardening Team In Android 11 we continue to increase the security of the Android platform. We have moved to safer default settings, migrated to a hardened memory allocator, and...
View ArticleBringing modern storage to Viber’s users
This blogpost is a collaboration between Google and Viber. Authored by Kseniia Shumelchyk from Google and Anton Novikov, Sergey Kozlov from Viber. As a messaging app, Viber needs to store, process and...
View Article11 Weeks of Android: Testing app compatibility in Android 11
Posted by Diana Wong, Product Manager, Android This blog post is part of a weekly series for #11WeeksOfAndroid. For each #11WeeksOfAndroid, we’re diving into a key area so you don’t miss anything....
View ArticleExcelliance Tech: moving to new Android dynamic resource loading APIs for...
This blogpost is a collaboration between Google and Excelliance Tech. Authored by Zhuo Chen with support from Zhihai Wang, Gao Huang from Excelliance Tech. Excelliance Tech improved the stability and...
View ArticleAndroid 11 Beta 2 and Platform Stability
Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering A few weeks ago we unwrapped the first Beta of Android 11 with a focus on people, controls, and privacy. As we highlighted in the #Android11Beta Launch, we’re...
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