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Add a page break before paragraphs in Google Docs in mobile
Quick launch summary Last year, we announced the ability to add page breaks before paragraphs on web. Now, this function is available on mobile. You can mark a paragraph to always begin on a new page...
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Make Payments with Google Pay and Firebase
Posted by Stephen McDonald, Developer Relations Engineer, Google Pay Connect Multiple Payment Gateways with Google Pay and Firebase We recently launched a series of open source samples demonstrating...
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Android Basics and Training Update
Posted by Dan Galpin, Developer Relations Engineer In October of 2021 we released the final unit of Android Basics in Kotlin, our free, self-paced programming course that makes Android development...
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Google Play Games beta launches on PC in Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong
Posted by Arjun Dayal, Group Product Manager, Google Play Games In December, we announced that Google Play Games will be coming to PCs. As part of our broader goal to make our products and services...
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Android Studio Bumblebee (2021.1.1) Stable
Posted by Adarsh Fernando, Product Manager, Android The Android Studio team has been abuzz with the stable release of Android Studio Bumblebee (2021.1.1) and Android Gradle plugin (AGP) 7.1.0; the...
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Announcing Glance: Tiles for Wear OS made simple
Posted by Anna Bernbaum, Associate Product Manager Last year we announced the Wear Tiles API. To complement that Java API, we are excited to announce that support for Wear OS Tiles has been added to...
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Building apps for Android Automotive OS
Posted by Madan Ankapura, Product Manager Today we’re announcing the availability of version 1.2 beta of the Car App Library, enabling app developers to start building their navigation, parking, and...
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Improving App Performance with Baseline Profiles
Or how to improve startup time by up to 40% Posted by Kateryna Semenova, DevRel Engineer; Rahul Ravikumar, Software Engineer; Chris Craik, Software Engineer Why is startup time important? A lot of...
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Grow your game’s revenue with Google Play Console’s new strategic guidance
Posted by Phalene Gowling, Product Manager, Google Play Last year, mobile game consumer spending grew 7.3% to $93.2 billion with no signs of slowing down. In this competitive, growing market,...
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Smule Adopts Google’s Oboe to Improve Recording Quality & Completion Rates
Posted by the Smule Engineering team: David Gayle, Chris Manchester, Mark Gills, Trayko Traykov, Randal Leistikow, Mariya Ivanova. Executive Summary As the most downloaded singing app of all time,...
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Chrome’s multitasking usage increases 18x on large screens
Posted by The Android Team Google Chrome is the most widely used browser globally, and the Chrome team wants to ensure their users have a great experience across all devices. Many Chrome users have...
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Unpacking 7 features on the latest Samsung Galaxy devices
Today at Galaxy Unpacked, Samsung unveiled the new Galaxy S22 series and Galaxy Tab S8 series and updates coming soon to the Galaxy Watch4 series. Together with Samsung, we’re introducing new features...
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Jetpack Compose 1.1 is now stable!
Posted by Florina Muntenescu, Android Developer Relations Engineer Today, we’re releasing version 1.1 of Jetpack Compose, Android's modern, native UI toolkit, continuing to build out our roadmap. This...
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Material You: Coming to more Android devices near you
Posted by Rohan Shah, Product Manager on Android We’re excited to announce that Material You, specifically dynamic color, will soon be available on more Android 12 phones globally, including devices...
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The first developer preview of Android 13
Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering Every day, billions of people around the world pull out their Android device to help them get things done. That Android works well for each and every one of...
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Write better tests with the new testing guidance
Posted by Jose Alcérreca, Android Developer Relations Engineer As apps increase in functionality and complexity, manually testing them to verify behavior becomes tedious, expensive, or impossible....
View ArticleIntroducing the Privacy Sandbox on Android
Mobile apps are a core part of our everyday lives. Currently over 90% of the apps on Google Play are free, providing access to valuable content and services to billions of users. Digital advertising...
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Making Google OAuth interactions safer by using more secure OAuth flows
Posted by Vikrant Rana, Product Manager and Badi Azad, Group Product Manager, Google At Google, we constantly strive to provide safer ways for users to sign-in and share their Google account data with...
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Discontinuing Kotlin synthetics for views
Posted by Márton Braun, Developer Relations Engineer Synthetic properties to access views were created as a way to eliminate the common boilerplate of findViewById calls. These synthetics are...
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Google for Games Developer Summit returns March 15
Posted by Greg Hartrell, Product Director, Games on Play/Android With over three billion players showing strong engagement worldwide, the games market continues to remain resilient and grow beyond...
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