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Android 13 Beta 3 and Platform Stability
Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering Today we’re releasing the third Beta of Android 13, taking us into the final phase of our cycle where we’re focusing on polish and performance. With Android 13,...
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Google Play @ Google I/O – 3 updates you need to know
Posted by Tom Grinsted - Group Product Manager, Google Play Here at Google Play, we’re always working on new ways to help developers grow their businesses, whether that’s by increasing installs,...
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5 of our favorite Android widget features
Widgets are a simple way to personalize any Home screen, putting the information that’s most important to you — your inbox, the weather, your to-do list or even a photo of your dog — front and...
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Privacy Sandbox Developer Preview 3: Support for conversion measurement,...
Posted by Fred Chung, Android Developer Relations The Privacy Sandbox on Android aims to develop new solutions that preserve user privacy and enable effective, personalized advertising experiences...
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#WeArePlay | Discover the people building apps & games businesses
Posted by Patricia Correa, Director, Global Developer Marketing Over 2.5 billion people come to Google Play every month to find apps and games created by millions of businesses from all over the...
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Notes from Google Play: making Play work for everyone
Hello, As Apps Partnerships lead for Google Play, I have the amazing opportunity of meeting with many companies who share great ideas and feedback on how we can support you creating and growing...
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Your Chromebook now works better with your other devices
During CES and I/O this year, we announced a few new Android and Chromebook features designed to help your phone and laptop work better together. Soon you’ll see some of those features roll out to your...
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Developer-Powered CTS (CTS-D)
Posted by Sachiyo Sugimoto, Android Partner Engineering A strength of Android is its diverse ecosystem of devices, brought to market by more than 24K distinct devices, and used by billions of people...
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Independent versioning of Jetpack Compose libraries
Posted by Jolanda Verhoef, Android Developer Relations Engineer Starting today, the various Jetpack Compose libraries will move to independent versioning schemes. This creates the possibility for...
View Article10 reasons to switch to Android
In the last year, over a billion new Android phones were activated. Ready to join the fun, but not sure which phone is best for you? Consider one that’s loaded with the best of Google, that can fold to...
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Final Android 13 Beta update, official release is next!
Posted by Maru Ahues Bouza, Director, Android Developer Relations We’re just a few weeks away from the official release of Android 13! As we put the finishing touches on the next version of Android,...
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#WeArePlay | Meet Melissa from BringFido in South Carolina. More stories from...
Posted by Leticia Lago, Developer Marketing We’re back with more #WeArePlay stories to celebrate you: the global community of people behind apps and games businesses. Following last week’s “virtual...
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Use the new Google Mobile Ads SDK getVersion() method
We heard your feedback that MobileAds.getVersionString() was confusing as it didn’t match the external version. We addressed it by adding a new method - MobileAds.getVersion(). In doing so, we have...
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DNS-over-HTTP/3 in Android
Posted by Matthew Maurer and Mike Yu, Android team To help keep Android users’ DNS queries private, Android supports encrypted DNS. In addition to existing support for DNS-over-TLS, Android now...
View ArticleHow we’re helping you switch audio between devices
Not too long ago, I had to plug and unplug my headphones any time I switched from playing games on my computer to listening to music on my MP3 player. So when I finally got my first set of wireless...
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Easily access your most used emojis in Google Chat
Quick summary In the Google Chat emoji picker, your most frequently used emojis can be found under the new “Frequently Used” section. We hope this improvement makes it easier for you to find and insert...
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10 favorite moments from a decade of Google Play
Think back to 2012: “Call Me Maybe” was on top of the music charts and “Venmoing” wasn’t a mainstream verb yet. Android — with its mission to make mobile computing accessible to everyone, everywhere —...
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Celebrating 10 years of Google Play. Together.
Posted by Purnima Kochikar, VP of Partnerships, Google Play This week we are celebrating ten years of Google Play. Over the past decade, your creativity combined with our investment in a global...
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New Google Workspace features for Android’s larger screens
After a long day, I love to lounge on the couch, tablet in hand, checking my emails and adding to my to-do lists while watching TV. It’s a great way to stay productive and get things done — and it’s...
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Improving the Google Workspace experience on large screen Android devices
Quick summaryAs part of our mission to provide a top-class user experience on large screen devices, we’re adding several new features and functionality to products like Google Drive, Docs, Sheets,...
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