Posted by Ben Weiss, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer RelationsWelcome back to the blog post series "Build intelligent Android apps" where we take a basic Android app and transform it into a personalized, intelligent, and agentic experience. In our previous post, we explored how to leverage Firebase AI Logic to build cloud-hosted and hybrid AI features.Traditional mobile UIs excel at focused, hands-on tasks, and the Android intelligence system is introducing complementary features to make complex, multi-step actions even easier. By supplementing traditional user…
Posted by Zoe Lopez-Latorre, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, AndroidBack in March, we introduced Android Bench—our LLM leaderboard for real-world Android development tasks. Our goal was to provide transparency around model capabilities in Android development and to encourage model improvements, to give you more helpful AI options for your everyday workflow. Since then, we have enhanced the benchmark based on your feedback, including evaluating open-weight models and adding cost and efficiency dimensions to the leaderboard. But AI capabilities are ever-evolving, and measurement needs to…
Posted by Jan Kleinert, Developer Relations Engineer, Android for CarsToday, the games category for Android Auto and cars powered by Android Automotive OS with Google built-in is officially graduating from beta to general availability. Our early access partners have already been bringing games to the parked-only experience for cars, and you can browse these in our latest collections of games for Android Auto and games for Android Automotive OS. Bringing your game to cars lets you reach users in their vehicles during natural downtime, such as while waiting at a charging station or for a…
Posted by Jan Kleinert, Developer Relations Engineer, Android for Cars Today, the games category for Android Auto and cars powered by Android Automotive OS with Google built-in is officially graduating from beta to general availability. Our early access partners have already been bringing games to the parked-only experience for cars, and you can browse these in our latest collections of games for Android Auto and games for Android Automotive OS. Bringing your game to cars lets you reach users in their vehicles during natural downtime, such as while waiting at a charging station or for a…
Posted by Thomas Ezan, Jolanda Verhoef, Caren Chang, Senior Developer Relations Engineers, Android Developer RelationsWelcome back to the blog post series "Build intelligent Android apps" where we take a basic Android app and transform it into a personalized, intelligent, and agentic experience. In our previous post we explored how to build intelligent on-device features using Gemini Nano through ML Kit's Prompt API. In this post, we will look at how you can leverage Firebase AI Logic to build cloud-hosted and hybrid AI features: Grounding answers in real-world context Routing requests…
Posted by Thomas Ezan, Jolanda Verhoef, Caren Chang, Senior Developer Relations Engineers, Android Developer Relations Welcome back to the blog post series "Build intelligent Android apps" where we take a basic Android app and transform it into a personalized, intelligent, and agentic experience. In our previous post we explored how to build intelligent on-device features using Gemini Nano through ML Kit's Prompt API. In this post, we will look at how you can leverage Firebase AI Logic to build cloud-hosted and hybrid AI features: Grounding answers in real-world context Routing requests…
Posted by Simona Milanovic, Developer Relations Engineer As Android developers, you have many choices when it comes to the agents, LLMs, tools, and command-line interfaces (CLI) you use for app development. Our goal is to help you build beautiful, high-quality Android apps, no matter how you choose to build. We’re announcing updates to our Android CLI command-line tooling, including the ability to access real devices through Android Device Streaming. We’re also sharing more Android skills, and giving you a deep dive into the Wear OS Compose Material 3 skill. Android CLI for command-line…
What is Android Things? Android Things is an alternative Android version, announced at Google I/O 2015, and released as a first developer preview in December 2016. Its purpose is to develop embedded IoT devices, with a known and widely documented Android ecosystem basis. It's currently running on three different boards: the Intel Edison, the NXP Pico i.MX6UL, and the Raspberry Pi 3. Some higher-end boards are coming soon. On the SDK side, Android Things comes with a specific support library to ease low-level hardware usage. It consists in two parts: the Peripheral I/O API, which supports…
Posted by Caren Chang, Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer RelationsWelcome back to the blog post series "Build intelligent Android apps" where we take a basic Android app and transform it into a personalized, intelligent, and agentic experience. In our previous post we introduced Jetpacker, the demo app we'll use throughout this series. In this blog post, we will share how you can use Gemini Nano through ML Kit’s Prompt API to build intelligent on-device features. Building intelligent on-device features refers to the ability to process prompts and data directly on a device…
Posted by Jolanda Verhoef, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer Relations Welcome back to the blog post series "Build intelligent Android apps" where you take a basic Android app and transform it into a personalized, intelligent, and agentic experience. In our previous post you learned how to connect to the intelligence system using AppFunctions. In this post, you will learn how to build autonomous in-app agentic workflows running in the cloud. Sometimes a task is too complex for a single device session. For example, booking a complete holiday itinerary involves coordinating…
Photo by Mario Verduzco on UnsplashMedium Android App — Migrating from Apollo Kotlin 3 to 4: Lessons LearnedIn this post, I’ll share my experience migrating the Medium Android app from Apollo Kotlin version 3 to version 4, including the challenges I encountered and how I solved them to improve our GraphQL implementation.Understanding Our Apollo Cache ImplementationBefore diving into the migration, it’s important to understand how we use Apollo’s cache in the Medium Android app. Our app relies heavily on Apollo’s normalized cache for several critical purposes:Performance Optimization: We use…
Posted by Jose Alcérreca, Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer RelationsWe released the official Android Skills in April, and the response surpassed all our expectations. In this blog post, I'll address some of the feedback we received, explaining the philosophy and methodology behind the project. Hopefully, this will also help you understand what happens behind the scenes when you install and use skills, allowing you to make better use of tokens and your own time. Why are there so few official skills? Currently, we only consider new skills when there's a verifiable knowledge gap…
Posted by Jose Alcérreca, Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer RelationsWe released the official Android Skills in April, and the response surpassed all our expectations. In this blog post, I'll address some of the feedback we received, explaining the philosophy and methodology behind the project. Hopefully, this will also help you understand what happens behind the scenes when you install and use skills, allowing you to make better use of tokens and your own time. Why are there so few official skills? Currently, we only consider new skills when there's a verifiable knowledge gap…
Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep, Android Last year, we wrote about why a memory safety strategy that focuses on vulnerability prevention in new code quickly yields durable and compounding gains. This year we look at how this approach isn’t just fixing things, but helping us move faster. The 2025 data continues to validate the approach, with memory safety vulnerabilities falling below 20% of total vulnerabilities for the first time. Updated data for 2025. This data covers first-party and third-party (open source) code changes to the Android platform across C, C++, Java, Kotlin, and Rust. This post…
Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep, Android Last year, we wrote about why a memory safety strategy that focuses on vulnerability prevention in new code quickly yields durable and compounding gains. This year we look at how this approach isn’t just fixing things, but helping us move faster. The 2025 data continues to validate the approach, with memory safety vulnerabilities falling below 20% of total vulnerabilities for the first time. Updated data for 2025. This data covers first-party and third-party (open source) code changes to the Android platform across C, C++, Java, Kotlin, and Rust. This post…
Eight years ago we launched a library of Kotlin extensions for the Android platform, Android KTX. In the time since, the library became Core KTX, and numerous other KTX libraries were written for other AndroidX libraries. And while KTX's approach to adding Kotlin niceties was built on a strong technology foundation, we’ve made the difficult decision to begin winding down our KTX extension libraries1. That's right folks–toss another entry on the Killed By Google board! Despite the date this is no joke. However, mourn not, friends. The KTX libraries were killed because the adoption of Kotlin…
This post aims to demystify some of the steps in a typical Android interview process. We’ll discuss steps, strategies, targets and solutions. Getting you better prepared to get your next Android role. This blog is from personal experience, caveat up front that your experience could be completely different, but I’ve been through A LOT of […] The post Proven Prepping for Easy Android Interviews in 2023 first appeared on Blundell.
Posted by Aden Haussmann, Associate Product Manager and Sumeet Sharma, Play Partnerships Trust & Safety Lead Android uses the best of Google AI and our advanced security expertise to tackle mobile scams from every angle. Over the last few years, we’ve launched industry-leading features to detect scams and protect users across phone calls, text messages and messaging app chat notifications. These efforts are making a real difference in the lives of Android users. According to a recent YouGov survey1 commissioned by Google, Android users were 58% more likely than iOS users to report they had…
Posted by Aden Haussmann, Associate Product Manager and Sumeet Sharma, Play Partnerships Trust & Safety Lead Android uses the best of Google AI and our advanced security expertise to tackle mobile scams from every angle. Over the last few years, we’ve launched industry-leading features to detect scams and protect users across phone calls, text messages and messaging app chat notifications. These efforts are making a real difference in the lives of Android users. According to a recent YouGov survey1 commissioned by Google, Android users were 58% more likely than iOS users to report they had…
Posted by Dave Kleidermacher, VP, Platforms Security & Privacy, Google Technology should bring people closer together, not create walls. Being able to communicate and connect with friends and family should be easy regardless of the phone they use. That’s why Android has been building experiences that help you stay connected across platforms. As part of our efforts to continue to make cross-platform communication more seamless for users, we've made Quick Share interoperable with AirDrop, allowing for two-way file sharing between Android and iOS devices, starting with the Pixel 10 Family. This…
Posted by Dave Kleidermacher, VP, Platforms Security & Privacy, Google Technology should bring people closer together, not create walls. Being able to communicate and connect with friends and family should be easy regardless of the phone they use. That’s why Android has been building experiences that help you stay connected across platforms. As part of our efforts to continue to make cross-platform communication more seamless for users, we've made Quick Share interoperable with AirDrop, allowing for two-way file sharing between Android and iOS devices, starting with the Pixel 10 Family. This…
Posted by Lyubov Farafonova, Product Manager, Phone by Google; Alberto Pastor Nieto, Sr. Product Manager Google Messages and RCS Spam and Abuse; Vijay Pareek, Manager, Android Messaging Trust and Safety As Cybersecurity Awareness Month wraps up, we’re focusing on one of today's most pervasive digital threats: mobile scams. In the last 12 months, fraudsters have used advanced AI tools to create more convincing schemes, resulting in over $400 billion in stolen funds globally.¹ For years, Android has been on the frontlines in the battle against scammers, using the best of Google AI to build…
Posted by Lyubov Farafonova, Product Manager, Phone by Google; Alberto Pastor Nieto, Sr. Product Manager Google Messages and RCS Spam and Abuse; Vijay Pareek, Manager, Android Messaging Trust and Safety As Cybersecurity Awareness Month wraps up, we’re focusing on one of today's most pervasive digital threats: mobile scams. In the last 12 months, fraudsters have used advanced AI tools to create more convincing schemes, resulting in over $400 billion in stolen funds globally.¹ For years, Android has been on the frontlines in the battle against scammers, using the best of Google AI to build…
Crash Course on the Android UI Layer | Part 2State Holders and Saving StateThis blog post series aims to summarise the Android Developer guidance on the UI layer. We’ll explore all the entities involved in it, understand the role each part plays, and discuss best practices.By the end of this series, you will have a general understanding of what happens on the UI layer and how to best handle state and logic within it, the various APIs involved, and how to use them. Additionally, we’ll provide decision trees to assist you when you’re in doubt.In part 1, we covered the UI and the UI state. You…
engineering:Coming soon to the mobile apps: Inbox tab in Activity Ever wondered where to find your blog’s received asks and submissions on the mobile app? They’re in settings, which takes a lot of taps to get to, especially if you have multiple blogs. We heard some feedback on our recent update to settings on Android that you wanted easier access to your Inbox. So, we’re working on moving the Inbox to your Activity screen. This was something we worked on during Hack Days in March, so while we put the finishing touches on it, tell us what you think of this change! This is now rolling out on…
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Posted by Amman Fasil Asfaw, Product Manager, Android Studio Android Studio Quail 4 is now stable and ready for you to use in production. This is the final stable release for Android Studio Quail. The new features in Android Studio enable you to build premium apps with AI efficiently and effectively. Check out the video below to see the most helpful new features from the last 4 releases that can help improve and speed up your development. Here is a deep dive into what’s new in Android Studio Quail 4: Android skills bundled into Android Studio While LLMs are incredibly capable at generic…
Ever wondered where to find your blog’s received asks and submissions on the mobile app? They’re in settings, which takes a lot of taps to get to, especially if you have multiple blogs. We heard some feedback on our recent update to settings on Android that you wanted easier access to your Inbox. So, we’re working on moving the Inbox to your Activity screen. This was something we worked on during Hack Days in March, so while we put the finishing touches on it, tell us what you think of this change!
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Posted by Amman Fasil Asfaw, Product Manager, Android StudioAndroid Studio Quail 4 is now stable and ready for you to use in production. This is the final stable release for Android Studio Quail. The new features in Android Studio enable you to build premium apps with AI efficiently and effectively. Check out the video below to see the most helpful new features from the last 4 releases that can help improve and speed up your development. Here is a deep dive into what’s new in Android Studio Quail 4: Android skills bundled into Android Studio While LLMs are incredibly capable at generic coding…
Posted by Amman Asfaw, Product Manager, Android Studio Android Studio Quail 2 is now stable and ready for you to use in production, bringing a shift to your IDE with concurrent agentic workflows, natively integrated memory leak profiling, and context-aware crash remediation. Whether you are performing a sweeping architectural overhaul, tracing a memory leak, or resolving a critical production crash, Android Studio keeps you anchored in your workspace by reducing manual friction. Here’s a deep dive into what’s new: Multi-tasking with parallel chats In Android Studio Quail 2, we've been hard at…
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