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Product News
Today, we’re diving into Low Light Boost (LLB), a powerful feature designed to brighten real-time camera streams
Donovan McMurray • 7 min read
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Product News
Together, we’ve built Play into something much more than a store—it’s a dynamic ecosystem powered by your creativity. This year, our focus was ensuring Play continues to be the best destination for people to discover incredible content and enjoy rewarding gaming experiences.
Sam Bright • 7 min read
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Product News
The Android Runtime (ART) team has reduced compile time by 18% without compromising the compiled code or any peak memory regressions. This improvement was part of our 2025 initiative to improve compile time without sacrificing memory usage or the quality of the compiled code.
Santiago Aboy Solanes, Vladimír Marko • 8 min read
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Product News
Earlier this year, we reiterated our commitment to keeping Android and Google Play safe for everyone and maintaining a thriving environment where users can trust the apps they download and your business can flourish.
Matthew Forsythe, Ron Aquino • 3 min read
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Product News
Security is foundational to Android. We partner with you to keep the platform safe and protect user data by offering powerful security tools and features, like Credential Manager and FLAG_SECURE.
Bennet Manuel, Robert Clifford • 2 min read
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Community
In our latest #WeArePlay film, we meet Adriano, Wagner and Grazyelle. The trio are behind Matraquinha, an app helping thousands of non-verbal children in more than 80 countries communicate.
Robbie McLachlan • 2 min read
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Events & Programs
Today, during The Android Show | XR Edition, we shared a look at the expanding Android XR platform, which is fundamentally evolving to bring a unified developer experience to the entire XR ecosystem.
Matthew McCullough • 2 min read
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Community
In our latest #WeArePlay film, which celebrates the people behind apps and games on Google Play, we meet Mikkel - the founder and CEO of Miksapix Interactive.
Robbie McLachlan • 2 min read
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Product News
To support the expanding selection of XR devices, we are announcing Android XR SDK Developer Preview 3!
Matthew McCullough • 4 min read
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Product News
The Android Studio Otter 2 Feature Drop is here to supercharge your productivity.
Sandhya Mohan, Trevor Johns • 3 min read
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Product News
Today, the Jetpack Compose December ‘25 release is stable. This contains version 1.10 of the core Compose modules and version 1.4 of Material 3, adding new features and major performance improvements.
Nick Butcher • 6 min read
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How-tos
We wanted to provide you with examples of AI-enabled features using both on-device and Cloud models and inspire you to create delightful experiences for your users.
Thomas Ezan, Ivy Knight • 2 min read
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Product News
Android 16 QPR2 is now released and available in AOSP
Matthew McCullough • 4 min read
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Events & Programs
Jetpack Navigation 3 is now stable, and using it can help you reduce tech debt, provide better separation of concerns, speed up feature development time, and support new form factors.
Don Turner • 1 min read
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Community
In our latest #WeArePlay film, which celebrates the people behind apps and games on Google Play, we meet Chiharu - a co-founder of DELISH KITCHEN.
Robbie McLachlan • 2 min read
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Events & Programs
From the foundational powers of the R8 optimizer and Profile Guided Optimizations, to performance improvements with Jetpack Compose, to a new guide on leveling up your app's performance, we've covered the low effort, high impact tools you need to build a performant app.
Ben Weiss, Sara Hamilton • 3 min read
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How-tos
The performance leveling guide features 5 levels. We'll start with level 1, which introduces minimal adoption effort performance tooling, and we'll go up to level 5, ideal for apps that have the resourcing to maintain a bespoke performance framework.
Alice Yuan • 9 min read
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How-tos
We're covering Profile Guided Optimization, Jetpack Compose performance improvements and considerations on working behind the scenes.
Ben Weiss, Breana Tate, Jossi Wolf • 8 min read
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Product News
Jetpack Navigation 3 version 1.0 is stable!
Don Turner • 3 min read
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Product News
In the mobile ecosystem, abuse can threaten your revenue, growth, and user trust. To help developers thrive, Google Play offers a resilient threat detection service, Play Integrity API.
Dom Elliott, Eric Lynch • 5 min read
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