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What's new in Android

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What's new in Android

Explore whats new in Android development. Explore new UI breakthroughs with Jetpack Compose, improvements in developer productivity, and how to unlock additional form factors for your app. Learn about Android 17, including performance improvements, new capabilities for media and camera apps, new functionality for desktop and large screened apps, and how we're using agentic automation to empower users to get more done faster.

Now in Android: 122 – Android Studio updates, Android 16 beta feature, and more!

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Now in Android: 122 – Android Studio updates, Android 16 beta feature, and more!

This episode of Now in Android covers the latest releases from Android 16 QPR2 to Android Studio Narwhal, The Android Show, Androidify, the Wear OS Spotlight Week, and more.

A month of SysUI

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A month of SysUI

Every business day of August I presented a new SysUI tip. Here are those tips!

Enrich your app with live updates and widgets

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Enrich your app with live updates and widgets

Learn how to use Android live updates and widgets to create rich user experiences, with demos of notifications and widgets.

Building for the Future of Android - Daniel Galpin & Ash Nohe | droidcon San Francisco 2024

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Building for the Future of Android - Daniel Galpin & Ash Nohe | droidcon San Francisco 2024

Talk by Daniel Galpin & Ash Nohe at droidcon San Francisco 2024 about building for the future of Android. It covers topics like background work, cross-device functionality, adapting to user preferences, and future-proofing app development.

Make WebViews edge-to-edge

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Make WebViews edge-to-edge

This article discusses how to make WebViews compatible with Android 16's edge-to-edge enforcement, as the ability to opt-out will be removed. It provides guidance on handling insets for WebViews, differentiating between cases where the app owns the web content versus external content.

Android 15 #SpotlightWeek

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Android 15 #SpotlightWeek

Android 15 AOSP has dropped, and this video kicks off a new series called 'Spotlight Weeks' focusing on Android development.

Android 15 | Spotlight Week

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Android 15 | Spotlight Week

This video kicks off a new 'Spotlight Weeks' series focusing on Android 15 and technical areas in Android development.

Building for the future of Android | Spotlight Week

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Building for the future of Android | Spotlight Week

Join Dan and Ash as they dive into building for the future of Android! This comprehensive talk covers: User Experience, Predictive Back, Glance Widgets, Technical Quality & Performance, Privacy & Security, and SDK Console.

Insets handling tips for Android 15's edge-to-edge enforcement

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Insets handling tips for Android 15's edge-to-edge enforcement

This article offers tips for handling insets to ensure critical UI elements remain accessible when Android 15 enforces edge-to-edge display by default for apps targeting SDK 35 or higher. It provides guidance for both Compose and Views, covering topics like using material components, drawing backgrounds edge-to-edge, handling display cutouts, and managing IME insets.

Now in Android #108

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Now in Android #108

This "Now in Android" episode covers the release of Android 15 Beta 3, which brings the platform to stability with final developer APIs and app-facing behaviors. It also highlights two Compose case studies, updates on Google AI Studio and Gemini in Android Studio, and numerous stable AndroidX releases.

Now in Android: 108 - Android 15 Beta 3, Google AI Studio, Gemini in Android Studio, and more!

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Now in Android: 108 - Android 15 Beta 3, Google AI Studio, Gemini in Android Studio, and more!

Episode 108 of Now in Android covers Android 15 Beta 3, two Compose case studies, Google AI Studio, Gemini in Android Studio, and stable AndroidX releases.

Android 15 Beta 3, Google AI Studio, Gemini in Android Studio, and more! (Short)

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Android 15 Beta 3, Google AI Studio, Gemini in Android Studio, and more! (Short)

This short covers Android 15 Beta 3, two Compose case studies, Google AI Studio, Gemini in Android Studio, and stable AndroidX releases.

A Developer's Roadmap to Predictive Back

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A Developer's Roadmap to Predictive Back

This blog post aims to shed light on various dependencies and requirements to support predictive back animations in your views based app.

3 things to improve your Android app experience: Edge to Edge, Predictive Back, and Glance

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3 things to improve your Android app experience: Edge to Edge, Predictive Back, and Glance

Learn how Edge to Edge, Predictive Back, and Glance can enhance the user experience and quality of an Android app, with a pathway through codelabs for the SociaLite app.

Building for the future of Android (Short)

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Building for the future of Android (Short)

This video is about future-proofing apps, including key Android 15 changes like Edge-to-Edge, Predictive Back, Private Space, foreground services, widgets, passkeys, privacy, security, and technical quality.

Building for the future of Android

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Building for the future of Android

This video explores what's new and coming in Android, including topics like background work, cross-device functionality, and adapting to user preferences, aimed at future-proofing app development.

Now in Android #101

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Now in Android #101

This "Now in Android" installment discusses Android 15 Developer Preview 2, focusing on enhancements in communications, developer productivity, app flexibility, privacy, and media refinements. Key updates include extended satellite connectivity support, an improved PdfRenderer, and new APIs for app efficiency and detailed app size information.

Now in Android: 101 - Android 15 Developer Preview 2, #TheAndroidShow, the Google I/O date, & more!

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Now in Android: 101 - Android 15 Developer Preview 2, #TheAndroidShow, the Google I/O date, & more!

This episode of Now in Android covers updates on Android 15 Developer Preview 2, a recap from #TheAndroidShow, the Google I/O date, and more news in Android development.

Google's Contacts app created a new widget 25% faster using Jetpack Glance

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Google's Contacts app created a new widget 25% faster using Jetpack Glance

With over a billion downloads on Google Play, Google's Contacts app is many Android users' primary tool for viewing and organizing their personal contact information.

Building for a multilingual world

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Building for a multilingual world

Learn best practices to internationalize your android app and how to implement per-app language preferences.

Per-app language preferences

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Per-app language preferences

Learn how to provide users with the ability to select per-app language preferences. In this video, we cover the different use cases for this feature, how to implement it, and more!

Android App Internationalization: Users can now pick their app language

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Android App Internationalization: Users can now pick their app language

In Android 13, developers have the tools to set application languages at runtime. Consider this user journey to understand why this is important to end users: You speak Bengali and Hindi fluently. On your phone, you read the news in Hindi and send messages in Bengali. Your phone Settings are in English because it is easier to get help with your phone that way – English is a bridge language. As a user, you prefer to use certain apps (entertainment, messaging, news etc) in a different language while maintaining a separate language to navigate through the rest of your phone. In this talk, learn how to provide your end users the ability to fluently set your application language according to their preferences.