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Looking for UI inspiration that stands out? Android dev Jordon created a unique, neobrutalism-style weather app that answers one simple question: Should I go outside? 🌧️☀️
Built with Jetpack Compose, it's a great showcase of pushing the boundaries of what's possible in Compose → github.com/jordond/SIGO
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💻 Scale your Android app to new Googlebook laptops using adaptive development.
Optimizing for desktop unlocks perks like enhanced search in Google Play, featured setup placement, and an exclusive badge.🏅
Build for the big screen → goo.gle/3V83fL5
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Android Bench 2.0 has launched with long-horizon tasks challenging the top AI models with real world Android app development. Check out which models and agents are leading → goo.gle/3QKwMsh
Are the results what you expected? 👀 Let us know in the replies!
ALT Android Bench ranking of the top four AI models
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High fidelity leaves no room to hide mistakes. Samsung Galaxy XR and the latest production standards means more freedom to bring your creative vision to everyone. Ready to meet the challenge?
Discover how to build for Android XR hardware → d.android.com/xr
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The stable release of AndroidX Security State v1.1.0 and Security State Provider v1.0.0 are here. 🔐
These libraries bring transparency to device security by letting developers and MDM solutions programmatically verify component-level protection, check pending updates, and move beyond monolithic patch levels → goo.gle/4cRMKc3
ALT A flowchart illustrating the data flow and architecture of the AndroidX Security State library.
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✨ New models added ✨
Gemini 3.8 Flash & 3.7 Flash
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra
Anthropic’s Fable 5.1
Kimi K3
Qwen 3.8 Max
Check out how they stack up → goo.gle/4swdpRe
ALT Bar chart showing new models in Android Bench.
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Multi-day engineering tasks need more than a simple pass or fail.
That’s why we’ve introduced continuous scoring, tracking completion rates, visual fidelity, regressions, and average costs per model and task.
Explore the updated methodology → goo.gle/3SPfprB
ALT The model card view allows you to explore the strengths and pitfalls of each model.
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The long-horizon dataset paints a picture of the strengths and limitations of AI assisted Android development.
While models excel at building new features from scratch, only frontier models can truly untangle complex architectural transitions.
Dive deeper → goo.gle/4xJG3B7
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📢 Introducing Android Bench 2.0.
We've leveled up our AI evaluation framework to handle real-world, multi-day engineering challenges—from building apps from scratch to migrating cross-platform codebases to Android.
Let’s dive into what’s new. 🧵👇🏽
ALT Android Bench 2.0 dashboard with category filter buttons.
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✨ New models added ✨
Gemini 3.8 Flash & 3.7 Flash
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra
Anthropic’s Fable 5.1
Kimi K3
Qwen 3.8 Max
Check out how they stack up → goo.gle/4swdpRe
ALT Bar chart showing new models in Android Bench.
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Multi-day engineering tasks need more than a simple pass or fail.
That’s why we’ve introduced continuous scoring, tracking completion rates, visual fidelity, regressions, and average costs per model and task.
Explore the updated methodology → goo.gle/3SPfprB
ALT The model card view allows you to explore the strengths and pitfalls of each model.
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Invest in the future of spatial computing with confidence.
With trusted tools and incredible immersive and augmented capabilities, imagine the possibilities of what you can build. Discover how to build for Android XR → d.android.com/xr
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Are your tests actually verifying what your app is supposed to do, or just mirroring code you already wrote? 🧐
Feed business rules, design docs, and user personas into Gemini in Android Studio to generate tests that validate true requirements → developer.android.com/studio
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We need your input! → goo.gle/4dqlm50
Help us build a better experience for you: Take our 2026 Android Developer Survey to tell us about your Android development practices. 🤖
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🔐 Switching password managers on Android is now seamless → goo.gle/4gZDS5s
You can securely move your passwords and passkeys directly between supported managers in just a few taps — no file downloads, no recreating logins.
This new transfer experience is already available on Google Password Manager, @1Password, @Bitwarden Password Manager, and @Dashlane, with more partners to follow.
ALT Android bot showing how to switch password managers
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Going from 2D to spatial experiences doesn't mean starting from scratch. 🛠️
Audio engines translate directly. Media libraries carry over. You simply partition your architecture so familiar components handle playback while spatial features drive immersion.
Find out more about building for Android XR → d.android.com/xr
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Have your agent seamlessly scale your app across phones, foldables, tablets, and more by installing the adaptive skill.
It's a one liner with the Android CLI: android skills add --skill adaptive.
Learn more about the adaptive skill here → goo.gle/3SGX7se
ALT To install the skill from the Android CLI, run: android skills add --skill adaptive
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If you’ve ever had wireless debugging drop the moment your network shifted or your device locked, this one’s for you.
We rebuilt the stack to make wireless debugging truly fast and reliable. With ADB Wi-Fi 2.0, auto-connections are 32% more successful, and pairing via QR code is easier than ever. Learn how it works and how to set it up → goo.gle/4xSvPic
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Letterboxing on large screens is a thing of the past. ↔️
Taking advantage of expanded screens lets you deliver richer experiences across more than 580 million active large screen Android devices.
Read the documentation → goo.gle/3RStZOA
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Spend your time on innovation and not the boring bits. Let Gemini in @AndroidStudio handle the heavy lifting → goo.gle/3rlcmGe
How Agent Mode assists your data layer:
📄 Ingests custom API documentation
🛠️ Generates thin Retrofit data sources
📐 Adheres strictly to project interfaces
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From flat screens to tabletop posture 📖
Foldable devices provide an opportunity for innovative app development and this begins with adaptive design.
Learn how to make your UI fold-aware → goo.gle/3SaqFy8
ALT A foldable smartphone is partially unfolded in a tabletop position, showing a video player app
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Help shape the future of Android Bench.
Android Bench provides you with transparency into AI coding assistance. You now have an opportunity to contribute your own tasks, or submit locally run evaluations. Read more to learn how → goo.gle/4deCKJZ
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Your code stays right here on your machine. 😎
Gemma 4 is now built-in to Android Studio, so you don’t need a third party provider to download. Using a local model lets agents run complex, multi-step code changes completely offline, with zero token quotas → goo.gle/4gJ0Hu8
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Android Studio Quail 4 is stable and ready for production! 🐦🎉
This release brings:
🔹Bundled skills to guide AI through complex workflows
🔹Gemma 4 integration for private, offline coding
And more → goo.gle/4gJ0Hu8
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💡Empower system agents to interact with your app in the background using Android AppFunctions → goo.gle/4yE0dxA
Learn how Jetpacker implements the Android MCP (Model Context Protocol) so users can log expenses, check trip itineraries, and save voice notes hands-free. Read Part 4 of our blog series for code snippets and KDoc best practices!
ALT Under the Android MCP model, your app acts as a local server that exposes structured tools, while the Android platform serves as the central tool registry.
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Android 17 is officially the first major mobile OS to enable broad Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) support, giving you greater privacy by obscuring the domain names you connect to.
Android app developers can upgrade to OkHttp 5.5.0 today to enable ECH and adopt these modern networking best practices → goo.gle/3Ue8OHu
Huge thanks to @Jigsaw and our industry partners for accelerating this standard.
ALT Android bot with a shield protecting the network
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🔑 @WhatsApp upgraded to secure, seamless sign-in for 1B users with passkeys.
See how they used the Credential Manager API to:
✅ Slash login friction
✅ Add additional layers of security
✅ Unify authentication across Android
Read more → goo.gle/4xcAAlz
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Google Play is introducing new quality requirements regarding memory usage and device migration to deliver the premium experience that users expect.
Read our blog for details on the memory thresholds and tools to help you optimize performance → goo.gle/4hUOAfz
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Your app belongs on the wrist. ⌚
Build with Wear OS to reach more users, boost in-app engagement, and streamline development. You can effortlessly write apps that help your users live more present, healthy, and productive lives → goo.gle/4wqgqnm
ALT Three smartwatches displaying messaging, fitness, and music apps.
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From Jetpack Compose 1.0 to 1.12, we've come a long way in 5 years!
Read the blog to learn more about the history of Compose, how it came to be, and the Compose highlights over the years. goo.gle/4fD1Dzl
ALT Compose highlights over the years
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Get hands-on with the brand new Pixel Watch 5 running Wear OS 7, just announced at #MadeByGoogle. 7️⃣🎉
What do devs need to know? One-handed gestures are here, you can build glanceable Wear Widgets, and you can surface real-time info using Live Updates.
Learn more about building apps for the wrist → goo.gle/wear
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Look Ma, one hand! 👋
Bringing one-handed gestures to your Wear OS app lets users effortlessly perform key actions. Wear OS 7 expands this with a new Gestures framework for OEMs to map actions, and an API for devs to add gesture control → goo.gle/4wVZRRx
ALT A smartwatch displaying an alarm with a hand gesture icon.
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🤑 Foldable users spend about 14x more on in-app purchases than standard phone users. And these users expect adaptive layouts.
Check out our 3 tips to make your app shine on the brand-new Pixel 11 Pro Fold, built to run Gemini Nano 4, just announced at #MadeByGoogle!
And learn more about building for adaptive apps here → goo.gle/adaptive-apps
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Media3 1.11 brings major updates across playback, editing, and UI → goo.gle/3S13FSm
This release expands Compose UI modules and PlayerPool preloading. We modernized Cast integration, introduced a Ktor HTTP extension, and added new Ogg and WAV muxing utilities. 📱🎬
ALT A Kotlin code snippet image named playerdefaults.png demonstrating the Material 3 Player Composable in Jetpack Compose.
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💡 Combine the speed of on-device AI with the power of the cloud using Firebase AI Logic → goo.gle/4hubom5
Part 3 of our Jetpacker series shows how to ground chatbots with Google Search, Maps, and URL data, implement smart fallback with the Hybrid Inference API, and build custom-routed real-time chat translation.
ALT Cloud and hybrid features in Jetpacker: Museum assistant with web grounding, hybrid restaurant review drafting, and support chat featuring custom-routed live translation.
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Android is broadening excess memory usage enforcement. 🤖
Apps exceeding per-app limits will be slowed down and may be terminated to prevent system-wide slowdowns. Learn about memory limits and how to monitor and diagnose your memory usage in the field → goo.gle/4qrDAsj
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📱 @flotracker used Jetpack Compose state primitives, ViewModel, and Window Size Classes to make their highest-traffic user journeys resilient to rotation, fold/unfold and resizing transitions.
Learn more about how to retain UI state so interactions like scroll position, form inputs, and open dialogs remain uninterrupted when transitioning between inner and outer screens on foldables. → goo.gle/4hYKkeX
ALT A person with dark hair and a beard wearing a plaid shirt looks off-camera next to a quote on a green background. The quote reads, "Android's adaptive guidance turned what looked like a major refactor into a templated rollout...Over the same period, large-screen monthly active users grew around 15%." It is attributed to Aleksandr Kolodiazhnyi, Senior Android Engineer at Flo Health.
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Audit your build configurations with the R8 Configuration Analyzer to show refinement areas in your codebase. ⚡️
Tinder used the R8 Configuration analyzer to improve R8 scores, resulting in cold start cuts by 47%, app size improvements, reduced user-perceived ANRs by 28%, and improved R8 optimization scores from 28% to 50%.
Learn more about how they did it → goo.gle/4qIkBtT
ALT A promotional graphic states that Tinder cuts app cold starts by 47% with the new R8 Configuration Analyzer. To the right of the text, a smartphone displays the Tinder logo in front of a laptop showing the R8 Configuration Analyzer dashboard, and logos for Android Developers and Tinder appear in the bottom left corner.
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Evals are to skills what integration tests are to code. 🤖
Official Android skills intentionally target fast-moving knowledge gaps that SOTA models miss. Read our latest blog to see how we test them and why hoarding basic skills wastes your tokens → goo.gle/4xgceaE
ALT Code snippet showing an Android skill evaluation test for a horizontal pager.
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Jetpack Compose went through a trial by fire at its introduction by being first used in the Play Store. 🔥
Learn more about the history of Jetpack Compose in the Android Developers Backstage Podcast. goo.gle/4wk28og
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Read the blog to learn more about how to deliver adaptive experiences across new foldables and expanded displays. 🔗 goo.gle/4cDFRea
ALT Notability’s quiz UI adapted for expanded screens
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Material 3 Window Size Classes helped @NotabilityApp create a responsive two-pane layout that transitions smoothly between folded and expanded screens.
Tracking the window itself allowed their layout and canvas zoom to ensure it felt native at every size, not just stretched to fit.
Learn more about Window Size Classes → goo.gle/3UrcdT9
ALT A quote card with a large dark blue quotation mark on the left and a quote on the right against a light blue background. The text reads, “A foldable changes shape throughout the day, from a phone in your pocket to a tablet on your desk. We wanted Notability to feel native at every size, not just stretched to fit,” and is attributed to Ryan Shea, Android Engineering Manager at Notability.
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Want to boost player engagement & LTV? 📈 Top games are leveraging Google Play features to drive massive results.
1️⃣ Quests: EA SPORTS FC™ Mobile activated over half a million players in <2 weeks to engage with Play Quests!
2️⃣ Leagues: Subway Surfers (3.3x) & Fruit Ninja (5x+) saw huge uplifts in average daily IAP spend using Game Stats API!
3️⃣ Sidekick: Yalla Ludo keeps players in-game with the Sidekick overlay. Zero code updates needed for games using Android App Bundles!
🛠️ Ready to level up your game? Add Sidekick and learn how to qualify your game for Quests and Leagues today: goo.gle/play-levelup
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Android Bench evaluates LLMs against Android tasks to give you insight into how helpful models are for Android development.
We just added eight new models, including:
🔹 GPT 5.6 Sol
🔹 Claude Opus 5
🔹 Kimi K3
🔹 Qwen3.8 Max
Full leaderboard → goo.gle/4swdpRe
ALT A graphic announcing "8 New Models have been added to Android Bench" displayed over a stylized green bar chart with "AI" and sparkle icons.
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Pixel 11 devices run Gemini Nano 4 to process data locally with no additional server cost.
Send natural language requests directly using the ML Kit GenAI Prompt API, with support for over 140 languages, enhanced multimodal understanding, structured output, and thinking mode.
ALT A close-up of the back of a pink Google smartphone featuring a horizontal camera bar.
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Optimized for Wear OS 7, the Pixel Watch 5 supports the one-handed gestures framework starting with the 1.7 beta release of Compose for Wear OS. Integrate simple physical inputs like a double pinch or wrist turn to trigger actions.
This update also brings Live Updates directly to the wrist to surface real-time information like live sports scores, workout progress, and delivery status.
ALT A round smartwatch with a light green band displaying an analog watch face with a dotted pattern.
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The Pixel 11 Pro Fold gives your app a chance to flex its capabilities with an expanded inner display and outer screen.
To take full advantage of the foldable form factor, leverage FoldingFeature updates to trigger posture-specific layouts and migrate your media pipeline to the CameraX library to ensure automatic handling of sensor rotation and display scaling across screens.
ALT A close-up of the back of a folded green Google smartphone, highlighting its rear camera module.
ALT A foldable smartphone, half-open like a laptop, displaying a multiple-choice quiz on its inner screen.
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Bring one-handed gestures to your Wear OS app. 🦾
The new Gestures framework in Wear 7 brings touch-free interaction directly to developers. You can now map these movements to primary actions and dismissals using the Compose 1.7 beta → goo.gle/4wVZRRx
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💡 Build privacy-first, on-device AI features in your Android apps with ML Kit's GenAI Prompt API → goo.gle/4xk04xR
In Part 2 of our Jetpacker blog series, see how ML Kit’s Prompt API and Gemini Nano power on-device experiences like itinerary summarization, structured receipt parsing, and smart voice note categorization, all while keeping user data private on-device.
ALT On-device features in Jetpacker: Summarizing trip itineraries, managing expenses, and voice notes
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How does one decide to take the platform UI Toolkit and make it an unbundled library? 👀 Watch the Android Developers Backstage Podcast for more on the history of Jetpack Compose.
goo.gle/4wk28og
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