Goodbye Mobile Only, Hello Adaptive: Three essential updates from 2025 for building adaptive appsIn 2025 the Android ecosystem has grown far beyond the phone. Today, developers have the opportunity to reach over 500 million active devices, including foldables, tablets, XR,...
Posted by Santiago Aboy Solanes - Software Engineer, Vladimír Marko - Software EngineerThe 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...
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. We’ve heard your feedback clearly, from...
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. Mikkel is on a mission to share the rich stories and culture of...
While the training of large language models provides deep knowledge that is excellent for common tasks—like creating Compose UIs—training concludes on a fixed date, resulting in gaps for new libraries and updated best practices. They are also less effective with...
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 (see the full BOM mapping), adding new features and major performance improvements.To use today’s release, upgrade...
Jetpack Navigation 3 version 1.0 is stable 🎉. Go ahead and use it in your production apps today. JetBrains are already using it in their KotlinConf app. Navigation 3 is a new navigation library built from the ground up to embrace...
Posted by Alice Yuan - Senior Developer Relations Engineer Welcome to day 4 of Performance Spotlight Week. Now that you've learned about some of the awesome tools and best practices we've introduced recently such as the R8 Optimizer, and Profile...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECvKvhe3GgUYou went from making websites in middle school to creating one of Japan's leading recipe apps. What inspired that leap and sparked the idea for Delish Kitchen?I’ve loved the internet since I was a kid and always dreamed of creating...
We spent the past week diving deep into sharing best practices and guidance that helps to make Android apps faster, smaller, and more stable. From the foundational powers of the R8 optimizer and Profile Guided Optimizations, to performance improvements with...
