Posted by Bennet Manuel, Product Management, Android App Safety and Rob Clifford, Developer RelationsSecurity 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...
Ultrahuman is a consumer health-tech startup that provides daily well-being insights to users based on biometric data from the company’s wearables, like the RING Air and the M1 Live Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM). The Ultrahuman team leaned on Gemini in...
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. Discover more about their inspiring story and the impact on their...
Hi everyone,Thank you for making 2025 another amazing year for Google Play.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...
Posted by Thomas Ezan, Senior Developer Relations EngineerToday, we're expanding the Gemini 3 model family with the release of Gemini 3 Flash, frontier intelligence built for speed at a fraction of the cost. You can start building with it immediately,...
With a recent update, LLB allows Instagram users to line up the perfect shot, and then their existing Night Mode implementation results in the same high quality low-light photos their users have been enjoying for over a year.Why Real-time Brightness...
Posted by Garan Jenkin - Developer Relations Engineerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgsPXZIKInwA few months ago we relaunched Androidify as an app for generating personalized Android bots. Androidify transforms your selfie photo into a playful Android bot using Gemini and Imagen.However, given that Android spans...
Media3 1.9.0 is out! Besides the usual bug fixes and performance improvements, the latest release also contains four new or largely rewritten modules:We also added caching and memory management improvements to PreloadManager, and provided several new ExoPlayer, Transformer and MediaSession...
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...
