Posted by Simona Milanovic, Developer Relations Engineer As Android developers, you have many choices when it comes to the agents, LLMs, tools, and command-line interfaces (CLI) you use for app development. Our goal is to help you build beautiful, high-quality Android apps, no matter how you choose to build. We’re announcing updates to our Android CLI command-line tooling, including the ability to access real devices through Android Device Streaming. We’re also sharing more Android skills, and giving you a deep dive into the Wear OS Compose Material 3 skill. Android CLI for command-line…
Posted by Pavlo Stavytskyi, Software Engineer, Meta and Rebecca Franks, Developer Relations Engineer, Google This blog post is written in collaboration with the Meta team. Instagram Direct is one of the core surfaces on Instagram, handling billions of user messages every single day. Over years of iteration, the team squeezed every micro-optimization possible out of the legacy Android View system. However, maintaining and expanding a heavily optimized legacy surface creates significant technical debt and engineering overhead, especially as teams increasingly adopt declarative UI and AI coding…
Posted by Sheenam Mittal, Senior Product Manager, Google Play The subscription landscape is evolving rapidly, especially with the surge of generative AI and increasingly sophisticated app experiences. As the ecosystem shifts, we recognize that developers need more flexible and robust tools to monetize effectively while improving the LTV of recurring purchases. On Google Play, we are continuously expanding our subscription platform to help you drive growth, adapt to new business models, and meet your users exactly where they are. Here is a look at the capabilities we are testing and rolling…
Posted by Jolanda Verhoef, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer Relations Welcome back to the blog post series "Build intelligent Android apps" where you take a basic Android app and transform it into a personalized, intelligent, and agentic experience. In our previous post you learned how to connect to the intelligence system using AppFunctions. In this post, you will learn how to build autonomous in-app agentic workflows running in the cloud. Sometimes a task is too complex for a single device session. For example, booking a complete holiday itinerary involves coordinating…
Posted by Matthew Warner, Product Manager, Android Developer ExperienceAI-powered developer tools have become an essential multiplier for engineering productivity, with teams adopting specialized AI coding agents, custom enterprise harnesses, and autonomous tools. It’s important for you to be able to build Android apps in the way that works best for you and your team, and agentic Android development is more open and flexible than ever before. Last year, Android Studio opened up to any AI model. Today, we’re taking the next step by introducing support for your choice of coding agents. With our…
Posted by Matthew Warner, Product Manager, Android Developer Experience AI-powered developer tools have become an essential multiplier for engineering productivity, with teams adopting specialized AI coding agents, custom enterprise harnesses, and autonomous tools. It’s important for you to be able to build Android apps in the way that works best for you and your team, and agentic Android development is more open and flexible than ever before. Last year, Android Studio opened up to any AI model. Today, we’re taking the next step by introducing support for your choice of coding agents. With…
Posted by Fahd Imtiaz, Senior Product Manager, and Loryn Hairston, Product Marketing Manager, Android DeveloperGooglebook introduces a new category of laptops built on a shared Android foundation. High-performance hardware from partners such as HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer, and Asus, combines mobile convenience with desktop power. Googlebook offers high-resolution OLED touchscreens, dedicated keyboards, and precision trackpads with all-day battery life and OS-level Gemini Intelligence. With Googlebook, users can transition fluidly from quick interactions on their phones to rich, immersive sessions…
Posted by Fahd Imtiaz, Senior Product Manager, and Loryn Hairston, Product Marketing Manager, Android Developer Googlebook introduces a new category of laptops built on a shared Android foundation. High-performance hardware from partners such as HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer, and Asus, combines mobile convenience with desktop power. Googlebook offers high-resolution OLED touchscreens, dedicated keyboards, and precision trackpads with all-day battery life and OS-level Gemini Intelligence. With Googlebook, users can transition fluidly from quick interactions on their phones to rich, immersive sessions…
Posted by Jan Kleinert, Developer Relations Engineer, Android for CarsToday, the games category for Android Auto and cars powered by Android Automotive OS with Google built-in is officially graduating from beta to general availability. Our early access partners have already been bringing games to the parked-only experience for cars, and you can browse these in our latest collections of games for Android Auto and games for Android Automotive OS. Bringing your game to cars lets you reach users in their vehicles during natural downtime, such as while waiting at a charging station or for a…
Posted by Jan Kleinert, Developer Relations Engineer, Android for Cars Today, the games category for Android Auto and cars powered by Android Automotive OS with Google built-in is officially graduating from beta to general availability. Our early access partners have already been bringing games to the parked-only experience for cars, and you can browse these in our latest collections of games for Android Auto and games for Android Automotive OS. Bringing your game to cars lets you reach users in their vehicles during natural downtime, such as while waiting at a charging station or for a…
Posted by Matthew McCullough, VP, Product Management, Android Developer When we first launched Android Bench, we built a rigorous foundation for evaluating how large language models (LLMs) assist developers with real-world Android tasks. As AI models and agents rapidly evolve, we’ve been updating our methodology, such as aligning our benchmark framework with the Harbor framework. Today we’re releasing the first set of long-horizon tasks (LHT), which are tasks of great complexity that take an engineer multiple days or even a week to complete. We are also introducing agentic evaluation,…
Posted by Matthew McCullough, VP, Product Management, Android Developer When we first launched Android Bench, we built a rigorous foundation for evaluating how large language models (LLMs) assist developers with real-world Android tasks. As AI models and agents rapidly evolve, we’ve been updating our methodology, such as aligning our benchmark framework with the Harbor framework. Today we’re releasing the first set of long-horizon tasks (LHT), which are tasks of great complexity that take an engineer multiple days or even a week to complete. We are also introducing agentic evaluation,…
Posted by Amman Fasil Asfaw, Product Manager, Android StudioAndroid Studio Quail 4 is now stable and ready for you to use in production. This is the final stable release for Android Studio Quail. The new features in Android Studio enable you to build premium apps with AI efficiently and effectively. Check out the video below to see the most helpful new features from the last 4 releases that can help improve and speed up your development. Here is a deep dive into what’s new in Android Studio Quail 4: Android skills bundled into Android Studio While LLMs are incredibly capable at generic coding…
Posted by Amman Fasil Asfaw, Product Manager, Android Studio Android Studio Quail 4 is now stable and ready for you to use in production. This is the final stable release for Android Studio Quail. The new features in Android Studio enable you to build premium apps with AI efficiently and effectively. Check out the video below to see the most helpful new features from the last 4 releases that can help improve and speed up your development. Here is a deep dive into what’s new in Android Studio Quail 4: Android skills bundled into Android Studio While LLMs are incredibly capable at generic…
Posted by Rob Orgiu, Developer Relations Engineer, Adaptive Apps, AndroidAdaptive app development is fundamental on Android, but making sure everything looks good and every feature works the way it should require multiple tests on multiple devices. Or does it? Well, yes… and no! While Android Studio is bundled with the Resizable Emulator to let you test layouts manually, there’s a faster, more streamlined way to control form factors directly from your terminal. By leveraging fire-and-forget console commands using the adb emu shortcut, you can execute commands that immediately return control…
Posted by Rob Orgiu, Developer Relations Engineer, Adaptive Apps, Android Adaptive app development is fundamental on Android, but making sure everything looks good and every feature works the way it should require multiple tests on multiple devices. Or does it? Well, yes… and no! While Android Studio is bundled with the Resizable Emulator to let you test layouts manually, there’s a faster, more streamlined way to control form factors directly from your terminal. By leveraging fire-and-forget console commands using the adb emu shortcut, you can execute commands that immediately return control…
Posted by Zoe Lopez-Latorre, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, AndroidBack in March, we introduced Android Bench—our LLM leaderboard for real-world Android development tasks. Our goal was to provide transparency around model capabilities in Android development and to encourage model improvements, to give you more helpful AI options for your everyday workflow. Since then, we have enhanced the benchmark based on your feedback, including evaluating open-weight models and adding cost and efficiency dimensions to the leaderboard. But AI capabilities are ever-evolving, and measurement needs to…
Posted by Niharika Arora, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Tracy Agyemang, Product Marketing Manager, Google and Mayank Manuja, Android Engineer, Meta WhatsApp is the world's largest messaging platform, serving billions of users globally. It is the default communication tool for people across diverse regions, connecting users through private, reliable, and secure messaging. "What excites me most is the sheer scale of WhatsApp's impact. Even a small improvement to WhatsApp touches billions of users worldwide," says Mayank Manuja, an Android Engineer on the WhatsApp Registration and Access…
Posted by Raghavendra Hareesh Pottamsetty, GM, Google Play Developer & MonetizationMaintaining a healthy Android ecosystem is a shared commitment where every app and game has a role to play. To help you deliver the premium experiences users expect, Google Play is introducing two new quality requirements: one focused on reducing app memory footprint, and another on providing a secure, seamless device migration experience. First, to help developers navigate industry-wide hardware constraints and Android's broader memory limits, Google Play is establishing new performance thresholds. Second, as…
Posted by Niharika Arora, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Tracy Agyemang, Product Marketing Manager, Google and Mayank Manuja, Android Engineer, Meta WhatsApp is the world's largest messaging platform, serving billions of users globally. It is the default communication tool for people across diverse regions, connecting users through private, reliable, and secure messaging. "What excites me most is the sheer scale of WhatsApp's impact. Even a small improvement to WhatsApp touches billions of users worldwide," says Mayank Manuja, an Android Engineer on the WhatsApp Registration and Access…
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