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Android Developers Blog

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Android Developers BlogToolsFrom in-app agents to the Android intelligence system: What’s new in intelligent apps at the Android Developer Summit In the intelligence era, users are no longer just tapping through apps, they express high-level goals and expect AI agents like Gemini to complete multi-step workflows, sometimes across multiple apps…

11.05
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Android Developers BlogToolsBuild for every screen with the latest Jetpack Compose updates from Android Developer Summit The Android ecosystem is a multi-device reality that spans phones, foldables, tablets, wearables, in-car displays, XR, and Googlebook.

11.04
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Android Developers BlogToolsDeveloping for Today: 50+ New Developer Sessions on Building Apps Today Over 900 attendees joined our event spaces for a keynote about our outlook on the future, demo sessions, dozens of workshops, a hackathon, and for community discussions focused on ideas and feedback…

11.02
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Android Developers BlogToolsAgentic and Flexible: A next era of Android development Today, at the Android Dev Summit, we are announcing the broad availability of many tools and APIs designed to remove everyday friction and give you more flexibility to build great Android apps.

10.28
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Android Developers BlogToolsWhat's new in Android developer tools and performance at Android Dev Summit This year at Android Dev Summit we shared how Android's developer tools are evolving to help you be more productive alongside your agents.

10.28
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Android Developers BlogToolsYour favorite agents are now integrated in Android Studio Android Studio Rabbit 2 is now stable and ready for you to use in production. This release includes key features to improve your development such as Bring Your Own Agent, new XR Emulator features, a…

10.28
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Android Developers BlogToolsGrab Reduces ANRs by 32% and improves startup time by 35% with R8 and Profile guided optimization Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp, offering deliveries, mobility, and financial services to millions of users across eight countries through a single app.

10.19
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Android Developers BlogToolsBringing our latest frontier model to Android Developers As agentic development accelerates, Android engineering is reaching an exciting new frontier: moving from assistive code completion to agents executing end-to-end under your direction.

10.13
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Android Developers BlogToolsNew ways to drive smarter discovery, deeper engagement, and business growth on Google Play Today, we shared how we’re taking our “more than a store” vision into its next chapter. From You tab, now the personal home base for over 250M monthly active users, to our unified gaming platform…

10.13
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Android Developers BlogToolsIntroducing the Googlebook Linux Terminal Preview: A VM-Backed Environment for AI and Development With Googlebook, we’re excited to help users express themselves and gain access to these tools.

10.12
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Android Developers BlogToolsDevice Streaming and Android skills - available in Android CLI 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.

10.02
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Android Developers BlogToolsHow Instagram Direct engineers built AI-native UI architecture with Jetpack Compose and reduced token cost per agent session by 33% The team built an AI-native UI codebase that is 50% smaller than the original implementation, while achieving a 35% reduction in AI agent execution time, 32% fewer engineer-agent exchanges, and a 33%…

09.30
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Android Developers BlogToolsDriving growth on Google Play: The next era of subscriptions 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.

09.29
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Android Developers BlogToolsBuild your way: Use any AI agent of your choice in Android Studio 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.

09.24
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Android Developers BlogToolsLand your apps on Googlebook with adaptive development 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…

09.22
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Android Developers BlogToolsBring your Android game to the car screen today 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.

09.21
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Android Developers BlogToolsAndroid Bench 2.0: Pushing the frontier with challenging long-horizon tasks 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.

09.17
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Android Developers BlogToolsIntroducing Fast and Reliable Wireless Debugging with Android Debug Bridge (ADB) Wi-Fi 2.0 Wireless debugging on Android is now faster, more reliable, and easier to set up than ever. With ADB Wi-Fi 2.0, we’ve introduced a new server stack and smarter network handling to directly address…

09.09