Posted by Timothy Jordan – Director, Developer Relations and Open Source Developers, get ready! Google I/O is just around the corner, kicking off live from Mountain View with the Google keynote on Tuesday, May 14 at 10 am PT, followed by the Developer keynote at 1:30 pm PT. But the learning doesn’t stop there. Mark your calendars for May 16 at 8 am PT when we’ll be releasing over 150 technical deep dives, demos, codelabs, and more on-demand. If you register online, you can start building your 'My I/O' agenda today. Here's a sneak peek at some of the exciting highlights from the I/O program p ..read more

Posted by Chris Wilk – Senior Product Manager, Android Health At Google, we're committed to empowering developers to create innovative health and fitness experiences on Android. Over the past few years, we've been investing heavily in establishing the Android Health platform, making significant improvements to build a more unified, secure, and user-friendly health ecosystem. Our goal is to provide developers with a powerful, integrated health platform that reduces fragmentation and streamlines the development process. What is changing As a result of these advancements, we're excited to announ ..read more

Posted by Paris Hsu – Product Manager, Android Studio Android Studio Jellyfish (2023.3.1) is making waves with its official stable release! ?? Dive into cutting-edge AI features like Gemini in Android Studio, seamless Google services integrations like Android Device Streaming, and much more. All designed to supercharge your Android development to build next-generation, high-quality apps. Surf below to learn more about all the updates, product quality improvements, and new features across your key flows in Android Studio Jellyfish, and download the latest stable version today to try them out ..read more

Posted by Ben Trengrove - Developer Relations Engineer, Nick Butcher - Product Manager for Jetpack Compose We are excited to announce that with the upcoming release of Kotlin 2.0, the Jetpack Compose compiler will move to the Kotlin repository. This means that a matching Compose compiler will release alongside each release of Kotlin. You will no longer have to wait for a matching Compose compiler release before upgrading the Kotlin version in your Compose app. The Compose team at Google will continue to be responsible for developing the compiler and will work closely with JetBrains, our co-fo ..read more

Posted by Mayank Jain - Product Manager, and Yasser Dbeis - Software Engineer; Android Studio Android developers have been telling us they're looking for tools to help optimize power consumption for different devices on Android. The new Power Profiler in Android Studio helps Android developers by showing power consumption happening on devices as the app is being used. Understanding power consumption across Android devices can help Android developers identify and fix power consumption issues in their apps. They can run A/B tests to compare the power consumption of different algorithms, feature ..read more

Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering Today we're releasing the first beta of Android 15. With the progress we've made refining the features and stability of Android 15, it's time to open the experience up to both developers and early adopters, so you can now enroll any supported Pixel device here to get this and future Android 15 Beta and feature drop Beta updates over-the-air. Android 15 continues our work to build a platform that helps improve your productivity, give users a premium app experience, protect user privacy and security, and make your app accessible to as many people as pos ..read more

Posted by Nick Butcher – Product Manager for Jetpack Compose, and Florina Muntenescu – Developer Relations Engineer As one of the world’s most popular cloud-based storage services, Google Drive lets people do more than just store their files online. With Drive, users can synchronize, share, search, edit, and even pin specified files and content for safe and secure offline use. Recently, Drive’s developers revamped the application’s home screen to provide a more seamless experience across devices, matching updates made to Google Drive’s web version. However, the app’s previous architecture an ..read more

Posted by Sandhya Mohan – Product Manager, Android Studio As part of the next chapter of our Gemini era, we announced we were bringing Gemini to more products. Today we’re excited to announce that Android Studio is using the Gemini 1.0 Pro model to make Android development faster and easier, and we’ve seen significant improvements in response quality over the last several months through our internal testing. In addition, we are making this transition more apparent by announcing that Studio Bot is now called Gemini in Android Studio. Gemini in Android Studio is an AI-powered coding assistant w ..read more

Posted by Todd Burner – Developer Relations Engineer Cybercriminals continue to invest in advanced financial fraud scams, costing consumers more than $1 trillion in losses. According to the 2023 Global State of Scams Report by the Global Anti-Scam Alliance, 78 percent of mobile users surveyed experienced at least one scam in the last year. Of those surveyed, 45 percent said they’re experiencing more scams in the last 12 months. The Global Scam Report also found that phone calls are the top method to initiate a scam. Scammers frequently employ social engineering tactics to deceive mobile use ..read more

Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering Today marks the second chapter of the Android 15 story with the release of Android 15 Developer Preview 2! Android 15 continues our work to build a platform that helps improve your productivity while giving you new capabilities to produce superior media and AI experiences, take advantage of device form factors, minimize battery impact, maximize smooth app performance, and protect user privacy and security, all on the most diverse lineup of devices out there. Android continues to add features enabling your apps to take advantage of premium device hardw ..read more