Announcing Glance: Tiles For Wear OS Made simple
Last year we announced the Wear Tiles API. To complement that Java API, we are excited to announce that support for Wear OS Tiles has been added to Glance, a new framework…
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Android Studio Bumblebee (2021.1.1) Stable
The Android Studio team has been abuzz with the stable release of Android Studio Bumblebee (2021.1.1) 🐝 and Android Gradle plugin (AGP) 7.1.0; the latest versions of Android official IDE…
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Jetnews For Every Screen
We recently updated Jetnews to enhance its behavior across all mobile devices, both big and small. We’d like to take you through our design and development process so that you can learn the philosophy…
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Authenticating On Android With The AppAuth Library
While Google’s own authentication platform for Android does not support WebViews, the Android team recently announced that they are working with multiple identity provider (IDP) partners, including ForgeRock, Microsoft, Okta, and Ping Identity,…
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Weixin’s Open Ecosystem Reports User And Engagement Growth
Weixin, Tencent’s popular social platform in China, saw steady growth in user activities across its in-app features last year, the company said at its annual flagship event for business partners…
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Convert YUV To RGB For CameraX ImageAnalysis
CameraX is a Jetpack support library that is built to help make camera app development easier. It supports different use cases such as ImageCapture, Preview and ImageAnalysis, which could seamlessly combine…
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Improving App Startup: Lessons From The Facebook App
Introduction Improving app startup time is not a trivial task and requires a deep understanding of things that affect it. This year, the Google Android team and the Facebook app…
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12L And New Android APIs And Tools For Large Screens
There are over a quarter billion large screen devices running Android across tablets, foldables, and ChromeOS devices. In just the last 12 months we’ve seen nearly 100 million new Android…
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What’s New For Android Developers At #AndroidDevSummit’21
The app experiences that you as developers build help people around the world in ways we couldn’t have imagined, and at Android Dev Summit, happening over the next two days, we’ll…
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Announcing The Android Basics In Kotlin Course
We are always looking for ways to make learning Android development accessible for all. In 2020, we announced the launch of Android Basics in Kotlin, a free self-paced programming course. Since…
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