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Illuminating Interactions: Visual State In Jetpack Compose

An important responsibility of any design system is making it clear what components can and cannot be interacted with, and letting users know when an interaction has taken place. This…

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Pixel 7a: Built To Perform, Packed With Value

Pixel 7a is available for purchase now, bringing advanced hardware and software capabilities at an accessible price. Meet Google Pixel 7a, our latest A-Series phone that delivers all the helpfulness of…

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Meet The New Google Pixel Tablet That’s Helpful In Your Hands And At Home

Built with the latest Android features, our Google Tensor G2 chip, and our Pixel design. Say hello to the Google Pixel Tablet, designed to be helpful 24/7 in your hand and…

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Introducing Pixel Fold: Google’s First Foldable Phone

Whether open or closed, there are endless ways of having fun and getting things done. Google Pixel Fold is now available for pre-order and will begin shipping next month. Our new foldable…

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Learn About Google Cloud’s Updated Renderer For The Maps SDK For Android

We’re always looking for ways to improve your Google Maps Platform development experience on Android, so we’ve been working on an updated renderer for the Maps SDK for Android to…

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Programming

The Shape Of Things To Come

Creating and animating rounded shapes with AndroidX, Part I A new library with the flashy name :graphics:graphics-shapes: launched recently in AndroidX. I’m happy (especially after many months of working on it with…

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Programming

Shape Morphing In Android

In the previous article, I showed how to use the new AndroidX :graphics:graphics-shapes: library that Sergio Sancho and I recently released to create and draw rounded polygonal shapes. Making it easier to create…

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Android Studio Flamingo Is Stable

Today, we are thrilled to announce the stable release of Android Studio Flamingo🦩: The official IDE for building Android apps! This release includes improvements to help you build pixel-perfect UI with…

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Compose For Wear OS 1.1 Is Now Stable: Check Out New Features!

Today we’re releasing version 1.1 of Compose for Wear OS, our modern declarative UI toolkit to help developers build beautiful, responsive apps for Wear OS. Since the first stable release earlier this year,…

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Introducing The Architecture Templates

We released a new project on Github called Android Architecture Starter Templates. The goal of these templates is to get you started quickly when doing an experiment or starting a brand-new…

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Android

Illuminating Interactions: Visual State In Jetpack Compose

Pixel 7a: Built To Perform, Packed With Value

Meet The New Google Pixel Tablet That’s Helpful In Your Hands And At Home

Introducing Pixel Fold: Google’s First Foldable Phone

Learn About Google Cloud’s Updated Renderer For The Maps SDK For Android

The Shape Of Things To Come

Shape Morphing In Android

Android Studio Flamingo Is Stable

Compose For Wear OS 1.1 Is Now Stable: Check Out New Features!

Introducing The Architecture Templates

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