Android

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On the Android Developers Blog, we’re sharing how we're making it easier than ever for developers to build safe apps, while also continuing to strengthen our ecosys…

3/25/2025

For people who use hearing aids, the inability to stream directly to hearing devices can leave people out or create barriers to important information, whether it's …

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Google Play Games is expanding its library with a wider range of PC games, opening up the platform to more PC-only games.

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Android’s latest features: Real-time scam alerts in Google Messages, more gaming apps on Android Auto, and more.

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This week at MWC in Barcelona, we’re showing how AI on Android can help you day-to-day with fun, interactive demos for attendees. You can learn how Gemini Live can help …

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Meta has been working to shift its Android codebase from Java to Kotlin, a newer language for Android development that offers some key advantages over Java. We’ve even open sourced various examples and utilities we used to in our migration to manipulate Kotlin code. So how do you translate roughly tens of millions of lines of Java [...] Read More... The post How Meta is translating its Java codebase to Kotlin appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

2/25/2025

Here are Google’s latest AI updates from January.

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Introducing a new Android UI framework like Jetpack Compose into an existing app is more complicated than importing some AARS and coding away. What if your app has specific performance goals to meet? What about existing design components, integrations with navigation, and logging frameworks? On this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast Pascal Hartig is [...] Read More... The post Bringing Jetpack Compose to Instagram for Android appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

1/24/2025

Recap some of Google’s biggest AI news from 2024, including moments from Gemini, NotebookLM, Search and more.

Keyword Team12/23/2024

Here are Google’s latest AI updates from December including Gemini 2.0, GenCast, and Willow.

Keyword Team12/20/2024

Meta has been on a years-long undertaking to translate our entire Android codebase from Java to Kotlin. Today, despite having one of the largest Android codebases in the world, we’re well past the halfway point and still going. We’re sharing some of the tradeoffs we’ve made to support automating our transition to Kotlin, seemingly simple [...] Read More... The post Translating Java to Kotlin at Scale appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

12/18/2024

See Google TV’s top entertainment from 2024 in collections like “most watched movies” and “most watched shows.”

Gabby Williams11/21/2024

It’s easier than ever to switch to Android, with new updates for people switching from iOS to Android or upgrading their devices.

Anthony Watkins11/20/2024

At Meta, React and React Native are more than just tools; they are integral to our product development and innovation. With over five thousand people at Meta building products and experiences with React every month, these technologies are fundamental to our engineering culture and our ability to quickly build and ship high quality products. In [...] Read More... The post React at Meta Connect 2024 appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

10/2/2024

New home controls, AI-generated screensavers and easier ways to find and watch content are coming to all Google TV devices

Rob Caruso9/23/2024

New Android features help you explore with confidence — from using offline maps from your wrist to getting earthquake alerts in more locations.

Angana Ghosh9/3/2024

Android Earthquake Alerts is expanding to all 50 U.S. states, using phones to detect earthquakes and send early warnings to users.

Boone Spooner9/3/2024

Celebrate World Emoji Day with Google, and check out what’s new for Emoji Kitchen.

Molly McHugh-Johnson7/17/2024

Learn more about why 2014 was a big year for Android.

Chaim Gartenberg7/11/2024

New Circle to Search capabilities, Wear OS 5 and more are coming to Samsung’s latest devices.

Menaka Shroff7/10/2024