Apple Watch Pride Edition Celebrates The LGBTQ+ Community
Apple is introducing a new Pride Edition Sport Band accompanied by a matching watch face and iOS wallpaper. Celebrating the ongoing movement to protect and advance equality for LGBTQ+…
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Apple Turns (RED) To Raise Visibility For World AIDS Day
Over the past 16 years, Apple and its customers have been part of the global fight to end AIDS. Apple’s partnership with (RED) supports the Global Fund, which provides access to…
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Google Play Coffee Break With Creatrip | Setting Up Your Business For Global Reach
I sat down for a “virtual coffee” with Haemin Yim, founder and CEO of Creatrip, from Korea to discuss starting on the web, setting up the company for global reach, and tips for startups…
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Telstra Announces Next Generation Adaptive Mobility And Adaptive Networks Solutions
Telstra announced its next generation of connectivity solutions for enterprise customers, giving them greater flexibility and value across its plans and network options. The next evolution of…
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Making Jellyfish Move In Compose: Animating ImageVectors And Applying AGSL RenderEffects 🐠
I love following inspiring people on the internet and seeing what they make — one such person is Cassie Codes, she makes incredible animations for the web. One of her inspiring examples is…
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Faster Jetpack Compose View Interop With App Startup And Baseline Profile
Jetpack Compose is designed to be interoperable with an existing View-based app. This enables you to take an incremental approach to migrating your existing app’s UI to Compose. While your app…
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Faster Jetpack Compose View Interop With App Startup And Baseline Profile
Jetpack Compose is designed to be interoperable with an existing View-based app. This enables you to take an incremental approach to migrating your existing app’s UI to Compose. While your app…
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Preparing For The Android Privacy Sandbox Beta
In February we announced the Privacy Sandbox on Android, with the goal of bringing new, more private advertising solutions to mobile. Over the course of 2022, we’ve published design…
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Emergency SOS Via Satellite Available Today On The iPhone 14 Lineup In The US And Canada
Apple today announced its groundbreaking safety service Emergency SOS via satellite is now available to customers in the US and Canada. Available on all iPhone 14 models, the innovative…
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Raising The Bar On Technical Quality On Google Play
App quality is the foundation of everything we do at Google Play. Android users expect a great experience from the apps and games they download, so we’re making higher-quality titles more…
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Supporting And Rewarding Great Apps And Games On Google Play
Supporting and rewarding great Apps and Games on Google Play At Google Play, our mission is to facilitate relationships between Android users and app and game developers, enabling tens of…
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Purchase Optimization, Flexible Subscriptions, And Revenue Growth With Play Commerce
Google Play Commerce provides buyer support in over 190 markets, extensive support for local payment methods, and monetization tools to increase buyer conversion, engagement, and retention –…
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Keeping Google Play Safe With New Features And Programs
Google Play has been the launchpad for millions of developer businesses to connect with consumers around the world as we strive to deliver a safe place to find great apps and games. Our safety…
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5 Play Console Updates To Help You Understand Your App’s Delivery Performance
Powered by Android App Bundles, Google Play gives all developers the benefits of modern Android distribution. As the Android ecosystem expands, it’s more important than ever to know how your…
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Compose Toolkit
In the previous MAD Skills Compose Basics article, you learned about the building blocks of UI in Compose: composable functions. Now, it’s time to learn about the powerful toolkit of UI…
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Helping Users Discover Apps For All Their Devices From Their Phone
Over the years, Android has evolved to support more devices such as watches, tablets, TVs, and even cars. Apps and games are a critical part of this ecosystem as they power many of the unique…
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Cloudflare Announces The First Zero Trust SIM For Mobile Devices – To Better Secure Enterprises’ Corporate Networks And Protect Employees
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, today announced the development of the Cloudflare Zero Trust SIM, the first…
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Migrating The AOSP QuickSearchBox App To Kotlin
Overview For the past three years, the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) applications team has taken on the task of converting AOSP apps from Java to Kotlin. This pursuit was begun as part of…
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Deep Links Crash Course : Part 3 Troubleshooting Your Deep Links
Introduction What do you do when your Android App Links don’t work the way you want them to? There are many tools available from Google to help you, such as the Play Console Deep Links page…
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Jetpack Compose: Debugging Recomposition
In this post, I wanted to show you how I looked into a performance issue in Jetsnack and how I went about debugging and fixing it in Jetpack Compose. This post is available as a video as well…
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The Deep Links Crash Course, Part 2: Deep Links From Zero To Hero
Introduction When you want to make it easy for the user to get to a specific part inside your app, such as when showing a subscription offer, asking a user to update their profile, or…
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Apple Introduces iPhone 14 And iPhone 14 Plus
Apple introduced iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus, featuring two sizes — 6.1 inches and 6.7 inches — in a sophisticated design with impressive camera upgrades and groundbreaking new safety…
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The Deep Links Crash Course, Part 1: Introduction To Deep Links
I welcome you to the first installment of the deep links crash course series, where we’ll show a bit of context on what is a link, then we’ll go over each type of deep link, and, at the end,…
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Experimenting With Jetpack Glance
We’re happy to announce that the new Jetpack Glance framework, which lets you build app widgets and wear tiles with Jetpack Compose-like code, has reached alpha-04. We also just released a…
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Sony Electronics Introduces The Xperia® 5 IV Premium Smartphone Designed For Experiencing And Creating Content
Sony Electronics Inc. introduces the Xperia 5 IV, a premium smartphone with many of the powerful features found in the flagship Xperia, but in a compact design. It keeps you creating content,…
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Announcing Cross Device SDK Developer Preview For Building Rich Multi-Device Experiences On Android
Today we’re launching our Developer Preview of the new Cross device SDK for Android. First announced during the Google I/O ‘22 Multi-device development session, our Cross device SDK allows…
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Top Tips For Adopting Android’s Notification Permission
Overview Excess notifications is a digital-wellbeing problem for users worldwide. In Android 13, we’re helping users take back control of their notification experience by introducing a…
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Monitor All Your Deep Links In One Place On This New Play Console Page
Deep links are a great way to improve engagement with your in-app content and the overall user experience by accepting traffic from external sources, including the web. Keeping your deep links…
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5 Years Of Kotlin On Android — The Extended Interviews
We’ve published a celebration post on our blog to recognize the 5 year anniversary of official support for Kotlin on Android. In the making of that post, I had the chance to interview some…
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Jetpack Compose 1.2 Is Now Stable!
Today, we’re releasing version 1.2 of Jetpack Compose, Android’s modern, native UI toolkit, continuing to build out our roadmap. This release contains new features like downloadable…
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Make Your App Large Screen Ready
Nowadays Android runs on several billion devices, and phones are only a part of this ecosystem. Tablets, foldables, and even laptops and desktops support Android apps so you can find your app…
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Progress On Initiatives To Keeping Google Play safe
We want to keep you updated on the privacy and security initiatives we shared earlier this year, so you can plan ahead and use new tools to safely build your business. In the past few months,…
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Spot Your UI Jank Using CPU Profiler In Android Studio
Android renders user interface (UI) by generating a frame from your app and displaying it on the screen. To ensure that a user’s interaction with your app is smooth, your app should render…
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Boost The Security Of Your App With The Nonce Field Of The Play Integrity API
With the recent launch of the Play Integrity API, more developers are now taking action to protect their games and apps from potentially risky and fraudulent interactions. In addition to…
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Introducing Health Connect, A New API For Android App Developers To Securely Access User Health Data
From helping you log your meals with MyFitnessPal to getting a holistic view of your health with Withings, apps and devices are a source for many kinds of useful health and fitness data. As…
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Becoming A Sustainability-Aware App Or Game
Introduction We have less than a decade to cut global emissions to have a chance of limiting global heating to 1.5°c. As a company decision-maker, this gives you a huge opportunity to make…
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FHIR SDK For Android Developers
For community health workers in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs), mobile devices have become critical tools for doing community outreach and providing vital health services such as…
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Using Performance Class To Optimize Your User Experience
Today we’re launching the Jetpack Core Performance library in alpha. This library enables you to easily understand what a device is capable of, and tailor your user experience…
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Go Global At Ramadan
Tips for engaging players during this special month Developers from around the world have found that during Ramadan they see an increase in activity from people in the many countries where the…
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Android 13 Developer Preview 2
Last month, we released the first developer preview of Android 13, built around our core themes of privacy and security, developer productivity, as well as tablets and large screen support.…
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Access Android Vitals Data Through The New Play Developer Reporting API
Quality is foundational to your game or app’s success on Google Play, and Android vitals in Google Play Console is a great way to track how your app is performing. In fact, over 80% of the top…
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Things To Know From The 2022 Google For Games Developer Summit
Over the years, we’ve seen that apps and games are not just experiences – they’re businesses – led by talented people like yourselves. So it’s our goal to continue supporting…
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Qualcomm And ESL Gaming Join Forces To Revolutionize The Future Of Mobile Esports With Snapdragon Pro Series
ESL Gaming is joining forces with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. to revolutionize the trajectory of mobile esports, bringing the excitement of competition to players’ pockets around the…
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Freeing Up 60% Of Storage For Apps
One of the main reasons users uninstall apps is to free up space. To prevent unnecessary uninstalls and help users get more out of their devices, we started working on a new feature that would…
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Demystifying Jetpack Glance For App Widgets
We recently announced the first Alpha version of Glance, initially with support for AppWidgets and now for Tiles for Wear OS. This new framework is built on top of the Jetpack Compose…
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Google For Games Developer Summit Returns March 15
With over three billion players showing strong engagement worldwide, the games market continues to remain resilient and grow beyond expectations. As we look ahead this year, the influx of new…
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Galaxy S22 Ultra: Best-in-Class Smartphone for Creatives and Professionals
Combining the usability of the longtime favorite Note and the powerful features of the Galaxy S Series, the new Galaxy S22 Ultra lives up to its name as the ultimate device for creatives and…
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Apple Empowers Businesses To Accept Contactless Payments Through Tap To Pay On iPhone
Apple announced plans to introduce Tap to Pay on iPhone. The new capability will empower millions of merchants across the US, from small businesses to large retailers, to use their iPhone to…
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Snapdragon 8 Powers Samsung’s Newest Flagship Device Lineup: The Galaxy S22 And Galaxy Tab S8 Series
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announced that its flagship Snapdragon® 8 Gen 1 Mobile Platform is powering Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.’s latest and most cutting-edge smartphones, the Galaxy S22…
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Building Apps For Android Automotive OS
Today we’re announcing the availability of version 1.2 beta of the Car App Library, enabling app developers to start building their navigation, parking, and charging apps for Android…
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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 built on top of…
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