Apps
Just Your Type: Variable Fonts In Compose
Variable Fonts are ready to use from Compose UI 1.3.0, for Android O and above. A variable font is a font that can be customized in multiple ways (or axis or parameters) creating dramatically different styles, while living in a single font file. Those axes can be well known and defined in the standard (e.g.: weight, …
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 visible on the Play Store, as well as steering users away from lower-quality ones. Some apps and games that don’t meet our quality bar …
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 thousands of businesses worldwide to grow and thrive in the mobile ecosystem. Every day, together, we help billions of people discover engaging, helpful, and enriching …
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 initiatives and policies are core ways that we create the trusted experience that users have come to expect. By responsibly evolving these features, policies, and programs, we’re …
12 Third-Party Apps For Google Workspace We Recommend You Try
Google Workspace brings together the communication and collaboration apps you use every day into an integrated workspace. To extend and customize these collaboration experiences, users and organizations can leverage third-party apps available on the Google Workspace Marketplace or build their own apps and share them privately on the Marketplace. The thousands of secure third-party applications …
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 enable app archiving. Archiving is a new functionality that will allow users to reclaim ~60% of app storage temporarily by …
10 Use Cases for Using Laravel to Build Web App Development Projects
It’s no secret that PHP is sometimes considered a “low-barrier-to-entry” programming language. While there are some arguments against PHP, it’s mature, still among the top 10 most used programming languages worldwide, and one of the most popular languages to build maintainable, clean, fast, and reliable web apps. Nowadays, any software development involves more than an understanding …
The Operational Analytics Loop: From Raw Data to Models to Apps, and Back Again
Over the next decade or so, we’ll see an incredible transformation in how companies collect, process, transform and use data. Though it’s tired to trot out Marc Andreessen’s “software will eat the world” quote, I have always believed in the corollary: “Software practices will eat the business.” This is starting with data practices. To understand …
Tools To Help Developers Provide A Positive User Experience
Google helps protect billions of users every day through the use of a robust set of tools designed to keep users safe online. We’re proud to provide a wide range of these same resources to help developers build safe and successful apps. User participation increases when people have a safe and positive app engagement. …
From PC To Mobile: Lessons In Expanding To Multi-Platform Gaming
Authored by Jen Donahoe, Marketing and Growth lead for Teamfight Tactics (TFT) at Riot Games who shares insights into expanding to multi-platform gaming on Google’s Apps, Games, & Insights podcast. Today, players want their favorite games to be available to them anytime and anywhere. For any game developer recognizing this, means migrating their games from …