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    Letterboxing on large screens is a thing of the past. ↔️ Taking advantage of expanded screens lets you deliver richer experiences across more than 580 million active large screen…

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    Spend your time on innovation and not the boring bits. Let Gemini in @AndroidStudio handle the heavy lifting → https://t.co/WTJ9jcUNTe How Agent Mode assists your data layer: 📄 In…

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    From flat screens to tabletop posture 📖 Foldable devices provide an opportunity for innovative app development and this begins with adaptive design. Learn how to make your UI fold…

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    Help shape the future of Android Bench. Android Bench provides you with transparency into AI coding assistance. You now have an opportunity to contribute your own tasks, or submit…

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    Your apps can harness Gemini Nano through ML Kit's GenAI APIs → https://t.co/WfOEhzDwwr Built on Android's AICore, these tools enable on-device execution for popular use cases. Yo…

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    Your code stays right here on your machine. 😎 Gemma 4 is now built-in to Android Studio, so you don’t need a third party provider to download. Using a local model lets agents run…

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    Android Studio Quail 4 is stable and ready for production! 🐦🎉 This release brings: 🔹Bundled skills to guide AI through complex workflows 🔹Gemma 4 integration for private, offline…

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    Running three different emulators just to test display folding, rotation, and tabletop mode? Instead, try this: 1️⃣ Open terminal 2️⃣ Run adb emu fold or adb emu posture 2 3️⃣ Ver…

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    💡Empower system agents to interact with your app in the background using Android AppFunctions → https://t.co/1CyfnzPUQh Learn how Jetpacker implements the Android MCP (Model Conte…

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    Android 17 is officially the first major mobile OS to enable broad Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) support, giving you greater privacy by obscuring the domain names you connect to. A…

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    🔑 @WhatsApp upgraded to secure, seamless sign-in for 1B users with passkeys. See how they used the Credential Manager API to: ✅ Slash login friction ✅ Add additional layers of sec…

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    Google Play is introducing new quality requirements regarding memory usage and device migration to deliver the premium experience that users expect. Read our blog for details on t…

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    Your app belongs on the wrist. ⌚ Build with Wear OS to reach more users, boost in-app engagement, and streamline development. You can effortlessly write apps that help your users…

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    From Jetpack Compose 1.0 to 1.12, we've come a long way in 5 years! Read the blog to learn more about the history of Compose, how it came to be, and the Compose highlights over th…

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    Get hands-on with the brand new Pixel Watch 5 running Wear OS 7, just announced at #MadeByGoogle. 7️⃣🎉 What do devs need to know? One-handed gestures are here, you can build glanc…

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    Look Ma, one hand! 👋 Bringing one-handed gestures to your Wear OS app lets users effortlessly perform key actions. Wear OS 7 expands this with a new Gestures framework for OEMs to…

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    🤑 Foldable users spend about 14x more on in-app purchases than standard phone users. And these users expect adaptive layouts. Check out our 3 tips to make your app shine on the br…

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    Media3 1.11 brings major updates across playback, editing, and UI → https://t.co/XvqFCYSGdk This release expands Compose UI modules and PlayerPool preloading. We modernized Cast i…

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    💡 Combine the speed of on-device AI with the power of the cloud using Firebase AI Logic → https://t.co/F9kjjWlOcy Part 3 of our Jetpacker series shows how to ground chatbots with…

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    Android is broadening excess memory usage enforcement. 🤖 Apps exceeding per-app limits will be slowed down and may be terminated to prevent system-wide slowdowns. Learn about memo…

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    📱 @flotracker used Jetpack Compose state primitives, ViewModel, and Window Size Classes to make their highest-traffic user journeys resilient to rotation, fold/unfold and resizing…

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    👓 Jetpack XR SDK core libraries have officially reached Beta! → https://t.co/v6sNILC8Ia Jetpack SceneCore, ARCore for Jetpack XR, and XR Runtime are now in Beta, marking the next…

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    Audit your build configurations with the R8 Configuration Analyzer to show refinement areas in your codebase. ⚡️ Tinder used the R8 Configuration analyzer to improve R8 scores, re…

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    Evals are to skills what integration tests are to code. 🤖 Official Android skills intentionally target fast-moving knowledge gaps that SOTA models miss. Read our latest blog to se…

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    Jetpack Compose went through a trial by fire at its introduction by being first used in the Play Store. 🔥 Learn more about the history of Jetpack Compose in the Android Developers…

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    Material 3 Window Size Classes helped @NotabilityApp create a responsive two-pane layout that transitions smoothly between folded and expanded screens. Tracking the window itself…