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Now in Android #113. Second Developer Preview of Android 16… | by Tram Bui | Android Developers | Jan, 2025 | Medium
Welcome to the 113th iteration of Now in Android — your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. In this edition, we’ll cover the Second Developer Preview of…
Create a spotlight effect with CameraX and Jetpack Compose | by Jolanda Verhoef | Android Developers | Jan, 2025 | Medium
Hey there! Welcome back to our series on CameraX and Jetpack Compose. In the previous posts, we’ve covered the fundamentals of setting up a camera preview and added tap-to-focus functionality. In…
Tap to focus: Mastering CameraX Transformations in Jetpack Compose | by Jolanda Verhoef | Android Developers | Jan, 2025 | Medium
This blog post is a part of Camera and Media Spotlight Week. We’re providing resources — blog posts, videos, sample code, and more — all designed to help you uplevel the media experiences in your…
Getting Started with CameraX in Jetpack Compose | by Jolanda Verhoef | Android Developers | Jan, 2025 | Medium
This blog post is a part of Camera and Media Spotlight Week. We’re providing resources — blog posts, videos, sample code, and more — all designed to help you uplevel the media experiences in your…
Compose Tips for Delightful UI — ’24 wrap up | by Simona Milanović | Android Developers | Dec, 2024 | Medium
In July 2024, we launched a brand new YouTube series called “Compose Tips for Delightful UI”. The series set out to give short, actionable and technical tips for working with Jetpack Compose and…
Now in Android #112. First Developer Preview of Android 16… | by Patrick Martin | Android Developers | Dec, 2024 | Medium
Welcome to the 112th iteration of Now in Android: your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. In this edition, we’ll cover the First Developer Preview of Android…
Vulkan 1.4: Faster app loads, less stutter and less Memory Usage | by Shahbaz Youssefi | Android Developers | Dec, 2024 | Medium
Vulkan 1.4 was released recently, and with it comes a significant feature for Android: Host Image Copy, based on VK_EXT_host_image_copy. We have previously written about this extension in this…
Test smarter, not harder: new testing strategies documentation | by Jose Alcérreca | Android Developers | Nov, 2024 | Medium
We work closely with many teams and one thing they all have in common is a justified growing focus on automated testing. More features, more form factors, and more supported Android releases make…
Now in Android #111. Android API level and schedule updates… | by Daniel Galpin | Android Developers | Nov, 2024 | Medium
Welcome to the 111th iteration of Now in Android: your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. Most of the content of this post is available in the form of a…
Now in Android #110. Welcome to episode 109 of Now in… | by Chris Assigbe | Android Developers | Oct, 2024 | Medium
Welcome to episode 109 of Now in Android: your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. In this episode, we’ll cover Android 15 is released in AOSP, RCS support on…
Migrating Jetpack Compose for TV from alpha to stable | by Paul Lammertsma | Android Developers | Sep, 2024 | Medium
Thanks for all your feedback from using the alphas to help bring Compose for TV to the stable release! It’s terrific that you’ve been using Compose in your TV apps — then you’ve seen how Compose is…
Type safe navigation for Compose. Jetpack Navigation 2.8.0 enhances… | by Don Turner | Android Developers | Sep, 2024 | Medium
With the latest release of Jetpack Navigation 2.8.0, the type safe navigation APIs for building navigation graphs in Kotlin are stable 🎉. This means that you can define your destinations using…
Insets handling tips for Android 15’s edge-to-edge enforcement | by Ash Nohe | Android Developers | Sep, 2024 | Medium
This blog post is part of our series: Spotlight Week on Android 15, where we provide resources — blog posts, videos, sample code, and more — all designed to help you prepare your apps and take…
Now in Android #109. The Fourth Beta of Android 15… | by Kateryna Semenova | Android Developers | Aug, 2024 | Medium
Welcome to episode 109 of Now in Android: your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. In this episode, we’ll cover The Fourth Beta of Android 15, Samsung’s…
Efficient Render Passes — On Tile-Based Rendering Hardware | by Shahbaz Youssefi | Android Developers | Aug, 2024 | Medium
There are currently two major classes of GPU architectures: Immediate-Mode Rendering (IMR) and Tile-Based Rendering (TBR). The IMR architecture is older, somewhat simpler and more forgiving to…
Now in Android #108. Android 15 Beta 3, two Compose case… | by Ash Nohe | Android Developers | Jun, 2024 | Medium
Welcome to episode 108 of Now in Android: your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. In this episode, we’ll cover Android 15 Beta 3, two Compose case studies…
Now in Android #107. Google @ KotlinConf, Android Studio… | by Sa-ryong Kang | Android Developers | Jun, 2024 | Medium
Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. In this episode we’ll cover Google @ KotlinConf, Android Studio updates, I/O recaps…
Now in Android #106. I/O’24, Android 15, KMP, Compose… | by Alice Yuan | Android Developers | May, 2024 | Medium
Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. In this episode we’ll cover I/O’24, Android 15, KMP, Compose, AndroidX, and more. Most of…
Multisampled Anti-aliasing For Almost Free — On Tile-Based Rendering Hardware | by Shahbaz Youssefi | Android Developers | May, 2024 | Medium
Anti-aliasing (AA) is an important technique to improve the quality of rendered graphics. Numerous algorithms have been developed over the years: While TAA and the likes are gaining popularity, MSAA…
Tools and libraries to help your Wear OS app satisfy Google Play app quality requirements | by chiara chiappini | Android Developers | May, 2024 | Medium
As of August 31, 2023, all apps that support Wear OS must meet Wear OS app quality requirements in order to be published on the Google Play Store. This blog post walks you through available tools and…
Now in Android #104. Android Studio Jellyfish, A/B testing… | by Murat Yener | Android Developers | May, 2024 | Medium
Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. In this final episode before Google I/O, we’ll cover Android Studio Jellyfish, A/B testing…
Now in Android #103. Android 15 Beta, Gemini in Android… | by Kateryna Semenova | Android Developers | Apr, 2024 | Medium
Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. Most of the content of this post is available in the form of a video or podcast, so feel…
Dependency Injection in Compose. Learn how Hilt provides and scopes… | by Jonathan Koren | Android Developers | Apr, 2024 | Medium
Dependency injection is a programming pattern which prescribes that classes do not construct instances of their dependencies, instead such instances are provided. This pattern enables separation of…
Now in Android #102. I/O 2024, Women’s History Month, Vulkan… | by Chris Assigbe | Android Developers | Apr, 2024 | Medium
Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. Most of the content of this post is available in the form of a video or podcast, so feel…
Now in Android #101. Android 15 Developer Preview 2… | by Ash Nohe | Android Developers | Mar, 2024 | Medium
Welcome to Now in Android; your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. In this episode we cover Android 15 Developer Preview 2, The Android Show, the Google I/O…
Now in Android #100. Android 15 DP 1, Stable Studio Iguana… | by Daniel Galpin | Android Developers | Mar, 2024 | Medium
Welcome to post 100 of Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. Not only is our 100th episode a milestone, but our video has a new style, new…
Jetpack Compose: Strong Skipping Mode Explained | by Ben Trengrove | Android Developers | Feb, 2024 | Medium
Strong skipping mode is an experimental feature in the Jetpack Compose Compiler 1.5.4+ that is currently being tested. It is part of our work to make the code you naturally write more performant. We…
Fun with shapes in Compose. Create a progress bar that transitions… | by Rebecca Franks | Android Developers | Feb, 2024 | Medium
We’ve just released new documentation covering how to use the graphics-shapes library in Jetpack Compose. Whilst that covers the basics, I thought it would be fun to try something a bit more advanced…
Understanding Nested Scrolling in Jetpack Compose | by Levi Albuquerque | Android Developers | Feb, 2024 | Medium
Lists are at the core of most Android apps. Over the years, different solutions were introduced to ensure other UI components could interact with such lists — for instance, how an app bar reacts to…
Now in Android #99. Jetpack Compose update, Google AI on… | by Sa-ryong Kang | Android Developers | Feb, 2024 | Medium
Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. In this episode, we’ll cover updates in Jetpack Compose and other Jetpack libraries…
Now in Android #98. Gemini Pro, Google AI SDK, Google AI… | by Murat Yener | Android Developers | Jan, 2024 | Medium
Welcome to Now in Android, the first installment for 2024 of your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. In this article we’ll cover Gemini Pro, Google AI SDK…
Now in Android #97. Gemini, AICore, ML Kit, Android Studio… | by Alice Yuan | Android Developers | Dec, 2023 | Medium
Welcome to the latest (and last one for this year!) edition of Now in Android; your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. Most of the content of this post is…
Now in Android #96. Adaptive Layouts, Google Play updates… | by Milosz Moczkowski | Android Developers | Nov, 2023 | Medium
Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. Most of the content of this post is available in the form of a video or podcast, so feel…
Now in Android #95. Google Play Requirements, Animations in… | by Patrick Martin | Android Developers | Nov, 2023 | Medium
Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. Most of the content of this post is available in the form of a video or podcast, so feel…
New APIs for adaptive layouts in Jetpack Compose | by Ian G. Clifton | Android Developers | Nov, 2023 | Medium
Building for phones, foldables, and tablets just got easier with the new Material adaptive layouts now in alpha! The variety of Android device sizes available on the market challenges the usual…