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Now in Android #115. Android 16 Beta 3, Gemini in Studio for… | by Daniel Galpin | Android Developers | Apr, 2025 | 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’re covering the third beta of Android 16, Gemini in Android Studio for…
How Dropbox leverages testing to maintain high level of trust at scale | by Jose Alcérreca | Android Developers | Apr, 2025 | Medium
This is part 2 of the Testing at scale series of articles where we asked industry experts to share their testing strategies. In this article, Ryan Harter, Staff Engineer at Dropbox, shares how the…
Netflix App Testing At Scale. Learn how Netflix dealt with the… | by Jose Alcérreca | Android Developers | Apr, 2025 | Medium
This is part of the Testing at scale series of articles where we asked industry experts to share their testing strategies. In this article, Ken Yee, Senior Engineer at Netflix, tells us about the…
Adaptive Camera: Smooth Tabletop Mode with Animations | by Jolanda Verhoef | Android Developers | Apr, 2025 | Medium
Welcome back to the final part of our blog post series about harnessing the power of CameraX and Compose. In the previous posts, we’ve created a camera preview screen with tap-to-focus and spotlight…
Make WebViews edge-to-edge. Make your WebViews compatible with… | by Ash Nohe | Android Developers | Mar, 2025 | Medium
Ensure your WebViews are compatible with Android 16, as Android 16 removes the ability to opt-out of drawing your app edge-to-edge. The way you handle insets for WebViews depends on whether or not…
Unit Testing Lifecycle and State in ViewModels | by Marcello Galhardo | Android Developers | Mar, 2025 | Medium
You can test a ViewModel by simply creating an instance using its constructor in your test code. However, this approach has limitations — there is no straightforward way to: With ViewModelScenario…
Now in Android #114. Google I/O 2025, Android Studio at 10… | by Daniel Galpin | Android Developers | Mar, 2025 | Medium
Welcome to 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 return of Google I/O, Android Studio Turning 10, the…
Bump’s Journey into Delightful Experiences on Android with Jetpack Compose | by Android Developers | Android Developers | Mar, 2025 | Medium
This is a guest post from amo Engineer, Cyril Mottier, on how they’ve leveraged Android to create magic in their Android app. At amo, we are redefining what it means to build social applications. Our…
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…
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…
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…
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…