Android XR, Android Studio Otter 2 feature drop ; Android 16 QPR2 , compose updates , Jetpack Navigation 3 , performance and much , much , much more. Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. You can catch a short subset of what’s in this gigantified update on YouTube, but read on for the full story. <a href="https://medium.com/med

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Canary Channel , Agentic AI in Android Studio , 16 KB Pages , Policy Changes , Compose Tips , Play Games Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. This edition features the Android platform Canary Channel , the first release of Agentic AI in Android Studio , Play updates including 16 KB Page Size requirements and other policy chang

Android 16 , Desktop Experiences , Adaptive Apps , T esting Videos , AndroidX and more! Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. In this edition we will cover Android 16 , Desktop Experiences , Adaptive Apps , Testing Videos , AndroidX and more! <a href="https://medium.com/media/e5e1b0709e27441479904677742b5c3e/href">https://mediu

Now in Android #118 — Google I/O 2025 Part II Compose , Camera and Media , Accessibility , KMP , Tools , Maps , AndroidX , Google Home , integrating the web , Google Play , and more Welcome to part two of a special Google I/O 2025 edition of Now in Android , your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in Android development. This second edition covers the latest from Jetpack Compose , Camera and

Posted by Fahd Imtiaz, Product Manager, Android Developer Experience This article is also shared on the Android Developers Blog Today, Android is launching a few updates across the platform! This includes the start of Android 16’s rollout, with details for both developers and users , a Developer Preview for enhanced Android desktop experiences with connected displays , and updates for Android user

Now in Android #117 — Google I/O 2025 Part I Design , Watches , Cars , Tablets , Adaptive Apps , Android XR , Gemini , and Android 16 Welcome to part one of a special two-part Google I/O 2025 edition of Now in Android. This first post will cover a bunch of changes related to the latest evolution of Material Design , watches , cars , tablets, laptops, and connected displays, the latest in adaptive

Google IO program lineup, Jetpack Compose 1.8, Play Console insights Android Vitals Metrics, Testing at Scale blog series and AndroidX! 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 Google IO program lineup , what’s new in Jetpack Compose 1.8 , the redesigned Play Console app dashboard, new Android Vita

Android 16 Beta 3 , Gemini in Studio for Business and Multimodal , Widgets , GDC , safety and security , Android XR , Media , Camera 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 Business and Gemini Multimodal , Widgets , GDC announcements , safe

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 shape of Dropbox’s testing pyramid changed over time, and what tools they use to get timely feedback. With more than one billion downloads, the Dropbox app for Android has to maintain a high quality bar