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Stay up to date with the latest announcements, feature rollouts, and updates across Android tools, libraries, and platforms.
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Product News
Every year, Google I/O brings new announcements and resources across ecosystems and products, including Android development. As development shifts toward AI and agent-assisted tooling, we’ve expanded our offerings to better support you, however you decide to build for Android.
Simona Milanovic • 2 min read
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Case Studies
Performance regressions are notoriously hard to reproduce, making regressions a massive bottleneck for mobile developers.
Alice Yuan, Arti Arutiunov, Nikita Ogorodnikov • 4 min read
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Product News
At Google I/O ‘26, we showcased how the latest advancements in the Android ecosystem can help you elevate your app's quality while maximizing development efficiency.
Ataul Munim • 3 min read
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3 Authors
How-tos
While app performance is often equated with a smooth UI and fast start times, memory serves as the silent foundation upon which these visible metrics are built. It's no secret that we're seeing a shift where device memory is more important than ever.
Alice Yuan, Ajesh Pai, Fung Lam • 10 min read
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Product News
At Google I/O 2026, we introduced Android’s shift from an operating system to an intelligence system. We also demonstrated how you can build intelligent experiences natively with the system and bring the power of Google’s AI into your apps.
Jingyu Shi • 2 min read
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Events & Programs
We’re opening applications for the Android XR Developer Catalyst Program, a dedicated initiative to accelerate the development of Android XR apps ready to launch within the next year.
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Product News
We are excited to announce that official support for Unreal Engine and Godot has arrived for Android XR. We are also launching new tools designed to boost your productivity and enable new XR capabilities: the Android XR Engine Hub and the Android XR Interaction Framework.
Luke Hopkins, Ryan Bartley • 4 min read
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Product News
With the release of Android 17, we are transitioning into an adaptive first development standard. Your users no longer rely on a single form factor; they transition between phones, foldables, tablets, laptops, automotive displays, and immersive XR environments throughout their day.
Fahd Imtiaz • 4 min read
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Product News
We’re excited to share Google TV features and developer tools designed to increase the discoverability of your content and prepare your app for future TV experiences.
Paul Lammertsma • 4 min read
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Product News
We're excited to launch Developer Preview 4 of the Android XR SDK, continuing our focus on unifying cross-device development for headsets, wired XR glasses, and intelligent eyewear.
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Product News
We're thrilled to see developers continuing to bring their apps and experiences to Android for Cars! Over the past year, we've continued to see strong growth and momentum in the app ecosystem on Android Auto and cars with Google built-in.
Jan Kleinert, Noam Gefen, Thomas Weathers • 3 min read
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Product News
We are excited to introduce Wear OS 7, a major update that brings a new era of power efficiency and intelligence to users and developers alike.
John Zoeller • 9 min read
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Product News
In the almost-5-years since Jetpack Compose launched, we've invested in bringing you all the features, performance and tools that you need to build amazing UIs across the variety of Android devices.
Nick Butcher • 2 min read
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Product News
Native Android app creation capabilities in Google AI Studio using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. Ability to preview apps in an embedded Android Emulator and deploy it to a physically connected device. Google Play Developers can submit a new app release to an Internal Test Track in Play Console.
Emma-Louise Leavey, Mike Taylor-Cai • 4 min read
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Product News
As Android developers, you have many choices when it comes to the agents, tools, command-line interfaces (CLI), and LLMs you use for app development.
Simona Milanovic, Ben Trengrove • 5 min read
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Product News
Android Performance Analyzer (APA) is Android’s new profiler and performance analysis tool for the Android mobile ecosystem. APA is intended as a profiling tool for any developer building for Android who needs to make their app or game run better and faster.
Mayank Jain • 5 min read
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Product News
This year at Google I/O we are going beyond iterative changes, towards a fundamental shift in how apps are built. Our newest tools are built for the agentic era with features that boost productivity for you as an Android developer AND supercharge the AI agents you deploy in your codebase.
Matthew Warner • 8 min read
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Product News
At this year’s Google I/O, we talked about our evolving business model that offers more choice and new ways for your apps and content to be discovered on and off the store. We also unveiled advanced tools and insights that will help scale your business with less complexity.
Paul Feng • 6 min read
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Product News
Google I/O '26 features 17 key announcements for Android developers focusing on agent-led productivity, Compose First as our UI standard, and high-performance media and adaptive development for the expanding ecosystem.
Matthew McCullough • 8 min read
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Case Studies
FotMob recently experienced its largest single-day increase on Wear OS among its installed audience in 5 years, at 2-3x the daily average. The secret? A simple cross-device installation flow that helps users discover their Wear OS app directly from their phone.
Garan Jenkin • 3 min read
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