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Android developer verification: Early access starts
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Google Play service fee reduced to 15% for the first $1M/year
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Introducing Android 9 Pie
After more than a year of development and months of testing by early adopters, we're ready to launch Android 9 Pie, the latest release of Android, to the world. Android 9 harnesses the power of machine learning to make your phone smarter, simpler, and tailored to you. Read all about the new consumer features here. For…
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Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year
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Treble: A modular base for Android
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An experimental Android WebView Media Integrity API early next year
We’re piloting an experimental Android WebView Media Integrity API with select embedded media providers early next year.
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Android Developer Verification
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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Adding 16 kb page size to Android
Android 15 has been refactored to support using 16 KB page sizes, and file systems like EROFS and F2FS have been made compatible.
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Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent
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Decreasing service fees on subscriptions to 15%
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Android Studio 4.0
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Virtual Machine as a core Android Primitive
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Previewing Android P
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An update on Android's audio latency
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Bringing passkeys to Android and Chrome
developers can enroll in the Google Play Services beta and use Chrome Canary. Both features will be generally available on stable channels
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Android Q Beta
Today we’re releasing Beta 1 of Android Q for early adopters and a preview SDK for developers. You can get started with Beta 1 today by enrolling any Pixel device (including the original Pixel and Pixel XL, which we’ve extended support for by popular demand!) Please let us know what you think! Read on for a taste of…
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Hardening the Kernel in Android Oreo
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Desktop Windowing on Android Tablets
Desktop windowing on Android tablets enables users to run multiple apps simultaneously and resize windows for optimal multitasking.
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Android 13 requires devices to have more than 2GB RAM and 16GB storage
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Future of Java 8 Language Feature Support on Android
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Android 12 is live in AOSP
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Developer Preview of Android O
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Android KTX: Kotlin Development for Android
Today, we are announcing the preview of Android KTX - a set of extensions designed to make writing Kotlin code for Android more concise, idiomatic, and pleasant. Android KTX provides a nice API layer on top of both Android framework and Support Library to make writing your Kotlin code more natural.
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Google will consider lowering Play Store cut to 15% for certain apps
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Oboe: A C++ library for low latency audio in Android
This week we released the first production-ready version of Oboe - a C++ library for building real-time audio apps. Oboe provides the lowest possible audio latency across the widest range of Android devices, as well as several other benefits.
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Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to peer device communication
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Building a Titan: Better security through a tiny chip
At the Made by Google event last week, we talked about the combination of AI + Software + Hardware to help organize your information. To better protect that information at a hardware level, our new Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL devices include a Titan M chip.We briefly introduced Titan M and some of its benefits on our…
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Android Studio 3.1 Stable
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Project Capillary: End-to-end encryption for push messaging, simplified
Developers already use HTTPS to communicate with Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM). The channel between FCM server endpoint and the device is encrypted with SSL over TCP. However, messages are not encrypted end-to-end (E2E) between the developer server and the user device unless developers take special measures. To this…
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Insider Attack Resistance
Our smart devices, such as mobile phones and tablets, contain a wealth of important personal information that needs to be kept safe. Google is constantly trying to find new and better ways protect that valuable information on Android devices. From partnering with external researchers to find and fix vulnerabilities…