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Build intelligent Android apps: Cloud and hybrid inference
Build intelligent Android apps: Cloud and hybrid inference

21 July 2026

Posted by Thomas Ezan, Jolanda Verhoef, Caren Chang, Senior Developer Relations Engineers, Android Developer Relations Welcome back to the ...


Build intelligent Android apps: Integrate into Android's intelligence system using AppFunctions
Build intelligent Android apps: Integrate into Android's intelligence system using AppFunctions

21 July 2026

Posted by Ben Weiss, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer Relations Welcome back to the blog post series " Build int...


Build intelligent Android apps: Introduction to Jetpacker
Build intelligent Android apps: Introduction to Jetpacker

21 July 2026

Posted by Jolanda Verhoef, Senior Developer Relations Engineer,  Android Developer Relations Building GenAI features in your app usually m...


Build intelligent Android apps: On-device inference
Build intelligent Android apps: On-device inference

21 July 2026

Posted by Caren Chang, Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer Relations Welcome back to the blog post series " Build intellig...


Upcoming Changes to the Nearby Connections API
Upcoming Changes to the Nearby Connections API

20 July 2026

Posted by Wei Wang, Engineering Manager, Android BeTo User privacy and transparency are core to the Android experience. To better align ...


Android Studio Quail 2 is Stable: Multi-task with the Android Studio AI agent
Android Studio Quail 2 is Stable: Multi-task with the Android Studio AI agent

14 July 2026

Posted by Amman Asfaw, Product Manager, Android Studio Android Studio Quail 2 is now stable and ready for you to use in production, bring...


Evolving how LLMs are measured for Android: the next era of Android Bench
Evolving how LLMs are measured for Android: the next era of Android Bench

08 July 2026

Posted by Zoe Lopez-Latorre, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Android Back in March, we introduced Android Bench —our LLM leaderboard ...


Google Play launches the first Indie Games Fund in Africa
Google Play launches the first Indie Games Fund in Africa

06 July 2026

Posted by Steph Pio, Strategic Partnerships Manager, Google Play EMEA Sub-Saharan Africa is home to some of the world’s most creative stor...