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Introducing the Google Play Games Level Up program
Introducing the Google Play Games Level Up program

23 September 2025

Posted by  Aurash Mahbod  –  VP and GM, Games on Google Play We’re evolving Google Play Games into an integrated experience centered ...


Elevating media playback : A deep dive into Media3’s PreloadManager - Part 2
Elevating media playback : A deep dive into Media3’s PreloadManager - Part 2

22 September 2025

Posted by Mayuri Khinvasara Khabya - Developer Relations Engineer ( LinkedIn and X ) Welcome to the second installment of our thre...


Gratitude's developers released 2X the amount of innovative experiments with the help of Gemini in Android Studio
Gratitude's developers released 2X the amount of innovative experiments with the help of Gemini in Android Studio

18 September 2025

Posted by Sandhya Mohan, Product Manager Gratitude is a mental wellness Android app that encourages self-care and positivity with te...


#WeArePlay: Meet the people whose personal challenges inspired their apps and games.
#WeArePlay: Meet the people whose personal challenges inspired their apps and games.

18 September 2025

Posted by Robbie McLachlan - Developer Marketing In our latest #WeArePlay stories, we meet the people who turned personal challenges...


Android 16 QPR2 Beta 2 is Here
Android 16 QPR2 Beta 2 is Here

17 September 2025

Posted by Matthew McCullough, VP of Product Management, Android Developer Android 16 QPR2 has released Platform Stability today with ...


Simplifying advanced networking with DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation
Simplifying advanced networking with DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation

15 September 2025

Posted by Lorenzo Colitti -  TL, Android Core Networking and Patrick Rohr - Software Engineer, Android Core Networking IPv4 complicates a...


HDR and User Interfaces
HDR and User Interfaces

10 September 2025

Posted by Alec Mouri - Software Engineer As explained in What is HDR? , we can think of HDR as only referring to a luminance range ...