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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 ...


#WeArePlay: Meet the people using Google AI to solve problems in agriculture, education, and pet care
#WeArePlay: Meet the people using Google AI to solve problems in agriculture, education, and pet care

10 September 2025

Posted by Robbie McLachlan - Developer Marketing In our latest #WeArePlay stories, we meet the people using Google AI to drive posit...


Improve app performance with optimized resource shrinking
Improve app performance with optimized resource shrinking

09 September 2025

Posted by Johan Bay - Software Engineer A small and fast app is key to a fantastic user experience. That's why we built R8 , our ...


Elevating media playback: Introducing preloading with Media3 - Part 1
Elevating media playback: Introducing preloading with Media3 - Part 1

05 September 2025

Posted by Mayuri Khinvasara Khabya - Developer Relations Engineer ( LinkedIn and X ) In today's media-centric apps, delivering...


Best practices for migrating users to passkeys with Credential Manager
Best practices for migrating users to passkeys with Credential Manager

04 September 2025

Posted by Niharika Arora ( X and LinkedIn ) – Senior Developer Relations Engineer and Vinisha Athwani - Technical Writer ( LinkedIn ) ...


#WeArePlay: Meet the people behind apps & games powering businesses around the world
#WeArePlay: Meet the people behind apps & games powering businesses around the world

04 September 2025

Posted by Robbie McLachlan - Developer Marketing In our latest #WeArePlay stories, we meet the founders building apps and games that...


The latest for devs from Made by Google, updates to Gemini in Android Studio, plus a new Androidify: our summer episode of The Android Show
The latest for devs from Made by Google, updates to Gemini in Android Studio, plus a new Androidify: our summer episode of The Android Show

03 September 2025

Posted by Matthew McCullough – VP of Product Management, Android Developer In this dynamic and complex ecosystem, our commitment is to ...