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Leverage Android skills and Gemma 4 in Android Studio Quail 4
Leverage Android skills and Gemma 4 in Android Studio Quail 4

01 9月 2026

Posted by Amman Fasil Asfaw, Product Manager, Android Studio Android Studio Quail 4 is now stable and ready for you to use in production. ...


Emulator control for adaptive app development
Emulator control for adaptive app development

31 8月 2026

Posted by Rob Orgiu, Developer Relations Engineer, Adaptive Apps, Android Adaptive app development is fundamental on Android, but making s...


How WhatsApp Upgraded to Secure, Seamless Sign-In for 1 Billion Users with Passkeys
How WhatsApp Upgraded to Secure, Seamless Sign-In for 1 Billion Users with Passkeys

27 8月 2026

Posted by Niharika Arora, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Tracy Agyemang, Product Marketing Manager, Google and Mayank Manuja, An...


Elevating app quality: Reducing memory usage and improving device migration
Elevating app quality: Reducing memory usage and improving device migration

26 8月 2026

Posted by Raghavendra Hareesh Pottamsetty, GM, Google Play Developer & Monetization Maintaining a healthy Android ecosystem is a shared ...


Ensuring Safety in the Generative AI Ecosystem: Protecting Users from Non-Consensual Intimate Content
Ensuring Safety in the Generative AI Ecosystem: Protecting Users from Non-Consensual Intimate Content

25 8月 2026

Posted by Ron Aquino, Senior Director, Trust & Safety, Chrome, Android, and Play At Google Play, user safety and developer success go ...


AAOS SDV - Secure by Design
AAOS SDV - Secure by Design

24 8月 2026

Posted by Markus Vill, Software Engineer, Sean Keys, Security Engineer, and Istvan Nador, Software Engineer, Android Auto At Google, we be...


Preparing your app for broader memory limits
Preparing your app for broader memory limits

19 8月 2026

Posted by Blair Harmon, Director of Product Management, Android Platform A great user experience is central to Android's mission, and d...


Tinder cuts app cold starts by 47% with new R8 Configuration Analyzer
Tinder cuts app cold starts by 47% with new R8 Configuration Analyzer

18 8月 2026

Posted by Ajesh R Pai, Developer Relations Engineer, Ulises Uriel Verduzco Diaz, Software Engineer, Tinder, and Tracy Agyemang, Product Mar...