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The Embedded Photo Picker
The Embedded Photo Picker

27 January 2026

Posted by Roxanna Aliabadi Walker, Product Manager and Yacine Rezgui, Developer Relations Engineer The Embedded Photo Picker: A more seamle...


Privacy Week for Android Developers
Privacy Week for Android Developers

13 March 2023

Posted by Marcel Pinto , Developer Relations Engineer, Android Android is secure by default and private by design . The platform is foc...


Turning it up to 11: Android 11 for developers
Turning it up to 11: Android 11 for developers

08 September 2020

Posted by Stephanie Cuthbertson, Director, Product Management Android 11 is here! Today we’re pushing the source to the Android Open...


Improving inter-activity communication with Jetpack ActivityResult
Improving inter-activity communication with Jetpack ActivityResult

23 July 2020

Posted by Yacine Rezgui , Developer Advocate Whether you're requesting a permission, selecting a file from the system file manager...


Safer and More Transparent Access to User Location
Safer and More Transparent Access to User Location

19 February 2020

Posted by Krish Vitaldevara, Director of Product Management Trust & Safety, Google Play Last year, we made several changes to our ...


Improving the update process with your feedback
Improving the update process with your feedback

15 April 2019

Posted by Sameer Samat, VP of Product Management, Android & Google Play Thank you for all the feedback about updates we’ve been m...


Marshmallow and User Data
Marshmallow and User Data

01 February 2016

Posted by Joanna Smith, Developer Advocate and Giles Hogben, Google Privacy Team Marshmallow introduced several changes that were designe...


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Play Games Permissions are changing in 2016

23 January 2016

Posted by Wolff Dobson, Developer Advocate We’re taking steps to reduce sign-in friction and unnecessary permission requests for players b...