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Increase your app’s availability across device types
Increase your app’s availability across device types

18 December 2023

Posted by Alex Vanyo – Developer Relations Engineer TL;DR: Remove unnecessary feature requirements that prevent users from downloadi...


#WeArePlay | Meet Steven from Indonesia. More stories from around the world.
#WeArePlay | Meet Steven from Indonesia. More stories from around the world.

18 December 2023

Posted by Leticia Lago, Developer Marketing As we bid farewell to 2023, we're excited to unveil our last #WeArePlay blog post of ...


Leverage Gemini in your Android apps
Leverage Gemini in your Android apps

13 December 2023

Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering Last week we unveiled our most capable foundation model, Gemini . Gemini is multimodal –...


Faster Rust Toolchains for Android
Faster Rust Toolchains for Android

12 December 2023

Posted by Chris Wailes - Senior Software Engineer The performance, safety, and developer productivity provided by Rust has led to rap...


KSP2 Preview: Kotlin K2 and Standalone Source Generator
KSP2 Preview: Kotlin K2 and Standalone Source Generator

07 December 2023

Posted by Ting-Yuan Huang – Software Engineer, and Jiaxiang Chen – Software Engineer The Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP) tool provides...


A New Foundation for AI on Android
A New Foundation for AI on Android

06 December 2023

Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering Foundation Models learn from a diverse range of data sources to produce AI systems capable ...


Virtual Machine as a core Android Primitive
Virtual Machine as a core Android Primitive

05 December 2023

Posted by Sandeep Patil – Principal Software Engineer, and Irene Ang – Product Manager The Android Virtualization Framework (AVF) wi...