Posted by Matthew Forsythe, Director Product Management, Android App Safety Last year, we introduced Android developer verification to strengthen ecosystem security and stop malicious actors from hiding behind anonymity to release harmful apps. Millions of apps have been registered since the verification launched in March, covering nearly all installs on […]
Building a Mixed-Reality Tour Guide with Android XR, the Geospatial API, and Gemini
At this year’s Google I/O, we announced an update for spatial experiences: the Geospatial API is now available as a preview in ARCore for Jetpack XR. By bringing Google’s Visual Positioning System (VPS) to Android XR, Android XR enables anchoring digital content to the physical world with sub-meter accuracy and […]
Android Developers Blog: Android 17 is here
Posted by Matthew McCullough, VP of Product Management, Android Developer Today we’re releasing Android 17 and making it available on most supported Pixel devices. Look for new devices running Android 17 in the coming months. Android 17 marks the start of our transition to an intelligence system, putting your apps […]
Tooling, Engine Support, and Ecosystem Updates
Posted by Stevan Silva, Group Product Manager, and Vinny DaSilva, Developer Relations Engineer, Android XR From augmented overlays to fully immersive environments, the Android XR ecosystem is expanding rapidly, with the Samsung Galaxy XR already available today. Alongside the latest updates from Google I/O and this week’s Augmented World Expo […]
Top 3 updates for Android developer productivity
To help models gain expertise for specific development patterns that follow our best practices, we are continuing to expand our repository of Android skills, available through Android CLI and GitHub. Android skills ground LLMs in specialized workflows and domain knowledge, for the most common and more complex user journeys they […]
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2019 comes to Mac with Mojave & Dark Mode support, Touch Bar integration, more
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2019 Powers Professional Graphic Design on Windows, Mac and Web Marking 30 years of innovation, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2019 extends its reach beyond Windows with an all-new, pro-powered suite for macOS and the new CorelDRAW web app. Experience the ultimate in creative power, wherever inspiration strikes.OTTAWA, ON – […]
Tune in for our winter episode of #TheAndroidShow on March 13!
Posted by Anirudh Dewani, Director – Android Developer Relations In just a few days, on Thursday, March 13 at 10AM PT, we’ll be dropping our winter episode of #TheAndroidShow, on YouTube and on developer.android.com! Mobile World Congress – the annual event in Barcelona where Android device makers show off their […]
Datadog delivers millions of in-depth performance insights with ProfilingManager
Posted by Alice Yuan, Developer Relations Engineer at Google, Arti Arutiunov, Product Manager at Datadog and Nikita Ogorodnikov, Staff Software Engineer at Datadog Performance regressions are notoriously hard to reproduce, making regressions a massive bottleneck for mobile developers. Although signals like ANR rates indicate what issues occur in production, pinpointing […]
Essential Steps for Android 17
Posted by Alice Yuan, Developer Relations Engineer, Ajesh Pai, Developer Relations Engineer, and Fung Lam, Developer Relations Engineer While app performance is often equated with a smooth UI and fast start times, memory serves as the silent foundation upon which these visible metrics are built. It’s no secret that we’re […]









