Category: Android

In our latest #WeArePlay stories, we meet the founders building apps and games that are making health and wellness fun and easy for everyone on Google Play. From getting heavy sleepers jumping into their mornings, to turning mental wellness into an immersive adventure game. Here are a few of our […]

Health Connect is Android’s on-device platform designed to simplify connectivity between health and fitness apps, allowing developers to build richer experiences with secure, centralized data. Today, we’re thrilled to announce three major updates that empower you to create more intelligent, connected, and nuanced applications: the stable release of the Health […]

Posted by Stevan Silva , Sr. Product Manager, Android XR Calm is a leading mental health and wellness company with over 180 million downloads. When they started their development for Android XR, their core engineering team was able to build their first functional XR orbiter menus on Day 1 and […]

Last month, we shared new updates showcasing our evolving vision for Google Play: a place where people can discover the content and experiences they love and where you can build and grow sustainable businesses. Our commitment to your success is at the heart of our continued investments. Today, we’re excited […]

Prompt API lets you create custom prompts and set optional generation parameters with just a few lines of code: Generation.getClient().generateContent( generateContentRequest( ImagePart(bitmapImage), TextPart(“Categorize this image as one of the following: car, motorcycle, bike, scooter, other. Return only the category as the response.”), ) { // Optional parameters temperature = 0.2f […]

Posted by Sa-ryong Kang and Caren Chang, Developer Relations Engineers Kakao Mobility is South Korea’s leading mobility business, offering a range of transportation and delivery services, including taxi-hailing, navigation, bike and scooter-sharing, parking, and parcel delivery, through its Kakao T app. The team at Kakao Mobility utilized Gemini Nano via […]

Simplifying user feedback with a voice-first approach The previous in-app review experience on redBus was text-based, which presented some key challenges. At our scale, reliable user reviews are critical: they build trust for travelers and give operators actionable insights. While our existing text-based system served us well, we found that […]

We’re in an important moment where AI changes everything, from how we work to the expectations that users have for your apps, and our goal on Android is to transform this AI evolution into opportunities for you and your users. Today in our Fall episode of The Android Show, we […]

Ink API is now in beta and is ready to be integrated in your app.. This milestone was made possible by valuable developer feedback, leading to continuous improvements in the API’s performance, stability, and visual quality. Google apps, such as Google Docs, Pixel Studio, Google Photos, Chrome PDF, Youtube Effect […]

Capturing fast-moving action with clarity is a key feature for modern camera apps. This is achieved through high-speed capture—the process of acquiring frames at rates like 120 or 240 fps. This high-fidelity capture can be used for two distinct purposes: creating a high-frame-rate video for detailed, frame-by-frame analysis, or generating […]