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treetracker-android - Treetracker is Greenstands open source Android app to track and verify reforestation efforts globall
Treetracker is Greenstands open source Android app to track and verify reforestation efforts globally. NEW DEVELOPERS: Please refer to the README for is issue milestones and topics! https://github.com/Greenstand/treetracker-android/blob/master/README.md
What's new in Android for Cars: Unifying platforms and unlocking premium experiences
Posted by Jan Kleinert, Developer Relations Engineer, Android for Cars, Noam Gefen, Senior Product Manager, and Thomas Weathers, Developer Relations Engineer, Android for Cars We're thrilled to see developers continuing to bring their apps and experiences to Android for Cars! Over the past year, we've continued to see strong growth and momentum in the app ecosystem on Android Auto and cars with Google built-in. This year at Google I/O, we're introducing updates that benefit both drivers a...
Android UI Development is Compose First
Posted by Nick Butcher, Product ManagerIn the almost-5-years since Jetpack Compose launched, we've invested in bringing you all the features, performance and tools that you need to build amazing UIs across the variety of Android devices. Compose helps you to build beautiful, adaptive UIs that meet the demands of modern UI design.Rich feature set: With a powerful library of layouts, input, graphics, animation APIs, and the latest Material Design components, Compose empowers you to bu...
Android Studio I/O Edition: Whatâs new in Android Developer tools
Posted by Matthew Warner, Google Product ManagerThis year at Google I/O we are going beyond iterative changes, towards a fundamental shift in how apps are built. Our newest tools are built for the agentic era with features that boost productivity for you as an Android developer AND supercharge the AI agents you deploy in your codebase. So, whether you are building exclusively with AI or you prefer being the architect of every line of code, our tools will keep you ahead of the curve.As we move...
Introducing Android Performance Analyzer : The Next Evolution in Profiling for Android
By Simon Cooke, Developer Relations Engineer (X) and Mayank Jain, Product Manager (X) What is Android Performance Analyzer? Android Performance Analyzer (APA) is Androidâs new profiler and performance analysis tool for the Android mobile ecosystem. APA is intended as a profiling tool for any developer building for Android who needs to make their app or game run better and faster. It is helpful for all performance-minded engineers, especially those using Vulka...
Android XR Updates for Unity, Unreal, and Godot
Posted by Luke Hopkins, Android Developer Relations Engineer for OpenXR & Ryan Bartley, Android XR Product ManagerToday, we are excited to announce that official support for Unreal Engine and Godot has arrived for Android XR. Alongside these engine expansions, we are also launching new tools designed to boost your productivity and enable new XR capabilities: the Android XR Engine Hub and the Android XR Interaction Framework. Android XR Engine Hub The Android XR Engine Hub is cur...
Build for the future with the Android XR Developer Catalyst Program â Apply now!
Posted by Android XR Team The Android XR ecosystem is expanding, and weâre committed to supporting developers who will build its next great experiences. Today, weâre opening applications for the Android XR Developer Catalyst Program, a dedicated initiative to accelerate the development of Android XR apps ready to launch within the next year. This program is designed to provide the resources, hardware, and grants to help you build and scale innovative experiences across wired XR glass...
Build native Android apps in Google AI Studio
Posted by Emma-Louise Leavey, Group Product Manager and Mike Taylor-Cai, Product Manager Starting today Google AI Studio can build entire Android apps for you in minutes from just a prompt. You don't need to install any software or configure any libraries, which significantly lowers the barrier to development. Whether youâre a seasoned developer looking to prototype at lightning speed or a creator building your first-ever mobile experience, you can now go from a single prompt to a high-q...
17 Things to know for Android developers at Google I/O
Posted by Matthew McCullough, VP, Product Management, Android DeveloperToday at Google I/O, we announced the many ways weâre powering agentic workflows to increase your productivity and ensure your apps shine across the expanding Android ecosystem. Hereâs a recap of 17 of our favorite announcements for Android developers; you can also see what was announced last week in The Android Show: I/O Edition. Stay tuned over the next two days as we dive into all of the topics in more detail!Build High...
Google AI Studio can now build Android apps, Android Studio adds iOS app porting
Following The Android Show, Google made several developer announcements at I/O 2026, led by AI Studioâs new capability to build native Android apps. moreâŠ
What's new in Android for Cars: Unifying platforms and unlocking premium experiences
Posted by Jan Kleinert, Developer Relations Engineer, Android for Cars, Noam Gefen, Senior Product Manager, and Thomas Weathers, Developer Relations Engineer, Android for Cars We're thrilled to see developers continuing to bring their apps and experiences to Android for Cars! Over the past year, we've continued to see strong growth and momentum in the app ecosystem on Android Auto and cars with Google built-in. This year at Google I/O, we're introducing updates that benefit both drivers a...
Android UI Development is Compose First
Posted by Nick Butcher, Product ManagerIn the almost-5-years since Jetpack Compose launched, we've invested in bringing you all the features, performance and tools that you need to build amazing UIs across the variety of Android devices. Compose helps you to build beautiful, adaptive UIs that meet the demands of modern UI design.Rich feature set: With a powerful library of layouts, input, graphics, animation APIs, and the latest Material Design components, Compose empowers you to bu...
Android Studio I/O Edition: Whatâs new in Android Developer tools
Posted by Matthew Warner, Google Product ManagerThis year at Google I/O we are going beyond iterative changes, towards a fundamental shift in how apps are built. Our newest tools are built for the agentic era with features that boost productivity for you as an Android developer AND supercharge the AI agents you deploy in your codebase. So, whether you are building exclusively with AI or you prefer being the architect of every line of code, our tools will keep you ahead of the curve.As we move...
Introducing Android Performance Analyzer : The Next Evolution in Profiling for Android
By Simon Cooke, Developer Relations Engineer (X) and Mayank Jain, Product Manager (X) What is Android Performance Analyzer? Android Performance Analyzer (APA) is Androidâs new profiler and performance analysis tool for the Android mobile ecosystem. APA is intended as a profiling tool for any developer building for Android who needs to make their app or game run better and faster. It is helpful for all performance-minded engineers, especially those using Vulka...
Android XR Updates for Unity, Unreal, and Godot
Posted by Luke Hopkins, Android Developer Relations Engineer for OpenXR & Ryan Bartley, Android XR Product ManagerToday, we are excited to announce that official support for Unreal Engine and Godot has arrived for Android XR. Alongside these engine expansions, we are also launching new tools designed to boost your productivity and enable new XR capabilities: the Android XR Engine Hub and the Android XR Interaction Framework. Android XR Engine Hub The Android XR Engine Hub is cur...
Build for the future with the Android XR Developer Catalyst Program â Apply now!
Posted by Android XR Team The Android XR ecosystem is expanding, and weâre committed to supporting developers who will build its next great experiences. Today, weâre opening applications for the Android XR Developer Catalyst Program, a dedicated initiative to accelerate the development of Android XR apps ready to launch within the next year. This program is designed to provide the resources, hardware, and grants to help you build and scale innovative experiences across wired XR glass...
Build native Android apps in Google AI Studio
Posted by Emma-Louise Leavey, Group Product Manager and Mike Taylor-Cai, Product Manager Starting today Google AI Studio can build entire Android apps for you in minutes from just a prompt. You don't need to install any software or configure any libraries, which significantly lowers the barrier to development. Whether youâre a seasoned developer looking to prototype at lightning speed or a creator building your first-ever mobile experience, you can now go from a single prompt to a high-q...
17 Things to know for Android developers at Google I/O
Posted by Matthew McCullough, VP, Product Management, Android DeveloperToday at Google I/O, we announced the many ways weâre powering agentic workflows to increase your productivity and ensure your apps shine across the expanding Android ecosystem. Hereâs a recap of 17 of our favorite announcements for Android developers; you can also see what was announced last week in The Android Show: I/O Edition. Stay tuned over the next two days as we dive into all of the topics in more detail!Build High...
Finding the right Android app just got easier with Googleâs new Ask Play upgrade
This Google Play Store upgrade will make finding apps a breeze.
KAlertDialog: A Beautiful Material Alert Dialog Library for Android
KAlertDialog: A Beautiful Material Alert Dialog Library for Android Dialogs are one of the most common UI components in Android apps. We use them for confirmations, errors, success messages, loading states, input forms, warnings, and many other user interactions. But the default Android AlertDialog can feel very basic when you are building a modern production app. That is why I built KAlertDialog â a beautiful, customizable, Material-style alert dialog library for Android. GitHub Reposi...
Your favorite AI Bro's Favorite android app
My job is to tinker with twent.xyz . I call it "an AI EMPLOYEE in your Android Pocket". Hereâs what twent does: connects to 1k+ Integrations, FULL MCP & SKILL.MD install supported, lets you browse public MCPs & SKILL.MDs, uses your phone for you (touch, swipe, etc.) , creates personal-use Mini-apps just by chatting, runs a full UBUNTU TERMINAL, Supports any Agent CLI, Supports ACP-registry-CLIs, has an AI-Native Workflow Automation engine with a wide array of node types, Tuns on Br...
R8 Minification Silently Killed My Android App's Core Feature (And Tests Didn't Catch It)
My CI pipeline was green. Unit tests passed. The APK built and signed without errors. I installed it on my Pixel 3. The app launched, looked perfect. Then I tried to use it. Nothing happened. No crash. No error dialog. No logcat stacktrace. The app's entire core feature was just... gone. Like someone had hollowed it out and left the shell. What I was building Nudge is an open-source Android app blocker. You pick the apps you waste time on and set a delay (say, 30 seconds). Nudge...
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Precise Android Camera Framing with CameraScaleType in ImagePickerKMP 1.0.41
ImagePickerKMP 1.0.41 adds CameraScaleType, a small API with a practical impact: it lets Android developers control how the camera preview is scaled inside its viewport. The official documentation at https://imagepickerkmp.dev/ identifies v1.0.41 as the release focused on camera preview scale type and confirmation image scale type, and the GitHub release notes connect that version with configurable camera preview scaling options. Camera previews can be deceptively difficult. A preview that f...
Android 17's 'Continue On' feature will let you move tasks between devices
Google made quite a few announcements on the first day of Google I/O 2026, and one of them is "Continue On," which is an Android 17 feature that app developers can implement to provide cross-device continuity for their users. In Google's own words, "Continue On enables users to start an Android app on one Android device and then transition to another device in their Android ecosystem, continuing the user journey they started." In simpler words, if you are working on a document in the Google...