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.…

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 Nikolay Martynov, Staff Software Engineer at Datadog Performance regressions are notoriously hard to reproduce,…

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…

Building Premium Android Experiences at Google I/O ‘26

Posted by Ataul Munim, Android Developer Relations Engineer A truly differentiated Android experience is about delivering premium delight wherever your users are. At Google I/O ‘26, we showcased how the…

Top AI on Android updates for building intelligent experiences from Google I/O ‘26

Whether you are experimenting with AppFunctions to prepare for the intelligence system, or looking to bring the power of Google’s AI within your own app, we’ve got you covered. Dive…

What’s New in Wear OS 7

Posted by John Zoeller, Developer Relations Engineer Today, we are excited to introduce Wear OS 7, a major update that brings a new era of power efficiency and intelligence to…

What’s new in Google Play

Posted by Paul Feng, VP, Google Play Eng, Product, UX At Google Play, we’re passionate about helping people connect with the experiences they’ll love, while empowering developers like you to…

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…

Android UI Development is Compose First

Posted by Nick Butcher, Product Manager In 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…

What’s new in Android Developer tools

This 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…