Announcing Gemma 4 in the AICore Developer Preview
Posted by David Chou, Product Manager and Caren Chang, Developer Relations Engineer At Google, we’re committed to bringing the most capable AI models directly to the Android devices in your…
The new standard for local agentic intelligence on Android
Today, we are enhancing Android development with Gemma 4, our latest state-of-the-art open model designed with complex reasoning and autonomous tool-calling capabilities. Our vision is to enable local agentic AI…
Increase Guidance and Control over Agent Mode with Android Studio Panda 3
Posted by Matt Dyor, Senior Product Manager Android Studio Panda 3 is now stable and ready for you to use in production. This release gives you even more control and customization…
Get your Wear OS apps ready for the 64-bit requirement
Posted by Michael Stillwell, Developer Relations Engineer and Dimitris Kosmidis, Product Manager, Wear OS 64-bit architectures provide performance improvements and a foundation for future innovation, delivering faster and richer experiences…
Why Some Young People Are Ditching Their Smartphones for Dumbphones, Flip Phones
You’re Offline! Smartphones are endlessly distracting. Delivering a constant stream of messages, entertainment, news, alerts and more. Now, some young people who were raised with these devices are deciding to…
Android Developers Blog: Media3 1.10 is out
We are continuing to expand the media3-ui-compose-material3 module to help you build Compose UIs for playback. We’ve added a new Player Composable that combines a ContentFrame with customizable playback controls, giving…
Monzo boosts performance metrics by up to 35% with a simple R8 update
Posted by Ben Weiss, Senior Developer Relations Engineer Monzo is a UK digital bank with 15 million customers and growing. As the app scaled, the engineering team identified app startup…
Rolling out to all developers on Play Console and Android Developer Console
Posted by Matthew Forsythe, Director Product Management, Android App Safety Android is for everyone. It’s built on a commitment to an open and safe platform. Users should feel confident installing…
New Tools and Improvements for Android 17
Posted by Robert Clifford, Developer Relations Engineer and Manjeet Rulhania, Software Engineer A pillar of the Android ecosystem is our shared commitment to user trust. As the mobile landscape has…
The Third Beta of Android 17
Posted by Matthew McCullough, VP of Product Management, Android Developer Android 17 has officially reached platform stability today with Beta 3. That means that the API surface is locked; you…

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