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This article provides a framework for asking the right architectural questions before an enterprise commits to an mDL provider or library. It shows which components can be abstracted safely, which trust boundaries must remain visible to the enterprise, what cryptographic and interoperability properties should be…
When you’re on the go, your phone is often the only observability tool you have. And what you can do with it in the first few minutes matters. With the incredible innovation that has gone into mobile CPUs, GPUs and displays, a phone is a powerful device where you can immediately see what’s happening and start acting…
Instagram Direct migrated its Android UI from the legacy Android View system to Jetpack Compose, creating an AI native UI codebase that is easier for AI coding agents to understand, modify, and maintain. According to Instagram engineers, the migration reduced UI code volume by 50% and token costs per AI agent session…
Flutter SDK 10.0: streaming traces by default, accurate crash free rates, dedicated app startup traces, and expanded Dio network error capture.
.NET 11 Release Candidate 2 is available with improvements across libraries, runtime, SDK, MSBuild, NuGet, F , ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, and Windows Forms. The post Announcing .NET 11 Release Candidate 2 appeared first on .NET Blog .
Posted by Paul Feng, VP of Product Management, Google Play, Google Play Today, we shared how we’re taking our “More than a store” vision into its next chapter. From You tab—now a personalized home base for your favorite apps and content—to Play Games Sidekick connecting over 2 billion players, Google Play is meeting…
Posted by Jason Buchel, Creative Technologist, Platform & Devices As agentic development accelerates, Android engineering is reaching an exciting new frontier: moving from assistive code completion to agents executing end to end under your direction. You have total choice and flexibility in the models and agents you…
How Sentry Flutter uses a worker isolate for Android SDK operations and reduces duplicate normalization and JSON encoding overhead.
The Kotlin Toolchain is a unified entry point into Kotlin. It lets you build JVM, Android, iOS, multiplatform, and server side applications with a simple declarative configuration. With the release of v0.13, we now recommend the Kotlin Toolchain for most new Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) projects. Earlier this year, we…
Starting with IntelliJ IDEA 2026.3 and Android Studio Rabbit 2 & 124; 2026.2.2, we’re discontinuing Swift language IDE features in the Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) plugin. This includes editing, syntax highlighting, and navigation within Swift files and between Swift and Kotlin. Running iOS applications and debugging…
Posted by Simona Milanovic, Developer Relations Engineer As Android developers, you have many choices when it comes to the agents, LLMs, tools, and command line interfaces (CLI) you use for app development. Our goal is to help you build beautiful, high quality Android apps, no matter how you choose to build. We’re…
Security updates across Python 3.10–3.14, the final maintenance release of 3.13, and a farewell to Python 3.10.
Posted by Jolanda Verhoef, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer Relations Welcome back to the blog post series "Build intelligent Android apps" where you take a basic Android app and transform it into a personalized, intelligent, and agentic experience. In our previous post you learned how to…
Posted by Matthew Warner, Product Manager, Android Developer Experience AI powered developer tools have become an essential multiplier for engineering productivity, with teams adopting specialized AI coding agents, custom enterprise harnesses, and autonomous tools. It’s important for you to be able to build Android…
Posted by Fahd Imtiaz, Senior Product Manager, and Loryn Hairston, Product Marketing Manager, Android Developer Googlebook introduces a new category of laptops built on a shared Android foundation. High performance hardware from partners such as HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer, and Asus, combines mobile convenience with…
Living in the Netherlands, I spend a fair amount of time on trains, and that is usually where I catch up on what the builder community is writing. Until now, that meant opening a laptop or squinting at a browser tab on my phone. This week I found myself scrolling through trending articles and checking […]
Posted by Jan Kleinert, Developer Relations Engineer, Android for Cars Today, the games category for Android Auto and cars powered by Android Automotive OS with Google built in is officially graduating from beta to general availability. Our early access partners have already been bringing games to the parked only…
Posted by Maunik Shah, Staff Software Engineer, Alec Garcia, Software Engineer, and Joseph Yong, Technical Program Manager At Android, we are constantly working to provide developers and enterprise partners with the data they need to keep devices protected. Today, we're thrilled to announce the stable release of the…
Posted by Matthew McCullough, VP, Product Management, Android Developer When we first launched Android Bench, we built a rigorous foundation for evaluating how large language models (LLMs) assist developers with real world Android tasks. As AI models and agents rapidly evolve, we’ve been updating our methodology,…
Posted by Steven Jenkins, Product Manager, Sherif Eid, Senior Software Engineer, and Fabien Sanglard, Staff Software Engineer, Android Studio Wireless debugging on Android is now faster, more reliable, and easier to set up than ever. With ADB Wi Fi 2.0, we’ve introduced a new server stack and smarter network handling…
