Android Developers

Let’s say you’ve got some 20 bitmaps being decoded on a worker thread. Well, what happens if your activity is destroyed before that work completes? In this video Doug Stevenson explains Loaders.

Jason Tomlinson of Hands-On Mobile talks about they built their Android app, Amazed.

How do you connect with your users? How does your app interact with the world around us?

Google has been hard at work giving you tools and opportunities to grow your business in new ways.

Understanding where Android applications consume memory is important for performance and usability on low-memory devices.

Protect your apps and games with the Play Integrity API.

Dark theme is a new alternative to Android's default light theme, which is a system wide setting that applies to all apps that support it.

Jetpack Compose is Android’s new modern UI toolkit. Learn how Compose simplifies & accelerates your UI development, allowing you to create richer, more robust and responsive UIs.

One thing I like about Android... keyboard shortcuts. Watch Android team members talk about their favorite features.

Learn from other developers who have taken advantage of Store Listing Experiments and other tools in the Developer Console to dramatically increase their conversions.

Today, we're launching version 1.0 of Jetpack Compose, Android's modern, native UI toolkit to help you build better apps faster. It's stable, and ready for you to adopt in production.

Hear from five successful founders how they are generating positive social impact with their apps on Google Play.

Sweet! Delicious! Candy Crush Saga is now available instantly on the Google Play Store! Download the app here → goo.gl/yWz9Uc Subscribe to the Android Developers channel here → goo.

A look back at the Android booth at Mobile World Congress Feb 27 - Mar 1, 2012

Foldable devices can switch across different postures, which brings new possibilities for the innovation of mobile office apps.

It’s no secret that threaded code and system memory don’t play well together, and on Android, this is no different.

On Android TV, app developers can create their own channel-like experiences using the TV Input Framework. To the user, the channels you create look and feel just like regular TV channel.

Clear, compelling design will help your Android app stand out in today's super competitive market.

Learn how to implement a realistic and complex UI using Compose Layouts. Use out-of-the-box composables and modifiers to transform designs into Compose code.

This video shows how items in a ListView can be animated to an expanded or contracted size. code: developer.android.com/shareables/devbytes/ListViewExpandingCells.zip #devbytes #animations

Google Play now requires new and updated apps with native libraries to have a corresponding 64-bit version.

Suspend functions in Coroutines are meant for one-shot calls that could return a result. But, how can you create a stream of data to return multiple results over time?

Learn top tips that you should consider when developing and distributing a successful app or game and how you can leverage M, the Google Play Developer Console and Android Studio.

Jetpack Compose offers automatic state observation that recomposes or recreates your UI whenever state changes.

Jetpack Compose was announced at Google I/O and the team has been hard at work ever since. This talk introduces Compose to new audiences, including what the project is and how it is taking shape.

Android 11 gives users better privacy control through fine grained location permissions.

We’ve redesigned Google Play Console to help you achieve what you want faster, with new and improved features like education pages, policy guidance, a search function, and more to help you maximize

Want to add some movement to your Jetpack Compose app, but don’t have the time to learn everything there is to know about Animations?

Build speed impacts your productivity as a developer. The Android Gradle build system is flexible and powerful, but could also be complex.