Android Developers

Modifiers in Compose can be chained and the order in which we do so matters. But how exactly does it matter?

A deep dive into the history of Modifiers and the constraints of APIs.

Nick Butcher, from the Google Developer Relations team, explains the importance of vector assets and how they can make your apps better and smaller.

Chromebooks have built in capabilities for developers to develop and run their apps on the same device, allowing them to build a better experience, especially for large screens.

This release, we focused on improving one of the core functions of the phone: connecting people.

Read the blog post: medium.com/@ianhlake/theming-with-appcompat-1a292b754b35 AppCompat ( developer.android.com/tools/support-library/features.html#v7-appcompat) gives you a consistent

Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development.

Get up to speed on the new storage access framework in Android 4.4 KitKat.

In this episode, we go over Kotlin enums and when statements, the overhead that they can incur, and how to use the Android R8 compiler to reduce that overhead.

This past year was a special one for the Android community, from the release of Android 13, a big investment in tablets and large screens, the latest in wearable technology to all of the investments

Get a better understanding of how to build your app to fill all screen formats.

Welcome to the first episode of the Modern Android Development Skills series on Performance.

Also checkout out ConstraintLayout: goo.gle/2PcclBA Read the blog post: medium.com/google-developers/layouts-attributes-and-you-9e5a4b4fe32c When you pick a layout, think of the

The Navigation Architecture Component serves as a framework for navigating within your app.

Get key insights into how having a considered price and revenue optimisation strategy can help you maximize revenue from very different users.

Every quarter second a user spends staring at a blank screen, instead of interfacing with your app, is a quarter second more they are willing to close your app, and give their attention to something

This DevByte was based on the early Developer Preview of Android Wear, which used a slightly different API for wearable notifications.

If you missed what’s happening in the world of Modern Android Development, Nick presents the top three picks to know from Android Developer Summit ‘22!

Get your tickets here: goo.gl/OehGUX The Big Android BBQ (BABBQ)( BigAndroidBBQ.com ) is almost here and Google Developers will be there serving up a healthy portion of best

Android Studio 2.1 enables Dex In Process, a feature that can dramatically improve all your build times.

AGDK is a full range of tools and libraries to help you develop, optimize, launch, and iterate on high quality Android games.

No network? No problem! Learn how to build an offline-first app. This talk will cover modeling, data access semantics, synchronization, and conflict resolution.

In this Android Studio release, we have upgraded the IntelliJ platform to 2023.1, with features designed to improve app performance and battery life, make it easier to upgrade applications to the

We are pleased to provide this Play Billing Library developer preview to help simplify the development process, allowing you to focus your efforts on implementing logic specifics to your app, such

The Device Manager in Android Studio provides good defaults, but to make sure your Android Emulator is running at full speed and hardware acceleration, following the advice of Wojtek Kaliciński in

How to use property animations, specifically ObjectAnimator, to perform various view animations.

On this episode of Motion Layout for the MAD Skills series, Sean will show us how to use ConstraintSets and Transitions to define animations from multiple views in Motion Layout.

In this talk, you'll learn how and where to hoist state in Jetpack Compose. When should state be hoisted? Should that be in a composable function, plain state holder class, or in a ViewModel?