Android Developers

Persistence is a core element of every mobile app. Android provides different APIs to access or expose files with different tradeoffs. Should you request WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE?

Sean McQuillan covers Google Sign-In, Smart Lock, Autofill Framework, and Auto Backup for Android developers. These features allow app developers to improve their retention and user experience.

Don’t be afraid to go edge-to-edge!

One of the down-sides of generic containers is that they rely on Autoboxing when interfacing with your code. But what you get in convenience, you pay for in performance.

The single biggest improvement your app can make for networking performance has to do with reducing the sheer number of requests made.

The mobile ecosystem has dramatically changed since Android’s inception, and we must continue to evolve and mature the platform to remain relevant.

Efficient Data Transfers: Batching, Bundling, and SyncAdapters Every time you initiate a connection you cause a typical 3G wireless radio to continue drawing power, for upwards of 20 seconds.

Read the latest edition of Notes from Google Play to learn the standout moments from app and game creators and what is top of mind for the team here at Google Play.

Welcome back to MAD Skills! This week we’re starting a new series of videos and articles on Performance. Over the past year we made several updates to our guidance.

What I've learned from building my Android app - Watch out for security permissions. When creating custom layouts, try different approaches in order to get the best UI layout for activities.

David Edery, CEO of Spry Fox, shares common misperceptions of free-to-play games. Learn from Spry Fox’s journey launching multiple games and what’s led to their success over time.

Baseline Profiles are a new way to dramatically improve app startup and runtime performance of apps and libraries.

Writing a single navigation system that can handle phones, ChromeOS devices, and everything in between can appear daunting.

Learn about new features that we're introducing in Android Studio 1.3.

Learn how you can provide a more secure and seamless authentication journey in your app by using passkeys and Android's Credential Manager API.

Google Play Billing Library 1.0 has been released to simplify billing, allowing you to focus your efforts on implementing logic specific to your app, such as displaying in-app products and

Byteflies is a platform that tracks and transmits health data through a wearable device and portable docking station, all with the help of Android Things.

Welcome to the live Q&A for the Architecture series on MAD Skills, hosted by Android Developer Relations Engineer Manuel Vivo.

Linking between applications on Android can be accomplished easily using intents.

Android Performance Patterns Season 3 ep2: Autoboxing is a great language feature; until you realize how much of your performance is being lost to it’s convenience.

Theresa, Product Marketing Manager for Android and Google Play, shares key policy updates from our July 2021 Play policy announcements on our user data, ads, store listing and promotions and

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

The Indie Games Festival is a celebration of the best indie games on Google Play. Hosted by @ItsJuliaHardy, discover the winners of the Festival and the 2022 class of the Indie Games Accelerator.

To open the App Excellence Summit, Sarah Karam (Director of Apps Partnerships at Google Play) hosted a Fireside Chat with Casey Winters (Chief Product Officer at Eventbrite and Partner at Reforge)

With each release of Android, we are building an increasingly privacy centric platform by reducing the scope of permissions and bringing users more control.

Host Dan Galpin explains how to improve the load time, frame rates, and size of your game by supporting modern texture compression with Play Asset Delivery.

This episode of User Experience Design for Developers shows you why user research is important, and how you can avoid 3 common pitfalls and create amazing mobile user experiences.