The first beta of Android 17 is now available, and it features a change in how the Android development team shares new releases of Android to developers. A new continuous Canary channel now replaces the traditional Developer Preview model, providing developers access to features and APIs as soon as they pass testing instead of waiting … continue reading
Snowflake and OpenAI announce $200 million partnership The two companies will work on building customized AI solutions for their joint customers. Additionally, OpenAI’s models will be natively available on Snowflake Cortex AI across the three major cloud providers, and will also be accessible through Snowflake Intelligence. “By bringing OpenAI models to enterprise data, Snowflake enables … continue reading
Earlier this week, Google came to a settlement in its five-year lawsuit with Epic Games, creator of the popular video game, Fortnite. Epic Games initially filed a lawsuit in 2020 against Google, saying that Google was violating antitrust laws with how it managed its app store, Google Play. Google takes a 30% cut of revenue … continue reading
Android will soon require app developers to go through an identity verification process before their apps can be installed on users’ devices—regardless of if the apps are downloaded through the Play Store or sideloaded. “Think of it like an ID check at the airport, which confirms a traveler’s identity but is separate from the security … continue reading
The Android team has announced that the Android Studio Meerkat Feature Drop is now stable. This release adds developer productivity enhancements, such as the ability to analyze crash reports using Gemini, generate unit tests with Gemini, and a Gemini prompt library to eliminate having to rewrite commonly used prompts every time. Compose UI also got … continue reading
Google’s Android team is trying to give app developers better insights into how their apps are doing with a redesigned Play Console dashboard and new metrics. The new app dashboard now groups metrics into four core developer objectives: test and release, monitor and improve, grow users, and monetize with Play. Within each objective, three of … continue reading
The Android development team is announcing several upcoming updates that will make it easier for app developers to secure their applications. According to the team, security is a priority, and over the last few years it has made several improvements to how security and privacy are managed in Google Play, and recent updates over the … continue reading
The Android development team has announced the second beta of Android 16, adding updates to the camera and media, along with several behavior changes. One of the camera updates is the ability to use hybrid auto exposure, where the user controls some aspects of exposure and the auto-exposure (AE) algorithm handles the rest. Users will … continue reading
The Android development team today announced the first beta for the upcoming Android 16, which is expected to be released in Q2 of 2025. Currently, it’s expected that Android 16 will reach platform stability in March, at which point the Android team will deliver the final SDK and NDK APIs as well as final internal … continue reading
The latest feature drop for Android Studio Ladybug is now available, adding in several new ways to interact with Gemini. Gemini Code Transforms can modify, optimize, or add code to an app by right-clicking in the editor and selecting the Gemini > Generate Code option or highlighting code and selecting Gemini > Transform Selected Code. … continue reading
Google has announced the availability of a public developer beta for Android for its Home APIs, which enable developers to create experiences for Google Home devices, such as smart speakers, thermostats, lights, and plugs. The Home APIs were first announced last year at Google I/O, with the goal of opening up access to the ecosystem … continue reading
Since releasing Android 15 in September, the Android development team has been hard at work on the next major release, and today it is announcing the first developer preview for Android 16. According to the team, this release marks the start of a faster release cycle for Android APIs. Previously, the major API release would … continue reading
