- March 25, 2026
Android Developers Blog: Contact Picker: Privacy-First Contact Sharing
Posted by Roxanna Aliabadi Walker, Senior Product Manager Privacy and user control remain at the heart of the Android experience. Just as the photo picker
Balancing openness and choice with safety
Posted by Matthew Forsythe, Director Product Management, Android App Safety Android proves you don’t have to choose between an open ecosystem and a secure one. Since announcing updated
Get inspired and take your apps to desktop
Posted by Ivy Knight, Senior Design Advocate, Android We’re thrilled to announce major updates to our design resources, giving you the comprehensive guidance you need to
Android Developers Blog: Room 3.0
Posted by Daniel Santiago Rivera, Software Engineer The first alpha of Room 3.0 has been released! Room 3.0 is a major breaking version of the
Expanding our stage for PC and paid titles
Posted by Aurash Mahbod, VP and GM, Games on Google Play Google Play is proud to be the home of over 200,000 games—many of which
Elevating AI-assisted Android development and improving LLMs with Android Bench
Posted by Matthew McCullough, VP of Product Management, Android Developer We want to make it faster and easier for you to build high-quality Android apps,
Instagram and Facebook deliver instant playback and boost user engagement with Media3 PreloadManager
Existing Complexities Previously, Meta used a combination of warmup (to get players ready) and prefetch (to cache content on disk) for video delivery. While these
Android devices extend seamlessly to connected displays
Posted by Francesco Romano, Senior Developer Relations Engineer on Android We are excited to announce a major milestone in bringing mobile and desktop computing closer
The Second Beta of Android 17
Posted by Matthew McCullough, VP Product Management, Android Developer Today we’re releasing the second beta of Android 17, continuing our work to build a platform
Trade-in mode on Android 16+
Supporting Longevity through Faster Diagnostics Posted by Rachel S, Android Product Manager Trade-in mode: faster assessment of a factory-reset phone or tablet, bypassing setup wizard, a