Posted by Mike Yerou, Software Engineer, Google Play




User management is an important responsibility for businesses of all sizes. The challenge is to make sure that every team member has the right set of permissions to fulfill their respons...

Posted by Peter Visontay, Software Engineer; Bessie Jiang, Software Engineer
Contributors: Inara Ramji, Software Engineer; Rodrigo Farell, Interaction Designer; James Kelly, Product Manager; Henry Chin, Program Manager.




Most users spen...

Posted by Jeremy Walker, Engineer





In order to help you develop high quality Wear OS apps, we have been busy updating the Android Jetpack Wear OS libraries and recently delivered the first five stable Jetpack Wear OS libraries:







...

Posted by Madan Ankapura, Product Manager





Today, we are releasing the beta of Android for Cars App Library version 1.1. Your Android Auto apps using features that require Car App API level 2+ like map interactivity, vehicle’s hardware dat...

Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering







We’re just a few weeks away from the official release of Android 12! As we put
the finishing touches on the new version of Android, today we’re bringing you
a final Beta update to help you with...

Posted by Ting-Yuan Huang, Software Engineer and Jiaxiang Chen, Software
Engineer







Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP),
our new tool for building lightweight compiler plugins in Kotlin, is now
stable! KSP offers similar functionality...

Posted by Patricia Correa, Director, Global Developer Marketing







In June this year we opened applications for our
Indie Games Accelerator, a mentorship program to help top mobile game startups achieve their full
potential, as well as f...

Posted by Marcus Leal, Senior Product Manager for Google Play Store






Our Modern Android Developer tools and APIs are designed to help you build
high quality apps your users love, and this extends to form factors such as
wearables. E...

Posted by Tom Grinsted, Scott Lin, and Tat Yang Koh, Product Managers at Google Play




Ratings and reviews are important. They provide valuable quantitative and qualitative feedback on your users’ reported experience of your app or game, and the b...

Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering





Today we’re bringing you the fourth Beta of Android 12, and moving into the final phase of the release. We’ve built Android 12 with a new UI that adapts to you, performance improvements, privacy and s...

Posted by Jeremy Walker, Engineer



Tiles provide quick access to information and actions with a simple swipe from the watch face home screen. This gives smartwatch users more control over what information and actions they want to see, and it’s no ...

Posted by Patricia Correa, Director, Global Developer Marketing




During the month of June we received thousands of submissions for two of our annual developer programs - the Indie Games Accelerator and the Indie Games Festival. These program...

Posted by Amanda Alexander, Product Manager, Android






We are excited to announce that Android Studio Arctic Fox is now available to download in the stable release channel. This latest release brings to life Jetpack Compose 1.0, Android's...

Posted by Anna-Chiara Bellini, Product Manager, Nick Butcher, Developer Relations







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...

Posted by Suzanne Frey, VP, Product, Android Security and Privacy



Today, we’re announcing additional details for the upcoming safety section in Google Play. At Google, we know that feeling safe online comes from using products that are secur...

Posted by Krish Vitaldevara, Director, Product Management



We are always looking to make Google Play a safer and more trustworthy experience for developers and consumers. Today, we’re announcing new policy updates to bolster user control, priva...

Posted by Madan Ankapura, Product Manager



Building on our effort to enable developers to create app experiences across navigation, parking, and charging apps via Android for Cars App Library as part of Jetpack, today we’re announcing the ava...

Posted by Purnima Kochikar, VP Play Partnerships


Every day we work with developers to help make Google Play a safe, secure and seamless experience for everyone, and to ensure that developers can build sustainable businesses. Last September, we c...

Posted by Wolfram Klein, Product Manager, Android TV OS



Alongside today’s Android 12 Beta 3 release for mobile, we’re also bringing the third Beta of Android 12 to Android TVs. We’re excited to bring new media features, UI improvements, and priva...

Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering





Each month we’re bringing Android 12 closer to its final form, with innovative features, a new UI that adapts to you, performance improvements, privacy enhancements, security benefits, and much more. ...