Android is now Compose First, we recommend you build all Android UI with Compose and `android.widget` is now in maintenance mode. #GoogleIO #AndroidDev android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/05/andr...
Android UI Development is Compose First
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Android CLI is out! 🎉 Easy access to Android documentation and skills, in whatever agent you use. Plus we've made the initial environment set-up and project creation much more token efficient. What features would you like to see next? android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/04/buil...
Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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In the next version of AGP - R8 makes coroutines 2x faster
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Unexpected benefit of vibe coding I've never been able to listen to music while coding, but now I can, because all I do is click allow over and over again
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Here's the new page about the new stack traces in Compose, in case you were wondering how it all is supposed to work: developer.android.com/develop/ui/c...
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This release also adds support for Compose stack traces that work with minified apps! (requires R8 and Kotlin 2.3.0+)
Rebecca Franks@riggaroo.dev · 8mo agoCompose 1.10 was released yesterday! 🔟 It includes some nice new features: 🧞♀️ Support for dynamic shared elements 👰🏻♀️ New Enter/Exit Transitions: unveilIn / veilOut ⏭️ Modifier.skipToLookaheadPosition() 📦 New retain APIs influenced by Circuit android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/12/what...
Jetpack Navigation 3 is stable! 🎉🎉🎉 Leaning into Jetpack Compose and the idea of combining smaller building blocks together really helped make Nav3 a much more flexible library that made it a joy to work on and hopefully for you to use as well! android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/jetp...
Jetpack Navigation 3 is stable
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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So you enabled R8. Now is a good time to catch up on Keep Rules. @ajeshr.bsky.social talks you through configuration and troubleshooting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0I6...
How to debug and troubleshoot R8 optimizer | Spotlight Week
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My talk on Navigation 3 from #dcldn25 is live (very impressive publishing from the droidcon team!). www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1Oi...
Navigating the future with Jetpack Navigation 3 - Don Turner | droidcon London 2025
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🆕Yesterday we published updates on #KMP on d.android.com/kmp! We finally have the Jetpack libraries that are compatible with KMP .. and CMP! Want to get into KMP? We have a course goo.gle/kmp-course. Pros can check their skills in the quiz at the end 😁.
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If using Gemini in Android Studio is not your cup of tea, you can now use whatever model you want via API key! Now available in latest canaries developer.android.com/studio/gemin...
Would you like to work on Compose at Google (Mountain View CA office)? Apply here and let's work together www.google.com/about/career...
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We launched the Androidify app on Google Play! Download it now, and create your very own custom Android bot ❤️ I've had loads of fun creating and testing the app - now you can too! play.google.com/store/apps/d... #Androidify
This Compose release is stacked! There is something for everyone in here 🎁 android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/what...
What’s new in the Jetpack Compose August ’25 release
The Jetpack Compose 1.9 release introduces features like advanced shadow modifiers, new visibility modifiers, and enhanced rich styling capabilities.
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Documentation 📃 for Room KMP just got upgraded. It finally contains all the information on how to set it up, how to migrate from Android-only and even what features are (unfortunately) not available in KMP. Give it a go! 🟢 d.android.com/kotlin/multi...
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Shreyas Patil wrote a nice article about Pausable Composition! We have been working on designs for this feature for quite a while until Leland asked "Why don't we just skip?". Ben Tengrove did a prototype to prove it would work and voila a feature is born. blog.shreyaspatil.dev/exploring-pa...
Exploring PausableComposition internals in Jetpack Compose
Explore the internals of the `PausableComposition` API in Jetpack Compose to improve UI performance by pre-composing elements during idle time in Android
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If you do, I would recommend using your own Gemini key to get a larger context (1m tokens) developer.android.com/studio/previ... And yes, there is a rather generous free tier for the Gemini APIs, too ai.google.dev/gemini-api/d...
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I was barely online during KotlinConf 2025, so here's my follow-up now. Thank you so much everyone who joined us, in person or online. It was an incredible experience connecting with the community! ❤️ Here are some highlights of news below, as you've probably missed some! 🧵
If you're new to #KMP we have 2 new codelabs: 1️⃣ Get started - goo.gle/kmp-get-started-codelab 2️⃣ Migrate Room - goo.gle/kmp-migrate-room-codelab Try it out, let us know what you miss! 🤖🍏 Thanks to everyone that attended the code-along at #KotlinConf 😊
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Learn how to get started with Kotlin Multiplatform from two separate Android and iOS projects. In this codelab you will learn how to add a Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) module to share code between Andro...
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There are a lot of amazing KMP talks coming out right now but here is our talk from I/O! Dustin and I give an update on our latest KMP releases and then explain the build setup for an Android KMP app. youtu.be/gP5Y-ct6QXI?...
Demystify KMP builds and structure
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Tomorrow we will show how to measure and improve app performance at #GoogleIO. Make sure to join in.
Today, we've released a brand new Jetpack library - Navigation3! A pure Compose, state based navigation library: android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/05/anno...
Announcing Jetpack Navigation 3
Explore Jetpack Navigation 3, a new Compose-first navigation library with increased flexibility so Android developers to build robust experiences.
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#io25 is a go! Excited to be here for the first time as a Googler! Find me at the Androidify booth for most of today 👀
I am looking forward to KotlinConf 2025. I hope to see you there. Do drop by for the talk by @alanv and I on "APIs: How Hard Can They Be?" #kotlinconf
Don't use Gson on Android. Use Kotlin Serialization instead. It relies on code generation instead of reflection. This helps avoid optimization related crashes and faster app performance. github.com/google/gson?... github.com/Kotlin/kotli...
🚀 Big news for Android devs using Jetpack Compose! Media3 just dropped version 1.6.0, and it includes a brand new artifact: media3-ui-compose! Finally, seamless and customizable video playback directly in your Compose apps. 🎬 #AndroidDev #JetpackCompose #Media3