And we are now live! 📺 Join us now to celebrate the evolution of #JetpackCompose, and learn whats in the baking in the kitchen 👀 Ask your questions for the team in the live chat 💬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np7R...

Jetpack Compose 5th-Anniversary: Livestream Birthday Party 🎈

Jetpack Compose is 5! 🎂 To celebrate this major milestone, we’re looking back at the journey of Jetpack Compose - from its initial internal prototype days in 2017, announcing the first stable…

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We recorded a special episode of Android Developers Backstage to celebrate 5 years of Compose! youtu.be/HEqXwUm6vd0?...

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Celebrated 5 years of Compose at Google NYC today! 🥳

A quick reminder that we're hours away from the deadline to apply for the Android XR Catalyst Program! If you're accepted, you'll get access to prototype hardware for XR or display glasses development. g.co/dev/catalyst

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Applications close June 30, 2026

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The XR ecosystem is expanding, and we’re rolling out new resources to help you scale your experiences: 💻 New tools to design and prototype right from your laptop 🕹️ Official support for Unreal Engine & Godot Engine 🚀 The Android XR Developer Catalyst Program Start building today → goo.gle/43CYslP

What’s New in Android XR: Tooling, Engine Support, and Ecosystem Updates

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Official mesh gradient support #JetpackCompose is coming soon👀 available in Compose 1.12 alphas at the moment! what other graphical effects do you want?

Android is now Compose-first: developer.android.com/develop/ui/c... It was years in the making, and I'm happy to see it's finally here!

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Android is Compose-first, and the Views system is now in maintenance mode, meaning it will only receive updates for highly critical fixes.

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androidx.tracing 2.0.0-alpha04 is now available. Here is the release notes. Happy tracing ! developer.android.com/jetpack/andr...

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I will be speaking at Android Makers about the internals of the androidx.tracing library and how benchmark driven development ensures low overhead tracing. If you like tracing, profilers and benchmarks - this talk is for you! androidmakers.droidcon.com/2026/rahul-r...

My fav new feature in the latest Android release is "Connected Displays".🖥️ You are able to plug in your phone to a big screen, and benefit from all the extra space that the screen provides 🤯 This means you should *really* ensure your app works on diff screen sizes.

To demonstrate how the various new FlexBox properties affect layout behavior, I created a little visualizer experiment: sanbeiji.com/experiments/... Try adding items, messing around with the property values, etc., to see how things change! Example code changes appear at the bottom.

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Learn how to install and migrate to Jetpack Navigation 3, and how to implement features and patterns such as deep links, multiple backstacks, scenes (dialogs, bottom sheets, list-detail, two-pane, sup...

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Our lead visual designer wrote about the complexity of designing for transparent screens. Learn how we approached building Jetpack Compose Glimmer, the design language for Glasses experiences on Android XR. design.google/library/tran...

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Behind-the-scenes of designing the next generation of interfaces for AI glasses with displays—including Jetpack Compose Glimmer, the newly launched design system for Android extended reality (XR) expe...

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And we're off to the races! The Year of the Horse Android figures I designed are now up in my shop! shop.deadzebra.com Happy 🌝 New Year everyone! #ArtToys #Android #AndroidDev #LunarNewYear

It is the year 2026, people are still confused about compileSdk and targetSdk. (e.g. you can have targetSdk that is higher than compileSdk) www.liutikas.net/2026/02/13/R... Maybe this will explain it a bit more. #android

The new major version of androidx.tracing is now available on Google Maven. We’ve spent the last year optimizing it, so it's extremely low overhead. The documentation is available at: developer.android.com/topic/perfor... Happy Tracing!

It was such a cool event! It was an honor to help with judging, and it was great to see folks bringing their creativity and talent to build experiences on #AndroidXR with #Gemini

Lethargicpanda@lethargicpanda.bsky.social · 6mo ago

@realityhackatmit.com this weekend was a ton of fun! The energy was fantastic, and there were some really cool projects! 💫 What some teams accomplished in a weekend is pretty amazing! 🦾 #HackToTheFuture #androidxr #gemini #reality

Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.

I'm seeing more and more instances of "we don't look at compiler output, so when LLMs generate code, we don't need to look at the output" LLMs are not compilers. With a compiler, you provide a highly detailed spec and know exactly what you are getting.

👀 Want to see a preview of what's coming up in #JetpackCompose? We heard you that debugging shared elements is tricky. In 1.11.0-alpha03, a new composable LookaheadAnimationVisualDebugging was added. Wrap your SharedTransitionLayout to add visual cues to track down those hard to debug issues. 🐛⤵️

If you live in the US, and you want to contact your representatives about this topic, the link makes it very easy. You can probably be done in under a minute or two

Friends of the Boundary Waters@bwca.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Congress is moving to strip protections from 225,000 acres near the BWCA. MN Rep. Stauber introduced H.J. Res. 140, a giveaway to Chilean mining company Antofagasta that puts toxic mining next to our cleanest water. We have 60 days. Contact Congress & vote NO: www.friends-bwca.org/get-involved...

All of the technical sessions from the event are available online now. Take a look and let us know what you think 💚 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Learn about all things XR across glasses, headsets and everything in between. Hear how with Gemini by your side, you are able to have a more conversational, ...

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Yasmine Evjen@yasmine.is · 8mo ago

We released Developer Preview 3 of the #AndroidXR SDK, opening augmented experiences development for Al Glasses. To help you build for Display Al Glasses, we are releasing Jetpack Compose Glimmer, our new design language and UI Toolkit for augmented experiences.

We released Developer Preview 3 of the #AndroidXR SDK, opening augmented experiences development for Al Glasses. To help you build for Display Al Glasses, we are releasing Jetpack Compose Glimmer, our new design language and UI Toolkit for augmented experiences.

Navigation 3 sets the stage for navigating with scenes! Be sure to tune in to @codewiththeitalians.it at cwti.link/twitch now to see @donaldturner.bsky.social and myself experiment with Navigation 3!

New blog post on how to detect tap on arbitrary shapes with Jetpack Compose, and in general how to easily check if a given set of coordinates is contained inside a path. www.romainguy.dev/posts/2025/a...

Quick reminder that the Nav3 engineering team will be live in 1 hour answering questions. Ask anything you like about Nav3 using #AskAndroid. Livestream is here: www.youtube.com/live/JsugLEM...

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Every day this week we're publishing content to help you get started with Nav3. android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/12/lear.... Got questions? Post them using #AskAndroid and we'll answer them live at 9am PST on Friday here: www.youtube.com/live/JsugLEM....

Learn about our newest Jetpack Navigation library with the Nav3 Spotlight Week

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In case you want to become a benevolent Gradle overlord, I've got you some tips Recording: youtu.be/o99f54pYGgc?... Slides: speakerdeck.com/aurimas/the-... #gradle

The Benevolent Gradle Overlord: Keeping Order - Aurimas Liutikas | droidcon London 2025

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It's always exciting when we can share more of what we've been working on. Be sure to tune in to the Android Show for a special XR Edition next Monday if you can goo.gle/TAS-XR

Don’t miss The Android Show | XR Edition on Dec 8

Check out The Android Show | XR Edition on Dec 8 at 10 am PT. Learn about all things XR across glasses, headsets and everything in between. Hear how with Gemini by your side, you are able to have a mo...

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