- March 17, 2026
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
Introducing AutoFDO for the Kernel
Posted by Yabin Cui, Software Engineer We are the Android LLVM toolchain team. One of our top priorities is to improve Android performance through optimization techniques
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
How to Optimize Common Wake Lock Use Cases
Posted by Alice Yuan, Senior Developer Relations Engineer In recognition that excessive battery drain is top of mind for Android users, Google has been taking
Making AI agents more helpful for Android apps
Posted by Matthew McCullough, VP of Product Management, Android Development User expectations for AI on their devices are fundamentally shifting how they interact with their
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
The First Beta of Android 17
Logical multi-camera device metadata When working with logical cameras that combine multiple physical camera sensors, you can now request additional metadata from all active physical
Android Developers Blog: Under the hood: Android 17’s lock-free MessageQueue
Posted by Shai Barack, Android Platform Performance Lead and Charles Munger, Principal Software Engineer In Android 17, apps targeting SDK 37 or higher will receive
Get ready for Google I/O May 19-20
Posted by The Google I/O Team Google I/O returns May 19–20 Google I/O is back! Join us online as we share our latest AI breakthroughs
