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From full immersion at home to glanceable experiences on the go, building on Android XR lets you meet users at any moment across the entire spectrum of spatial applications. At Android Developer Summit, we marked an exciting milestone with the launch of XREAL AURA.
Amy Zeppenfeld, Vinny DaSilva • 3 min read -
In the intelligence era, users are no longer just tapping through apps, they express high-level goals and expect AI agents like Gemini to complete multi-step workflows, sometimes across multiple apps on their devices.
Jingyu Shi • 4 min read -
Today, at the Android Dev Summit, we are announcing the broad availability of many tools and APIs designed to remove everyday friction and give you more flexibility to build great Android apps.
Matthew McCullough • 4 min read -
Android Studio Rabbit 2 is now stable and ready for you to use in production. This release includes key features to improve your development such as Bring Your Own Agent, new XR Emulator features, a LeakCanary update, a new agent skills manager tool, AI code review, and more.
Matthew Warner • 3 min read -
Apps that target the upcoming Android release will no longer be able to directly write to contacts with the WRITE_CONTACTS permission.
Roxanna Aliabadi Walker • 6 min read -
As agentic development accelerates, Android engineering is reaching an exciting new frontier: moving from assistive code completion to agents executing end-to-end under your direction. You have total choice and flexibility in the models and agents you use.
Jason Buchel • 3 min read
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