Posted by Matthew McCullough, Vice President, Product Management, Android Developer, you saw how we are ushering in important breakthroughs in AI across all of Google. For Android developers, we see this technology helping you out in your flow, saving you time so you can focus on building engaging new experiences for your users. Time saving tools are going to be even more important, as your users are asking you to support their experiences across an expanding portfolio of screens, like large screens and wearables in particular. Across the , Android showed you a number of ways to support you in this mission to help build great experiences for your users; read on for our 14 new things to know in the world of Android Developer (and yes, we also showed you the latest Beta for Android 14!).
BRINGING AI INTO YOUR WORKFLOW
#1: Leverage AI in your development with Studio Bot
#2: Generate Play Store Listings with AI
Starting today, when you draft a store listing in English, you’ll be able to use Google’s Generative-AI technology to help you get started. Just open our AI helper in Hedgehog Canary 3, expanded and and , a new declarative XML format built in partnership with Samsung to help you bring your great idea to the watch face market. We’re also releasing new APIs to bring rich animations to tiles and helping you get ready for the next generation of platform updates with the Wear OS 4 Developer Preview. Learn more about all the latest updates by , and taking a look at the brand new about what we announced at I/O and check out our , and will be available in 200 million cars this year and the number of .
#7: Android TV: Compose for TV and more!
We continue our commitment to bringing the best of the app ecosystem to Android TV OS. Today, we’re announcing and check out the , our . Also, please and check out the : 24% of the top 1000 apps on Google Play are using Jetpack Compose, which has doubled from last year. We’re bringing Compose to even more surfaces with Compose for TV in alpha, and homescreen widgets with Glance, now in beta. for building UI across screens.
#10: Use Kotlin everywhere, throughout your app
The Kotlin programming language is at the core of our development platform, and we keep expanding the scale of Kotlin support for Android apps. We’re collaborating with JetBrains on the new K2 compiler, and are actively working on integration into our tools such as Android Studio, Android Lint, KSP, Compose etc and leveraging Google’s large Kotlin codebases to verify compatibility of the new compiler. We now recommend using to learn more.
#11: App Quality Insights now contain Android Vitals reports
Android Studio’s App Quality Insights enables you to access Firebase Crashlytics issue reports directly from the IDE, allowing you to navigate between stack trace and code with a click, use filters to see only the most important issues, and see report details to help you reproduce issues. In the latest release of Android Studio, you can now view important crash reports from Android Vitals, all without adding any additional SDKs or instrumentation to your app. Read more about .
#13: Design beautiful Android apps with the new Android UI Design Hub
To make it even easier to build compelling UI across form factors, check out the new like face mesh and document scanner, and Acceleration Service in custom ML stack is now in public beta so you can deliver more fluid, lower latency user experiences. onto a supported device or , including some of our favorite talks like . The new Activity embedding learning pathway is also now available to enable you to differentiate your apps on tablets, foldables, and ChromeOS devices. Whether you’re joining us online or in-person at one of the events around the world, we hope you have a great Google I/O - and we can’t wait to see the great experiences you build with the updates that are coming out today!
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