The Android Dev Summit app is live! Get ready for November 7-8

Posted by Matt Pearring, Associate Product Marketing Manager, Developer Marketing In just a week, we'll be kicking off Android Dev Sum...

Prevent WebView.loadUrl() to open system browser

It's a simple example to load my a web page in WebView. package com.blogspot.android_er.myapplicationwebview; import android.os.Bundl...

Google will discontinue support for Nearby Notifications, on December 6th, 2018.

Due to significant increase in irrelevant and spammy notifications that were leading to a poor user experience for Android, Google have deci...

Discontinuing support for Android Nearby Notifications

Posted by Ritesh Nayak M, Product Manager Three years ago, we created Nearby Notifications as a way for Android users to discover apps and...

Free training for Android developers - learn how to succeed on Google Play

Dan Lavelle, Head of Learning Operations, Google Play Having a great idea for an app or game is just the beginning. At Google Play, it...

How Google Super Res Zoom in Pixel 3 improve Digital zoom

Traditionally, mobile device cameras uses software algorithms to implement digital zoom. Compare with the optical zoom capabilities of DSLR ...

Google Play offline peer to peer installs beta

Posted by James Bender, Product Manager, Google Play In June we started adding security metadata to all apps and app updates to help veri...

Create custom Toast with layout XML

This example show how to create custom Toast with layout XML, to include a ImageView, fixed text and custom message. Create the layout X...

How to capture screen in Android Studio

Follow the steps to capture screen of Android Emulator or connected Android device, using Android Studio. It work for me on Android Studio ...

Android Protected Confirmation: Taking transaction security to the next level

Posted by Janis Danisevskis, Information Security Engineer, Android Security In Android Pie, we introduced Android Protected Confirmation,...

Make TRANSPARENT Toast

It's a simple way to make TRANSPARENT Toast. package com.blogspot.android_er.mycustomtoast; import android.graphics.Color; import andr...

Playtime 2018: Helping you build better apps in a smaller bundle

Posted by Matt Henderson, Product Manager, Google Play Today we are kicking off Playtime, our annual global event series, hosting over 800...

How to build for Android Pie (Go Edition)

This video, by Android Developers, describe how to build for Android Pie (Go Edition) and grow your app or game business. Android (Go Ed...