Android Security Improvement update: Helping developers harden their apps, one thwarted vulnerability at a time

Posted by Patrick Mutchler and Meghan Kelly , Android Security & Privacy Team Helping Android app developers build secure apps, free o...

Google Play Protect in 2018: New updates to keep Android users secure

Posted by Rahul Mishra and Tom Watkins, Android Security & Privacy Team In 2018, Google Play Protect made Android devices running Goo...

How to set Java version in Android Studio

The video show how to set Java version on Studio 3.3.1. By default, the Java language version used to compile your project is based on ...

Google Play will require new/update App to target API level 28+ in 2019

Google Play Console will continue to require that apps target a recent API level: August 2019: New apps are required to target API level ...

MIUI 10 (MiRoom) Pie For Motorola G5 Plus

Treble have made using OEM specific customized android version a lot easier. They are still not perfect port but for a treble enabled devi...

Install JetBrains Toolbox App on Linux

JetBrains Toolbox App is a lightweight cross-platform companion application for JetBrains' coding tools, to manage installed tools, down...

Expanding target API level requirements in 2019

Posted by Edward Cunningham, Android Security & Privacy Team In a previous blog we described how API behavior changes advance the se...

Install OpenJDK on Linux Mint/Ubuntu

OpenJDK ( https://openjdk.java.net/ ) provides  open-source builds of the Java Development Kit, an implementation of the Java SE Platform u...

How we fought bad apps and malicious developers in 2018

Posted by Andrew Ahn, Product Manager, Google Play Google Play is committed to providing a secure and safe platform for billions of Andro...

An Update on Android Things

Posted by Dave Smith , Developer Advocate for IoT Over the past year, Google has worked closely with partners to create consumer products p...

My first exercise of using Data Binding + ObservableField

Change Gradle plugin version in Android Studio 3.3.1

To change Gradle plugin to specified version, you can: - the File > Project Structure > Project menu in Android Studio, - or edit...

Get Architecture, Version and Screen DPI programmatically

This code get Architecture, Version and Screen DPI of Android device programmatically, using Java. package com.blogspot.android_er.myan...