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#TheAndroidShow: the latest from MWC, Gemini Nano, Android 15 and more!

Posted by Anirudh Dewani, Director of Android Developer Relations


Last week, Android device makers released a slew of new devices, and today we’re unpacking what that means for developers, as well as the latest in Gemini Nano, Android 15, Jetpack Compose and more, in another episode of our quarterly show, #TheAndroidShow:

The lastest wearables and foldables – get building!

Android device makers unveiled their latest wearables and foldables last week at Mobile World Congress, and we were on the ground in Barcelona taking a look at those new devices and how you can get started building on top of them. A few of our favorites:

    • Xiaomi Watch 2,the latest smart watch from the Xiaomi team. This device is powered by Wear OS by Google and provides upgraded camera, fitness, and sleep experiences to allow users to get the most from their device.
    • PORSCHE DESIGN HONOR Magic V2 RSR, the world’s thinnest inward foldable smartphone. This is the latest foldable for Android and was designed with the user experience at the forefront, including human-centric eye comfort technology.

Compose is an amazing way to build apps for your users across form factors. Compose for Wear OS and the upcoming adaptive layouts for large screens help devs bring their apps to life with less code, powerful tools, and intuitive APIs. Check out the Wear OS and Large Screen galleries, where you can find UX inspiration and design guidance tailored to your type of app.




Behind the scenes, with Gemini Nano and AICore

With all of the excitement around generative AI, it could be daunting to know where to start. So in today’s show, we’re taking you behind the scenes with Gemini Nano, Google’s most efficient model built for on-device tasks, and AICore, Android’s system service for on-device foundation models. And we’re spotlighting how the team that builds the Recorder app used Gemini Nano to help summarize users’ voice memos on-device and with privacy in mind. And here’s the best part: the team built the feature in a short time with only a small number of engineers.




Now in Android

We celebrated the 100th episode of Now in Android, covering the latest developer news, including:




And that’s a wrap on another episode of our quarterly show, #TheAndroidShow. But the conversation continues on YouTube, X and LinkedIn: tell us your favorite part, or what you’d like us to dive into next time on our quarterly episode. And before we sign off, you can watch the full playlist, with the latest in Android developer news, here.

New goodies from Android, Wearables at Mobile World Congress + tune in to a new episode of #TheAndroidShow next week!

Posted by Anirudh Dewani, Director of Android Developer Relations

Earlier today, at Mobile World Congress (MWC), an annual conference showcasing the latest in mobile, Android and our partners unveiled a range of new goodies, including new wearables, foldables, as well as a number of new features for Android users. Keep reading below to see how you, as developers, can take advantage of these new features and devices that are being released. And in just over a week, on Thursday March 7 at 10AM PT, we’ll be kicking off another episode of #TheAndroidShow, our quarterly live show on YouTube and on developer.android.com, where we’ll dive more into these topics.


Meet the new watch from OnePlus and how we’re boosting power with the Wear OS hybrid interface

Wearables are on display across MWC this week, and one of our favorites is OnePlus Watch 2, powered with the latest version of Wear OS (Wear OS 4). As part of our ongoing work to improve the Wear OS by Google user experience, we’ve made fundamental changes to the platform and substantially expanded the capabilities of the Wear OS hybrid interface that improve two key areas: power and performance. As a developer, you can leverage existing Wear OS APIs to get underneath optimizations without any added effort – no code changes required! You can read more about the updates here.

Images of three people wearing the OnePlus Watch 2

A few new features for Android users

Google released 9 new features Android users can take advantage of across Google apps, you can read more about those features here. For developers, we wanted to highlight a few ways you can take advantage of this news across experiences you build into your apps:

    • More places for users to see their Health Connect data, now in the Fitbit app: With permission from your users, Health Connect is a central way to connect and sync their favorite health and fitness apps, see all their data in one place, and stay in control of their privacy. By setting up Health Connect in the Fitbit mobile app for Android, users will have an overview of their health and fitness data from across their apps in one place. You can join developers like Peloton, ŌURA, and Lifesum who are using Health Connect to provide their users with deeper health and fitness insights, get started now!
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A new episode of #TheAndroidShow, live on March 7 at 10AM PT. Send us your #AskAndroid questions now!

You can join us on March 7 at 10AM PT for a new episode of #TheAndroidShow. In this quarterly show, we’ll unpack the latest Android foldables and large screens for you to get building on, plus a behind-the-scenes on Gemini Nano and AICore.

We’ll have a live #AskAndroid Q&A with the team about building Android; you can ask us about building excellent apps across devices, Android 15, Compose, Gemini and more, using #AskAndroid on X or on YouTube. Our experts are ready to answer your questions live!

#TheAndroidShow: March 7 at 10AM PT, broadcast live on YouTube and d.android.com/events/show!

#TheAndroidShow: Faster and easier to build excellent apps, across devices.

Posted by Anirudh Dewani, Director of Android Developer Relations

We just wrapped another episode of #TheAndroidShow; in the show, we covered the latest in Android development, including a look at the new Pixel watch and the world of wearables, gathered the team to demo tools and libraries to build for foldables, large screen devices, with Compose, Android 14, Studio Bot, and more. Take a look, and here’s a recap of some of the ways we’re helping make it faster and easier to build excellent apps, across devices:

Studio Bot: improving your productivity, through Generative AI

At Google I/O we gave you a preview of Studio Bot, an AI powered coding assistant that is tightly integrated into Android Studio, designed to make Android development faster and easier. Last month, Studio Bot expanded into over 170 countries, and today we’re adding even more functionality in the latest canary release to help you be more productive. AI code completion enables you to receive suggestions for more complex code completions, such as multiline code or even entire functions. You can also now add comments to your code, and document code with just a click using Studio Bot. We caught up with Jamal Eason to learn about the investments the team is working on, including our improvements in quality.

Faster and easier to build, with Jetpack Compose

Jetpack Compose gives you powerful and intuitive APIs, which make it faster and easier to build UIs. Since Google I/O, we’ve been working on improving performance across Compose to make it even more helpful. Developers around the world are taking advantage of Compose to help them rewrite screens, build new screens, or create new apps. For example, The Reddit team adopted Compose for their design system, which improved their code flexibility and reduced code duplication. They rewrote several features in Compose and their new tech stack, one of them being Reddit Recap, with beautiful animations. They were able to achieve feature parity with 44% less code when they rewrote it using Compose, saving engineering resources and time.

Build across devices, with large screens

Foldables and tablets are an important space - and the market for large screens is growing with Samsung announcing that half of their users are thinking of making a foldable their next phone. We’re continuing to build tools and libraries to make it easier to build for different device types, including device streaming and new drag and drop APIs in Compose. See how Zoom saw 2x higher user engagement and optimized their app for large screens, and get started with making your app work better across screen sizes and form factors.

The latest in wearables, with Wear OS 4 and Pixel Watch 2

Earlier this month, we saw the launch of Google Pixel Watch 2 - the first Google watch with all the capabilities of Wear OS 4! The latest version of Wear OS offers several capabilities that make it easier to develop exceptional wearable experiences, from Watch Face Format to enhanced tiles and more. Read more to discover the latest updates to Wear OS and how you can get started!

Making excellent, premium apps

Earlier this month, Android 14 started rolling out to users around the world. So there’s no better time to start optimizing your apps for the release and taking advantage of new features in Android 14 to help you build excellent experiences for your users using the best of Android, such as improved camera functionality with UltraHDR, seamless authentication with Credential Manager and enhanced widget development with Jetpack Glance. In the show, we saw how Snapchat used Camera2 Extension API to build camera features such as night mode, zoom, and tap-to-focus, enhancing their user’s experience capturing high-quality Snaps on Android devices, and also had a conversation with Dave Burke about Android 14 and more. Take a look!

Connecting with you at events around the world

This year, we're excited to bring the Android team and our Android Google Developer Expert friends to events around the world, you can learn more about it here. Later this month, the Android team will be at Droidcon London (October 26-27), bringing talks and hosting office hours around many exciting topics, and a panel of subject matter experts. Android GDEs will be speaking at 100+ DevFest events around the world, with special appearances from the Android team at DevFests in New York, the Bay Area, London, and Singapore among others. We look forward to connecting with thousands of you in person!


Missed the show? You can watch it here, or check out the full playlist here. This is your conversation with the broader Android community, and if you’ve got an idea for the next show, we’d love to hear it - send us a Tweet, or share a message in the comments. We can’t wait to hear from you!

Tune in on Thursday to watch #TheAndroidShow

Posted by the Compose team

In just a few days, on Thursday, March 9 at 10AM PT, we’ll be kicking off another episode of #TheAndroidShow! In this episode, we’ll unpack the latest Android foldables and large screens for you to get building on, straight from Mobile World Congress last week in Barcelona, and sharing with you how to get started building.

Tweet us your Compose layouts & modifiers questions using #AskAndroid

In this episode of #TheAndroidShow, we’ll also be hosting a live Q&A from our latest MAD Skills series spotlighting the essentials of Compose layouts and modifiers. The initial episodes cover layout fundamentals including what out-of-the-box APIs Compose offers, how you can use modifiers to stylize your composables, and the different phases in Compose. We then dive deeper into modifier chaining and building custom layouts for complex use cases. The series culminates in a live Q&A where we’ll be answering your questions. You can view the YouTube playlist to rewatch the videos in the series. Tweet us your burning Compose layouts and modifiers questions using #AskAndroid. We've assembled a team of experts ready to answer your questions live!

#TheAndroidShow is your conversation with the Android developer community, this time hosted by Rebecca Gutteridge and Madona Wambua. You'll hear the latest from the developers and engineers who build Android. Don’t forget to tune in live on March 9 at 10AM PT, broadcast live on YouTube!