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Passkeys week is here

Posted by Milica Mihajlija, Technical Writer

Passkeys are an easier and more secure alternative to passwords. They let users sign-in simply with a fingerprint, face scan, PIN or a pattern. This week we are sharing resources to help you understand passkeys and upgrade authentication on your sites and apps.

Every day from 23-27 October on @ChromiumDev and @AndroidDev we’ll share new materials, including blog posts, case studies, and a Q&A session. Use #PasskeysWeek to participate in the conversation and spread the word about your sites and apps that support passkeys.


Join our live Q&A

On 25 October at 10 AM PDT, we’ll host a live Q&A session on Google for Developers YouTube channel where you’ll be able to ask questions in the live chat and get answers from passkeys engineers from Google. To send us your questions ahead of time through social media channels tag @ChromiumDev and @AndroidDev and use #PasskeysWeek.

Bookmark this link or click "Notify me" to get alerted when the livestream is about to start:

The recording will also be available on the channel after the event. Save the date and learn more about passkeys.


Where are passkeys today

Google Accounts have supported passkeys since May this year and on 10 October, 2023 have made passkeys the default sign in method for all devices that support it. If you haven’t created a passkey for your Google account yet, head over to g.co/passkeys.

Google is also partnering with brands to enable passkeys across Chrome and Android platforms. Partners across the ecommerce, financial tech, and travel industries—along with other software providers—already support passkeys creating easier, secure sign-ins for their users.

eBay, Uber and WhatsApp have recently joined that list, you can now sign into your account on these services with passkeys on Chrome and Android.

Passkeys Authenticator partner logos - 1Password, Adobe, Dashlane, Docusign, ebay, KAYAK, Mercari, PayPal, Uber, WhatsApp, YahooJapan

Success stories

When the travel company KAYAK integrated passkeys into its Android and web apps, they reduced the time it takes their users to sign up and sign in by 50%.

Password manager Dashlane can also manage passkeys across its Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows apps, as well as on the web with an extension for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari. Since introducing passkeys, Dashlane has seen a 70% increase in conversion rate for signing in with passkeys compared to passwords.

To learn more about these success stories keep an eye on #PasskeysWeek on @ChromiumDev and @AndroidDev, where we'll share full case studies in the next couple of days.


Learn how to implement passkeys and earn a badge

Are you a web developer? Are you ready to learn how to implement passkeys in a web app?

We have compiled everything you need to know in a short course: Passwordless login on the web with passkeys.

Are you an Android developer? Head over to Passkeys on Android.

Read the docs, complete the codelab, pass the quiz, and you’ll earn a passkeys badge on your Google Developer profile.

Passkeys Week badges for mobile and web

More resources

Stay tuned for more.

Search Off The Record podcast – behind the scenes with Search Relations

As the Search Relations team at Google, we're here to help webmasters be successful with their websites in Google Search. We write on this blog, create and maintain the Google Search documentation, produce videos on our YouTube channel - and now we're making a Search Off The Record podcast, too!

In the podcast, John, Gary and Martin from our team are talking about a variety of topics and give a glimpse behind the scenes of Google Search.





In this podcast, we discuss things that are on our minds, like:

  • updates in Google Search

  • background on recent announcements

  • news from the SEO and web developer communities

  • stories from the past

  • things we're working on

  • food and drinks

  • random things from the top of our heads

  • puns, jokes and more


Check out the first few episodes and subscribe to the podcast on a podcast platform of your choice (such as Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Castbox, and many more) to be the first to know when new episodes come out! New episodes come out every few weeks.


Posted by Martin Splitt, the unicorn in residence at the Google Search Relations team

Search Off The Record podcast – behind the scenes with Search Relations

As the Search Relations team at Google, we're here to help webmasters be successful with their websites in Google Search. We write on this blog, create and maintain the Google Search documentation, produce videos on our YouTube channel - and now we're making a Search Off The Record podcast, too!

In the podcast, John, Gary and Martin from our team are talking about a variety of topics and give a glimpse behind the scenes of Google Search.





In this podcast, we discuss things that are on our minds, like:

  • updates in Google Search

  • background on recent announcements

  • news from the SEO and web developer communities

  • stories from the past

  • things we're working on

  • food and drinks

  • random things from the top of our heads

  • puns, jokes and more


Check out the first few episodes and subscribe to the podcast on a podcast platform of your choice (such as Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Castbox, and many more) to be the first to know when new episodes come out! New episodes come out every few weeks.


Posted by Martin Splitt, the unicorn in residence at the Google Search Relations team

Learn Android and Kotlin with no programming experience

Posted by Kat Kuan, Developer Advocate, Android

Many people today are considering career paths that enable them to work remotely. App development allows for that style of work. For people who want a new opportunity, it’s possible to start learning Android today, even without prior programming experience.

In 2016, we released our Android Basics curriculum, which assumes no programming experience, and the response has been tremendous. Hundreds of thousands of students have been learning Android development and programming concepts simultaneously as they build apps. Since then, there have been big platform changes with four major releases of Android and support added for the Kotlin programming language. We also introduced Jetpack, a suite of libraries that make it easier to build better apps with less code. With all these new updates, it’s time to release the next generation of training content for beginners.

Today we’re announcing the launch of Android Basics in Kotlin, a new online course for people without programming experience to learn how to build Android apps. The course teaches Kotlin, a modern programming language that developers love because of its conciseness and how it increases productivity. Kotlin is quickly gaining momentum in industry. Over a single year from 2018 - 2019, Indeed Hiring Lab found a 76% increase in Kotlin jobs.*

Google announced that Android development is Kotlin-first, and 60% of professional Android developers have already adopted the language. In the Play Store, 70% of the top 1,000 apps use Kotlin. To keep pace and prepare for the future, there has never been a more opportune time to learn Android with Kotlin.

Learning to code for the first time can feel intimidating, but it is possible to learn without a technical background. From a recent Stack Overflow Developer Survey, nearly 40% of the professional developers who studied at university did not receive a formal computer science or software engineering degree.

To build your confidence, the Android Basics in Kotlin course offers step-by-step instructions on how to use Android Studio to build apps, as well as how to run them on an Android device (or virtual device). The goal is to expose you to the tools and resources that professional Android developers use. With hands-on practice, you learn the fundamentals of programming. By the end of the course, you will have completed a collection of Android apps to start building a portfolio.

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App screenshots from the course

This course is split up into units, where each unit is made up of a series of pathways. At the end of each pathway, there is a quiz to assess what you’ve learned so far. If you pass the quiz, you earn a badge that can be saved to your Google Developer Profile.
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Badges you can earn

The course is free for anyone to take. Basic computer literacy and basic math skills are recommended prerequisites. Unit 1 of the course is available today, with more units being released as they become available. If you’ve never built an app before but want to learn how, check out the Android Basics in Kotlin course.

If you already have programming experience, check out the other free training courses we offer in Kotlin:

We can’t wait to see what you build!

*from US tech job postings on Indeed.com

Introducing the new Webmaster Video Series

Google has a broad range of resources to help you better understand your website and improve its performance. This Webmaster Central Blog, the Help Center, the Webmaster forum, and the recently released Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Starter Guide are just a few.

We also have a YouTube channel, for answers to your questions in video format. To help with short & to the point answers to specific questions, we've just launched a new series, which we call SEO Snippets.

In this series of short videos, the Google team will be answering some of the webmaster and SEO questions that we regularly see on the Webmaster Central Help Forum. From 404 errors, how and when crawling works, a site's URL structure, to duplicate content, we'll have something here for you.

Check out the links shared in the videos to get more helpful webmaster information, drop by our help forum and subscribe to our YouTube channel for more tips and insights!


Posted by Aurora Morales, Google Search Outreach