Inside Google's AI plan to end Android developer toil - and speed up innovation

I spoke with Sam Bright, VP and GM of Google Play and Developer Ecosystem, about Gemini's expansion in Android Studio. The real story is the way AI cuts toil across the lifecycle.

Your Pixel is getting Android 17 again

Google has restarted the Android 17 beta rollout for Pixel phones, bringing early access to new system improvements and developer tools after a brief pause.
9to5Google

How to install the Android 17 Beta on Google Pixel

Google has released Android 17 in beta for Pixel devices, skipping the usual Developer Preview given the arrival of ...
PC Magazine

The Best Android Watch for 2026

I’m PCMag’s senior writer covering smart home and wearable devices. I’ve been reporting on tech professionally for nearly a decade and have been obsessing about it for much longer than that. Prior to ...
InfoWorld

Swift SDK arrives for Android development

The Swift Android workgroup has announced nightly preview releases of the Swift SDK for Android, a tool kit for developing Android mobile applications with Apple’s Swift language. Instructions for ...
MacRumors

Developers Can Now Make Android Apps With Apple's Swift

The first preview release of the Swift SDK for Android was published this week, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift with official tooling and making it easier to share code across iOS ...
Android Police

How to transfer an eSIM from one Android phone to another

Jon has been an author at Android Police since 2021. He primarily writes features and editorials covering the latest Android news, but occasionally reviews hardware and Android apps. His favorite ...
Hackaday

Going Native With Android’s Native Development Kit

Originally Android apps were only developed in Java, targeting the Dalvik Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and its associated environment. Compared to platforms like iOS with Objective-C, which is just C ...
Wired

Google Will Make All Android App Developers Verify Their Identity Starting Next Year

Android’s open nature set it apart from the iPhone as the era of touchscreen smartphones began nearly two decades ago. Little by little, Google has traded some of that openness for security, and its ...
The Verge

Google will verify Android developers distributing apps outside the Play store

Android developers using third-party app stores will soon need their identity confirmed by Google. Android developers using third-party app stores will soon need their identity confirmed by Google. ...
TechRepublic

Google to Require Identity Verification for Android App Developers: Here’s the Rollout Timeline

Google to Require Identity Verification for Android App Developers: Here’s the Rollout Timeline Your email has been sent Google will soon require all Android app developers to verify their identities, ...