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Media3 1.8.0 - What’s new?
Media3 1.8.0 - What’s new?

11 August 2025

Posted by Toni Heidenreich – Engineering Manager This release includes several bug fixes, performance improvements, and new features...


Announcing Jetpack Navigation 3
Announcing Jetpack Navigation 3

20 May 2025

Posted by Don Turner - Developer Relations Engineer Navigating between screens in your app should be simple, shouldn't it? Howev...


Android’s Kotlin Multiplatform announcements at Google I/O and KotlinConf 25
Android’s Kotlin Multiplatform announcements at Google I/O and KotlinConf 25

20 May 2025

Posted by Ben Trengrove - Developer Relations Engineer, Matt Dyor - Product Manager Google I/O and KotlinConf 2025 bring a series of...


SoundCloud uses Jetpack Glance to build Liked Tracks widget in just 2 weeks
SoundCloud uses Jetpack Glance to build Liked Tracks widget in just 2 weeks

04 March 2025

Posted by Summers Pittman – Developer Relations Engineer To make it even easier for users to listen on Android, developers at Soun...


Meet the Android Studio team: A conversation with Staff Developer Programs Engineer, Trevor Johns
Meet the Android Studio team: A conversation with Staff Developer Programs Engineer, Trevor Johns

12 February 2025

Posted by Ashley Tschudin – Social Media Specialist, MTP at Google Android Studio isn't just code and algorithms – it's buil...


Apps adopt Transformer to support more reliable and performant media editing use cases
Apps adopt Transformer to support more reliable and performant media editing use cases

10 January 2025

Posted by Caren Chang – Developer Relations Engineer The Jetpack Media3 library enables Android apps to build high quality media a...


CameraX update makes dual concurrent camera even easier
CameraX update makes dual concurrent camera even easier

16 October 2024

Posted by Donovan McMurray – Developer Relations Engineer CameraX , Android's Jetpack camera library, is getting an exciting upda...


Introducing Ink API, a new Jetpack library for stylus apps
Introducing Ink API, a new Jetpack library for stylus apps

08 October 2024

Posted by Chris Assigbe – Developer Relations Engineer and Tom Buckley – Product Manager With stylus input, Android apps on phones, ...


15 Things to know for Android developers at Google I/O
15 Things to know for Android developers at Google I/O

14 May 2024

Posted by Matthew McCullough , Vice President, Product Management, Android Developer   AI is unlocking experiences that were not ev...