Samsung’s OneUI 7 launches today, bringing a widget-centric design that can significantly enhance your app's performance. Get the details and tools you need to optimize for OneUI 7 in our latest post → https://goo.gle/4jeXHVG Here’s how you can leverage this update: ✨ Increase app visibility: Make your app’s best features readily available to users. ✨ Improve user interaction: Offer valuable functionality at a glance. ✨ Boost conversions & retention: Use widgets to showcase personalized content and encourage ongoing app use. ✨ Google Play’s new widget discovery features (search filter, badges, editorial page) will also help users find your widgets.
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Smoother, longer gaming sessions? Yes, please! We’re enhancing Android Dynamic Performance Framework (ADPF) to help games run faster and more efficiently across devices like the Pixel 9 and Samsung S25. Key updates: ✅ Stronger performance – Optimized for MediaTek’s MAGT system ✅ Easier integration – Now built into major game engines ✅ Smarter optimization – Real-time control over power and performance See how Lineage W is already leveraging ADPF to improve stability → g.co/android/gdc25 #GDC2025
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Overheating ruining your game? 🥵 Get ready for a better game development experience thanks to the Android Dynamic Performance Framework. Optimize performance and ensure smooth gameplay. Dive into the details with Android Developers Developer Relations Engineer, Nate Trost. What are your biggest questions about developing Android games? #GDC2025
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✨ New devices mean new opportunities for Android developers! Discover the latest devices from Mobile World Congress → https://goo.gle/4hDKlRI Wondering how to optimize your apps for foldables, tablets, & Chrome OS? We cover devices from OPPO, Xiaomi, Lenovo, and Samsung while giving you tips on building adaptive Android apps that scale across window sizes & device types.
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Is your widget lock screen worthy? Coming later this year, we're introducing lock screen widgets for developers. Check out the full #AskAndroid video from our recent Spotlight Week for more on how you can develop a lock screen widget for your app → https://goo.gle/3Y54Lw1
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🔍 Google Play is making it simpler for users to discover your awesome Android widgets! Learn how to maximize your reach and optimize your widgets → https://goo.gle/4izk6wS Widgets are a key part of the Android experience, providing users with glanceable, interactive content right on their homescreens. This blog post explores how Google Play is making it easier than ever for users to find and add your widgets, driving more traffic to your app and increasing overall visibility. Don't miss out on this opportunity to take your widget game to the next level! ✨
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Track orders accurately with TrustedTime API. Reliable timestamps for every step of the process. https://goo.gle/4aZAjsl
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📱 Widgets can drive engagement and enhance user experience! The SoundCloud team used Jetpack Glance to create a sleek new widget that users open twice a day on average. Watch #TheAndroidShow for more → https://goo.gle/4iMJ1x9
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🎉 With the latest 1.6.0 release of Media3 comes a new Jetpack Compose artifact! You've asked for seamless and customizable video playback within your Compose apps, and we're delivering. media3-ui-compose is a dedicated library providing Compose-specific tools for powerful video experiences. What's inside? 🚀 PlayerSurface Effortlessly manage your video rendering with a clean wrapper for Surface or Texture. 🔄 PresentationState Achieve smoother, more polished transitions between media items in your playlists. 🎮 Composable State Classes We're empowering you to build your own custom controls! This initial release includes state classes for ▶️⏸️ Play/Pause, ⏭️ Next, ⏮️ Previous, 🔀 Shuffle, and 🔁 Repeat, with more to come in future releases. Why this approach? We understand you want flexibility. Instead of forcing a pre-built UI, we're providing the robust, tested state logic that ensures your custom controls stay perfectly synchronized with the media playback. This means you get the reliability of Media3 with the creative freedom of Compose. Ready to dive in? Check out the updated documentation for all the details and examples: https://lnkd.in/dmF2ePcs Feedback? Let us know on https://lnkd.in/dM2tBZ38 #AndroidDev #Compose #Media3 #AndroidDevelopment #VideoPlayback #JetpackCompose #Kotlin
Media3 1.6.0 is now available! Dive into the details → https://goo.gle/4j1F1sp This release introduces support for HLS interstitials for ad insertion, experimental decoder 'pre-warming' for smoother transitions between playlist items, and the new media3-ui-compose artifact for building Compose UIs for playback. Additionally, Media3 1.6.0 includes MediaExtractorCompat for consistent media extraction, experimental support for video frame retrieval with the ExperimentalFrameExtractor, and performance and stability enhancements in Transformer, including support for Dolby Vision streams. Don't miss out on these powerful tools for enhancing your apps.
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Media3 1.6.0 is now available! Dive into the details → https://goo.gle/4j1F1sp This release introduces support for HLS interstitials for ad insertion, experimental decoder 'pre-warming' for smoother transitions between playlist items, and the new media3-ui-compose artifact for building Compose UIs for playback. Additionally, Media3 1.6.0 includes MediaExtractorCompat for consistent media extraction, experimental support for video frame retrieval with the ExperimentalFrameExtractor, and performance and stability enhancements in Transformer, including support for Dolby Vision streams. Don't miss out on these powerful tools for enhancing your apps.