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At our ninth Made By Google event on August 13th, we announced new AI experiences across Gemini and Android, along with our largest lineup of Pixel devices ever — including the Pixel 9 family, our first phones with Gemini baked in as our next-generation assistant. Plus, with Gemini Live, you can now have free-flowing voice […]
One of the requested features was adding support for Desktop targets. With this new release, I am excited to announce that Inspektify now also workswith Desktop targets! What Developers Need to Know for Desktop Targets With the addition of desktop support, developers now have an easy way to monitor and inspect network traffic directly within […]
In this article, you’ll learn how to use string resources inside ViewModel or any place you want, no matter what the source of the string is! We want to treat all strings in Android as equals, whether they’re from strings.xml , backend or user-created content. You’ll need an abstraction representing all of these values to […]
In a few recent projects, I’ve needed to utilise Google Maps within environments utilising Jetpack Compose. In the early days of Compose this felt light a sought-after piece of functionality – even though it is still being built on, it now seems to be in a place where I can confidently use it. In this […]
Posted by Thomas Ezan, Sr Developer Relation Engineer With the advent of Generative AI, Android developers now have access to capabilities that were previously out of reach. For instance, you can now easily add image captioning to your app without any computer vision knowledge. With the upcoming launch of the stable version of VertexAI in […]
Posted by Thomas Ezan, Sr Developer Relation Engineer Thousands of developers across the globe are harnessing the power of the Gemini 1.5 Pro and Gemini 1.5 Flash models to infuse advanced generative AI features into their applications. Android developers are no exception, and with the upcoming launch of the stable version of VertexAI in Firebase […]
Posted by Paul Ruiz – Senior Developer Relations Engineer Earlier this year we launched Google AI Edge, a suite of tools with easy access to ready-to-use ML tasks, frameworks that enable you to build ML pipelines, and run popular LLMs and custom models – all on-device. For AI on Android Spotlight Week, the Google team […]
At Meta, React and React Native are more than just tools; they are integral to our product development and innovation. With over five thousand people at Meta building products and experiences with React every month, these technologies are fundamental to our engineering culture and our ability to quickly build and ship high quality products. In […]
Posted by Kateryna Semenova – Senior Developer Relations Engineer and Mark Sherwood – Senior Product Manager During AI on Android Spotlight Week, we’re diving into how you can bring your own AI model to Android-powered devices such as phones, tablets, and beyond. By leveraging the tools and technologies available from Google and other sources, you […]
Set Google DNS on the Android system for your device and it should take less than 5 minutes. Just before that, let’s read a little bit about DNS. What is DNS? DNS stands for domain name system and it is used to translate a domain name (website) into IP address so computer/servers can understand. Each […]