How Instagram enabled users to take stunning Low Light Photos

Posted by Donovan McMurray – Developer Relations Engineer Instagram, the popular photo and video sharing social networking service, is constantly delighting users with a best-in-class camera experience. Recently, Instagram launched another improvement on Android with their Night Mode implementation. As devices and their cameras become more and more capable, users expect better quality images in … Read more

The Second Developer Preview of Android 16

Posted by Matthew McCullough – VP of Product Management, Android Developer The second developer preview of Android 16 is now available to test with your apps. This build includes changes designed to enhance the app experience, improve battery life, and boost performance while minimizing incompatibilities, and your feedback is critical in helping us understand the … Read more

Celebrating Another Year of #WeArePlay

Posted by Robbie McLachlan – Developer Marketing This year #WeArePlay took us on a journey across the globe, spotlighting 300 people behind apps and games on Google Play. From a founder whose app uses AI to assist visually impaired people to a game where nimble-fingered players slice flying fruits and use special combos to beat … Read more

Media3 1.5.0 — what’s new?

Posted by Kristina Simakova – Engineering Manager This article is cross-published on Medium Transformer now supports motion photos and faster image encoding. We’ve also simplified the setup for DefaultPreloadManager and ExoPlayer, making it easier to use. But that’s not all! We’ve included a new IAMF decoder, a Kotlin listener extension, and easier Player optimization through … Read more

Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop is Stable!

Posted by Steven Jenkins – Product Manager, Android Studio Today, we are thrilled to announce the stable release of Android Studio Ladybug 🐞 Feature Drop (2024.2.2)! Accelerate your productivity with Gemini in Android Studio, Animation Preview support for Wear Tiles, App Links Assistant and much more. All of these new features are designed to help … Read more

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

Posted by Caren Chang – Developer Relations Engineer The Jetpack Media3 library enables Android apps to build high quality media apps. As part of the Media3 library, the Transformer module aims to provide easy to use, reliable, and performant APIs for transcoding and editing media. For example, apps can use Transformer to apply editing operations … Read more

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