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Dave Burke

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7 years

Just hangin' with my buddies 😀. Start building with #ARCore today. We're excited to see what you create!

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Android phones and #USGS gave Southern California residents an early warning to the 4.5 earthquake last night Here's what the phones' sensors, acting as seismometers, detected. Yellow and red concentric circles are expected locations of the P and S waves.

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Marshmallow!!! http://t.co/3JYkCBWD1R

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3 months

So... after 14 yrs leading Android engineering, I've decided it's time for a change. An awe-inspiring ride helping build the biggest OS on the planet (+ many Nexus/Pixel). I'm forever grateful for the opp. Continuing as advisor while figuring out what's next in AI/bio. More here:

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3 years

A cool background to celebrate the launch of Android Snow Cone!🍧

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2 years

Tragically, millions of people in Ukraine now rely on air strike alerts to try get to safety. Working with the Ukrainian government, we're rolling out a rapid Air Raid Alerts system for all Android phones in Ukraine. 1/3

Helping Ukraine

Some actions we're taking to provide charitable support, promote information quality and cybersecurity, protect colleagues and more.

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7 years

My hero! #androidoreo

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✨ Live from Shoreline, it's #GoogleIO ! ✨ Always wanted to snap a selfie while onstage :). Great seeing everyone in person today. #TeamAndroid #shotonpixel

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4 years

Android 11 starts rolling out today! Incredibly proud of our team for everything they've done, especially with what 2020 has thrown at us.

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1 year

The Bot bod is back! (And now in 3D)

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11 months

New statue (Android 14 code named Upside Down Cake!)

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3 years

We've started to use Rust to develop parts of the Android OS

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6 years

Android 9 Pie is here! We just pushed the code to the Android Open Source Project and rollout to Pixel starts today. Big thanks to the 140,000+ beta users for sharing their feedback and to the Google teams who worked so hard on the release

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2 years

In Android 13, about 21% of all new native code is in Rust. And it's the first release where a majority of the new code added is in a memory safe language.

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3 years

Android 12 source code released today! Material You personalization, sophisticated privacy controls, Play as you Download, app hibernation & more. Huge thanks to the 225,000+ of you who tried the betas and reported issues: we couldn't do this without you.

Android 12 is live in AOSP!

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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5 years

New statue and signing tradition! #android

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7 years

Found this on my desk this afternoon. Just ate it. Hope it wasn't limited edition.

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4 years

It's been an intense and productive ~8 weeks of focus and hard work leading to today's launch of Google & Apple's exposure notification OS support. Look forward to continuing to work with public health agencies around the world in support of their apps.

Exposure Notification API launches to support public health agencies

Apple and Google's Exposure Notifications technology is available to public health agencies on both iOS and Android.

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2 years

Earthquake in SF Bay Area today. Yellow/red represents shaking Android phones acting as seismometers. Circles are our inferred estimate of P & S waves. Earthquake alerts sent instantaneously to surrounding phones before the waves hit

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7 years

Pixelbot. AI bot with Android for its brain, connected via BT to Arduino body. Neural net with TensorFlow for object recognition. Complete with rude noises (my 6 yr old's idea). Code & schematic here

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Dave Burke

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4 years

Google Pixel phones have an inbuilt car-crash detection system that will automatically call emergency services on your behalf if your are in an accident. Also, if you're wondering how we trained the ML models, I'll leave you with an image ;)

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Quite a tale. Tech rescue from Google Pixel.

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Dave Burke

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3 years

"Play as you Download": Start playing a 400MB game on Android in 10s. A new virtual file system (IncFS) enables an app to run while code pages & resources are still being downloaded. Memory access patterns crowdsourced to know which blocks to download when

Welcome and mobile Keynote

Join us for the Google for Games Developer Summit welcome remarks, then learn about how we’re making Android game development easier, growing the ecosystem o...

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8 months

"So Pixel Pixel Pixel, it's a perfect Pixel podium"

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8 months

Alright I've finally crunched the numbers on the Blind Smartphone Camera test this year - This time we tested 20 different smartphones, collected over 20 million votes and... the results are pretty wild Full video:

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4 years

The day has finally come ;). Nearby Share starting to roll out automatically to Android 6.0+ and soon Chromebooks

Instantly share files with people around you with Nearby Share

Use Nearby Share on your Android phone and Chromebook to seamlessly share files, pictures, and more with people near you.

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9 months

The Transformer model is one of the most important contributions to modern AI. It powers Bard and is the "T" in ChatGPT. The 2017 Google paper, “Attention Is All You Need” is well written, but doesn't really explain how it works. So, here’s my "Transformers in a Nutshell”...

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3 years

Android 12 is a landmark release. Super proud of the innovation and hard work by our designers, engineers, product managers, testers, etc. And thank YOU for trying the previews and giving feedback! Nice job today by all of our Android speakers at #GoogleIO

Google Keynote (Google I/O ‘21)

Tune in to find out about how we're furthering our mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.To watch this ke...

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9 months

Android is the first mobile OS to ship state-of-the-art, hardware -accelerated LLM as a system service. More info on Android AICore and Gemini Nano:

A New Foundation for AI on Android

We're excited to bring together state-of-the-art AI research with easy-to-use tools and APIs for Android developers to build with Gemini on-device.

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7 years

Oh, and there's one more sweet surprise coming. Android devs, you'll have to wait until next week to find out more :). #androidoreo

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8 months

OK Google, project Android on a (r, θ, Φ) coordinate system. 😲

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7 years

View from Google Taipei 101

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3 years

Android 12's beta is by far our most downloaded/installed beta ever. Speaking of which, Beta 2 is available today:

Android 12 Beta 2 Update

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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2 years

New wheels

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7 years

O-MG! Check out the first (early!) Developer Preview of Android O.

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7 years

We just finished some deep surgery on Android's system interfaces to help make updates easier for device makers:

Here comes Treble: A modular base for Android

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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4 months

It's going to be a big day tomorrow! All that's left is to🙏 to the demo gods and try to get some good 💤's

Google

@Google

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One more day until #GoogleIO ! We’re feeling 🤩. See you tomorrow for the latest news about AI, Search and more.

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7 years

Porg-on-Pixel

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6 years

@ArtemR @Android It's a priority, just a big job. We're working on a redesign with a different underlying data model (push vs pull) that will be much faster and nicer to use.

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7 years

TLDR: if you want the best smartphone camera of 2017, get a Pixel 2 :). Proud of the talent & dedication of our engineers who sweated the details day and night to build a great product.

The Verge

@verge

7 years

The best smartphone camera of 2017

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3 years

First Android 13 developer preview! 13 is both a fibonacci and prime number so we have that going for us... Over the next months, we'll be building on tablet/foldable work from 12L, privacy & security, and dev productivity.

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9 years

Hummingbird caught in 240fps slomo on Nexus 6P by Eddy Talvala who leads our camera framework team

Hummingbird on N6P

New item

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7 years

Early baseline of Android P available for developers to try out now. Lots more to come over the next few months.

Previewing Android P

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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5 years

Turnin' it up to 11! First of 6 pre-releases: 3 developer previews, then 3 betas. Lots of exciting features to be announced over the next few months.

Turning it up to 11: the first Developer Preview of Android 11

Android has led the way towards the future of mobile, with new technologies like 5G to foldable displays to machine learning built into the core. A hallmark of our approach is a strong developer...

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2 years

That time when we showed the Queen how to get driving directions to Windsor Castle on an early version of Google Maps for phones. The Queen was super curious and engaging. My first & last royal focus group! Circa 2008.

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7 years

Almost there! Guess we just need a name now.

Developer Preview 4 now available, official Android O coming soon!

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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5 years

First beta of many, and lots more to share over the next several months. The name thou'? Quite a quagmiry quandary.

Introducing Android Q Beta

Today we’re releasing Beta 1 of Android Q for early adopters and a preview SDK for developers. You can get started with Beta 1 today by enrolling any Pixel device (including the original Pixel and...

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1 year

Meet iPager.

Meet iPager - Help Apple #GetTheMessage

Get ready for a new era in communication (again).iPager is a device that uses outdated messaging tech, like Apple uses when texting with Android. It comes wi...

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2 years

Achievement unlocked

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7 years

New fav feature - multitasking with Google Maps navigation thanks to picture-in-picture in Android Oreo

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9 months

New! Build with Gemini APIs . includes Kotlin SDK for Android apps -

Google AI Gemini API | Gemma open models | Google for Developers | Google AI for Developers

Build with Gemini 1.5 Flash and 1.5 Pro using the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, or access our Gemma open models.

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3 years

Android 12 Beta 3 out today. Auto-rotate with face detection, new on-device search engine, game mode APIs, and this...

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1 year

Vintage Android (on display in our Google London office). What do you remember/recognize?! #android

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7 months

Android 15 at the starting gate! Lots more to come as we develop the release...

The First Developer Preview of Android 15

The first developer preview of Android 15 is here! New capabilities include thermal headroom thresholds, advanced flash strength adjustments and more.

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5 years

This is huge milestone for speech recognition. An 80MB on-device RNN model that can do what a traditional 2GB server FST model does, only faster for the user.

An All-Neural On-Device Speech Recognizer

Posted by Johan Schalkwyk, Google Fellow, Speech Team In 2012, speech recognition research showed significant accuracy improvements with deep learn...

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11 months

15 years of Android memories -

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1 year

Some epic engineering work to make the Android Java/Kotlin runtime updatable via Google Play system updates. Enabled us to improve app startup on old versions of Android by up to 30%. Great example of the power of modular OS system components

Latest ARTwork on hundreds of millions of devices

ART 13 delivered runtime and compiler improvements which translated to real world app startup improvements, with some apps starting up to 30% faster.

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5 years

Announcing the new reactive UI toolkit for Android: Jetpack Compose. We'll be working on it in the open with developers to perfect it.

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3 years

Excited to share the progress on Android 12's new UI. Available in beta today, and more to come in the beta updates over the next weeks...

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@Google

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Android has a new look. Inspired by Material You, we’ve rethought the entire experience for #Android12 , from colors to shapes, light and motion. It’s more personal and expressive — a one-of-a-kind design, just for you.

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[Demystifying viruses for engineers, in 10 tweets]. In stressful situations, one of my coping strategies is to try to deeply understand the problem so I can better reason about it. In case it's helpful, here’s a quick guide to genomics and viruses...

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4 months

Back to the future with Project Astra. Got to take it for a spin around the grounds of #GooglelO yesterday!

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6 years

@kristinmars Coming to a Beta near you soon 😀

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11 months

Skillz++

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2 years

The system starts rolling out today and will ramp up to target all Android phones in Ukraine over the next few days. Thankful to our eng/product/UX teams for racing to get to a soln in short order. 3/3

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7 years

Tastier beers🍺and burgers 🍔, brought to you by Android 8.1 final preview

Final preview of Android 8.1 now available

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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7 years

Current status: Putting some I into the I/O #googleio

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1 year

Android desserts on my mind

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2 years

First developer preview for Android 14 posted this morning. We appreciate the feedback as always. Also that logo is 🔥 @dsandler . Tweeps - can you explain it?!

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4 years

Alright, the machine is greased, the cranks are turning, and we're out the gate on '12. Lots of exciting stuff in the works, which'll be landing in the dev previews and betas over the next few months...

Android Developers

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✅ The first Developer Preview of #Android12 is ready! Learn about our improvements to trust and safety, new user experience tools, better app compatibility, and more →

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Android 11 Beta is out!

Android

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New ways to prioritize people, control devices, and set privacy permissions. Learn what’s included with #Android11 :

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Circle to Search - a new (and dare I say awesome!) way to search, coming to select Android premium phones including Pixel 8 and S24.

Circle (or highlight or scribble) to Search

Circle to Search is a new way to search what’s on your screen without switching apps, available on select premium Android smartphones.

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8 years

Yosemite for the season that's in it, #ShotOnPixel , by the very talented @Cleron

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2 years

The system leverages our low latency alert mechanism we built for earthquake alerts. The air raid system is supplemental to, and shares the same triggers used for, the country's existing air raid alert systems. 2/3

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Sunset @ Hualalai, Big Island, Hawaii (shot on Pixel 2)

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Peek-a-boo selfie (Oppo Find X)

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@ArtemR We've added scrollable screenshots to the hopper for Android R and hopefully can land it in that release. Make it so @dsandler :)

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7 years

Android Oreo 8.1 developer preview. New goodies for on-device neural nets and <1 GB RAM devices

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11 months

Android 14 - it's a wrap! The high level: . The deets: . Thanks to all of you who gave feedback on the betas. To celebrate, I got a new mini-me bugdroid 🤘

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6 years

Love that Android's principles are as relevant today as a decade ago. 10 yrs ago, we set out to give developers a powerful SDK so their apps can run everywhere, open source code to enable device makers from entry to high-end, and an ever improving UX to delight people worldwide

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We’re saying hello to the big 1-0. From users to developers to partners, it’s been an amazing decade. Tell us your favorite #Android memory using #HBDAndroid .

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4 years

Nice read on Pfizer vaccine's genetic code. Masterful strokes include sub'ing modified U bases Ψ to evade the immune system on way in, and sub'ing two amino acids so the spike freestands. Nice reminder that great science stands on the shoulders of giants.

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9 years

Rumors of Milkshake are exaggerated. My watch face hack cycles thru' my fav M desserts :). Doodles by @dsandler ! http://t.co/0GwoQ78thD

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7 years

Pixel 2 camera. It's kinda awesome :)

Updated: Google Pixel 2 camera review

Please note: In September 2019, we updated the DXOMARK Mobile test protocol to cover ultra-wide-angle performance and renamed the protocol DXOMARK Camera. We also expanded our low-light testing and...

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8 years

A release has a name. A release is #AndroidNougat !

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27 days

So sad to hear about Susan Wojcicki passing. I was lucky to be seated beside her at Google's 25th anniversary late last year. I remember her whispering an off-the-cuff but brilliant insight on how to use AI to help preserve endangered languages. Such a brilliant and kind person

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Hanging with the Android team at Google UK

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TensorFlow Lite dev preview now available: . A crucial step toward enabling hardware-accelerated neural network processing across Android's diverse silicon ecosystem.

Google for Developers Blog - News about Web, Mobile, AI and Cloud

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You’ve probably heard of text-to-image models like DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and Google’s Imagen. But how do they work exactly? Here’s my “Diffusion Models in a Nutshell”...

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1 year

New specification for detecting & alerting unauthorized lost item tags across Android and iOS. More to share at Google I/O next week!

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4 years

West side of Lake Tahoe is mighty purty this time of year (shot on Pixel 5)

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Designing electronic circuits with Gemini's Project Astra

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Steph killin' it on stage today #android #io19

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4 years

Safety first. We've built the world's largest seismometer network using Android smartphones to enable earthquake detection on a global scale

Earthquake detection and early alerts, now on your Android phone

Two new Android initiatives designed to provide timely earthquake information and alert people before the next earthquake shakes their home.

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5 months

Android 💚 AI

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5 months

Starting this week, we’re bringing Circle to Search to more Pixel and Samsung phones, foldables and tablets. And soon, you can use Circle to Search to instantly translate whatever’s on your screen without switching apps.

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Burglar Bear (caught via Pixel 3a Motion Still)

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Jetpack Compose Alpha launches today! A modern way to build Material Design apps with Kotlin-based, reactive programming. With new Android Studio tooling and compatibility to phase in with existing views on your schedule. Can barely keep my composure 😉

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3 years

Android 12L preview - a feature drop for large screens including foldables, tablets, and Chrome OS. Work in progress - lots of cool stuff in here!

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5 years

Set android:navigationBarColor to @android :color/transparent FTW :)

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5 years

Behold the full power of Android Q Gesture Navigation. *With the right app,* you get a floating, barless gesture area, and it continuously samples the background and changes color to maintain contrast. It is so slick. Try the I/O app.

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7 years

Deep learning meets photography - one of the coolest innovations we launched this year:

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10 things to know about Android 10.

10 things to know about Android 10

Android’s version 10 comes with hundreds of new features that help you get things done and be in control of you data and digital wellbeing.

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4 years

Some great phones in 2020, but have to agree: Pixel 5 is my personal fav too

Android Police

@AndroidPolice

4 years

The Pixel 5 is our 2020 Readers' Choice Smartphone of the Year

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3 years

We're working towards making Android more modular & updatable. Built-in apps & components like WebView update to stay ahead of security issues (cough!). Updatable Play services, OS modules, and more. Result is your phone gets better over time, even if you don't own the latest

Android Police

@AndroidPolice

3 years

Your old Android phone is getting better about keeping you safe from barely-used apps

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