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What happens when Unity, XREAL, and Android Developers join forces? Join us live to explore XREAL AURA, the latest addition to the Android XR ecosystem, and learn how to build apps for XR glasses! 🗓️ July 2 | 12PM ET / 9AM PT / 5PM GMT 🔗 Set your reminder: https://lnkd.in/gApfwi7T
The new Compose Adaptive features are here to streamline your layouts. 🚀 At #GoogleIOConnect, Rob Orgiu broke down how to build adaptive apps with Compose Adaptive API. Explore new Compose Adaptive APIs → https://goo.gle/4aBpUV9 #BuildWithGemini
Building 3D experiences doesn't mean starting from scratch → https://lnkd.in/dDBYHfkD At #GoogleIOConnect Berlin, Dereck Bridié explained how to bring your existing app to Android XR. He explored the Jetpack XR SDK, showing 3D models, and the basics of spatial videos.
Optimizing a mobile experience for millions of users requires a holistic strategy. In a recent technical breakdown, Target shared how its Android engineering team moved away from isolated fixes to embrace an ecosystem-driven performance approach. By implementing R8 Full Mode with Baseline Profiles, Target unlocked major cumulative efficiencies across its app: ⏱️ 11% Faster Cold Startups: Significantly reducing the time from app launch to checkout. 📉 ~10% Smaller APK Size: Cutting down download and install overhead for users. 🧠 Up to 31% Memory Reduction: Lowering memory pressure on critical conversion screens like Checkout. 🎨 20% Better Frame Rendering: Delivering a much smoother, stutter-free scrolling experience. By treating performance as an interconnected ecosystem rather than a series of one-off tasks, they achieved improvements that are truly more than the sum of their parts. 👉 Read the full engineering breakdown and rollout strategy → https://goo.gle/3Qito84
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It’s Google I/O Connect Berlin day! 🇩🇪👋 Ready to level up your dev skills? Come join our workshop on the Android Stage: 🎬 “Creative video editing with Jetpack Media3 and Gemini” Let's build something amazing together. See you there! 🚀 #GoogleIOConnect and #BuildwithGemini
🖐 Five things you need to know about Android 17: 1️⃣ The intelligence system 2️⃣ Adaptive-first 3️⃣ Performance improvements 4️⃣ Permissions through pickers 5️⃣ Pro-quality camera & media Read the details → https://goo.gle/4eNuuSk
Open-weight models are crushing real Android tasks. 🛠️ 🚀 Frontier models solve up to 70% 💻 Smaller models (runnable locally on <20GB RAM) hit up to 40% Practical offline assistance for Android development is here, and Android Bench has the details → https://goo.gle/bench
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Here are two of my favorite features in Android 17: Screen Reactions and Bubbles. There's a ton more in Android 17 (links below) and even more goodness coming later this year! Here's our official blog post, a post detailing even more feature coming to Pixels, and @mishaalrahman's massive Reddit post of (almost) every feature: https://lnkd.in/g63KrZ67 https://lnkd.in/gxdfctDM https://lnkd.in/gk3e_N5f
If you're a game engine developer, Android XR is meeting you exactly where you are. We're cutting down daily development friction and saving you hours of iteration time with: 🔹 Android XR Engine Hub 🔹 Android XR Interaction Framework 🔹 Existing support for Unity 🔹 Unreal Engine 5.6 & Godot Engine 4.6.2 support Learn more about XR support for game engines → https://lnkd.in/e_iXQzHY