Posted by Anirudh Dewani, Director of Android Developer Relations
Final week, Android system makers launched a slew of latest units, and at present we’re unpacking what meaning for builders, in addition to the newest in Gemini Nano, Android 15, Jetpack Compose and extra, in one other episode of our quarterly present, #TheAndroidShow:
The lastest wearables and foldables – get constructing!
Android system makers unveiled their newest wearables and foldables final week at Cell World Congress, and we had been on the bottom in Barcelona looking at these new units and how one can get began constructing on prime of them. A number of of our favorites:
- Xiaomi Watch 2,the newest good watch from the Xiaomi crew. This system is powered by Put on OS by Google and gives upgraded digicam, health, and sleep experiences to permit customers to get essentially the most from their system.
- PORSCHE DESIGN HONOR Magic V2 RSR, the world’s thinnest inward foldable smartphone. That is the newest foldable for Android and was designed with the person expertise on the forefront, together with human-centric eye consolation know-how.
Compose is an incredible approach to construct apps on your customers throughout kind elements. Compose for Put on OS and the upcoming adaptive layouts for big screens assist devs deliver their apps to life with much less code, highly effective instruments, and intuitive APIs. Try the Put on OS and Giant Display screen galleries, the place you’ll find UX inspiration and design steerage tailor-made to your sort of app.
Behind the scenes, with Gemini Nano and AICore
With all the pleasure round generative AI, it may very well be formidable to know the place to start out. So in at present’s present, we’re taking you behind the scenes with Gemini Nano, Google’s most effective mannequin constructed for on-device duties, and AICore, Android’s system service for on-device basis fashions. And we’re spotlighting how the crew that builds the Recorder app used Gemini Nano to assist summarize customers’ voice memos on-device and with privateness in thoughts. And right here’s the very best half: the crew constructed the characteristic in a short while with solely a small variety of engineers.
Now in Android
We celebrated the one centesimal episode of Now in Android, overlaying the newest developer information, together with:
And that’s a wrap on one other episode of our quarterly present, #TheAndroidShow. However the dialog continues on YouTube, X and LinkedIn: inform us your favourite half, or what you’d like us to dive into subsequent time on our quarterly episode. And earlier than we log off, you may watch the total playlist, with the newest in Android developer information, right here.