Author: David I. Meeks
If the e-book app on your phone or tablet is overflowing and full of outdated files, use these tools to tidy it up. Source link
On a road trip from New York to Los Angeles (and back), a writer found digital tools that helped her navigate and find a cornucopia of “weird attractions.” Source link
Secret meetings and private holidays of the royal family and prime minister were inadvertently made public on Strava, which has raised security concerns in other instances. Source link
A.I. is enhancing a time-consuming and stressful process, providing couples and planners with event suggestions, budgeting and many other useful tools. Source link
The City Council is expected to pass a package of bills to include nearly 20,000 grocery delivery workers in legislation that improved working conditions for food delivery workers. Source link
Posted by Noam Gefen – Product Manager, Android for Cars, Sole Alborno – Product Manager, Gemini, and Ben Sagmoe – Developer Relations Engineer, Android for Cars The in-car experience continues to evolve rapidly, and Google remains committed to pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. At Google I/O 2025, we’re excited to unveil the latest advancements for drivers, car manufacturers, and developers, furthering our goal of a safe, seamless, and helpful connected driving experience. Today’s car cabins are increasingly digital, offering developers exciting new opportunities with larger displays and more powerful computing. Android Auto is now supported in nearly all new…
Posted by Caren Chang – Developer Relations Engineer, Chengji Yan – Software Engineer, Taj Darra – Product Manager We are excited to announce a set of on-device GenAI APIs, as part of ML Kit, to help you integrate Gemini Nano in your Android apps. To start, we are releasing 4 new APIs: Summarization: to summarize articles and conversations Proofreading: to polish short text Rewriting: to reword text in different styles Image Description: to provide short description for images Key benefits of GenAI APIs GenAI APIs are high level APIs that allow for easy integration, similar to existing ML Kit APIs.…
Posted by Sa-ryong Kang and Miguel Montemayor – Developer Relations Engineers Peacock is NBCUniversal’s streaming service app available in the US, offering culture-defining entertainment including live sports, exclusive original content, TV shows, and blockbuster movies. The app continues to evolve, becoming more than just a platform to watch content, but a hub of entertainment. Today’s users are consuming entertainment on an increasingly wider array of device sizes and types, and in particular are moving towards mobile devices. Peacock has adopted Jetpack Compose to help with its journey in adapting to more screens and meeting users where they are. Disclaimer: Peacock…
Posted by Matthew McCullough – VP of Product Management, Android Developer Since launching the Android XR SDK Developer Preview alongside Samsung, Qualcomm, and Unity last year, we’ve been blown away by all of the excitement we’ve been hearing from the broader Android community. Whether it’s through coding live-streams or local Google Developer Group talks, it’s been an outstanding experience participating in the community to build the future of XR together, and we’re just getting started. Today we’re excited to share an update to the Android XR SDK: Developer Preview 2, packed with new features and improvements to help you develop…
Posted by Nick Butcher – Product Manager At Google I/O 2025, we announced a host of features, performance, stability, libraries, and tools updates for Jetpack Compose, our recommended Android UI toolkit. With Compose you can build excellent apps that work across devices. Compose has matured a lot since it was first announced (at Google I/O 2019!) and we’re now seeing 60% of the top 1,000 apps in the Play Store such as MAX and Google Drive use and love it. New Features Since I/O last year, Compose Bill of Materials (BOM) version 2025.05.01 adds new features such as: Autofill support…