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GDG Melbourne DevFest 2025: The year that AI overtook Android
This year’s conference featured stunning talks on how AI agents can expand our skills and productivity.
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Material 3 Expressive makes my Android device feel like an iPhone
After receiving the Android 16 update containing the new Material 3 Expressive widgets on my Pixel 8a last week I immediately noticed some striking similarities to the iOS design language. Notably, the bolder, more bubbly text makes the Android status bar look almost indistinguishable from its Apple equivalent. Can you tell which is which below?
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Android’s Edge-to-edge Activity API Simplifies Backwards Compatibility for Full-screen Layouts
This API can help anyone looking to implement edge-to-edge screen content in an app that supports Android SDK versions below Android 11.
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GDG Melbourne Devfest 2024: Material 3, Copilot & Rethinking Navigation
This year’s Google Developers Group (GDG) Melbourne Devfest was another great day of learning about how Android teams are tackling issues around Compose design systems, navigation and AI tools.
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GDG Melbourne Devfest 2023: Gradle Version Catalogs, Tech Debt & Compose Design Systems
It was great to hear how other Android teams are tackling problems relating to build configurations and build times, architecture consistency, tech debt and structuring re-usable Jetpack Compose components.
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First Look at Android Studio Bot AI Assistant
Looking very similar to the GhatGPT interface, the Android Studio Bot panel allows developers to ask for help while building apps.
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Google I/O 2019 Preview & Predictions: Android, Machine Learning & Augmented Reality
As Android developers, our day-to-day workflows are heavily influenced by the changes to tooling, libraries and programming languages.
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How Machine Learning & Augmented Reality Crushed It at Google I/O 2018
Google has been pushing AI and machine learning (ML) at Google I/O since 2016 and we’ve seen several impressive products emerge that leverage these technologies
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Clean Architecture with MVVMi, Architecture Components & RxJava
Our guiding principle during this process was to have a Clean, highly unit-testable architecture, with separation of concerns the highest priority.
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