App developers may not be locked to edge-to-edge displays on Android phones due to a hidden opt-out in Android 15. However, all of that was meant to change with the release of Android 15.

It won’t be long now before a final Android 15 build becomes available, now that Google has released Android 15 Beta 3 today (June 18). The new release catapults the operating system update to ...

In this post, we’ll explore how to use a web API from within an Android app. Most APIs work using either XML or JSON. These languages allow us to send and retrieve large amounts of useful ...

Android 16 includes a preview of new Health Connect APIs that support health records. These APIs enable apps to read and write medical records in FHIR format, with explicit user consent.

Telephony manager, which is part of the Android application framework, provides a telephony API to user applications. It consists of the android.telephony and android.telephony.gsm Java packages. This ...

Android has been leveraging the more efficient Vulcan API for many years. With Android 16’s new changes , Google is doubling down , requiring devices to support the new Host Image Copy feature.

To create a more-standardized experience for detecting screenshots, Android 14 introduces a privacy-preserving screenshot detection API. This API lets apps register callbacks on a per-activity basis.

While we’ve deprecated the Google Fit Android API, we’re aiming to turn down the API no sooner than June 30, 2025. This is to give users enough time to switch to Health Connect and continue ...