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As an Android developer, you're constantly looking for ways to enhance security, improve user experience, and streamline development. Zoho, a comprehensive cloud-based software suite focused on security and seamless experiences, achieved significant improvements by adopting passkeys in their OneAuth Android app. Since integrating passkeys in 2024, Zoho achieved login speeds up to 6x faster than previous methods and a 31% month-over-month (MoM) growth in passkey adoption. This case study examines Zoho's adoption of passkeys and Android's Credential Manager API to address authentication difficulties. It details the technical implementation process and highlights the impactful results. Overcoming authentication challenges Zoho utilizes a combination of authentication methods to protect user accounts. This included Zoho OneAuth, their own multi-factor authentication (MFA) solution, which supported both password-based and passwordless authentication using push notifications, ...

Today, we're excited to announce the stable release of Android Studio Meerkat Feature Drop (2024.3.2)! This release brings a host of new features and improvements designed to boost your productivity and enhance your development workflow. With numerous enhancements, this latest release helps you build high-quality Android apps faster and more efficiently: streamlined Jetpack Compose previews, new Gemini capabilities, better Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) integration, improved device management, and more. Read on to learn about the key updates in Android Studio Meerkat Feature Drop, and download the latest stable version today to explore them yourself! Developer Productivity Enhancements Analyze Crash Reports with Gemini in Android Studio Debugging production crashes can require you to spend significant time switching contexts between your crash reporting tool, such as Firebase Crashlytics and Android Vitals, and investigating root causes in the IDE. Now, when viewing reports in App ...

In today's interconnected world, managing digital identity is essential. Android aims to support open standards that ensure seamless interoperability with various identity providers and services. As part of this goal, we are excited to announce that Android, via Credential Manager's DigitalCredential API, now natively supports OpenID4VP and OpenID4VCI for digital credential presentation and issuance respectively. What are digital credentials? Digital credentials are cryptographically verifiable documents. The most common emerging use case for digital credentials is identity documents such as driver's licenses, passports, or national ID cards. In the coming years, it is anticipated that Android developers will develop innovative applications of this technology for a wider range of personal credentials that users will need to present digitally, including education certifications, insurance policies, memberships, permits, and more. Digital credentials can be provided by any ...

Today, as part of the Compose April ‘25 Bill of Materials, we’re releasing version 1.8 of Jetpack Compose, Android's modern, native UI toolkit, used by many developers. This release contains new features like autofill, various text improvements, visibility tracking, and new ways to animate a composable's size and location. It also stabilizes many experimental APIs and fixes a number of bugs. To use today’s release, upgrade your Compose BOM version to 2025.04.01 : implementation(platform("androidx.compose:compose-bom:2025.04.01")) Note: If you are not using the Bill of Materials, make sure to upgrade Compose Foundation and Compose UI at the same time. Otherwise, autofill will not work correctly. Autofill Autofill is a service that simplifies data entry. It enables users to fill out forms, login screens, and checkout processes without manually typing in every detail. Now, you can integrate this functionality into your Compose applications. Setting up Autofill in your...

The Google I/O agenda is live. We're excited to share Google’s biggest announcements across AI, Android, Web, and Cloud May 20-21. Tune in to learn how we’re making development easier so you can build faster. We'll kick things off with the Google Keynote at 10:00 AM PT on May 20th, followed by the Developer Keynote at 1:30 PM PT. This year, we're livestreaming two days of sessions directly from Mountain View, bringing more of the I/O experience to you, wherever you are. Here’s a sneak peek of what we’ll cover: AI advancements: Learn how Gemini models enable you to build new applications and unlock new levels of productivity. Explore the flexibility offered by options like our Gemma open models and on-device capabilities. Build excellent apps, across devices with Android: Crafting exceptional app experiences across devices is now even easier with Android. Dive into sessions focused on building intelligent apps with Google AI and boosting your productivity, alongside creat...