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AndroidX moving to minSdkVersion 19
AndroidX moving to minSdkVersion 19

16 October 2023

Posted by Aurimas Liutikas, Software Engineer on AndroidX


Creating custom Tiles on Wear OS by Google with the Jetpack Tiles library
Creating custom Tiles on Wear OS by Google with the Jetpack Tiles library

12 March 2021

Posted by Jolanda Verhoef , Developer Relations Engineer We introduced Tiles in 2019 , and since then, Tiles have become one of the mo...


Lockscreen and authentication improvements in Android 11
Lockscreen and authentication improvements in Android 11

22 September 2020

Posted by Haining Chen, Vishwath Mohan, Kevin Chyn and Liz Louis, Android Security Team As phones become faster and smarter, the...


 One Biometric API Over all Android
One Biometric API Over all Android

30 October 2019

Posted by Isai Damier, Android Developer Platform Engineering (@isaidamier) Kevin Chyn, Android Framework Curtis Belmonte, Android Frame...


Google Play services and Firebase migrating to AndroidX
Google Play services and Firebase migrating to AndroidX

03 June 2019

Posted by Doug Stevenson, Developer Advocate Later this year, the Google Play services and Firebase SDKs will migrate from the Android ...


AndroidX Development is Now Even Better
AndroidX Development is Now Even Better

26 July 2018

Posted by Aurimas Liutikas, software engineer on AndroidX team AndroidX (previously known as Android Support Library) started out as a ...


Hello World, AndroidX
Hello World, AndroidX

08 May 2018

Posted by Alan Viverette ( /u/alanviverette ), Kathy Kam ( @kathykam ) , Lukas Bergstrom ( @lukasb ) Today, we launch an early previ...