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How This Indie Game Studio Launched Their First Game on Google Play
How This Indie Game Studio Launched Their First Game on Google Play

18 January 2024

Posted by Scarlett Asuncion – Product Marketing Manager Indie game developers Geoffrey Mugford and Samuli Pietikainen first connected...


Prepare your app to support predictive back gestures
Prepare your app to support predictive back gestures

29 July 2022

Posted by Jason Tang, Product Management, Diego Zuluaga, Developer Relations, and Michael Mauzy, Developer Documentation Since we...


Final Android 13 Beta update, official release is next!
Final Android 13 Beta update, official release is next!

13 July 2022

Posted by Maru Ahues Bouza, Director, Android Developer Relations We’re just a few weeks away from the official release of Android 13...


Boosting developer success on Google Play
Boosting developer success on Google Play

16 March 2021

Posted by Sameer Samat, VP, Product Management Helping developers build sustainable businesses is a core part of Google Play’s missi...


All About Updates: More Treble
All About Updates: More Treble

23 October 2019

Posted by Iliyan Malchev, Project Treble Architect Android 10 , our newest release, brings helpful tools for both developers and cons...


Introducing NDK r21: our first Long Term Support release
Introducing NDK r21: our first Long Term Support release

17 October 2019

Posted by Dan Albert, Android NDK Tech Lead Android NDK r21 is now in beta! It’s been a longer than usual development cycle (four mo...


Android Developer Story: Big Fish Games uses open beta testing to de-risk their game launch
Android Developer Story: Big Fish Games uses open beta testing to de-risk their game launch

31 January 2018

Posted by Kacey Fahey, Developer Marketing, Google Play Based in Seattle, Big Fish Games was founded in 2002. Starting as a game studio,...


Getting your Android app ready for Autofill
Getting your Android app ready for Autofill

16 November 2017

Posted by Wojtek Kalicinski, Android Developer Advocate, Akshay Kannan, Product Manager for Android Authentication, and Felipe Leme, S...


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Introducing Android Native Development Kit r16

07 September 2017

Posted by Dan Albert , Android NDK Tech Lead The latest version of the Android Native Development Kit (NDK), Android NDK r16 Beta 1, is ...


Make more money with subscriptions on Google Play
Make more money with subscriptions on Google Play

19 May 2017

Posted by George Audi, Tom Grinsted and Larry Yang, Google Play The subscription business model is one of the best ways to make more regul...


User experience tips to help you design your app to engage users and drive conversions
User experience tips to help you design your app to engage users and drive conversions

08 May 2017

By Jenny Gove, Senior Staff UX Researcher, Google Play We know you work hard to acquire users and grow your customer base, which can be c...