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Posted by Tyler Beneke – Product Manager, and Lucas Silva – Software Engineer Widgets are now available on your Pixel Tablet lock scr...
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Common media processing operations with Jetpack Media3 Transformer
05 March 2025
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Posted by Thomas Ezan Sr. – Android Developer Relation Engineer (@lethargicpanda) Imagen 3 , our most advanced image generation model,...
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04 March 2025
Posted by Anirudh Dewani, Director – Android Developer Relations In just a few days, on Thursday, March 13 at 10AM PT , we’ll be drop...
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Design with Widget Canonical Layouts
04 March 2025
Posted by Summers Pitman – Developer Relations Engineer, and Ivy Knight – Senior Design Advocate Widgets can bring more productive, d...
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Introducing Widget Quality Tiers
04 March 2025
Posted by Ivy Knight – Senior Design Advocate Level up your app Widgets with new quality tiers Widgets can be a powerful tool for e...
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SoundCloud uses Jetpack Glance to build Liked Tracks widget in just 2 weeks
04 March 2025
Posted by Summers Pittman – Developer Relations Engineer To make it even easier for users to listen on Android, developers at Soun...
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Spotlight Week: Design and Develop Widgets
03 March 2025
Posted by Summers Pitman – Developer Relations Engineers We’re kicking off the next edition in our Spotlight Week series! This week, ...
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