Join us for the first ever Google Play Awards taking place this year at Google I/O
Check out the nominees across 10 award categories including Standout Startup, Most Innovative, Best App, Best Game and more. See who wins by joining us in person or via the livestream on May 19. http://goo.gl/VCvldQ

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Today, we’re excited to announce that Sony will join the N Developer Preview family of supported devices with the Xperia™ Z3.

The Xperia™ Z3 joins Nexus 5X, 6, 6P, Nexus Player, the Pixel C tablet and General Mobile 4G (Android One) in giving you an early look at the next version of Android. Sony has been working closely with us to bring you the N Developer Preview on Xperia™ for early testing and development.

To get started, you can download the latest N Developer Preview from Sony (currently Developer Preview 2, available at the link below) and manually flash it to your device. You’ll then receive future Developer Preview updates over-the-air, direct from Sony.

We’re continuing to work toward giving you more options for early testing and development on N Developer Preview. Stay tuned!

https://goo.gl/eYlwtk


Fun fact : Modern CPUs can only handle a certain number of threads at one time. Once you get above that limit, they have to start scheduling which thread gets the next open block of CPU processing time. And even better : This can influence the performance of your Android app.

In this video +Colt McAnlis introduces the concept of thread priority, why it’s important to work with, and how to set it for threads you create, in a very sane way.

https://goo.gl/Ts3IOB

Learn how to implement the Android In-app Billing API and start making money with your app. You can use In-app to sell a wide range of content, including downloadable content such as media files or photos, virtual content such as game levels or potions, premium services and features, and more:

https://goo.gl/m7TVMG

Android N Developer Preview 2, out today!

The 2nd Developer Preview of #AndroidN is out today, bringing Vulkan, support for Emojii Unicode 9, launcher shortcuts and more!

http://goo.gl/OYIZtb

One day left to enter the Android Experiments I/O Challenge. Submit your experiment to win a trip to Google I/O 2016: https://goo.gl/oQLmyg

ADB Episode 47: That Syncing Feeling

In the latest episode of Android Developers Backstage, +Chet Haase and +Tor Norbye chat with +Christopher Tate about cloud sync, backup and alarms.

http://androidbackstage.blogspot.com/2016/04/episode-47-that-syncing-feeling.html

Top tips for using the new Android Wear -round identifier

Hoi Lam shares some of the best practices when building for circular screens! With API 23, you can now separate resource files by whether the screen is round or not using -round suffix in the resource directories (e.g. layout-round, values-round). How should you choose between BoxInsetLayout, layout-round and values-round? Read on to find out!

http://goo.gl/R8uFCE

Deprecation of BIND_LISTENER with Android Wear APIs

If you’re an Android Wear developer, we wanted to let you know of a change you might need to make to your app to improve the performance of your user’s devices. If your app is using BIND_LISTENER intent filters in your manifest, it is important that you are aware that this API has been deprecated on all Android versions. The new replacement API introduced in Google Play Services 8.2 is more efficient for Android devices, so developers are encouraged to migrate to this as soon as possible to ensure the best user experience. It is important that all Android Wear developers are aware of this change and update their apps as soon as possible.
Learn more from +Wayne Piekarski at: http://goo.gl/9Hl26U

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GROVE, explore procedural landscapes and turn them into your own colorful scenery. An Android Experiment by Simon Geilfus.

Source code available, too: https://goo.gl/7rq2Xi

Let’s say you’ve got some 20 bitmaps being decoded on a worker thread. Well, what happens if your activity is destroyed before that work completes?

In this video Doug Stevenson explains Loaders. A super-helpful class that can give you insight into how the activity lifecycle is changing, so that you can better understand how to address threaded work that might be in flight.

https://goo.gl/xVJUe1

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