Introducing new Android Excellence games on Google Play

See the full list of games here → https://goo.gl/edBHDG

Whether it’s a fun new play on crossword puzzles or a multiplayer game with immersive 3D graphics, these games represent some of the best gaming experiences on Google Play. A huge congratulations to the developers who made it into this round!

Getting Audio Focus right, delivering a great experience to users

Learn more about our journey to build an Android video player app that supports playlist, and PIP → https://goo.gl/hzF1Lg

Android allows many apps to play audio simultaneously by automatically mixing all the audio streams together. However, it is disruptive to the user if they hear multiple apps playing audio at the same time. It’s like many people trying to talk to a user at the same time, the result of which is that they can’t really hear or pay attention to any one person. To avoid this, Android provides an API that allows apps to share audio focus, where only one app can hold audio focus at any given time.

Introducing new Android Excellence apps on Google Play

Here are our favorite new apps → https://goo.gl/AdhBJe

We’re excited to welcome the latest round of Android Excellence apps on Google Play. These collections are refreshed every three months and recognize apps that set the bar for high quality, great user experience, and strong technical performance.

Let’s run with some standard Kotlin functions! Short and powerful, `let`, `apply`, `with` and `run` all have a receiver (this), may have an argument (it) and may have a return value. See the differences ⬇️

Extending existing APIs with default arguments usually makes everyone happy. Android KTX lets you set the padding on one side of a view using default parameters.

A one line function that saves so much code!

Code: https://github.com/android/android-ktx/blob/master/src/main/java/androidx/core/view/View.kt#L117

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Your feedback is important!

Join a Google user study and help shape the future of Android products. Chosen participants get a thank you gift too!

Join here → goo.gl/aE6qmF

Building games for the next billion

Watch the latest Android Developer Story → https://goo.gl/q5HsRo

Growing markets present an amazing opportunity for game developers to find new users, but they also come with unique set of challenges. Hear from AppOn Innovate, an Indian game studio, on how they build and optimize games for the next billion users.

Love the speed of Parcelable, but don’t like writing all that code? Say hello to Parcelize

Spec: https://github.com/Kotlin/KEEP/blob/master/proposals/extensions/android-parcelable.md

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Wear OS by Google developer preview

Today we launched the Wear OS by Google developer preview and brought Android P platform features to wearables. This release includes system images for the official Android emulator as well as Huawei Watch 2 Bluetooth edition. We expect to publish more updates in the coming months prior to production. As always, please give us feedback and bugs at the Android Issues tracker.

To learn how you can download this preview, please check out: goo.gl/7yR5rd