Tag: news/releases

Posted on by

What’s new in the Jetpack Compose April ’25 release

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/04/whats-new-in-jetpack-compose-april-25.html

Today, as part of the Compose April ‘25 Bill of Materials, we’re releasing version 1.8 of Jetpack Compose, Android’s modern, native UI toolkit, used by many developers. This release contains new features like autofill, various text improvements, visibility tracking, and new ways to animate a composable’s size and location. It also stabilizes many experimental APIs and fixes a number of bugs.

To use today’s release, upgrade your Compose BOM version to 2025.04.01 :

implementation(platform("androidx.compose:compose-bom:2025.04.01"))

Note: If you are not using the Bill of Materials, make sure to upgrade Compose Foundation and Compose UI at the same time. Otherwise, autofill will not work correctly.

Posted on by

Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop is Stable!

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/01/android-studio-ladybug-feature-drop-is-stable.html

Gemini in Android Studio

  • Code Transforms
  • Rename
  • Rethink
  • Commit Message
  • Generate Documentation

Debug

  • Animation Preview support for Wear OS Tiles
  • Wear Health Services

Optimize

  • App Links Assistant
  • Google Play SDK Insights Integration

Quality Improvements

  • 770+ bugs addressed

IntelliJ Platform Update

  • More intuitive full line code completion suggestions
  • Preview in the Search Everywhere dialog
  • Improved log management for Java and Kotlin programming languages