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 Google Play services discontinuing updates for KitKat (API levels 19 & 20) starting August 2023
Google Play services discontinuing updates for KitKat (API levels 19 & 20) starting August 2023

24 July 2023

Posted by Sarat Tummala, Product Manager, Google Play services The Android KitKat (KK) platform was first released ~10 years ago and ...


Google Play services discontinuing updates for Jelly Bean (API levels 16, 17 & 18)
Google Play services discontinuing updates for Jelly Bean (API levels 16, 17 & 18)

08 July 2021

Posted by Vikas Kansal, Product Manager, Google Play services The Android Jelly Bean (JB) platform was first released 9 years ago and...


Announcing new SDK versioning in Google Play services and Firebase
Announcing new SDK versioning in Google Play services and Firebase

03 May 2018

Posted by Doug Stevenson, Developer Advocate Starting today, the Android SDKs for Google Play services and Firebase will be using a n...


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Moving Past GoogleApiClient

21 November 2017

Posted by Sam Stern, Developer Programs Engineer The release of version 11.6.0 of the Google Play services SDK moves a number of pop...


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Reduce friction with the new Location APIs

14 June 2017

Posted by Aaron Stacy, Software Engineer, Google Play services The 11.0.0 release of the Google Play services SDK includes a new way to a...


Fashion gets a digital upgrade with the Google Awareness API
Fashion gets a digital upgrade with the Google Awareness API

06 February 2017

Posted by Jeremy Brook, Group Creative Business Partner, the ZOO Last summer , we made the Awareness API available to all developers...


Get the guide to finding success in new markets on Google Play
Get the guide to finding success in new markets on Google Play

20 December 2016

Posted by Lily Sheringham, Developer Marketing at Google Play With just a few clicks, you can publish an app to Google Play and access...


Start building Actions on Google
Start building Actions on Google

20 December 2016

Posted by Jason Douglas, PM Director for Actions on Google The Google Assistant brings together all of the technology and smarts we'...


Registering OAuth clients for Google Sign-In
Registering OAuth clients for Google Sign-In

25 March 2016

Posted by Isabella Chen , Software Engineer, and Laurence Moroney , Developer Advocate Starting with Google Play services 8.3, we did a ma...


Explore the new Google Play Developer Policy Center
Explore the new Google Play Developer Policy Center

01 March 2016

Posted by Atul Kumar, Google Play Policy More than 1 billion Android users come to Google Play every month to discover their favorite apps...


New tools for ratings & reviews on Google Play to engage and understand your users
New tools for ratings & reviews on Google Play to engage and understand your users

25 February 2016

Posted by Fergus Hurley, Product Manager, Google Play Millions of users rate and review your apps every day on Google Play. From feature ...


One tap sign-up and automatic sign-in without password entry using Smart Lock
One tap sign-up and automatic sign-in without password entry using Smart Lock

11 December 2015

Posted Steven Soneff, Product Manager, Google Identity More than 30 percent of users signing in to the Netflix app on Android no longer h...