Google for Developers

Devs, this Kotlin challenge arises from a refactoring bug you might have seen.

Here’s the setup: a teammate tidies up some code that builds job configurations. The build succeeds and everything looks fine. Then we check the list, and instead of the config object we expect, it holds something else.

Watch the video and share what you think caused the bug! → youtube.com/shorts/AaWdVp_py4Y

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Google for Developers

Africa's game dev scene is one of the fastest-growing gaming markets in the world. To help close the investment gap and elevate local talent, we’re launching the first Google Play Indie Games Fund in Africa!

💰 $1M USD total fund ($50K–$200K per studio)
👥 10 selected indie studios
🛠️ Mentorship & tech support included

Open to Sub-Saharan African developers with a launched mobile, PC, or console game.

📅 Apply by July 31 → goo.gle/indiefundafrica

5 days ago | [YT] | 249

Google for Developers

Upgrading your image pipeline? ⚡ Meet Nano Banana 2 Lite!

Engineered for rapid ideation and high-velocity developer pipelines, it’s the ultimate choice when speed and cost are your primary constraints.

If you’re currently using the first-generation version (gemini-2.5-flash-image), this new model offers an easy way to unlock immediate latency leaps and performance gains.

Explore the new model in Google AI Studio: goo.gle/googleaistudio

5 days ago | [YT] | 239

Google for Developers

Android Studio Quail 2 is now stable and ready for production!

Optimizing application performance and code quality just got a major upgrade. Android Studio brings direct execution straight into your IDE, reducing manual friction and keeping you anchored right inside your workspace.

Discover the key updates designed to streamline your daily workflow:

Parallel chats: Initiate, run, and manage multiple agentic tasks concurrently across different chats.

Memory leak detection with LeakCanary: Lift and shift heap analysis from your resource-constrained testing device onto your powerful development computer for 5x faster, jank-free tracing.

Fix bugs with App Quality Insights: Move seamlessly from production crash identification to code fixes with the "Fix with AI" button.

Stay focused on building great apps without shifting between disjointed tools.

👉 Read the blog post for a deep dive into what's new in Android Studio Quail 2: goo.gle/4bloC0A

6 days ago | [YT] | 349

Google for Developers

Here’s a Kotlin focused developer challenge: A system is supposed to catch duplicate requests by comparing IDs. Two IDs are clearly the same. The logs confirm it. The values match. → youtube.com/shorts/Q3ryjp64wK8

However, the duplicate check fails, and the same request goes through twice. Watch the clip and share what you think is going on in the comments.

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Google for Developers

Meet the Nano Banana family: built to solve your image pipeline constraints. 🍌

From lightning-fast drafting to state-of-the-art 4K generation, see how the next-gen image models stack up - swipe to find your perfect match!

Start playing in Google AI Studio:goo.gle/googleaistudio

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1 week ago | [YT] | 371

Google for Developers

The next era of Android Bench!

Here is what's packed into the latest update:

8 New Models Added: Expanded the leaderboard with top industry models, including OpenAI's GPT 5.5, Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Sonnet 5, GLM 5.2, and Qwen 3.7 Max - with Claude Fable 5 currently leading the pack at 84.5%.

Upgraded Evaluation Methodology: To continue providing state-of-the-art evaluations of the latest model capabilities, we are standardizing the Harbor framework. This makes it easier for you to run and evaluate the benchmark yourself- providing even greater transparency.

Community Contributions: Starting today, the Android developer community can help shape the benchmark by submitting development tasks and sharing evaluations.

Check out the updated leaderboard and the full methodology breakdown in the latest blog post: goo.gle/4wB7Vqk

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Today, we’re unlocking a whole new era for generative media workflows in the Gemini API.

We are thrilled to announce a major double-model launch, live right now in Google AI Studio and the Gemini API. Both models are built to help developers build complete multimedia pipelines:

🍌 Nano Banana 2 Lite (GA): Our fastest Gemini Image model to date. Engineered specifically for high-velocity developer pipelines and rapid drafting, it delivers text-to-image outputs in just 4 seconds at $0.034 per 1K resolution image, maintaining character consistency and pristine in-image text rendering.

🎬 Gemini Omni Flash (Public Preview): For the first time, we are bringing native multimodal video generation and conversational editing to developers. Using the Interactions API, the model keeps session context alive, letting you execute up to 3 sequential edits - like scene changes, style transfers, and product swaps - using natural language.

🔗 Chain them together: You can create seamless, multi-turn visual workflows. Use Nano Banana 2 Lite to instantly generate a series of high-speed reference assets, then pass them straight into Gemini Omni Flash to animate and refine them in motion.

The playgrounds and developer documentation are officially live in Google AI Studio. We can't wait to see what you build!

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Google for Developers

New Kotlin challenge: a permissions bug where giving one user a new role somehow changes another user too.

Can you find out why?→ youtube.com/shorts/wq8X9YrmooU

Watch the clip and share your answer in the comments.

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3 weeks ago | [YT] | 340

Google for Developers

Welcome back to Google Developer News!

For this month's episode, we join host Anaya Mehta as she breaks down the biggest developer drops from Google I/O.

Highlights include:
🌐 Near real-time translation with Gemini 3.5 Live Translate
💻 Local agentic workflows with Gemma 4 12b
🍏 Gemini natively in Xcode for Apple devs

Watch the full episode here → https://youtu.be/UlbokBsjMRY

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