11 weeks of Android: Beyond phones, Games & media, and UI
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 | August 2020 | | | |  | | Jetpack Compose is in alpha | | We released the alpha of Jetpack Compose, our modern UI toolkit designed to help you quickly and easily build beautiful apps across all Android platforms, with native access to the platform APIs. Check out what's new. | | | | | | | Week 9: Android beyond phones | | Learn how you can best target non-phone devices, and how to reach users on small screens, large screens, wide screens, round screens, car screens, and folding ones, too. | | | | | | | | | | | | Week 10: Games & media | | Learn more about building games and developing media apps, and how 5G is going to make these and other experiences better. See how we're helping you build and test better games, reach new devices and audiences, and go to market on Play. You'll also learn how Android 11 improves the developer experience. | | | | | | | | | | | Week 11: User Interface | | Catch our updates on all things UI, including Jetpack Compose, Material Components and more. You can also learn about some of the UI updates in Android 11, such as IME animations. On August 27th at 12pm PT, join the Android Jetpack & Jetpack Compose AMA on Reddit to have your questions answered by the Android team. | | | | | | | | | | Google Assistant Developer Day | | On October 8th at 10am PST, the Google Assistant team will share new features that will help you integrate Google Assistant into your Android apps. You will also hear directly from our partners and developers about their experiences and best practices with Google Assistant integration. | | | | | | | | | | | Did you find this newsletter useful? | | | | | | | | | 
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