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Posted by Ben Trengrove – Developer Relations Engineer, Matt Dyor – Product Supervisor

To empower Android builders, we’re excited to announce Android Studio’s new Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) Shared Module Template. This template was particularly designed to permit builders to make use of a single codebase and apply enterprise logic throughout platforms. Extra particularly, builders will be capable to add shared modules to current Android apps and share the enterprise logic throughout their Android and iOS purposes.

This makes it simpler for Android builders to craft, preserve, and most significantly, personal the enterprise logic. The KMP Shared Module Template is obtainable inside Android Studio once you create a brand new module inside a challenge.

A single code base for enterprise logic

Most builders have grown accustomed to sustaining completely different code bases, platform to platform. Up to now, every time there’s an replace to the enterprise logic, it have to be fastidiously up to date in every codebase. However with the KMP Shared Module Template:

• Builders can write as soon as and publish the enterprise logic to wherever they want it.
• Engineering groups can do extra sooner.
• Person experiences are extra constant throughout your entire viewers, no matter platform or kind issue.
• Releases are higher coordinated and launched with fewer errors.

Clients and developer groups who undertake KMP Shared Module Templates ought to count on to realize higher ROI from cellular groups who can flip their consideration in the direction of delighting their customers extra and worrying about inconsistent code much less.

KMP enthusiasm

The Android developer neighborhood stays very enthusiastic about KMP, particularly after Google I/O 2024 the place Google introduced official assist for shared logic throughout Android and iOS. We now have seen continued momentum and enthusiasm from the neighborhood. For instance, there at the moment are over 1,500 KMP libraries listed on JetBrains’ klibs.io.

Our clients are excited as a result of KMP has made Android builders extra productive. Persistently, Android builders have stated that they need options that enable them to share code extra simply they usually need instruments which increase productiveness. For this reason we suggest KMP; KMP concurrently delivers an amazing expertise for Android customers whereas boosting ROI for the app makers. The KMP Shared Module Template is the most recent step in the direction of a developer ecosystem the place person expertise is constant and purposes are up to date seamlessly.

Giant scale KMP adoptions

This KMP Shared Module Template is new, however KMP extra broadly is a maturing know-how with a number of large-scale migrations underway. In actual fact, KMP has matured sufficient to assist mission crucial purposes at Google. Google Docs, for instance, is now working KMP in manufacturing on iOS with runtime efficiency on par or higher than earlier than. Past Google, Stone’s 130 cellular builders are sharing over 50% of their code, permitting current cellular groups to ship options roughly 40% sooner to each Android and iOS.

KMP was designed for Android improvement

As all the time, we have designed the Shared Module Template with the wants of Android developer groups in thoughts. Making the KMP Shared Module Template a part of the native Android Studio expertise permits builders to effectively add a shared module to an current Android software and instantly begin constructing shared enterprise logic that leverages a number of KMP-ready Jetpack libraries together with Room, SQLite, and DataStore to call only a few.

Come test it out at KotlinConf

Releasing Android Studio’s KMP Shared Module Template marks a major step towards empowering Android improvement groups to innovate sooner, to effectively handle enterprise logic, and to construct high-quality purposes with higher confidence. It signifies that Android builders could be chargeable for the code that drives the enterprise logic for each app throughout Android and iOS. We’re excited to carry Shared Module Template to KotlinConf in Copenhagen, Could 21 – 23.

Get began with KMP Shared Module Template

To get began, you may want the most recent version of Android Studio. In your Android challenge, the Shared Module Template is obtainable inside Android Studio once you create a brand new module. Click on on “File” then “New” then “New Module” and at last “Kotlin Multiplatform Shared Module” and you’re prepared so as to add a KMP Shared Module to your Android app.

We admire any suggestions on stuff you like or options you want to see. For those who discover a bug, please report the problem. Bear in mind to additionally observe us on X, LinkedIn, Weblog, or YouTube for extra Android improvement updates!

Posted by Matthew McCullough – VP of Product Administration, Android Developer

At this time at Google I/O, we introduced the various methods we’re serving to you construct glorious, adaptive experiences, and serving to you keep extra productive by means of updates to our tooling that put AI at your fingertips and all through your improvement lifecycle. Right here’s a recap of 16 of our favourite bulletins for Android builders; you may as well see what was introduced final week in The Android Present: I/O Version. And keep tuned over the following two days as we dive into the entire subjects in additional element!

Constructing AI into your Apps

1: Constructing clever apps with Generative AI

Generative AI enhances apps’ expertise by making them clever, customized and agentic. This yr, we introduced new ML Equipment GenAI APIs utilizing Gemini Nano for frequent on-device duties like summarization, proofreading, rewrite, and picture description. We additionally offered capabilities for builders to harness extra highly effective fashions similar to Gemini Professional, Gemini Flash, and Imagen by way of Firebase AI Logic for extra advanced use instances like picture technology and processing in depth knowledge throughout modalities, together with bringing AI to life in Android XR, and a brand new AI pattern app, Androidify, that showcases how these APIs can rework your selfies into distinctive Android robots! To start out constructing clever experiences by leveraging these new capabilities, discover the developer documentation, pattern apps, and watch the overview session to decide on the fitting answer in your app.

New experiences throughout units

2: One app, each display screen: suppose adaptive and unlock 500 million screens

Cellular Android apps type the muse throughout telephones, foldables, tablets and ChromeOS, and this yr we’re serving to you deliver them to vehicles and XR and increasing usages with desktop windowing and linked shows. This enlargement means tapping into an ecosystem of 500 million units – a big alternative to have interaction extra customers while you suppose adaptive, constructing a single cell app that works throughout type components. Assets, together with Compose Layouts library and Jetpack Navigation updates, assist make constructing these dynamic experiences simpler than earlier than. You’ll be able to see how Peacock, NBCUniveral’s streaming service (out there within the US) is constructing adaptively to satisfy customers the place they’re.

3: Materials 3 Expressive: design for instinct and emotion

The brand new Materials 3 Expressive replace gives instruments to reinforce your product’s enchantment by harnessing emotional UX, making it extra partaking, intuitive, and fascinating for customers. Try the I/O discuss to study extra about expressive design and the way it evokes emotion, clearly guides customers towards their objectives, and presents a versatile and customized expertise.

4: Smarter widgets, partaking stay updates

Measure the return on funding of your widgets (out there quickly) and simply create customized widget previews with Look 1.2. Promoted Dwell Updates notify customers of essential ongoing notifications and include a brand new Progress Fashion standardized template.

5: Enhanced Digicam & Media: low gentle increase and battery financial savings

This yr’s I/O introduces a number of digicam and media enhancements. These embrace a software program low gentle increase for improved pictures in dim lighting and native PCM offload, permitting the DSP to deal with extra audio playback processing, thus conserving consumer battery. Discover our detailed periods on built-in results inside CameraX and Media3 for additional data.

6: Construct next-gen app experiences for Vehicles

We’re launching expanded alternatives for builders to construct in-car experiences, together with new Gemini integrations, help for extra app classes like Video games and Video, and enhanced capabilities for media and communication apps by way of the Automotive App Library and new APIs. Alongside up to date automotive app high quality tiers and simplified distribution, we’ll quickly be offering improved testing instruments like Android Automotive OS on Pixel Pill and Firebase Check Lab entry that can assist you deliver your revolutionary apps to vehicles. Be taught extra from our technical session and weblog submit on new in-car app experiences.

7: Construct for Android XR’s increasing ecosystem with Developer Preview 2 of the SDK

We introduced Android XR in December, and right this moment at Google I/O we shared a bunch of updates coming to the platform together with Developer Preview 2 of the Android XR SDK plus an increasing ecosystem of units: along with the primary Android XR headset, Samsung’s Venture Moohan, you’ll additionally see extra units together with a brand new moveable Android XR system from our companions at XREAL. There’s heaps extra to cowl for Android XR: Watch the Compose and AI on Android XR session, and the Constructing differentiated apps for Android XR with 3D content material session, and study extra about constructing for Android XR.

8: Categorical your self on Put on OS: meet Materials Expressive on Put on OS 6

This yr we’re launching Put on OS 6: probably the most highly effective and expressive model of Put on OS. Put on OS 6 options Materials 3 Expressive, a brand new UI design with customized visuals and movement for consumer creativity, coming to Put on, Android, and Google apps later this yr. Builders acquire entry to Materials 3 Expressive on Put on OS by using new Jetpack libraries: Put on Compose Materials 3, which gives parts for apps and Put on ProtoLayout Materials 3 which gives parts and layouts for tiles. Get began with Materials 3 libraries and different updates on Put on.

9: Interact customers on Google TV with glorious TV apps

You’ll be able to leverage extra assets inside Compose’s core and Materials libraries with the secure launch of Compose for TV, empowering you to construct glorious adaptive UIs throughout your apps. We’re additionally thrilled to share thrilling platform updates and developer instruments designed to spice up app engagement, together with bringing Gemini capabilities to TV within the fall, opening enrollment for our Video Discovery API, and extra.

Developer productiveness

10: Construct stunning apps sooner with Jetpack Compose

Compose is our large wager for UI improvement. The most recent secure BOM launch gives the options, efficiency, stability, and libraries that that you must construct stunning adaptive apps sooner, so you’ll be able to deal with what makes your app worthwhile to customers.

11: Kotlin Multiplatform: new Shared Template helps you to construct throughout platforms, simply

Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) permits groups to achieve new audiences throughout Android and iOS with much less improvement time. We’ve launched a brand new Android Studio KMP shared module template, up to date Jetpack libraries and new codelabs (Getting began with Kotlin Multiplatform and Migrating your Room database to KMP) to assist builders who wish to get began with KMP. Shared module templates make it simpler for builders to craft, preserve, and personal the enterprise logic. Learn extra on what’s new in Android’s Kotlin Multiplatform.

12: Gemini in Android Studio: AI Brokers that can assist you work

Gemini in Android Studio is the AI-powered coding companion that makes Android builders extra productive at each stage of the dev lifecycle. In March, we launched Picture to Code to bridge the hole between UX groups and software program engineers by intelligently changing design mockups into working Compose UI code. And right this moment, we previewed new agentic AI experiences, Journeys for Android Studio and Model Improve Agent. These improvements make it simpler to construct and check code. You’ll be able to learn extra about these updates in What’s new in Android improvement instruments.

13: Android Studio: smarter with Gemini

On this newest launch, we’re empowering devs with AI-driven instruments like Gemini in Android Studio, streamlining UI creation, making testing simpler, and making certain apps are future-proofed in our ever-evolving Android ecosystem. These improvements speed up improvement cycles, enhance app high quality, and provide help to keep forward in a dynamic cell panorama. To take benefit, improve to the most recent Studio launch. You’ll be able to learn extra about these improvements in What’s new in Android improvement instruments.

And the most recent on driving enterprise progress

14: What’s new in Google Play

Prepare for thrilling updates from Play designed to spice up your discovery, engagement and income! Learn the way we’re persevering with to turn out to be a content-rich vacation spot with enhanced personalization and recent methods to showcase your apps and content material. Plus, discover highly effective new subscription options designed to streamline checkout and scale back churn. Learn I/O 2025: What’s new in Google Play to study extra.

15: Begin migrating to Play Video games Providers v2 right this moment

Play Video games Providers (PGS) connects over 2 billion gamer profiles on Play, powering cross-device gameplay, customized gaming content material and rewards in your gamers all through the gaming journey. We’re shifting PGS v1 options to v2 with extra superior options and a better integration path. Be taught extra concerning the migration timeline and new options.

16: And naturally, Android 16

We unpacked a few of the newest options coming to customers in Android 16, which we’ve been previewing with you for the previous couple of months. Should you haven’t already, be certain to check your apps with the most recent Beta of Android 16. Android 16 consists of Dwell Updates, skilled media and digicam options, desktop windowing and linked shows, main accessibility enhancements and way more.

Try the entire Android and Play content material at Google I/O

This was only a preview of a few of the cool updates for Android builders at Google I/O, however keep tuned to Google I/O over the following two days as we dive into a spread of Android developer subjects in additional element. You’ll be able to take a look at the What’s New in Android and the full Android observe of periods, and whether or not you’re becoming a member of in individual or around the globe, we will’t wait to have interaction with you!

Discover this announcement and all Google I/O 2025 updates on io.google beginning Could 22.