Cloud photos now available in the Android photo picker

Our photo picker has always been the gateway to your local media library, providing a secure, date-sorted interface for users to grant apps access to selected images and videos. But now, we're taking it a step further by integrating cloud photos from your chosen cloud media app directly into the photo picker experience.

Gemini offers a multitude of applications to enhance your product. In this post, you will delve into building an AI chat application for Android, utilizing Stream’s Compose Chat SDK alongside Google’s Generative AI SDK for Android.

This quickstart demonstrates how to access the Gemini API directly from your Android app using the Google AI client SDK for Android. You can use this client SDK if you don't want to work directly with REST APIs or server-side code (like Python) for accessing Gemini models in your Android app.

Android 14 includes breaking changes related to foreground services that need to be incorporated if you want to target SDK version 34. We’ll take a look at what these changes are and what needs to be done.

Jake Wharton writes about a challenge focused on identifying duplicate elements in an array of integers, aiming to prevent users from specifying a reserved value twice.