Developer Device Platform (DDP)
Test, debug, and scale your apps on real devices
Access physical devices and virtual emulators directly from your existing IDEs and CI/CD pipelines, fully hosted and managed on Google Cloud infrastructure.
Features
Catch compatibility bugs before your users do
Access a large variety of physical device types and virtual emulators on demand. Test app performance across diverse OEM form factors, chipsets (CPU, GPU, NPU), and OS versions without purchasing or managing local hardware.
Key benefits:
- OS and hardware compatibility: Verify app behavior across multiple OS versions and hardware configurations early in your release cycle.
- Concurrent virtual testing: Run virtual emulators simultaneously to eliminate testing bottlenecks in your continuous integration pipelines.
Get results across hundreds of devices in minutes
Developer Device Platform enables you to package apps and launch parallelized tests with smart sharding, allowing you to rapidly deploy and get results before deploying your app.
Key benefits:
- Greater cost and time efficiency: Most customers achieve greater efficiency with smart sharding and parallelized tests. With fine-grained retry, DDP automatically retries just the tests that failed, not the entire shard, improving cost efficiency.
- Deploy faster: Spend less time waiting for results and more time optimizing application performance.
Give your agents direct access to devices for development and testing
Developer Device Platform integrates with Antigravity, AI Studio, Android Studio, Android CLI, and gcloud CLI, allowing you to work with the agents and development tools of your choice.
Key benefits:
- Seamless multi-step journeys: With DDP, agents can execute multi-step journeys independently, spot visual artifacts, analyze real-time chip performance on physical devices, and rewrite your code to fix hardware-specific bugs.
- Accelerate development workflows: With integrations across leading tools used by Android and Google Cloud developers, DDP is a flexible option to accelerate your own development workflows.
How It Works
- Connect: Use Android Studio, AI Studio, gcloud CLI, or REST APIs.
- Debug: Live-connect to devices/emulators for real-time logs.
- Automate: Run parallel tests in CI/CD (Cloud Build, GitHub Actions).
- Ship: Review performance metrics (CPU/GPU/NPU, thermal) before updates.
- Connect: Use Android Studio, AI Studio, gcloud CLI, or REST APIs.
- Debug: Live-connect to devices/emulators for real-time logs.
- Automate: Run parallel tests in CI/CD (Cloud Build, GitHub Actions).
- Ship: Review performance metrics (CPU/GPU/NPU, thermal) before updates.
Cross-device and OS compatibility
Mobile app development
Mobile app development
Challenge: Apps often encounter layout bugs or crashes across non-standard screen sizes, OEM customizations, and different OS versions.
Solution: Run automated regression tests across physical devices and supported OS versions in Google Cloud before releasing updates to production.
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
Mobile app development
Mobile app development
Challenge: Apps often encounter layout bugs or crashes across non-standard screen sizes, OEM customizations, and different OS versions.
Solution: Run automated regression tests across physical devices and supported OS versions in Google Cloud before releasing updates to production.
Automated regression in CI/CD pipelines
DevOps and quality engineering
DevOps and quality engineering
Challenge: Sequential test execution on limited local devices causes severe build delays during continuous delivery.
Solution: Split automated test suites across cloud emulators and physical devices using smart sharding to complete builds faster.
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
DevOps and quality engineering
DevOps and quality engineering
Challenge: Sequential test execution on limited local devices causes severe build delays during continuous delivery.
Solution: Split automated test suites across cloud emulators and physical devices using smart sharding to complete builds faster.
Pricing
| How Developer Device Platform pricing works | Pay-per-use (billed per second, with a 1 minute minimum) or by monthly subscription per device slot | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| SKU | Pay-per-use pricing during public preview | Pay-per-use standard pricing April 2027 | Subscription pricing (starts April 2027) |
Device Run, Physical Devices | $0.083 per device minute | $0.20 per device minute | $250 per device slot per month |
Device Streaming, Physical Devices | $0.15 per device minute | $0.20 per device minute | $250 per device slot per month1 |
Emulators (Device Run & Device Streaming) | $0.017 per device minute | $0.06 per device minute | $200 per device slot per month |
1 Physical device subscription can be used for Device Streaming and Device Run APIs
How Developer Device Platform pricing works
Pay-per-use (billed per second, with a 1 minute minimum) or by monthly subscription per device slot
Device Run, Physical Devices
$0.083 per device minute
$0.20 per device minute
$250 per device slot per month
Device Streaming, Physical Devices
$0.15 per device minute
$0.20 per device minute
$250 per device slot per month1
Emulators (Device Run & Device Streaming)
$0.017 per device minute
$0.06 per device minute
$200 per device slot per month
1 Physical device subscription can be used for Device Streaming and Device Run APIs
