Google Cloud launched Developer Device Platform in public preview, enabling parallel testing across hundreds of physical and virtual devices.

Google Cloud launched Developer Device Platform, or DDP, in public preview as a fully managed environment for testing mobile applications. It provides on-demand access to multiple hardware profiles across physical devices and high-concurrency virtual emulators and represents an evolution of Firebase Test Lab for cloud developers.

Its Device Streaming application programming interface lets developers remotely access a selected physical device or emulator for real-time interaction, testing, debugging, and performance monitoring. This allows developers and coding agents to work with device-specific characteristics such as foldable displays and differences between central processing units and graphics processing units.

The Device Run application programming interface supports tests embedded in continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines. Tests can run in parallel across hundreds of devices, with results used to isolate device-specific failures.

Google described DDP as its first device platform built for agentic development. The company said integrations with Android Studio and the Android command-line interface were forthcoming, rather than already generally available in the public-preview release.