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  • Announcing Android support of digital credentials



    Posted by Rohey Livne – Group Product Manager

    In today’s interconnected world, managing digital identity is essential. Android aims to support open standards that ensure seamless interoperability with various identity providers and services. As part of this goal, we are excited to announce that Android, via Credential Manager’s DigitalCredential API, now natively supports OpenID4VP and OpenID4VCI for digital credential presentation and issuance respectively.

    What are digital credentials?

    Digital credentials are cryptographically verifiable documents. The most common emerging use case for digital credentials is identity documents such as driver’s licenses, passports, or national ID cards. In the coming years, it is anticipated that Android developers will develop innovative applications of this technology for a wider range of personal credentials that users will need to present digitally, including education certifications, insurance policies, memberships, permits, and more.

    Digital credentials can be provided by any installed Android app. These apps are known as “credential holders”; typically digital wallet apps such as Google Wallet or Samsung Wallet.

    Other apps not necessarily thought of as “wallets” may also have a use for exposing a digital credential. For example an airline app might want to offer their users’ air miles reward program membership as a digital credential to be presented to other apps or websites.

    Digital credentials can be presented by the user to any other app or website on the same device, and Android also supports securely presenting Digital Credentials between devices using the same industry standard protocols used by passkeys (CTAP), by establishing encrypted communication tunnels.

    Users can store multiple credentials across multiple apps on their device. By leveraging OpenID4VP requests from websites using the W3C Digital Credential API, or from native apps using Android Credential Manager API, a user can select what credential to present from across all available credentials across all installed digital wallet apps.

    How digital credentials work

    Presentation

    To present the credential, the verifier sends an OpenID4VP request to the Digital Credential API, which then prompts the user to select a credential across all the credentials that can satisfy this request. Note that the user is selecting a credential, not a digital wallet app:

    Digital credentials selection interface on a mobile device

    Digital credentials selection interface

    Once the user chooses a credential to proceed with, Android platform redirects the original OpenID4VP request to the digital wallet app that holds the chosen credential to complete the presentation back to the verifier. When the digital wallet app receives the OpenID4VP request from Android, it can also perform any additional due-diligence steps it needs to perform prior to releasing the credential to the verifier.

    Issuance

    Android also allows developers to issue their own Digital Credentials to a user’s digital wallet app. This process can be done using an OpenID4VCI request, which prompts the user to choose the digital wallet app that they want to store the credential in. Alternatively, the issuance could be done directly from within the digital wallet app (some apps might not even have an explicit user facing issuance step if they store credentials based on their association to a signed-in user account).

    a single credential in a user's digital wallet app

    A wallet app holds a single credential

    Over time, the user can repeat this process to issue multiple credentials across multiple digital wallet apps:

    multiple credentials in multiple digital wallets held by a single user

    Multiple wallet apps hold multiple credentials

    Note: To ensure that at presentation time Android can appropriately list all the credentials that digital wallet apps hold, digital wallets must register their credentials’ metadata with Credential Manager. Credential Manager uses this metadata to match credentials across available digital wallet apps to the verifier’s request, so that it can only present a list of valid credentials that can satisfy the request for the user to select from.

    Early adopters

    As Google Wallet announced yesterday, soon users will be able to use digital credentials to recover Amazon accounts, access online health services with CVS and MyChart by Epic, and verify profiles or identity on platforms like Uber and Bumble.

    These use cases will take advantage of users’ digital credentials stored in any digital wallet app users have on their Android device. To that end, we’re also happy to share that both Samsung Wallet and 1Password will hold users’ digital credentials as digital wallets and support OpenID standards via Android’s Credential Manager API.

    Learn more

    Credential Manager API lets every Android app implement credential verification or provide credentials on the Android platform.

    Check out our new digital credential documentation on how to become a credential verifier, taking advantage of users’ existing digital credentials using Jetpack Credential Manager, or to become a digital wallet app holding your own credentials for other apps or websites to verify.



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  • Boeing Will Sell Its Digital Businesses for $10 Billion

    Boeing Will Sell Its Digital Businesses for $10 Billion


    Boeing announced on Tuesday that it would sell a handful of navigation, flight planning and other businesses for more than $10.5 billion as the company works to refocus on manufacturing planes and other aircraft.

    The company, which also wants to reduce its large debt, said it would sell four businesses from a digital unit to Thoma Bravo, a private equity firm specializing in software. Those include Jeppesen, which provides navigational charts and information to pilots, and ForeFlight, an app that helps plan flights and monitor weather.

    “This transaction is an important component of our strategy to focus on core businesses, supplement the balance sheet and prioritize the investment-grade credit rating,” Kelly Ortberg, Boeing’s chief executive, said in a statement.

    The company said it expected to close the all-cash deal by the end of the year. The digital unit that houses those businesses employs about 3,900 people, though some of the unit will remain at Boeing. The company employed about 172,000 people as of the start of the year.

    Mr. Ortberg, who joined the company last summer, made streamlining Boeing’s operations a strategic goal as he tries to address concerns about the quality of the company’s planes that were raised after a panel blew off a 737 Max plane during a January 2024 flight near Portland, Ore.

    No one was seriously injured in that incident, but it renewed worries about Boeing’s planes several years after two fatal crashes of the 737 Max in 2018 and 2019. Safety and quality issues have stymied Boeing’s commercial plane production in recent years. Then last fall, production of the 737 Max, Boeing’s most popular commercial plane, came to a near standstill during a two-month worker strike.

    In January, Mr. Ortberg said the company had resumed production of the Max, and was making more than 20 of those planes per month as well as five of the larger 787 Dreamliners.

    That is well below the goal the company had set before last year’s panel incident of delivering 50 of its 737s and 10 of its 787s per month. Boeing has about 5,500 outstanding commercial plane orders, valued at hundreds of billions of dollars.



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  • Join us for the digital Google for Games Developer Summit

    Join us for the digital Google for Games Developer Summit


    Last month, Game Developers Conference (GDC) organizers made the difficult decision to postpone the conference. We understand this decision, as we have to prioritize the health and safety of our community. GDC is one of our most anticipated times of the year to connect with the gaming industry. Though we won’t be bringing the news in-person this year, we’re hosting the Google for Games Developer Summit, a free, digital-only experience where developers can watch the announcements and session content that was planned for GDC.  

    Google for Games Developer Summit

    The Developer Summit kicks off on March 23rd at 9:00AM PT with our broadcasted keynote. Immediately following, we’ll be releasing a full lineup of developer sessions with over 10 hours of content to help take your games to the next level. 

    Here are some types of sessions to expect:

    • Success stories from industry leaders on how they’ve conquered game testing, built backend infrastructure, and launched great games across all platforms. 
    • New announcements like Android development and profiling tools that can help deploy large APKs to devices faster, fine tune graphic performance, and analyze device memory more effectively.
    • Updates on products like Game Servers (currently in alpha)—a fully managed offering of Agones, letting developers easily deploy and manage containerized game servers around the globe.

    Sign up to stay informed at g.co/gamedevsummit. 

    Support for the game developer community

    We recognize every developer is impacted differently by this situation. We’re coordinating with the GDC Relief Fund to sponsor and assist developers who’ve invested in this moment to further grow their games.

    We also understand many developers were looking forward to sharing their content with peers. To help with this, developers can use YouTube to stream events from small to large using tools like Live Streaming and Premieres. 

    We can’t wait to share what we have in store for gaming. Discover the solutions our teams have been building to support the success of this community for years to come.



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