Samsung Galaxy XR Launches: A New Era of Android XR Development Begins

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Samsung Galaxy XR Launches: A New Era of Android XR Development Begins

Samsung has officially unveiled the Galaxy XR, a groundbreaking device that blends the digital and physical worlds like never before. Announced live at the Galaxy event and available starting today, the Galaxy XR marks the first-ever headset powered by the Android XR platform — setting the stage for a new generation of immersive experiences.




What Android XR Means for Developers

For Android developers, the Galaxy XR isn’t just another device — it’s a gateway to spatial computing. With Android XR, you can use familiar tools like Android Studio and Jetpack Compose to expand your existing app experiences into three-dimensional spaces.

You don’t have to start from scratch. Your current Android app code can easily be extended using new XR APIs and capabilities, allowing your apps to move naturally into mixed reality environments.

Better yet, developing for headsets today also prepares you for the future of AR glasses, giving your app a head start in the next wave of wearable technology.

Getting Started: Steps for XR Development

1. Make your app adaptive for XR
Start by optimizing your UI so that it naturally works on the Galaxy XR headset. In XR home environments, users can resize and interact with your app components in a seamless, intuitive way — no major redesign needed.

2. Enhance your app with spatial experiences
Next, make your app shine in XR. Using the Jetpack XR SDK, developers can integrate environments, 3D objects, and spatial UIs to create unique experiences that can only exist in extended reality.

Calm: Bringing Mindfulness to Android XR

To showcase the potential of Android XR, Samsung partnered with Calm, the leading wellness and meditation app. Calm’s developers reimagined their mobile experience for XR — turning mindfulness into a fully immersive environment.

Reimagining Calm for XR:

  • The Breathe Bubble, one of Calm’s signature features, is now a 3D breathing orb that surrounds users in a soothing, interactive environment.

  • The beloved Scenes feature, which offered visual backdrops in the mobile app, now becomes a 360-degree world, letting users choose immersive environments that completely wrap around them.

The Calm team used their existing Jetpack Compose experience to transition smoothly into XR development. Within just two weeks, they had a working prototype of their Calm XR experience — proof that expanding into spatial design doesn’t have to be complex.

Designing for Immersion and Emotion

Building for XR allowed Calm’s developers to rethink how mindfulness can feel. Instead of users simply watching or listening, XR lets them inhabit the experience.

Through careful concept art, 3D modeling, and continuous testing within the headset, the Calm team fine-tuned lighting, scale, and atmosphere to create an emotionally intelligent space that encourages relaxation and exploration.

Their advice for other developers?

“Think as big as possible. Ask yourself: what’s the boldest version of your experience you could build — because now, you have the platform that can make it real.”

Ready to Build the Next Generation of Apps?

Developers interested in creating XR experiences can explore all resources at
👉 developer.android.com/xr

There you’ll find the latest SDKs, documentation, and tools to start experimenting with spatial computing. With the launch of the Samsung Galaxy XR, the future of Android development is no longer limited to screens — it’s expanding into the world around us.


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