Update stable Android libraries for September 21, 2026

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Updates stable Maven artifacts and synchronizes their generated repository metadata and public API baselines.

• Library updates

  • Updates Data Binding, Google Mobile Ads, Play Services Base/Basement, and Games v2.
  • Retains Okio 3.18.1 due to the documented Azure Artifacts restore issue.

• Generated metadata

  • Refreshes cgmanifest.json and the artifact/version listing.
  • Updates affected PublicAPI.Unshipped.txt baselines.

• Games v2 binding

  • Removes the invalid Freezable implementation from GameBadgeEntity, whose Java type no longer provides freeze().

• Namespaces

  • Regenerates the published namespace list with no resulting changes.

• Fixes Stable Updates 20260921 #1547

[Dhivya-SF4094]

@copilot Can you ensure that PublicApi*.txt changes are included only for the packages that are actually updated in this PR? I noticed that there are PublicApi*.txt changes from unrelated packages as well. Please remove any API file changes for packages that are not being modified by this PR.

[Copilot]

@copilot Can you ensure that PublicApi*.txt changes are included only for the packages that are actually updated in this PR? I noticed that there are PublicApi*.txt changes from unrelated packages as...

Addressed in commit 52ac846. Unrelated PublicAPI baseline changes were restored; only Ads, Ads API, Base, Basement, and Games v2 API changes remain.

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Copilot review overview

🟡 Changes recommended

Update the stale dependency comment and add the required generated API-diff changelog.

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• Add generated API diff changelog to PR description and commits · New
• Update hsdp dependency comment to play-services-ads-api 25.5.0 · New

What changed in this PR

Updates stable Android library versions and synchronizes generated metadata, API baselines, and Games v2 binding metadata.

Changes:

• Bumps Data Binding, Ads, Play Services, and Games v2 artifacts.
• Refreshes configuration, component metadata, artifact listings, and API baselines.
• Removes the invalid Freezable implementation from GameBadgeEntity.

File	Description
source/​com.google.android.gms/​play-services-games-v2/​Transforms/​Metadata.xml	Removes the invalid interface binding.
source/​com.google.android.gms/​play-services-games-v2/​PublicAPI/​PublicAPI.Unshipped.txt	Updates the Games v2 API baseline.
source/​com.google.android.gms/​play-services-basement/​PublicAPI/​PublicAPI.Unshipped.txt	Records updated Basement APIs.
source/​com.google.android.gms/​play-services-base/​PublicAPI/​PublicAPI.Unshipped.txt	Refreshes Base APIs.
source/​com.google.android.gms/​play-services-ads/​PublicAPI/​PublicAPI.Unshipped.txt	Updates Ads module metadata.
source/​com.google.android.gms/​play-services-ads-api/​PublicAPI/​PublicAPI.Unshipped.txt	Records the new initialization callback overload.
docs/​artifact-list-with-versions.md	Updates artifact version listings.
config.json	Updates artifact versions and dependency configuration.
cgmanifest.json	Refreshes component governance versions.

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