Rebecca Gutteride and Madona Wambua, Co-Hosts of #TheAndroidShow
The newest Android giant screens and foldables from our Android associates
One of many coolest moments for {hardware} fans was final week at Cell World Congress, the place Android system makers from all over the world collect to unveil the newest improvements. It was an particularly large yr for foldables specifically, with a variety of compelling gadgets popping out. We had the chance to meet up with three Android companions and see their newest {hardware}: the Oppo Discover N2 Flip, the HONOR Magic Vs, and the Tecno Phantom V Fold. These launches convey new, high-quality gadgets into the foldable class, giving customers extra choices as they search for their subsequent cell system and signaling an funding in foldables throughout the Android ecosystem. For builders, foldables can current distinctive alternatives (and challenges); giant display gadgets like foldables and tablets can problem assumptions that you just might need made prior to now round configuration adjustments, cameras, and the form and measurement of the display – or screens. On gadgets with extra display actual property and folds, customers expect higher multi-tasking and extra content-rich app experiences that adapt to those type elements.
As this class continues to increase, we wish to make giant display optimization as simple as potential for you. We’ve established tiered high quality pointers to assist prioritize which behaviors are an important to concentrate on throughout display sizes and, late final yr, we introduced new steerage and up to date instruments that will help you replace your app to fulfill these pointers. To make it simpler to shortly check apps on quite a lot of consultant gadgets, we have now a rising assortment of resizable, foldable, pill and desktop emulators, and up to date Materials adaptive design steerage for these gadgets with extra particular Canonical Format designs!
To get began, take a look at the gallery web page to get impressed with excessive constancy mockups, hyperlinks to materials design steerage, implementation guides, and case research from apps like yours. Then, check your app for giant screens utilizing the resizable emulator in Android Studio to see how your app appears at this time!
MAD Abilities: Compose Layouts & Modifiers
Our newest MAD expertise sequence deep-dives into Compose layouts and modifiers. The preliminary episodes cowl structure fundamentals together with what out-of-the-box APIs Compose affords, how you need to use modifiers to stylize your composables, and the completely different phases in Compose. We then dive deeper into modifier chaining and constructing customized layouts for complicated use instances. The sequence culminates in a stay Q&A–occurring proper now, the place we’ll be answering the questions you’ve got been asking us utilizing #AskAndroid. You may view the YouTube playlist to rewatch the movies within the sequence.
What it means to be an Android Google Developer Knowledgeable
The Android Developer group is on the coronary heart of all the things we do and on the core of that is our Android Google Developer Consultants. Spanning everywhere in the world, the group comes collectively to share greatest practices by way of talking, open-source contributions, workshops, and articles, and will get concerned in early entry Android releases – offering invaluable suggestions to make enhancements for builders all over the place! Tune in to #TheAndroidShow to listen to from six GDEs about their journey as an Android Developer and Google Developer Knowledgeable and what this function means to them.
App High quality Insights in Android Studio
In 2022 we launched Android Studio’s App High quality Insights (AQI) which helps you uncover, examine, and reproduce points reported by Crashlytics inside the context of your native Android Studio challenge. On this section we go behind the scenes with David Motsonashvili, a Software program Engineer on the Firebase group, to be taught extra about the place the concept got here from. We additionally discover how crash administration has advanced all through the years with Annyce Davis, VP of Engineering at Meetup and GDE. Tune into #TheAndroidShow to look at the section, learn the AQI documentation to be taught extra, and obtain the newest model of Android Studio to strive it out.
Now in Android
Now in Android is your ongoing information to what’s new and notable on the earth of Android growth, and this week we coated the second Android 14 Developer Preview, Google Play coverage adjustments round Put on OS app high quality, the discharge of the complete Android Fundamentals with Compose course, Superior Compose Format Ideas, Drawing in Compose, Multi-Window and Exercise Embedding, TensorFlow Lite in Google Play Providers, and extra.
Tune in!
#TheAndroidShow is your dialog with the Android developer group, this time hosted by Rebecca Gutteridge and Madona Wambua. Tweet us your questions, and tell us what you’d like to listen to in future movies from the Android group. It’s all occurring proper now – and you’ll rewatch it at any time!
