Now in Android #75. Android Studio Electrical Eel… | by Manuel Vivo | Android Builders | Jan, 2023

For the reason that earlier episode, there have been some AndroidX releases value highlighting.

Graduated to secure, we will discover AppCompat 1.6.0 that primarily helps Android 13 together with per-language preferences and predictive again, and Room 2.5.0 that acquired its runtime transformed from Java to Kotlin and new options such because the Upsert annotation and room-paging assist for RxJava and Guava.

The Lifecycle’s new 2.6.0-alpha04 model removes the experimental annotation from the collectAsStateWithLifecycle API and deprecates the pausing dispatcher and launchWhenX APIs.

As new libraries, we will discover the androidx.credentials library that helps customers signal into apps, utilizing their saved credentials together with passwords and passkeys. Additionally new privateness sandbox libraries such because the adservices one that permits integration with Privateness Preserving APIs, and sdkruntime that incorporates parts for constructing and loading Runtime enabled SDKs on previous variations of Android Platform.

Don Turner wrote about including a site layer to an app that covers how the staff added a area layer to the Now in Android app for improved readability, scalability and portability.

Anton Hansson wrote about extending the Android SDK that covers the Extension SDK framework that permits the staff to introduce new performance exterior of main API stage releases permitting sooner improvements comparable to the brand new picture picker, and supply backward compatibility.

chiara chiappini wrote concerning the ease the event of media apps for Put on OS with the media toolkit you’ll learn to deliver your media app to Put on OS smartwatches with the assistance of the newly launched Put on media toolkit.

Mozart Louis wrote the primary a part of a HDR sequence, migrating from TextureView to SurfaceView. Migrating to the popular SurfaceView permits HDR playback on supported units.

Cedric Ferry wrote concerning the Stylus low latency. The submit covers two new libraries (low latency graphics and movement prediction) that intention to cut back the processing time between stylus enter and display screen rendering, explores how these libraries work, and how one can implement a best-in-class stylus expertise in your app.

If you wish to make your app develop, it’s best to watch these two movies, optimize paywall conversion, and interact with push notifications, to find out about these subjects and enhance your app.

Donovan recorded a video about CameraX ideas to introduce you to its performance by way of 4 use instances: Preview, ImageCapture, VideoCapture, and ImageAnalysis.

Chris Shmerling recorded an in-depth walkthrough of a pattern app utilizing the FLEDGE API, a element of the Privateness Sandbox on Android.

Erin recorded an introduction to the Attribution Reporting API that’s designed to offer improved consumer privateness by eradicating reliance on cross-party consumer identifiers, and to assist key use instances for attribution and conversion measurement. The video walks you thru a pattern implementation of the Attribution Reporting API on Android.

In Episode 193: Kotlin, James Ward joins Chet Haase, Tor Norbye, and Romain Man to speak about Kotlin Multiplatform (each KMP and KMM) and what’s coming for Kotlin in 2023, particularly the brand new K2 frontend.

That’s it for the primary Now in Android episode of 2023 with a brand new model of Android Studio secure, AndroidX releases, articles concerning the area layer, extending the Android SDK, Put on OS, HDR and the stylus, movies about app development, CameraX and the Attribution Reporting API, a brand new episode of the Android Builders Backstage, and extra!

Come again right here quickly for the following replace from the Android developer universe.