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The double releases of steady and experimental Webkit APIs enable extra positive grain management for builders and interactive options for customers.
In Webkit 1.6.0, a brand new ProcessGlobalConfig API has been added to present you extra management over each WebView in your app.
Moreover, there are new APIs in CookieManagerCompat and WebSettingsCompat, which retrieves all attributes for all cookies set on a selected URL and explicitly sends the app bundle title within the X-Requested-With header to allowlisted origins respectively.
For gadgets which are managed by enterprise coverage, WebSettingsCompat has new strategies to allow/disable the impact of EnterpriseAuthenticationAppLinkPolicy if set by admin in WebView, and to get the present setting. This function lets WebView open an Authentication app as an alternative of opening the authentication URL.
In Webkit Model 1.7.0-alpha01, We’re including help for Picture drag in WebView.
This launch brings help to Kotlin 1.8.0 and turns off intrinsic bear in mind. Amongst different enhancements, with this launch ImmutableCollection and their Persistent siblings at the moment are thought-about steady.
Simply by upgrading to Exercise 1.7.0-alpha04, the Photograph Picker contracts have been upgraded to additionally help a Google Play providers’ delivered Photograph Picker, thus bringing the Photograph Picker to many extra gadgets!
We’re introducing the EmojiPicker which gives constant person expertise with the newest emojis throughout Android OS OEM gadgets and apps. It gives the newest emoji help and emoji picker UI together with skin-tone variants and emoji compat help.
We’ve heard your suggestions on needing to have extra management and suppleness over the Playstore evaluate course of. As such, we’re rolling out a brand new part within the Play Console to deal with the suggestions. We posted extra particulars concerning the adjustments within the Play Console in our weblog.
Takeshi Hagikura wrote about how one can use Crashlytics subject studies straight in Android Studio with the brand new App High quality Insights. This function is out there from Android Studio Electrical Eel which went steady lately.
Alex Vanyo wrote about why utilizing precise measurement in customized structure assessments might lead to flaky assessments relying on take a look at gadgets and how one can keep away from the difficulty. Learn the put up to keep away from these issues in your assessments.
Yuichi Araki wrote about how one can create backward suitable edge-to-edge experiences in your apps. This text covers consideration from API 19 and gives implementation that ought to work for many apps.
In Episode 194: Subtext, Siyamed Sinir and Sean McQuillan from the Android Textual content workforce joins Chet, Tor, and Romain to speak about textual content, together with every part from the basics of the textual content stack on Android to the capabilities and implementation of textual content in Jetpack Compose to internationalization to fonts to emojis to efficiency.
That’s it for this week with a brand new model of Webkit, Compose Compiler, Exercise, Emoji Picker, articles concerning the Play Console replace, App High quality Insights with Crashlytics, density gadgets and flaky take a look at, backward suitable edge-to-edge expertise, a brand new episode of the Android Builders Backstage, and extra!
Come again to the subsequent episode of Now in Android for an additional replace from the Android developer universe.
