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This week is our particular Google 🔌 I/O 📽️ version and, as yearly in Might, we’ve got so much to cowl. So let’s start!
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At Google I/O 2023, you noticed how we’re ushering in vital breakthroughs in AI throughout all of Google. For Android builders, we see this expertise serving to you out in your circulation, saving you time so you’ll be able to deal with constructing partaking new experiences on your customers. Time saving instruments ⚒️ are going to be much more vital, as your customers are asking you to assist their experiences throughout an increasing portfolio of screens, like massive screens and wearables particularly. Within the Developer Keynote, Android confirmed you quite a few methods to assist you on this mission to assist construct nice experiences on your customers.
So, make certain to take a look at 1️⃣4️⃣ issues to know for Android builders from Google I/O to rise up to hurry with the newest Android information:
Curious for much more Android updates and information 🧐? Our What’s new in Android, Google Play and Android Accessibility I/O movies received you coated:
Coinciding with Google I/O, we’ve launched the Second 🅱️eta of Android 14. Google I/O consists of periods masking a lot of Android 14’s new options intimately, and Beta 2 consists of enhancements round digital camera and media, privateness and safety, system UI, and developer productiveness. We’re persevering with to enhance the large-screen system expertise, and the Android 14 beta program is now obtainable for the primary time on choose accomplice telephones, tablets, and foldables. The Android 14 developer web site has heaps extra details about the beta, together with downloads for Pixel and the launch timeline.
Learn extra within the Android Beta 2 weblog publish:
We first introduced Android Studio at I/O 2013 with a promise to ship a best-in-class built-in growth atmosphere (IDE) centered on Android app builders. 10 years later, this dedication to developer productiveness nonetheless drives the workforce to ship new instruments and options that assist groups world wide to create wonderful app experiences for his or her customers. And with Google’s push to unlock the facility of AI that will help you all through your day, Android Studio Hedgehog 🦔 introduces a key breakthrough: an AI-powered conversational expertise 🤖 designed to make you extra productive.
To seek out out all about this thrilling new function, learn this weblog publish:
Android Jetpack is a key pillar of Trendy Android Improvement. It’s a suite of over 100 libraries, instruments and steerage to assist builders observe greatest practices, scale back boilerplate code, and write code that works constantly throughout Android variations and units as a way to deal with constructing distinctive options on your app. Nearly all of apps on Google Play depend on Jetpack, actually over 90% of the highest 1000 apps use Jetpack 🚀. In this weblog publish, we cowl highlights of latest updates in Structure Libraries and Steerage; Efficiency Optimization of Purposes, and Consumer Interface Libraries and Steerage, and extra.
As we proceed to evolve the Put on OS platform ⌚, we’re excited to share with you a few of the latest options and enhancements which were added that will help you create revolutionary and interesting experiences on your customers. Companions like Peloton and Todoist have been constructing distinctive experiences for Put on OS — and seeing the influence on their feature-adoption and engagement. Hear immediately from Peloton engineers about how they constructed a differentiated expertise for the watch with Compose for Put on OS.
For all of your Put on-related updates, go to Put on OS updates at I/O 2023 weblog publish:
Over the previous yr, we’ve continued to see important progress on Android TV OS, now with over 150 million month-to-month lively units. In truth, in keeping with Technique Analytics, the Android TV streaming platform shipped on extra units worldwide than another streaming TV platform in 2022. At Google I/O, we’ve launched the Alpha launch of Compose for TV 📺, the newest UI framework for creating stunning and practical apps for Android TV.
You could find all the knowledge on this thrilling matter on this weblog publish:
For the reason that earlier episode, there was an AndroidX launch value highlighting.
Compose Materials 3 Model 1.1.0 is out! It consists of quite a few experimental parts promoted to secure, in addition to new parts you’ve been asking for, corresponding to:
Extra particulars will be present in Materials Design 3 for Compose launch weblog publish.
For all different AndroidX releases, check out the latest launch notes.
In Redesigning the Android Studio Brand, Marie talks in regards to the new Android Studio brand redesign, obtainable with the secure launch of Flamingo 🦩. This case research presents a complete overview of the design journey, from figuring out the preliminary drawback to the ultimate final result.
Introducing the Android UI design hub brings the last word useful resource for constructing distinctive consumer interfaces ⭐ throughout all kind elements. Adhithya guides you thru sharing takeaways, examples and do’s and don’ts, starter Figma kits, UI samples and galvanizing galleries.
In What’s new in Android Efficiency — Google I/O, Ben shares the newest developments in making efficiency extra approachable and rewarding 🏅 — from Baseline Profiles, tooling enhancements inside Android Studio, libraries, to how we made the expertise work higher for you behind the scenes.
With extra lively massive display screen Android units every year 📱 💻 , it’s extra vital than ever for apps to make sure they supply their customers with a seamless expertise on these units. The best way to optimize your Android app for big screens guides you on Dos and Don’ts of optimizing for big screens.
For a extra hands-on approach of studying, try our two model new codelabs 🔬!
In Theming in Compose with Materials 3 codelab you’ll learn to theme your apps in Jetpack Compose utilizing M3 and the important thing constructing blocks 🎨 — shade schemes, typography, and shapes to theme your utility in personalised and accessible methods. You’ll additionally discover assist of dynamic theming.
Constructing a Information Layer codelab teaches you in regards to the information layer 💾 and the way it matches into your general app structure. You’ll construct the info layer for a job administration app and create information sources for a neighborhood database and a community service, and a repository which exposes, updates, and synchronizes information.
Persevering with with all of the Google I/O treats 🍬, for these of you in a rush, listed below are three fast, 1-min movies that spotlight what’s new in: Android, Google Play and Android Accessibility:
You may also watch two attention-grabbing case research, to study from different apps and their engineers 👷, on how Dropbox took 40% much less time to rebuild a function with Compose, in addition to how Peloton now works seamlessly throughout a number of totally different units and display screen sizes.
For all of your tooling updates, check out What’s new in Android growth instruments ⚒️ and meet our Studio Bot — the AI powered coding assistant in Android Studio.
To get updates on the newest Trendy Android Improvement 😎 suggestions, try Greatest practices for saving UI state on Android and What’s new in Kotlin for Android movies.
However there’s a lot extra 🤯, so make certain to take a look at your entire Android and Play at Google I/O 2023 playlist.
That’s it for this week with Android at Google I/O, Second Beta of Android 14, Asserting Studio Bot at I/O, What’s new in Jetpack, Put on OS updates, Compose for TV and extra!
Verify again quickly for the following replace from the Android developer universe! 💫
