Android at Google IO 2023

This deck is for my Android Keynote at Google IO Extended Pwani 2023. It puts together announcements done for android at the official Google IO Extended 2023.

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1. Annunziata Kinya Android at Google IO 23’ Android Engineer Co-organizer Android254 | KotlinKenya
2. MAD - Modern Android Development Language Tools APIs Distribution
3. • Is a Release Candidate • New UI(opt-in) • Kotlin DSL & Version Catalog Build • New Android Gradle Plugin • Live Edit for Jetpack Compose • Download Impact in Build Analyzer • Jetpack Compose Animation Preview • Integrated Bug reporting • Per-app language preferences support • Now in Canary • Studio Bot • Compose Multipreview templates • App Quality Insights + Android Vitals • Baseline profiles Gradle plugin • Power Profiler • Compose Visual Lint & Accessibility Test • Wear OS Emulator with BT & DWF Support • Host-side screenshot testing • Gradle Managed devices on Firebase • Espresso Device API • Compose state information in debugger AS Hedgehog AS Giraffe Tools Android Studio
4. 4 Android Studio Giraffe -> new UI theme from Intellij Tools Android Studio
5. 5 Android Studio Giraffe -> Android SDK upgrade Assistant Tools Android Studio
6. 6 Android Studio Hedgehog - Compose Multipreview templates Tools Android Studio
7. 7 Android Studio Hedgehog -> Firebase Crashlytics + Android Vitals🔥 Tools Android Studio
9. 9 Android Studio Hedgehog - Studio Bot🔥 AI powered companion for development that helps developers to generate code, find relevant resources, learn best practices, and save time Tools Android Studio
10. Kotlin DSL for Gradle Builds Kotlin 2.0 Compiler Android Studio Kotlin KSP(Kotlin Symbol Processor) Kotlin Multiplatform
11. 11 • Now in alpha • Access to individual components that are customizable and optimized for TV • Tv functionalities now easier to implement e.g. ◦ Scrollable Containers - TvLazyRow, TvLazyColumn, TvLazyGrid ◦ TopNavigation - TabRow+Tab Compose for TV Jetpack Compose
12. • Modifiers migrated to a more efficient system • Improvements to text e.g. support for latest emoji version, new features like outlining text, hyphenation etc • New layouts for complex design usecases: ◦ Pager ◦ Flow Layouts - FlowRow, FlowColumn • More libraries are adding support for compose e.g. ◦ Glide ◦ GoogleMaps Compose Support from other Libraries Library Features & Development Android Studio Jetpack Compose
13. 13 FlowLayouts -> FlowRow, FlowColumn Jetpack Compose
14. • Now stable • New components - BottomSheets, Date and Time pickers, SearchBars etc • AS Giraffe ◦ Live edit • AS Hedgehog ◦ Compose state in debugger ◦ Compose Multipreview Compose in Tools - Android Studio Material Design 3 for Compose Android Studio Jetpack Compose
15. 15 Compose State Information in debugger Jetpack Compose
16. • Compose for wear 1.2 • Preview multiple watch screen sizes and text sizes • expandableItems - to make it possible to fold lists or long text • Placeholder, placeholderShimmer - add loading animations on chips and cards while content is loading Compose Wear OS Android Studio Jetpack Compose
17. • Lets you develop widgets optimized for Android phone, tablet, and foldable homescreens using Jetpack Compose. • Jetpack Glance Library Android Studio Jetpack Compose
18. • Tailor listing to two more categories ◦ Inactive users ◦ Google Ads Campaigns • Listing groups to easily manage listings • Generate listings with Google AI - experimental • Machine translation at no cost • Price Experiments • Automatic update prompts for crashing apps • Enhanced privacy and security for developers and users Custom Store Listing Google Play
19. 19 New Pixel Fold and Pixel Tablet🔥 Devices
20. • Partial Media access • Health connect app • Data sharing updates to notify users when an app starts sharing their location data to 3rd parties • Partial screen sharing - option to share the whole screen or a single app e.g. with Meet • Use of Passkeys for authentication Android 14 Android Studio Platform
21. Annunziata Kinya She/Her Android Engineer @AnnieKobia • Modern Android Development at Google I/O '23 • Google Play at Google I/O '23 • Platform and App Quality at Google I/O '23 • Multi-device for Android at Google I/O '23 Resources