What's New in Android

Gave this talk, explaining the new features of Android at Google I/O extended event for GDG Ibadan.

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1. What’s New in Android
2. About Me Jubril Edu Software Developer Cotta & Cush Ltd @TheJubril Learning new things Reading Playing games Lover of football and Basketball In the process of loving F1
3. Android Jetpack
4. Android Jetpack • Set of components provided as unbundled libraries • Utilizes Modern App Architecture • Eliminates Boilerplate Code • Simplifies Complex Tasks • Robust Backwards Compatibility
5. Android Jetpack
6. Android Components (Work Manager) • Guaranteed execution of background jobs • Replacement for SyncAdapters and Job Schedulers • Works on devices with or without Google play services • Provides feedback on state of work
7. Android Components (Navigation) • Support for fragments • Handles transitions • Automatically handles Up and back behaviours • Supports deep links • Handles Connecting navigation to UI widgets
8. Android Component (Navigation)
9. Android Component (Paging) • Enables fast loading of data • Introduces Infinite Scrolling in Recyclerview • Handles loading of Paginated data • Supports Room, LiveData and RxJava
10. Android Component (Slices) Slices are UI templates that can display rich, dynamic, and interactive content from your app from within the Google Search app and later in other places like the Google Assistant
11. Android Component (KTX) • Android KTX is a set of Kotlin extensions. • Optimizes Jetpack and Android platform APIs for Kotlin use. • Make Android development with Kotlin more concise, pleasant, and idiomatic view.viewTreeObserver.addOnPreDrawListener( object : ViewTreeObserver.OnPreDrawListener { override fun onPreDraw(): Boolean { viewTreeObserver.removeOnPreDrawListener(this) actionToBeTriggered() return true } }); view.doOnPreDraw { actionToBeTriggered() }
12. Android Jetpack Support Library + Architecture Components + Android Studio Integration + Kotlin Support = Jetpack
13. Android X
14. Android X • Revised naming for packages and Maven artifacts • New naming better reflects library contents • Refactoring means library versions have been reset from 28.0.0 to 1.0.0 Old New android.support.** androidx.@ android.databinding.** androidx.databinding.@ android.design.** com.google.android.material.@ android.support.test.** androidx.test.@ android.arch.persistence.room.** androidx.room.@ android.arch.persistence.** androidx.sqlite.@
15. Notification
16. Notifications • Inline images and stickers • Participant Images • Smart Reply UI
17. Deprecation Policy
18. Deprecation Policy Apps will be required to target newer versions of android • From August 2018 New Applications must target API 26 • From November 2018 Updates to Existing applications must target API 26
19. Image Decoder
20. Image Decoder • Alternative to BitmapFactory • Creation of images from byte buffer, file or URI • Supports Decoding of Bitmaps, drawables and animated drawables • Enables Customization and addition of effects to Images
21. ARCore
22. ARCore Emulator Support • Specify virtual camera stream for back camera
23. App Bundle
24. App Bundle • Open Source • Backward compatible • Works by dynamic delivery using splits
25. Thank you