Nougatty Android

Slide from my talk at GDG New Delhi January 2017 event on codelab on Android N latest features
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1. Nougatty Android Kshitij Aggarwal @funkyidol
2. What’s new anyways…?? - Very difficult to pronounce name - Multi-Window Support - Quick Settings Tiles - App Shortcuts - … many more
3. Multi Window Support • Target API 24 & above • No change in activity lifecycle • Activity are paused when they lose focus even if they are visible in multi-window mode • System cannot resize fix orientation apps • Fullscreen activities cannot hide status bar in multi-window mode
4. Pro Tips: Multi Window Support • Do not use Application Context for inflater and resource retrieval. Since it's not aware of the activity level multi-window state and will load the wrong resource. • Activities which can be launched from outside the current app, should always support multi-window mode. Otherwise you might be breaking another apps screen flow.
5. Quick Settings Tile • Moto: Urgency + Frequency • Target API 25+ • Tiles work via TileService. This is a bound service and lifecycle is controlled by the system. • It can: ◦ Launch Activities ◦ Run background operations ◦ Show dialogs
6. App Shortcuts • API level 25 or more • 2 types of shortcuts ◦ Static Shortcuts ◦ Dynamic Shortcuts • Static Shortcuts are packaged with the APK and can only be updated by an App Update • Dynamic Shortcuts are published at runtime and can be easily added, removed or updated • Max 5 shortcuts at any given time
7. Pro Tip: App Shortcuts • Static Shortcut values have to be defined in strings.xml • android:targetPackage should always be equal to your applicationId
8. Demo https://github.com/funkyidol/AndroidNDemo
9. Further Reading & Credits • https://github.com/googlesamples/android-MultiWindowPlayground • https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/multi-window.html • https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/shortcuts.html • https://medium.com/google-developers/quick-settings-tiles-e3c22daf93a 8#.34yth3nh2 • https://github.com/nisrulz/android-examples
10. Q&A @funkyidol https://gitter.im/funkyidol/AndroidDevWorld