What is new in Android Jetpack?

Android Jetpack Updates

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1. What is New in Android Jetpack? Google I/O - Highlights By Moro
2. Summary • Android Jetpack Overview ◦ % of use ◦ Versioning • What is New? 2
3. Android Jetpack • Set of libraries • Reducing the boilerplate code • Backward compatibility • Focus on the application code 3
4. % of use 4
5. % of use 5 47% 79%
6. Versioning • Alpha ◦ Active in Development ◦ APIs can be added / modified / removed ◦ Tested and working • Beta ◦ Stabling features ◦ Critical problems or some feedback from the community can cause changes 6
7. What is new? 7
8. CameraX • Exposure compensation • Access to specific information related to the camera state (hardware info) • Interoperability with Camera2 settings 8 Stable
9. CameraX • Exposure compensation • Access to specific information related to the camera state (hardware info) • Interoperability with Camera2 settings • Support to new Android resources ◦ HDR (High Dynamic Range) Preview - Just in Pixel 4a e 5 ◦ Zoom rate control ◦ Don’t perturb mode 9
10. CameraX • Performance Improvements ◦ 15% faster to take a photo ◦ 25% faster to start in old devices 10 Stable
11. App Search • Fuzzy matching • Query Expansion • Multiple Languages ◦ Synonyms ◦ Spell check Room • Experimental Support KSP (Kotlin Symbol Processing) ◦ 200% faster than Kapt • Native support to Enums • Support to RxJava 3 • QueryCallback 11 Alpha
12. App Search • Fuzzy matching • Query Expansion • Multiple Languages ◦ Synonyms ◦ Spell check Room • Experimental Support KSP (Kotlin Symbol Processing) ◦ 200% faster than Kapt • Native support to Enums • Support to RxJava 3 • QueryCallback 12 Stable
13. App Search • Fuzzy matching • Query Expansion • Multiple Languages ◦ Synonyms ◦ Spell check Room • Experimental Support KSP (Kotlin Symbol Processing) ◦ 200% faster than Kapt • Native support to Enums • Support to RxJava 3 • QueryCallback 13 Stable
14. Fragment • Internal improvements • ActivityResult integration DataStore • Replacement to SharedPreferences • Coroutines/Flow support • Ways to use: ◦ key/value (Preference DataStore) ◦ Typed data (Proto DataStore) ◦ Customized (Serialization) 14 Stable
15. Fragment • Internal improvements • ActivityResult integration DataStore • Replacement to SharedPreferences • Coroutines/Flow support • Ways to use: ◦ key/value (Preference DataStore) ◦ Typed data (Proto DataStore) ◦ Customized (Serialization) 15 Beta
16. 16 Beta SharedPreferences vs DataStore
17. More .... • Paging (Coroutines/Flow support) • Macrobenchmark • EmojiCompat • SecurityCript • Navigation • Google Shortcuts • WorkManager • Hilt 17 Stable Stable Stable Alpha Alpha Alpha Stable Alpha
18. More .... • Compose Integrations ◦ Hilt ◦ Paging ◦ Navigation ◦ Activity ◦ ViewModel ◦ ConstraintLayout 18
19. References - Android Developers Google Blog -> here - What is New in Android Jetpack? (Google IO 2021) by Nelson Leal -> here 19
20. Thanks