What's New in Android (By: Najeeb Idrees) - Accessibility for Everyone

Talk by Najeeb Idrees (https://www.linkedin.com/in/najeebidrees/) at Accessibility for Everyone by GDG Lahore.

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1. What’s New In Android By: Najeeb Idrees
2. About Me • Studied BS Computer Science from UOL (2010 - 2014) • Masters degree specialized in AI from UET • Having 9 years of experience in software development • Ex -> Principal Engineer - Confiz | Senior Engineer - Technosoft | Engineer - AppsGenii • CTO at Hustle Technologies • Engineering Manager at Goally (with the mission to ease the lives of families with neurodiverse individuals)
3. Types of Changes 1. Device or Phone 2. API changes
4. Themed App icons • Android launchers are tinted to inherit the coloring of the user’s chosen wallpaper and other themes
5. Media Controls • Tailors it looks to the music you are listening to • Progress bar grooves to the sound beat
6. App Languages • Different language per app • If device is multilingual - use social media app in one language and use banking app in another language
7. Private Messages • Introduced new standard called Rich Communication Services (RCS) • End to end encryption
8. Others • Material You Design • Privacy Dashboard • Enhanced Notification Managemen • One-handed Mode - Shrink to display • Better Accessibility • Improved Performance - faster app launch times and smoother animations.
9. Excited about the what’s new? https://developer.android.com/about/versions/13/features
10. Jetpack 1/2 • Jank Stats ◦ Can be used all the way down to API level 16. ◦ Stats for when, where and how jank occurred in your apps • Room ◦ Rewritten in Kotlin ◦ Relational Query Methods
11. Jetpack 2/2 • Paging ◦ Stable support for Rx ◦ Handling invalid data made from the api has more comprehensive callback methods. • Fragment ◦ Fragment result API
12. New Notification Permissions • All apps that will support Android 13 must use the new permissions to send notifications to their users
13. Photo Picker • Select the photos they want to give access to, without giving access to their entire photo library
14. Others 1/2 • MLKit ◦ New text recognition API • CameraX API 1.1.0 ◦ Choose Cameras & Resolution ◦ Pause, Resume & Audio Controls ◦ Better Camera Previews • Google Wallet API ◦ Apps can now save passes themselves without the need of a backend server. • Vitals ◦ Google Play has a Vitals tab where you can monitor your app’s issues. You can filter data based on Country ◦ Crashes or ANR
15. Others 2/2 • LiveOps ◦ lets you create timed events that are displayed on Google Play’s main page. You can create various kinds of events such as discounts, extra value, free rewards, subscription trials and others. • Monetization ◦ New payment methods added
16. Learning Resources • https://developer.android.com/courses • https://developers.google.com/certification/associate-android-developer/study-guide • https://www.udemy.com/course/android-by-example-learn-basics-of-android/
17. Questions?