What's new in Android by Nav Singh

Dive into the new things that Android 13 brings us

Features: Predictive back gesture, Photo picker, Per-app language preferences.
Behavioral changes: Notification permission, Foreground services task manager, Granular media permissions, Intent filters block non-matching intents, Battery Resource Utilization, Clipboard preview, etc.Tools & IDE updates: Revamped LogCat, LiveEdit, Device mirroring, Preview annotation for multiple previews, Firebase Crashlytics integration, Accessibility scanner integration within IDE.

See the presentation : https://youtu.be/p983TPxEC8k

Transcript

1. Nav Singh
   @navczydev
   What’s new in Android
   

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2. Agenda
   

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3. It’s time to update…
   targetSdk 33
   compileSdk 33
   

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4. Almost there...
   

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5. ● Runtime Notification permission
   ● Exact alarm permission
   ● Granular media permissions
   ● Runtime permission for nearby wifi devices
   ● Foreground Services task manager
   ● Intent filters
   ● Clipboard sensitive data protection
   Android 13
   Behavioral changes
   

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6. Android 13
   New features
   ● Per app language preferences
   ● Photo picker
   ● Predictive back gesture
   ● Clipboard preview
   ● Tile API
   ● Themed Icons
   ● Bluetooth LE Audio
   ● Support for MIDI 2.0 standard
   ● Faster hyphenation
   

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7. Permissions
   ● POST_NOTIFICATIONS
   ● READ_MEDIA_IMAGE
   ● READ_MEDIA_AUDIO
   ● READ_MEDIA_VIDEO
   ● USE_EXACT_ALARM
   

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8. Developer downgradable permissions
   ● Remove unused permissions
   revokeSelfPermissionOnKill()
   revokeSelfPermisisonsOnKill()
   ● To revoke all permissions from the system, all processes associated
   with the app must be killed.
   

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9. Safer exporting of context-registered receivers
   ● We can set the broadcast receiver to be
   exported or not
   ● RECEIVER_EXPORTED
   ● RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED
   

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10. Photo picker tool
    ● Intent action: MediaStore.ACTION_PICK_IMAGES
    ● Type: image or video
    ● Default limit: 1
    ● Extra: MediaStore.EXTRA_PICK_IMAGES_MAX
    

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11. Photo picker tool
    

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12. Clipboard enhancements
    ● Non-sensitive content ● Sensitive content
    

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13. Clipboard enhancements
    

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14. Quick settings placement API
    

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15. Intent filters
    ● The intent will only be delivered if it matches the intent filters defined
    by the exported component.
    ● If receiving app upgrades to >=13, all intents from external apps are
    delivered to an exported component only if it matches its declared
    elements, regardless of the sending app's target SDK
    version.
    

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16. Intent filters
    

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17. Intent filters
    

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18. Per App language - System settings
    ● Specify the supported languages in a resource file
    

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19. Per App language - System settings
    ● In the manifest application tag, add the property android:localeConfig
    

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20. Per App language - System settings
    

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21. Per App language - In-app language picker
    ● Specify the supported
    languages in a resource file
    

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22. Predictive back gesture
    ● It is possible to preview a back gesture's
    destination or result before completing
    it.
    

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23. Foreground service task manager
    

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24. Media controls - UX
    

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25. Themed app icons
    

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26. Themed app icons
    

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27. ● Accessibility scanner
    ● ADB over Wifi
    ● Animation preview
    ● Device manager/picker
    ● Google play sdk index
    ● App quality insights
    Tools & IDE improvements
    ● Revamped Logcat
    ● Live Edit
    ● Multi Preview annotations
    ● Recomposition count
    ● Device mirroring
    ● Visual linting
    ● Resizeable Emulator
    ● Emulated Bluetooth
    

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28. ● https://proandroiddev.com/notification-runtime-permission-android13-19
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    ● https://proandroiddev.com/photopicker-compose-android-13-5fd834927
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    ● https://developer.android.com/about/versions/13/
    ● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TLxH_G-PcM
    ● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXqwRhjd7b4&t=466s&ab_channel=A
    ndroidDevelopers
    References
    

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29. Thank You!
    

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