What's New in Android - Speaker Deck

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Harun Wangereka Android Engineer Apollo Agriculture @wangerekaharun What’s New In Android

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Modern Android Development

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A M.A.D story…

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“Development Tools, APIs, language and distribution technologies recommended by the Android team to help developers be productive and create better apps that run across billions of devices ”

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Development

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Some pain points…💔 ● Storing data locally and observing changes ● Navigation ● Handling lifecycle in Activities and Fragments ● Loading infinite lists ● Handling background jobs ● Performance

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Enter Jetpack Libraries

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Why Jetpack? ● Follow best practices ● Remove boilerplate code ● Reduce fragmentation ● The APIs work well together

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Lifecycle ViewModel Room Paging Work Manager Navigation Camerax Material Design Benchmark

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Jetpack Libraries Updates ● JankStats - Track and analyze jank performance problems in app UI ● Baseline Profiles - enable apps to load faster & reduce dropped frame son first user interaction ● Room 2.5 - Full Kotlin Rewrite, Support for KSP, Relational Queries, Native support for Paging 3

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Jetpack Libraries Updates ● Navigation - Support for Multiple backstacks, Compose support, Koltin rewrite ● Fragment - Complete Rewrite ● CameraX Improvements ● Paging Library - Stable Support for RX/ Guava Integrations, improvements n handling of stale data, More callbacks

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Jetpack Compose

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Compose Highlights ● Declarative UI ● Powerful and performant ● Less code and easy to develop UI ● Intuitive

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Compose 1.2 Beta ● Live Edit ● Nested Scrolling Support ● Recomposition debugging ● Lazy Grids - Horizontal & Vertical ● Compose Animation Preview ● Performance related sessions: Common Perfomance gotchas

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And more….

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And more…. https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/explorer

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Deployment

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Google I/O ‘22 Updates

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Android 13 Focus is more on: ● Security & Privacy ○ Permissions for Notifications ○ Improved Permissions on Nearby Devices ○ Privacy Protecting Photo Picker ● Developer Productivity ○ New copy paste ui ○ Predictable back behaviour ○ Themed Icons ○ Easier support for app specific language settings

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Proprietary + Conﬁdential Building for Large Screens ● Foldables ● Tablets Check Annunziata’s Session

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ARCORE Geospatial API Build immersive, global-scale, location-based augmented reality experiences

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Play ● SDK Console for helping developers ship high quality and secure mobile SDKS ● Cloud Key Management as the new way to manage app signing ● Play Integrity API for helping in detecting risky and unknown interactions with your app to prevent abuse and attacks ● Data safety section. Every app has this section which has to filled ● Accessing Vitals outside console. ● Linking Play Console with Crashlytics ● Dedicated Deep Link Page on Play Store

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Proprietary + Conﬁdential Now In Android App Source: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis non erat sem

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Resources ● https://android-developers.googleblog.com/ ● https://www.youtube.com/c/AndroidDevelopers ● https://codelabs.developers.google.com/

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Harun Wangereka Android Engineer Apollo Agriculture @wangerekaharun Thank You!