What's new in Android by Nav Singh

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Nav Singh @navczydev What’s new in Android

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Agenda

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It’s time to update… targetSdk 33 compileSdk 33

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Almost there...

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● 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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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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Permissions ● POST_NOTIFICATIONS ● READ_MEDIA_IMAGE ● READ_MEDIA_AUDIO ● READ_MEDIA_VIDEO ● USE_EXACT_ALARM

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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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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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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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Photo picker tool

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Clipboard enhancements ● Non-sensitive content ● Sensitive content

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Clipboard enhancements

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Quick settings placement API

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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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Intent filters

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Intent filters

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

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

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Per App language - System settings

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

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

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Foreground service task manager

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Media controls - UX

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Themed app icons

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Themed app icons

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● 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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● https://proandroiddev.com/notification-runtime-permission-android13-19 0c796254d5 ● https://proandroiddev.com/photopicker-compose-android-13-5fd834927 0e0 ● 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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Thank You!