I/O 22 Extended Nairobi: Android Keynote

Google I/O 2022 just ended. This is the more anticipated event for developers around the Google Developer Ecosystem. In Android too, Google introduced more tools, libraries, and services for doing things in Modern Android Development.



In this presentation, I shared the new announcements from Google I/O starting from improvements to Jetpack Compose, updates to a bunch of Jetpack Libraries, and an announcement of Jetpack Compose for Wear OS(beta). We’ll also see what’s new in the Android Development Tools and some of the new entry Jetpack Libraries.

 More importantly,

I shared the new exciting features on Android 13 and the special focus on building for large screens and the new things on the Play Store.

Now read this letter from Google I/O 22 to us Android Developer

Transcript

1. Harun Wangereka Android Engineer Apollo Agriculture @wangerekaharun Keynote: Android
2. A M.A.D Story…
3. 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
4. Proprietary + Confidential Building for Large Screens • Foldables • Tablets Check Annunziata’s Session
5. ARCORE Geospatial API Build immersive, global-scale, location-based augmented reality experiences
6. 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
7. 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
8. Compose 1.2 Beta
9. Compose 1.2 Beta • Live Edit • Nested Scrolling Support • Recomposition debugging • Lazy Grids - Horizontal & Vertical • Compose Animation Preview • Performance related sessions: Common Perfomance gotchas
10. 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
11. Proprietary + Confidential Now In Android App Source: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis non erat sem
12. “What next, now?.”
13. • Check on the new codelabs! • Catch up with all the new I/O videos • Practise some of the things announced • Check on Wear - Breens Session, Android TV and Android Auto announcements
14. Resources • https://android-developers.googleblog.com/ • https://www.youtube.com/c/AndroidDevelopers • https://github.com/android/nowinandroid • https://codelabs.developers.google.com/
15. Harun Wangereka Android Engineer Apollo Agriculture @wangerekaharun Thank You!