Sagar Kamdar, VP of Product Administration
The app experiences that you simply as builders construct assist folks all over the world in methods we couldn’t have imagined, and at Android Dev Summit, occurring over the subsequent two days, we’ll discuss that spirit – specializing in the consumer, understanding their wants, after which constructing experiences to please them. We simply wrapped up the keynote, and over the subsequent two days, we’ll concentrate on an necessary theme for Android: serving to you construct wonderful apps, throughout units. First on updates to our fashionable Android growth providing that will help you keep extra productive so you’ll be able to concentrate on constructing nice purposes, after which serving to you prolong these apps throughout units to all kind components. And as an enormous a part of this, we’re introducing the 12L characteristic drop on foldables and tablets – a set of options optimising Android 12 for big screens – learn on to be taught extra!
Glorious apps: bringing Materials You to Jetpack Compose
In relation to serving to you construct wonderful apps, our increasing assortment of growth instruments, APIs, language, and distribution applied sciences–Modern Android Development, MAD for brief–are your companions that will help you keep extra productive. And we’ve obtained a variety of new options throughout MAD that will help you be productive and create higher apps, beginning with one in every of our greatest bulletins: the introduction of Materials You and its radical new design imaginative and prescient into Jetpack Compose, Android’s fashionable toolkit for constructing native UI.
Materials You, launched in Android 12 earlier this year at Google I/O, focuses on delivering experiences which might be private for each fashion, accessible for each want, and adaptive for each display screen. We’re releasing the primary alpha of Compose Material 3, which presents Material Design 3 styled elements and theme, enabling Materials You personalization options like dynamic shade. We’re additionally releasing the primary beta model of Jetpack Compose 1.1 with options like stretch overscroll for Android 12, improved touch-target sizing, experimental lazy format animations, and extra. Jetpack Compose is secure and prepared to be used in manufacturing and we proceed so as to add the options you’ll want to make it quick and simple to construct Android UI throughout all kind components, with new help for Put on OS and for constructing homescreen widgets.
Jetpack: extra options that will help you create wonderful apps
Past Compose, Jetpack continues so as to add the options you’ve been asking us for. Navigation provides a number of backstacks help. WorkManager, our advisable answer for persistent work, makes it simpler to deal with Android 12 background restrictions, including help for expedited jobs. Room provides auto-migration and multi-map relations. DataStore, our advisable alternative for SharedPreferences, has reached 1.0 and Macrobenchmark, a instrument to measure and enhance startup and body efficiency, added simplified and extra correct body timing, and compatibility again to Android M.
Constructing throughout units
We even have updates that will help you construct throughout Android kind components. Study extra about how being out there throughout totally different Android units and kind components helps Spotify obtain their mission of connecting billions of followers with thousands and thousands of creators.
Introducing 12L, an OS designed for big screens, along with new instruments
Giant screens have seen some unbelievable momentum: a 92% 12 months-over-12 months progress in Chrome OS, making it the quickest rising desktop OS on the earth, a 20% progress in pill gross sales within the final 12 months and a 2.5x progress in foldables gross sales, the most recent and most innovate kind issue…altogether these symbolize over 250M lively massive display screen Android units – and Android is providing you with an OS to match. And we’ve obtained some… *massive* information to *unfold* right here: a developer preview of an upcoming characteristic drop for Android 12, with updates added JUST for big screens; we name it 12L. With 12L we’ve optimised and polished the system UI for big screens, made multitasking extra highly effective and intuitive, and improved our compatibility help for apps so they appear higher proper out of the field. You possibly can strive the brand new large-screen options as we speak as a part of the 12L developer preview. Take a look at what’s in 12L and the way we’re making it simpler to build for large screens here.
Be careful for Put on OS
Many builders have created useful experiences for the newest model of Put on OS which launched earlier this 12 months, and we’re wanting ahead to richer, extra immersive app experiences like what we’re seeing from Strava, Spotify, and Calm. Jetpack Compose makes constructing UIs a lot quicker and simpler – so we’re bringing Compose help to Put on OS. Compose for Put on OS is now in developer preview, with new samples and documentation that will help you get began. The Tiles API, now in Beta, supplies predictable, glanceable entry to info and fast actions. We’ve additionally partnered with Samsung to make it simpler to design watch faces. Watch Face Studio, created by Samsung, lets you produce your personal watch faces with none coding, so watch you see..is watch you get. You possibly can read more about all of the Wear OS news here.
Google Play: Extra options and investments that will help you develop your online business
We’ve invested in additional methods to energy your online business progress on Google Play. To strengthen consumer belief, we’ve launched the Knowledge security part to spotlight your privateness practices and the Play Integrity API to verify your app installs are at all times real. We’ve additionally invested in additional instruments and options to assist increase your app high quality and just lately up to date our applications in order that 99% of developers qualify for a service fee of 15% or much less. To be taught extra, try our blog post or watch the full session.
#AndroidDevSummit kicks off now!
We simply dropped over 30 technical periods, which you can watch here at your personal tempo. And over the subsequent two days, we’ve got much more reside content material so that you can take pleasure in – together with your alternative to get your burning #AskAndroid questions answered by the staff who constructed Android on matters like Fashionable Android Growth, Giant Screens, or Compose with Materials You. Plus, we’ll even be internet hosting reside Android Code-Alongs, the place you’ll be able to tune in to observe Android consultants as they code, deal with programming challenges, and reply your questions reside throughout Jetpack Compose and Compose for Put on OS. You possibly can try the full agenda with timings here. Whereas we are able to’t watch for the chance to attach with you in individual quickly, we’re excited to have interaction with you remotely over the subsequent two days. Get pleasure from your #AndroidDevSummit!
