Google I/O: 8 Things Android Developers Should Know!
There aren't many places where you can create something and quickly reach billions of people all over the world, not just on their phones, but also on their TVs, vehicles, tablets, watches, and other devices. Today at Google I/O, we talked about how Android can help you take advantage of this potential.?
We've compiled a list of the top 13 things Android developers should be aware of, ranging from Jetpack Compose to tablets to Wear OS and, of course, Android 13!
Keep an eye out for Android's entire schedule of 26 technical sessions and four workshops on Day 2 of Google I/O.
#1: Jetpack Compose Beta 1.2, providing support for more sophisticated use cases.
With features like LiveEdit, Recomposition Debugging, and Animation Preview, Android's contemporary UI toolkit, Jetpack Compose, continues to offer the APIs you need to enable increasingly complex use cases like downloaded fonts, LazyGrids, window insets, nested scrolling interop, and more tools support.
#2: Introducing Live Edit with Android Studio
With Android Studio Dolphin Beta and Electric Eel Canary, you can get more done in less time. New capabilities and enhancements for Jetpack Compose and Wear OS development, as well as an enhanced Logcat experience, are included in Android Studio Dolphin. The new Google Play SDK Index and Firebase Crashlytics are also integrated into Android Studio Electric Eel.?
#3: Baseline Profiles - reduce the time it takes for your program to load!
The speed with which your software loads after installation can have a significant impact on user retention. Baseline Profiles were established to improve that experience. Baseline Profiles allow apps and libraries to give metadata about code path usage to the Android runtime, which it utilizes to prioritize compilation ahead of time.
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#4: Making a big splash with Android tablets
Google is fully committed to tablets. We released Android 12L, a version focused on large-screen optimizations since the previous Google I/O, and Android 13 contains all of those enhancements and more. We also revealed the Pixel tablet, which will be available next year.
#5: Wear OS: Compose and more!
You may rethink what's possible when creating wearables thanks to the newest Wear OS improvements. Jetpack Compose for Wear OS is now available in beta, allowing you to develop stunning Wear OS apps with fewer lines of code.
#6: Welcome to Health Connect
Health Connect is a new platform developed in close collaboration between Google and Samsung that makes it easier to connect applications and reach more people with less effort, allowing you to securely access and share user health and fitness data across apps and devices. Health Connect is now available through Jetpack Health—read our announcement or watch the Google I/O session.
#7: Android Auto and Android TV
In the United States and globally, the popularity of Android for Cars and Android TV OS is growing. We're offering new capabilities this year to make developing applications for vehicles and TV easier, as more consumers drive connected or tune in.
#8: Add Voice Across Devices
We're increasing developer access to the Shortcuts API for Android for Cars, with support for Wear OS apps coming later this year, to make it easier for people to access your apps through speech across devices with Google Assistant. With Smarter Custom Intents, we're making it even easier to create such experiences, allowing Assistant to better recognize larger instances of user inquiries using machine learning without the need for any NLU training.?
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