Welcome to Now on Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and prominent in the world of Android development.
Thanks to everyone who followed the Now in Android series and everything the YouTube Developers channel has to offer. During the peak of Android developers, our YouTube channel reached a million subscribers! And here’s a little video to thank you all.
The series on browsing Already done! In the third chapter, TJ shows various actions that can be performed with Paging. Transformations like inserting separators, when to create a new pager and customization options for consumption PagingData
.
In the following video, Erik Zuo from the Android community shares with you a tip for Paging.
And at the end of the series, TJ and Destin Answer your questions with regular live questions and answers.
after the browsing, A new series of MAD Skills has started, this time on Gradle! In the following video Murat introduces the series and everything you will learn in it.
In the first chapter, Murat explains how the Android building system works, and how to set up your structure.
In the second chapter you will learn how to expand your structure by writing your own plugin.
And finally, in the third chapter, you will take your plugin a step further and learn how to access various construction objects using the new version object API.
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For ongoing content, be sure to check out MAD Skills playlist On YouTube, Articles in Medium, or This useful landing page It points to all this.
Since the last non-ADS Now episode on Android, many libraries have been promoted to stability! for example, AppCompat, activity, And fragment Are now in version 1.4.0 with stable support for multiple rear stacks. Emoji 2 1.0 that brings support for modern emojis. Circle of Life 2.4 showing the repeatOnLifecycle
and flowWithLifecycle
Lifecycle-aware Coroutine APIs. browsing 3.1 Brings some changes in behavior LoadState
. and Wear tiles With which you can build custom tiles for Wear OS devices that have reached version 1.0.
All of these are already stable! Go use them! You can see all the notes in the version of AndroidX Here.
Jetpack Media3
The first alpha of the Jetpack Media3 Library available. Media3 is a collection of media library support libraries, including ExoPlayer. The following article explains why the team created Media3, what it contains and how it can simplify your app architecture.
Meghan wrote about the new Emoji 2 A library that has just become stable. Read more about the issue with emoji and how emoji2 can help you.
We have more articles on the subject CameraX! This time about a new feature in CameraX for converting YUV, the format that CameraX produces, to RGB used for image analysis capabilities available in TensorFlow Lite, For example. Read the blog post for more information on these formats and how to use the new conversion feature.
Improving the operating time of the app is not a trivial task and requires a deep understanding of things that affect it. This year, the Android team and Facebook’s app team worked together on metrics and sharing approaches to improve the app’s activation. Read more about the findings in this blog post.
The Accessibility series continues with more information on how to create custom accessibility actions to make your apps more accessible. Custom action can be provided to accessibility services and action-related logic can be applied. For more information, check out the next episode!
In this other chapter, you can learn more about Description of the country API, when to use stateDescription
and contentDescription
, And how to represent error modes to the end user.
If you are interested in Wear OS and Jetpack Compose, the team has released a new version Write for Wear OS codelab. There you can learn how Wear OS can work with Compose, what Wear OS specific components are available and more!
There was one episode of Android developers behind the scenes Posted since the last Now on Android. Check it out at the link below, or at your favorite podcast client:
B Episode 178: Hosts 3, Guests 0, Chat, Romance and Tor sit down to talk about the pinnacle of Android developers, and in particular all the new features coming to Android Studio, along with some other topics like Chat’s new statistics library, Android 12L edition and more.
This is this time, with the browsing and Size MAD Skills Series, AndroidX Releases, the new Jetpack Media 3 Library, Articles on Emoji2, Launch an app, And CameraX, accessibility Videos, new Wear OS Codelab, And a A new episode of ADB!
Come back here soon for the next update Android Developer Location.