Posted by Anirudh Dewani, Director of Android Developer Relations
We simply wrapped one other episode of #TheAndroidShow; within the present, we coated the newest in Android growth, together with a take a look at the brand new Pixel watch and the world of wearables, gathered the staff to demo instruments and libraries to construct for foldables, massive display gadgets, with Compose, Android 14, Studio Bot, and extra. Have a look, and right here’s a recap of a few of the methods we’re serving to make it sooner and simpler to construct glorious apps, throughout gadgets:
Studio Bot: enhancing your productiveness, via Generative AI
At Google I/O we gave you a preview of Studio Bot, an AI powered coding assistant that’s tightly built-in into Android Studio, designed to make Android growth sooner and simpler. Final month, Studio Bot expanded into over 170 international locations, and in the present day we’re including much more performance in the newest canary launch that will help you be extra productive. AI code completion lets you obtain solutions for extra advanced code completions, reminiscent of multiline code and even total capabilities. You may also now add feedback to your code, and doc code with only a click on utilizing Studio Bot. We caught up with Jamal Eason to study in regards to the investments the staff is engaged on, together with our enhancements in high quality.
Sooner and simpler to construct, with Jetpack Compose
Jetpack Compose offers you highly effective and intuitive APIs, which make it sooner and simpler to construct UIs. Since Google I/O, we’ve been engaged on enhancing efficiency throughout Compose to make it much more useful. Builders around the globe are profiting from Compose to assist them rewrite screens, construct new screens, or create new apps. For instance, The Reddit staff adopted Compose for his or her design system, which improved their code flexibility and decreased code duplication. They rewrote a number of options in Compose and their new tech stack, one in every of them being Reddit Recap, with stunning animations. They had been capable of obtain function parity with 44% much less code after they rewrote it utilizing Compose, saving engineering assets and time.
Construct throughout gadgets, with massive screens
Foldables and tablets are an vital area – and the marketplace for massive screens is rising with Samsung saying that half of their customers are pondering of constructing a foldable their subsequent cellphone. We’re persevering with to construct instruments and libraries to make it simpler to construct for various system varieties, together with system streaming and new drag and drop APIs in Compose. See how Zoom noticed 2x greater person engagement and optimized their app for big screens, and get began with making your app work higher throughout display sizes and type components.
The newest in wearables, with Put on OS 4 and Pixel Watch 2
Earlier this month, we noticed the launch of Google Pixel Watch 2 – the primary Google watch with all of the capabilities of Put on OS 4! The newest model of Put on OS provides a number of capabilities that make it simpler to develop distinctive wearable experiences, from Watch Face Format to enhanced tiles and extra. Learn extra to find the newest updates to Put on OS and how one can get began!
Making glorious, premium apps
Earlier this month, Android 14 began rolling out to customers around the globe. So there’s no higher time to start out optimizing your apps for the discharge and profiting from new options in Android 14 that will help you construct glorious experiences in your customers utilizing the very best of Android, reminiscent of improved digital camera performance with UltraHDR, seamless authentication with Credential Supervisor and enhanced widget growth with Jetpack Look. Within the present, we noticed how Snapchat used Camera2 Extension API to construct digital camera options reminiscent of night time mode, zoom, and tap-to-focus, enhancing their person’s expertise capturing high-quality Snaps on Android gadgets, and in addition had a dialog with Dave Burke about Android 14 and extra. Have a look!
Connecting with you at occasions around the globe
This yr, we’re excited to convey the Android staff and our Android Google Developer Skilled buddies to occasions around the globe, you may study extra about it right here. Later this month, the Android staff can be at Droidcon London (October 26-27), bringing talks and internet hosting workplace hours round many thrilling subjects, and a panel of material consultants. Android GDEs can be talking at 100+ DevFest occasions around the globe, with particular appearances from the Android staff at DevFests in New York, the Bay Space, London, and Singapore amongst others. We sit up for connecting with 1000’s of you in particular person!
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