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SPEAKER: Welcome to "Now in Android,"
your ongoing guide to what's new and notable in the world
of Android development.
Recently, we shared the Android 13 Developer Preview 2,
with more new features and changes for you
to try in your apps.
Some notable features include developer downgrade permissions
and Bluetooth LE audio.
Check out all the new features in the post.
The new "Architecture MAD Skills" series
has two new episodes.
First, Jose covers the data layer
and its two basic components, repositories and data sources.
He also covers data immutability, error handling,
threading, testing, and more tricks and recommendations.
TJ covers the UI layer in this episode of "MAD Skills."
Learn about the UI and the creation, management,
and consumption of its state.
For ongoing content, be sure to check the "MAD Skills" playlist
on YouTube, the articles on "Medium," or the handy landing
page that points to all of it.
There are two more episodes in the "Integrate with Android TV
and Google TV" series.
First, Miguel and Adekunle discuss the basics
of Google account linking and different ways
to integrate for Android TV and Google TV.
Next, Paul explores best practices
for integrating and validating media sessions,
the unified way for Android apps to interact with media content.
Last year, Google introduced a collaboration
with the World Health Organization
to build an open source software developer
kit designed to help developers build mobile solutions
for community health workers in low and middle income countries
using the Fast Health Care Interoperability Resources
Global Standard for Health Care Data.
Read the article to learn more about how
this SDK can help you create apps to aid community health
workers.
Adoption of large screens is growing rapidly.
To help people get the most from their devices,
we're making three big changes in Google Play
to enable users to discover and engage with high quality apps
and games--
ranking and promotability changes,
alerts for low quality apps, and device specific ratings
and reviews.
Read all about it in the post.
In this article, Lauren talks about Android Vitals,
which are a way to track how your app is performing
in the Google Play Console.
Now there are new use cases for Android Vitals which
include building internal dashboards,
joining with other data sets for deeper analysis,
and automation troubleshooting and releases.
Learn more about the new Play developer reporting API
and how to use it in the post.
The Jetpack Core Performance library in Alpha has launched.
This library enables you to easily identify
what a device is capable of and tailor your user experience
accordingly.
As a developer, this means that you
can reliably group devices with the same level of performance
and tailor your app's behaviors to those different groups.
This enables you to deliver an optimal experience
to users with both more and less capable devices.
Check it out in Don and Francois' article.
Let's take a look at what's been up with Android X releases
since the last episode of "Now in Android."
We have a few libraries in alpha 1,
including activity version 1.6, custom view pool and container
version 1.0, and JUnit G test version 1.0.
Car app version 1.2 and media router
version 1.3 are also in RC01.
That's it for this time with Android 13 DB2, MAD Skills
architecture, Android TV and Google TV integration
series, FHRI SDK, large screens, Android X releases, and more.
Come back here soon for the next update from the Android
developer universe.