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SPEAKER: Welcome to "Now in Android,"
your ongoing guide to what's new at notable in the world
of Android development.
In this episode, we're covering the Platform Track
at Android Dev Summit, Health Connect, the Now and Android
app, User Choice Billing, and LazyLayouts in Jetpack Compose.
The third day of Android Developer Summit livestream,
focusing on developer features and guidance around Android 13.
Check out the full YouTube playlist
to learn more about how your apps can help make Android
more private, secure, and personal,
along with how they can stand out
by taking advantage of new features and best practices.
Over 10 health, fitness, and wellness apps
rolled out integrations with the HealthConnect platform,
including early adopters of Health Connect,
like MyFitnessPal, Aura, and Peloton.
Health Connect is a platform that we developed together
with Samsung to enable users to allow
apps to securely share health and fitness
data with each other.
And the HealthConnect beta app gives users a central place
to manage their privacy settings with granular controls
to see which apps have access to data at any given time.
Enabling health and fitness apps that talk to each other
allows apps to provide users with better,
more holistic health insights.
Instead of having to utilize different APIs
to talk to each app, with HealthConnect,
building an integration with a new app
is as simple as reading a new data.
The post has links to the information
to help your app use HealthConnect to develop
richer insights for your users.
And we also released a playlist of videos
around developing with the HealthConnect platform.
The Now in Android App is live on Google Play.
It is a fully functional, open source Android app
built entirely with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
that showcases best practices, opinionated designs,
and solutions to complex, real world problems.
And like this show, it helps you keep up
to date with Android development by providing regular news
updates.
You can find the app's source code at our GitHub site.
We announced that we are expanding the User Choice
Billing Pilot to users in the United States, Brazil,
and South Africa, joining Australia, India, Indonesia,
Japan, and the European Economic area.
The pilot is open to developers of non-gaming apps,
and the post has more detail, including information
on the Spotify rollout of an initial test
implementation of User Choice Billing in select countries.
The Videos from the Android Platform Track
at Android Developer Summit have dropped,
beginning with my top three picks from the platform
track at ADS '22.
How to migrate your apps to Android 13
provides an overview of what it takes
to get your app working on Android 13,
targeting STK version 33.
And how to take advantage of some new stuff
Android 13 has to offer.
It also calls out to many of the other sessions,
making it a good place to start your Android 13 journey.
Under Privacy and Security in Android 13,
we also cover what's next up with the Privacy Sandbox.
Everything about storage on Android,
demystifying attestation, and how
to foster user trust by adopting privacy respecting permission
workflows.
Under Personalization, we teach building
for a multilingual world, building modern Android app
widgets, designing a high-quality app
with the latest Android features,
and building accessibility support for Compose.
Sessions that walk you through the updated capabilities
of the platform, including support for the latest media
and communication standards and more,
include presenting a high-quality media experience
for all users, improving your social experience quality
with Android camera, how to handle capture, playback,
and sharing a 10-bit HDR video, supporting
BLE Audio in your voice communication applications,
an introduction to ultra-wideband on Android,
the latest in Android graphics, how
to start syncing data with HealthConnect,
and implementing hardware acceleration
for on-device machine learning.
We even shared how to begin migrating to Billing Library 5.
And what it takes to make subscriptions
more flexible on Google Play.
Pixel 7 is the first 64-bit only Android device.
And Keep your App from Failing in a 64-bit Only World
covers how to make sure your app works properly on it
and upcoming 64-bit only devices.
We finish the Platform Track with a platform #AskAndroid
session, where we took your questions live
with experts that build and support the Android platform.
Episode 191 of "Android Developers Backstage"
was recorded from our London office studio.
Rebecca Franks joined Chet as a guest host,
and talked with Andre, Montvey, and Andre
from the Jetpack Compose engineering team about layouts,
especially the lazy ones, which are the Compose equivalent
of RecyclerView.
So that's it for this week, with Android Dev Summit
and its Platform Track, HealthConnect,
the Now and Android App, User Choice Billing, LazyLayouts
and more.
Please subscribe, share, stay safe,
and come back here soon for the next update
from the Android Developer Universe.
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