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SPEAKER: Hi, everyone.
I hope you had a great holiday break.
We are back this year with a new episode of Now in Android.
This time, number 75, which highlights a new stable version
of Android Studio, Architecture, Kotlin Multiplatform, Wear OS,
Camera X stylus, and more.
Android Studio Electric Eel is stable now.
This release includes updates and new features
that cover design, build and dependencies, emulators
and devices, and IntelliJ.
This version brings improvements to the Compose Preview,
that now updates automatically, the Layout Inspector that
now displays recomposition counts, [INAUDIBLE] XML linked
in for views, Sync Performance with parallel project
imports, SDK Index integration, a new look-at,
resizable emulators, physical devices mirroring, and more.
For more information, check out the blog post or the video.
And download the latest stable version today
to try it out for yourself.
Since the previous episode, there
have been some Android X releases worth highlighting.
Graduated to stable, we can find up
[? compat ?] 1.6 that primarily supports Android 13, including
per language preferences and predictive pack,
and Room 2.5, that got its runtime converted
from Java to Kotlin, and new features
such as the absurd annotation and Room page in support
for RxJava and Guava.
The new Lifecycle alpha version 2.6 alpha 4
removes the experimental annotation
from the collector state with Lifecycle API
and deprecates the opposing dispatcher
on the launch QNX APIs.
As new libraries, we can find the Android X credentials
library that helps users sign into apps
using their stored credentials, including
passwords and pass-keys.
Also, new Privacy Sandbox libraries such as the AD
services one that enables integration
with privacy-preserving APIs, and SDK runtime
that contains components for building and loading
runtime-enabled SDKs on all versions of the Android
platform.
Let's move on to the new articles we published.
Dom Turner wrote about adding a domain layer to an app.
That covers how the team added a domain layer
to the now in Android app for improved readability,
scalability, and portability.
Anton Hansson wrote about extending the Android SDK.
That covers the extension SDK framework
that enables the team to introduce new functionality
outside of major API releases and provide
backward compatibility.
This allows faster innovations such as the new Photo Picker.
[? Kiara ?] [? Kiapini ?] wrote, is the development of media
apps for Wear OS with the media toolkit?
You will learn how to bring your media
app to Wear OS's smartwatches with the help of the newly
released Wear Media Toolkit.
Mozart Lewis wrote the first part
of a HDR series migrating from textured view to surface view.
Migrating to the preferred surface views
enables HDR playback on supported devices.
Cedric Ferry wrote about the stylus low latency.
The post covers two new libraries-- low latency
graphics and motion prediction that
aim to reduce the processing time between stylus input
and screen rendering.
It also explores how these libraries work
and how you can implement a best-in-class stylus
experience in your app.
As new videos, we published two of them to make your app grow--
optimize paywall conversion and engage with push notifications.
Take a look to learn about those topics
and improve your app experience.
Donovan recorded a video about Camera X concepts
to introduce you to its functionality
through four use cases--
preview, image capture, video capture, and image analysis.
Chris Merlin recorded an in-depth walkthrough
of a sample app using the flash API, a component of the Privacy
Sandbox on Android.
And [? Erwin ?] recorded an introduction
to the Attribution Reporting API that
is designed to provide improved user privacy by removing
reliance on cross-party user identifiers
and to support key use cases for attribution and conversion
measurement.
The video walks you through a sample implementation
of the Attribution Reporting API on Android.
Lastly, a new ADB podcast episode was published.
In episode 193, Kotlin, James [? Gard ?] joins Ted,
[? Tor, ?] and [? Roman ?] to talk about Kotlin
Multiplatform-- both KMP and KMN,
and what's coming for Kotlin in 2023,
especially the new K2 frontend.
And that's it for this time.
You can find all the links to the content
I mentioned in the Now in Android, Episode
75 blog post in [? Medium. ?] To get notified
about future episodes, don't forget to like this video
and subscribe to the Android Developers YouTube channel.
Bye.
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