Posted by Rebecca Franks, Android Developer Relations Engineer
Google I/O 2023 was full of thrilling updates and bulletins. Trendy Android Growth (MAD) is all about making Android app improvement quicker and simpler! By creating libraries, instruments and steerage to hurry up your stream and enable you write safer, higher code so as to give attention to constructing superb experiences.
Listed below are our high three bulletins from Google I/O 2023:
#1 Get your improvement questions answered with Studio Bot
One of many bulletins we’re most enthusiastic about is Studio Bot, an experimental new AI powered coding assistant, proper in your IDE. You may ask it questions or use it to assist repair errors — all with out ever having to depart Android Studio or add your supply code.
Studio Bot is in its very early days, and is at the moment obtainable for builders within the US. Obtain Android Studio canary to strive it out and assist it enhance.
#2 Jetpack Compose has enhancements for stream layouts, new Materials parts, and extra
Jetpack Compose continues to be an enormous focus space, making it simpler to construct wealthy UIs. The Could 2023 launch included many new layouts and enhancements reminiscent of horizontal and vertical pagers, stream layouts and new Materials 3 parts reminiscent of date and time pickers and backside sheets.
There have additionally been giant efficiency enhancements to the modifier system, with extra updates nonetheless within the works. For textual content alone, this replace resulted in a median 22% efficiency achieve that may be seen within the newest alpha launch, and these enhancements apply throughout the board. To get these advantages in your app, all it’s a must to do is replace your Compose model!
Now you can additionally use Jetpack Compose to construct residence display screen widgets with the Look library and TV apps with Compose for TV.
Learn the weblog put up for extra details about “What’s new in Jetpack Compose”.
#3 Use Kotlin in all places, all through your app
For the reason that official Kotlin for Android help announcement in 2017, we’ve continued to make enhancements to serving to you develop with Kotlin. Six years later, we’re persevering with to put money into enhancements for Kotlin.
Firstly, we’re collaborating with JetBrains on the brand new K2 compiler which is already displaying important enhancements in compilation pace. We’re actively engaged on integration into our instruments reminiscent of Android Studio, Android Lint, KSP, Compose and extra, and leveraging Google’s giant Kotlin codebases to confirm compatibility of the brand new compiler.
As well as, we now advocate utilizing Kotlin in your construct scripts and model catalogs. With Kotlin in your construct and in your UI with Compose, now you can use Kotlin in all places, all through your app.
For extra info, take a look at the “What’s new in Kotlin” discuss.
And that is our high 3 Trendy Android Growth bulletins from Google I/O 2023, take a look at this playlist for extra.
