Rebecca Gutteride and Madona Wambua, Co-Hosts of #TheAndroidShow
The newest Android massive screens and foldables from our Android associates
One of many coolest moments for {hardware} fanatics was final week at Cell World Congress, the place Android system makers from all over the world collect to unveil the most recent improvements. It was an particularly huge yr for foldables particularly, with a variety of compelling gadgets popping out. We had the chance to meet up with three Android companions and see their newest {hardware}: the Oppo Discover N2 Flip, the HONOR Magic Vs, and the Tecno Phantom V Fold. These launches convey new, high-quality gadgets into the foldable class, giving customers extra choices as they search for their subsequent cellular system and signaling an funding in foldables throughout the Android ecosystem. For builders, foldables can current distinctive alternatives (and challenges); massive display gadgets like foldables and tablets can problem assumptions that you just might need made previously round configuration adjustments, cameras, and the form and measurement of the display – or screens. On gadgets with extra display actual property and folds, customers predict higher multi-tasking and extra content-rich app experiences that adapt to those type elements.
As this class continues to broaden, we wish to make massive display optimization as straightforward as potential for you. We’ve established tiered high quality tips to assist prioritize which behaviors are a very powerful to deal with throughout display sizes and, late final yr, we introduced new steering and up to date instruments that will help you replace your app to fulfill these tips. To make it simpler to rapidly take a look at apps on a wide range of consultant gadgets, we have now a rising assortment of resizable, foldable, pill and desktop emulators, and up to date Materials adaptive design steering for these gadgets with extra particular Canonical Format designs!
To get began, take a look at the gallery web page to get impressed with excessive constancy mockups, hyperlinks to materials design steering, implementation guides, and case research from apps like yours. Then, take a look at your app for giant screens utilizing the resizable emulator in Android Studio to see how your app appears to be like at present!
MAD Abilities: Compose Layouts & Modifiers
Our newest MAD expertise sequence deep-dives into Compose layouts and modifiers. The preliminary episodes cowl format fundamentals together with what out-of-the-box APIs Compose provides, how you should use modifiers to stylize your composables, and the completely different phases in Compose. We then dive deeper into modifier chaining and constructing customized layouts for advanced use circumstances. The sequence culminates in a dwell Q&A–taking place proper now, the place we’ll be answering the questions you have been asking us utilizing #AskAndroid. You’ll be able to view the YouTube playlist to rewatch the movies within the sequence.
What it means to be an Android Google Developer Professional
The Android Developer group is on the coronary heart of every thing we do and on the core of that is our Android Google Developer Specialists. Spanning all around the world, the group comes collectively to share greatest practices via talking, open-source contributions, workshops, and articles, and will get concerned in early entry Android releases – offering useful suggestions to make enhancements for builders all over the place! Tune in to #TheAndroidShow to listen to from six GDEs about their journey as an Android Developer and Google Developer Professional and what this position means to them.
App High quality Insights in Android Studio
In 2022 we launched Android Studio’s App High quality Insights (AQI) which helps you uncover, examine, and reproduce points reported by Crashlytics throughout the context of your native Android Studio challenge. On this phase we go behind the scenes with David Motsonashvili, a Software program Engineer on the Firebase crew, to be taught extra about the place the thought got here from. We additionally discover how crash administration has developed all through the years with Annyce Davis, VP of Engineering at Meetup and GDE. Tune into #TheAndroidShow to observe the phase, learn the AQI documentation to be taught extra, and obtain the most recent model of Android Studio to strive it out.
Now in Android
Now in Android is your ongoing information to what’s new and notable on the planet of Android improvement, and this week we coated the second Android 14 Developer Preview, Google Play coverage adjustments round Put on OS app high quality, the discharge of the complete Android Fundamentals with Compose course, Superior Compose Format Ideas, Drawing in Compose, Multi-Window and Exercise Embedding, TensorFlow Lite in Google Play Providers, and extra.
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#TheAndroidShow is your dialog with the Android developer group, this time hosted by Rebecca Gutteridge and Madona Wambua. Tweet us your questions, and tell us what you’d like to listen to in future movies from the Android crew. It’s all taking place proper now – and you may rewatch it at any time!