Android Jetpack
Google released Android Jetpack to help developers speed up app development.
As the next generation of Android components, Android Jetpack integrates the advantages of backward compatibility and immediate updates of the support library into more components, allowing developers to quickly and easily develop high-quality applications with excellent performance.
Android Jetpack can handle activities such as background tasks, UI navigation, and lifecycle management, saving developers the trouble of writing boilerplate code and focusing on improving the application experience.
In addition, Android Jetpack is perfectly compatible with the Kotlin language and uses Android KTX to significantly save code.
The new version of Android Jetpack components released today includes the following 4 parts:WorkManager, Paging, Navigation, and Slices .
Android Studio 3.2 Canary
This version introduces Android Jetpack support tools, including a visual navigation editor and new code refactoring tools.
This version of Android Studio adds 20 major features, including:
Development part:
Navigation Editor, AndroidX refactoring,Sample data,Update Material DesignAndroid Slices,Edit CMakeList,New Lint checks,Intellij platform updates;
Build part:
Android App Bundle, D8 Desugaring,R8 optimizer;
Test part:
Android Emulator Snapshots, Screen recording in Android emulator,Virtual scene Android emulator camera,ADB Connection Assistant;
Optimization
Performance Analyzer,System tracking,Analyzer Session,Automatic CPU logging,JNI reference tracking;
Android App Bundle
Use the new publishing format - Android App Bundle to significantly reduce the size of your app. Now developers only need to build an app bundle in Android Studio to include everything their app needs (for all devices): all languages, all device screen sizes, and all hardware architectures.
Then, when a user downloads your app, Google Play’s new dynamic delivery delivers only the code and resources appropriate for the user’s device. The resulting installation package size is smaller, downloads faster, and saves device storage space.
Google Play Console
New features and reports in the Play Console can help you improve your app performance and grow your business. Read about improvements to the Dashboard, Statistics, Android vitals, Pre-launch Report, User Acquisition Report, and Subscriptions dashboard. You can also upload, test, and release your app using our new publishing format, the Android App Bundle.
Google Play Instant
Google has previously released a beta version of Google Play Instant at the Game Developers Conference (GDC).
Today, at the I/O conference, it was announced that all game developers can build instant apps, and Candy Crush Saga was launched. Now Google Play Instant supports more than 1 billion devices worldwide, whether through the Play Store, search, or social networks, as long as you can click on the screen, you can enjoy Play Instant.
To simplify the development of instant apps, we will release the corresponding Unity game engine plug-in service this week, as well as the beta version of integration with Cocos Creator. Recently, Google began testing the compatibility of Google Play Instant with AdWords, allowing people to try games directly through ads in all channels covered by Universal App campaigns.
Android Things 1.0
Android Things is an operating system (OS) under Google that can help developers develop and maintain IoT devices on a large scale. At this year's CES conference, Google announced that Lenovo, Harman, LG and iHome are already developing products powered by Android Things and equipped with Google Assistant.
The Android Things Console, launched at the same time, takes the simplification of product development to the extreme, helping developers regularly obtain Google's latest stability fix packages and security upgrade packages, thereby achieving seamless connection from release, management to device updates.
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