Android O’s Autofill Framework

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Android 8.0 adds a concrete Autofill Framework that actually fills forms across apps and web when configured, with a working code demo and a GitHub sample for a custom autofill service. It uses autofill hints and importantForAutofill to reduce heuristics, returns FillResponse objects containing Datasets and a SaveInfo object to trigger saves, exposes AutofillManager methods like isEnabled requestAutofill and commit, supports web‑app digital asset links, and recommends testing with OnePassword Dashlane LastPass or the Google service enabled.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:45Time Consuming & Error Prone
3. 1:26Solution?
4. 1:51Components
5. 2:31Configure Autofill Service in your app
6. 3:44Autofill Hints
7. 4:39Field Importance
8. 6:02Enable same Autofill across Web & App
9. 7:18Autofill Manager
10. 8:34Autofill process under the hood
11. 10:55Building your own Autofill Service
12. 13:39SaveInfo Object
13. 15:02Partitioned Datasets
14. 16:04Testing your app with Autofill - Summary

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