Slices: What They’re Not Telling You
summary
Slices are structured data not remote views and are published by a content-style slice provider URI; creation uses the Kotlin slice builders KTX DSL or the Java API, and hosts render via slice view or custom code. A test host exists as the slice viewer app (APK on GitHub). Libraries run back to API level 19. Slices need a primary action and synchronous onBindSlice so caching or progress placeholders matter. Rendering and library version mismatches (alpha‑3 vs beta‑1) currently break images.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 6:09Slice Providers
- 11:11Java Api
- 15:47Run Configurations
- 20:23Security Dialog
- 22:43Large Mode
- 28:20Grids
- 33:50Rendering Slices
- 44:53Compatibility
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