What's new in Android
summary
Overview of concrete changes: Jetpack renames support library to AndroidX and ships Paging 1.0 plus WorkManager and Navigation previews; Kotlin gets D8/R8 and Android KTX extensions; Android P blocks background access to microphone, camera and sensors; pre-computed text via precomputedtext moves expensive measurement off the UI thread; new ImageDecoder and HEIF container support replaces old BitmapFactory paths; Wi‑Fi RTT indoor location, Unified BiometricDialog, Vulkan 1.1, NNAPI DSP access, NDK r17 with ASAN, ARCore emulator and deprecation timelines (target API 26 and 64‑bit requirements) are all enforced.
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chapters (22)
- 0:00Start
- 4:12Jetpack Architecture
- 6:03Battery
- 6:52Background Input & Privacy
- 10:09Background Text Measurement
- 11:09Magnifier
- 11:39Baseline Distance
- 13:46Accessibility Navigation Improvements
- 14:19Security
- 14:53Enterprise
- 16:11Display Cutout
- 18:00Slices
- 19:35Actions
- 20:10Notifications
- 21:29Deprecation Policy Apps will soon be required to target newer versions of Android
- 22:31App Compatibility
- 25:26Camera
- 28:26Media
- 30:25Vulkan 1.1
- 31:03Neural Networks API 1.1
- 31:57AR in the Emulator
- 32:19Sceneform
