Posted by Sanat Kamal Bahl, Product Supervisor, Android Frameworks
Since its inception, Android has been designed to be the world’s first open and revolutionary platform for cellular gadgets.
At present, Android powers a wealthy and open ecosystem of gadgets serving billions of customers all over the world. The openness of the Android platform permits innovation in new cellular type elements like foldable telephones. This openness additionally permits sensible options in vehicles, watches, and televisions. Whereas this openness unlocks nice alternatives, with so many distinctive gadgets, it will possibly make your life tougher as a developer. One such problem we’ve heard from the neighborhood includes restrictions on foreground companies and background work that make it tougher so that you can create apps that work throughout totally different system fashions.
Trying to clear up these consistency challenges, we’re saying deeper partnerships with Android {hardware} producers to assist guarantee APIs for background work are supported predictably and constantly throughout the ecosystem. We’re excited to announce that Samsung, representing one in every of Android’s longest partnerships, is our first accomplice on this journey:
“To strengthen the Android platform, our collaboration with Google has resulted in a unified coverage that we anticipate will create a extra constant and dependable person expertise for Galaxy customers. Since One UI 6.0, foreground companies of apps focusing on Android 14 will probably be assured to work as supposed as long as they’re developed in accordance with Android’s new foreground service API coverage.” – Samsung
As talked about within the Android 14 Developer Preview 1 weblog submit, we’ve:
We consider our increasing partnerships with {hardware} producers and these modifications will make it simpler for builders to create apps that work constantly throughout totally different Android gadgets.
We encourage you to strive the brand new Android 14 APIs and tell us what you assume utilizing the Android 14 Concern Tracker. We welcome you to contribute to CTS-D assessments to assist catch consistency points. Lastly, In case you see conduct variations throughout Android gadgets, you’ll want to file a ticket utilizing goo.gle/devicespecificissue to deliver it to our consideration.
