Posted by Sara Hamilton, Developer Relations Engineer
Did you miss any multi-device updates at Google I/O this 12 months? Don’t fear – listed here are the highest 3 issues you need to know as a developer about Android multi-device updates, and you should definitely take a look at the complete playlist for classes and extra!
#1: New Giant Display Gadgets, plus improved instruments and steerage
First, we’ve some thrilling massive display updates. There are 2 new Android units coming from Pixel – the Pixel Fold and the Pixel Pill.
With these becoming a member of the 280M lively massive display Android units, now is a superb time to spend money on optimizing your app for bigger screens. We’ve launched a number of issues to make this simple.
We’ve improved instruments and steerage, like the brand new Pixel Fold and Pixel Pill emulator configurations in Android Studio accessible right now.
We even have expanded Materials design updates, and we’ve created extra galleries with inspiration for constructing gaming and creativity apps, all a part of the brand new Android design gallery.
You can begin optimizing for these units, and different massive display units, by studying the steerage on the do’s and don’ts of optimizing your Android app for big screens and watching the session on creating prime quality apps for big screens and foldables.
#2: Put on OS 4 developer preview launched
Second, we launched the developer preview of Put on OS 4. This launch comes with many thrilling adjustments – together with a brand new approach to construct watchfaces.
The brand new Watch Face Format is a declarative XML format that permits you to configure the looks and conduct of watch faces. Which means that there is not any executable code concerned in making a watch face, and there is not any code embedded in your watch face APK.
The Put on OS platform takes care of the logic wanted to render the watch face so you may focus in your inventive concepts, slightly than code optimizations or battery efficiency.
Be taught extra about all the most recent updates in Put on OS by testing our weblog publish, watching the session, and looking on the model new Put on OS gallery, additionally a part of the brand new Android design gallery.
#3: Compose for TV launched in alpha
Lastly, Compose for TV is launched in alpha.
Jetpack Compose already had cellular parts, Put on OS parts, and Widgets – and now, TV parts! Plus, now you can use the identical foundational Jetpack Compose APIs, for issues like state administration, on TV as nicely.
This makes it simple to construct stunning, useful apps for Android TV OS with much less code and higher customization.
Be taught extra about how you can combine your TV app with Compose for TV by watching this session. And, take a look at the developer guides, design reference, our new codelab and pattern code to get began. You may submit suggestions by means of the library’s launch notes.
That’s a fast snapshot of a number of the coolest updates on the earth of multi-device on Android from Google I/O’23. Need to be taught extra? Take a look at the complete playlist right here!
We’re making it even simpler to construct throughout these units, by means of trendy Android improvement instruments like Jetpack Compose, in order that as you construct for increasingly type elements, that talent base continues to develop and lengthen. Check out how Peloton continues to spend money on totally different screens for an expertise that follows their customers wherever they need to prepare:
