Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing information to what’s new and notable on this planet of Android growth.
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Persevering with our I/O protection, we launched a brief video, and weblog detailing the highest three issues to know from Google Play at Google I/O 2023:
- New customized retailer itemizing options. We’ve made three massive updates to customized retailer listings, providing you with extra methods to ship personalised content material to a wider viewers.
- Generative AI and machine studying for retailer listings. Draft higher content material with much less effort with our new experimental built-in AI helper.
- Worth experiments. We launched worth experiments for in-app merchandise, which lets you A/B take a look at worth factors to higher attain each new and current patrons.
Try the weblog, video, and the Google Play at Google I/O 2023 playlist to study extra.
We’ve new content material it’s best to take a look at to get your utility prepared for big and foldable screens:
- Builders Information to Pixel Fold & Pixel Pill: for particular suggestions on how one can prepare for these new Pixel gadgets.
- Detecting gadget sort: how one can know if a tool is a foldable or a pill.
- The highest 3 issues to know in multi-device from Google I/O: our round-up on this planet of enormous screens, Put on OS and TV from Google I/O
- Additionally, hear how Peloton elevated its multi-device help and noticed an uptick in person engagement.
We had a bunch of thrilling new options and habits modifications associated to Compose present up in Android Jetpack!
To start with, Compose UI 1.6 Alpha 1 and Compose Materials 1.6 Alpha 1 now have includeFontPadding switched to false by default. The default LineHeightStyle has additionally been modified to Trim.None and Alignment.Middle. These modifications would possibly affect your screenshot checks, you may learn an in-depth rationalization on includeFontPadding within the Fixing Font Padding in Compose Textual content weblog put up. Begin testing your app switching to includeFontPadding false at present.
Put on Compose 1.3 Alpha 1 launch can be altering the DefaultTextStyle to show off font padding to be constant throughout the Android Platform.
Compose UI and Compose Animation 1.6 Alpha 1 contains help for lookahead in LazyList. This enables LazyList within the lookahead move to bypass any animation and to calculate the lookahead dimension and place for all youngsters.
Lastly, Compose Basis Model 1.6 Alpha 1 launched a brand new AnchoredDraggable API in Basis, this API replaces Materials’s Swipeable API.
You may see all of the AndroidX launch notes right here.
Since launching the Google Developer Skilled highlight collection in early June, we’ve launched many extra interviews with Android GDEs world wide, together with interviews with Ahmed, a Software program Engineer from the Netherlands, Zarah, an Android Developer from Australia, Annyce, Vice President of Engineering from the USA, and Harun, a Software program Engineer from Kenya.
Try episode 198 of the Android Builders Backstage podcast, on location location location!
For the reason that authentic episode on location almost 9 years in the past, quite a bit has occurred within the location help for Android. On this episode, Wyatt Riley and Roy Need reply all of Tor’s questions on the way it works, cowl latest developments like indoor location and elevation, and go over suggestions for utilizing location in your app.
You may take a look at the episode in podcast or video kind, and you’ll watch this quick clip on how one can keep away from a standard location developer mistake.
That’s it for this week with Google Play, Pixel Fold & Pixel Pill, multi-device help, Jetpack Compose, Google Developer Skilled, Location and extra!
Verify again quickly for the subsequent replace from the Android developer universe! 💫
