Posted by Nevin Mital (Developer Relations Engineer, Android Media) and Jan Bultmann (Employees Technical Editor and Content material Strategist, Android)
Introducing the Media Developer Middle, a brand new hub for documentation on Android media use circumstances and the place to search out info you’ll want to create best-in-class multidevice apps.
You should use media in many alternative methods in your apps, throughout a wide range of gadgets, in quite a lot of codecs. The Media Developer Middle is a complete useful resource that features Google’s suggestions and finest practices for working with media that will help you navigate the alternatives provided by the Android platform and Jetpack APIs. Learn to:
- Get began implementing media use circumstances
- Lengthen your attain to extra gadgets like Giant Screens and WearOS
- Stage up your app with premium options like HDR and Spatial Audio, and
- Optimize for prime quality with testing instruments and finest practices for efficiency.
The developer middle is organized as a one-stop store that leads with code that will help you study. Discover content material resembling:
- The most recent technical codelabs and samples
- Inspirational design galleries, and
- Academic movies and weblog posts.
Content material within the Media Developer Middle exists alongside and augments the already out there technical developer guides to supply further curation of premium options and finest practices that may result in pleasant experiences on your customers.
Construct trendy media use circumstances
In case you’re simply getting began with media on Android, take a look at the getting began guides and find out about key use circumstances lined by the brand new Jetpack Media3 APIs, resembling ExoPlayer for audio and video playback or Transformer for media enhancing.
As customers embrace a multidevice world, Android provides you the instruments and sources you’ll want to construct pleasant media experiences. Whether or not it’s creating adaptive UI with Jetpack Compose and Jetpack WindowManager to help versatile shows like foldables and flippables, or giving customers easy accessibility to their media with Tiles for wearables, or Watch Subsequent for TVs, trendy gadgets require trendy options!
Take your app from good to raised to finest
Discover suggestions on easy methods to scale your app over time to realize a best-in-class app.
- A superb app gives customers with core, foundational options
- A greater app will look to extend person engagement with holistic enhancements
- A best-in-class app will create seamless multidevice experiences
After all, customers anticipate apps to be dependable and carry out nicely, so the Media Developer Middle dedicates a part to matters on testing, measuring, and optimizing your app to take care of a top quality bar.
The Media Developer Middle hosts all kinds of content material sorts so you could find steering in whichever format you study finest. Whether or not you’re new to media otherwise you’re skilled within the area, this new hub may also help you discover the best alternatives at your stage within the developer journey.
You possibly can anticipate to see extra content material added to the Media Developer Middle over the following a number of quarters, so examine again steadily. We additionally need to hear from you; tell us within the feedback under what matters you wish to see us create content material for, and join the Android Builders Discussion board to affix an lively group of media app builders!
