Android 16 Developer Preview 1 is accessible now to check together with your apps, forward of the deliberate launch in Q2 of 2025. 16 introduces main and minor API releases to permit us to drive sooner innovation with extra frequent API releases. We’re planning each a significant and minor API launch in 2025, and solely the Q2 main launch will embody app-impacting deliberate conduct modifications; the minor launch introduces new options with out these modifications, so you may focus your app testing on main releases.
The week of November 18th was a Highlight Week on passkeys. These are a safer and simpler different to passwords permitting customers to signal into apps and web sites with a biometric sensor, PIN, or sample.
We kicked off Monday with a fast video on the passkey fundamentals and up to date UX tips for Credential Supervisor and passkeys together with an in-depth server-side implementation information. Plus an introduction to the Id hub: a complete useful resource for passkeys, passwords, Sign up with Google authorization, and extra.
Then Tuesday was all in regards to the builders. This included a information that can assist you migrate from legacy APIs to Credential Supervisor, technical particulars on FIDO2 attestation format modifications, and a troubleshooting information for frequent Credential Supervisor errors.
Wednesday was targeted on new capabilities in Credential Supervisor. This included exhibiting Credential Supervisor outcomes as autofill options, single-tap sign-in, Sign API for Chrome desktop, and a Restore Credentials characteristic.
Thursday featured an #AskAndroid session and case research with Tokyu and X masking their profitable passkey deployments.
Lastly, Friday capped the week off with studying pathways on Android and Chrome, and a brand new Compose pattern app for Credential Supervisor and Android.
Primarily based in your suggestions, the Android Studio staff took a step again from massive characteristic work on the Android Emulator for six months to deal with Venture Quartz, an initiative aimed toward decreasing crashes, rushing up startup time, closing out bugs, and establishing higher methods to detect and stop points sooner or later. Now we have seen 30% fewer reported crashes within the newest secure model of Android Studio, and decreased our open points by 43.5%, with 17% of those actively fastened throughout Quartz.
A ton of content material got here out of #GooglePlaytime Milan. David Crary Mandel talks about monetization with insights about the best way to take advantage of from customers’ time and pockets share tendencies.
Mingoo Kim’s covers the myths and fallacies of gadget optimization that can assist you make the best investments to your recreation or app. Hongda Ni shares insights about increasing your apps to new territories in Navigation market growth: key concerns. Tammy Taw covers Subscription fatigue: from myths to info to alternatives that can assist you enhance the efficiency of your subscription app and decrease Churn.
Kevin Flynn Deconstructs profitable Google Play recreation launches. Austin Shoemaker covers Optimizing your app’s income: versatile monetization instruments to enhance your person conversion and cut back churn. Lastly, Kenny McCubbins shares perception on enhancing your adverts with Measuring the affect of deceptive adverts.
Thomas Ezan highlights Gaze Hyperlink, the winner of the Finest Android App for our Gemini API Developer Competitors. Gaze Hyperlink demonstrates how the Gemini API can be utilized to supply a communication system for people with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) who develop extreme motor and verbal disabilities, enabling them to sort sentences utilizing solely their eyes.
Gaze Hyperlink makes use of Google’s Gemini 1.5 Flash mannequin to foretell a person’s meant sentence based mostly on a couple of key phrases and the context of the dialog.
Aditya Pathak writes about how Google Play might help you navigate the ever-changing panorama of commerce and funds — particularly on the subject of world tax and regulatory compliance.
Previously two years, we’ve seen a big enhance within the variety of new rules impacting Google Play builders. Aditya highlights how partnering with Google Play allows you to entry a world market serving over 190 nations with a robust ecosystem constructed on safety and belief.
Mindy Brooks covers a couple of wonderful suggestions and methods that can assist you construct prime quality, participating, and age-appropriate apps. App builders play an important position in shaping how individuals of all ages work together with expertise. That is why Mindy covers how Google might help you identify a person’s age with digital ids, protect younger customers from inappropriate content material, develop trainer accredited apps and video games, and keep updated with Google Play’s households insurance policies.
At Google Play, we’re dedicated to offering a secure and safe surroundings for your corporation to thrive. That is why Dom Elliott put collectively this text on how the Play Integrity API helps defend your corporation from income loss and enhances person security. You’ll be prepared to make use of this API to detect suspicious exercise and resolve how to answer abuse resembling fraud, bots, dishonest, or knowledge theft.
Lastly, Mark Taylor and Mihai Cîrlănaru share an replace on Chrome’s new decreased user-agent string. Starting in Android 16, the default user-agent string in Android WebView will match the shortened string now seen in Chrome on the desktop and Android platforms.
In episode 221 of Android Builders Backstage Chet, Romain, and Tor chat with Shai Barack about how the Android platform staff research efficiency and understands system well being. They cowl matters resembling measuring efficiency, deciding trade-offs, and a few of their favourite instruments resembling Perfetto, Compiler Explorer, and Android Studio’s Reminiscence Profiler.
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In #AndroidBuildTime, Christopher Cartland, Mayuri Khinvasara Khabya, and Levi Schmidt cowl the best way to embody Extremely HDR pictures in your Android apps.
Rebecca Frank shared an important sequence of movies on the best way to unleash your inventive aspect with code! First she covers clipping and masking in Jetpack Compose. Which naturally leads into an important overview of the best way to flip your UI into a creative masterpiece in Graphics layers | Jetpack Compose Ideas.
And in case you’re searching for an actual fast tip, take a look at Jossi Wolf’s #quick on AnchoredDraggable.
Are you questioning how pill and stylus help can enhance your Android app? Try this video of how FlippaClip noticed a 54% enhance in pill customers and improved their income by constructing massive display screen and stylus help on Android and verify this text for extra particulars.
#WeArePlay celebrates individuals behind the apps and video games you understand and love on Google Play. Fujio from Tokyo, Japan created Pirika, an app that helps clear up public areas by combatting litter. (Related article right here.) Over in Indonesia, the husband-and-wife staff of Mesty and Garri created an app that offers dad and mom throughout Indonesia the instruments and data they should care for his or her kids. (Related article right here.)
The first alpha launch of ExifInterface 1.4.0 was launched, bringing help for studying XMP knowledge from HEIF pictures and AVIF pictures and Exif from XVIF as properly.
Media3 1.5.0 reached secure with many enhancements together with:
Sooner picture encoding and movement images in Transformer.
Simplified the setup for DefaultPreloadManager and ExoPlayer.
A brand new IAMF decoder, a Kotlin listener extension, simpler Participant customization delegation, and a lot extra.
Try Kristina Simakova‘s article to search out out extra about all new APIs and bug fixes.
Lastly WebKit had its first 1.13 alpha launch, bringing an experimental async startup API and a mechanism to permit builders to set off URL prefetching.
That’s it for this week, with the first developer preview of Android 16, a highlight on Passkeys, nice enhancements to Android emulator stability, and extra!
Test again quickly to your subsequent replace from the Android developer universe! 💫
