Posted by Aaron Labiaga- Android Developer Relations Engineer
By now, you’ve most likely heard the information: Android 15 was just released earlier today to AOSP. To rejoice, we’re kicking off a brand new collection referred to as “Highlight Week” the place we’ll shine a light-weight on technical areas throughout Android growth and equip you with the instruments it is advisable reap the benefits of every space.
The Android 15 “Highlight Week” will present sources — weblog posts, movies, pattern code, and extra — all designed that will help you put together your apps and reap the benefits of the most recent options. These adjustments attempt to enhance the Android ecosystem, however updating the OS comes with potential app compatibility implications and integrations that require detailed steering.
Right here’s what we’re overlaying this week in our Highlight Week on Android 15:
- The Android 15 summary web page outlines what a developer must learn about what’s new within the launch, behavioral adjustments affecting all apps, and adjustments relevant solely when focusing on the brand new SDK degree 35.
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Constructing for the way forward for Android, an in-depth video
- Wednesday, Sept 4: Watch now
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Foreground companies and a dwell Android 15 Q&A
- Thursday, September 5: Foreground services changes are coming in Android 15, and we’re introducing a brand new foreground service kind, updating the exemption situations that permit a foreground service to start out from the background, and updating the max length of sure foreground service sorts. These adjustments are supposed to enhance person expertise by stopping apps from misusing foreground service which will drain a person’s battery. Plus we’ll have a dwell Q&A: you can begin submitting questions on X utilizing #AskAndroid or submit them within the feedback in the LinkedIn post, and tune in on YouTube.
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Passkeys and Image-in-Image
- Friday, September 6: Passkeys allow a extra streamlined and secured technique of authenticating your customers. Be taught extra about passkeys via our sample code and concerning the updates made to additional simplify the login course of in Android 15. Plus, we’re highlighting a Picture-in-Picture pattern code that’s relevant to apps with video performance.
That’s only a style of what we’re overlaying in our Highlight Week on Android 15. Preserve checking again to this weblog submit for updates, the place we’ll be including hyperlinks and extra all through the week. Plus, observe Android Developers on X and Android by Google at Linkedin all through the week to listen to much more about Android 15.
