Posted by Aaron Labiaga- Android Developer Relations Engineer
By now, you’ve in all probability heard the information: Android 15 was simply launched earlier at this time to AOSP. To have a good time, we’re kicking off a brand new collection known as “Highlight Week” the place we’ll shine a lightweight on technical areas throughout Android growth and equip you with the instruments you must benefit from 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 benefit from 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 steerage.
Right here’s what we’re protecting this week in our Highlight Week on Android 15:
- The Android 15 abstract 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 concentrating on the brand new SDK stage 35.
- Constructing for the way forward for Android, an in-depth video (Wednesday, Sept 4)
- Foreground companies and a dwell Android 15 Q&A (Thursday, September 5): Foreground companies adjustments 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 begin from the background, and updating the max length of sure foreground service varieties. These adjustments are meant 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.
- Passkeys and Image-in-Image (Friday, September 6): Passkeys allow a extra streamlined and secured technique of authenticating your customers. Study extra about passkeys by our pattern code and concerning the updates made to additional simplify the login course of in Android 15. Plus, we’re highlighting a Image-in-Image pattern code that’s relevant to apps with video performance.
That’s only a style of what we’re protecting in our Highlight Week on Android 15. Hold checking again to this weblog submit for updates, the place we’ll be including hyperlinks and extra all through the week. Plus, observe Android Builders on X and Android by Google at Linkedin all through the week to listen to much more about Android 15.