Posted by Catherina Xu (Product Manager) Last November, we released Fast Pair with the Jaybird Tarah Bluetooth headphones. Since then, we’ve engaged with dozens of OEMs, ODMs, and silicon partners to bring Fast Pair to even more devices. Last month, we held a talk at I/O announcing 10+ certified devices, […]
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Parallax scrolling can be a really interesting technique to use to give parts of your app a bit more life and character. It is a technique built on the mathematical principle if we are moving then objects closer to us appear to move faster than those further away. A great […]
ViewPager has been around for a number of years now, and was added in support library V22.1.0. In February 2019 the first alpha of ViewPager2 was released. In this post we’ll take a look at how ViewPager2 differs from ViewPager, and how to implement it. The main difference between ViewPager2 […]
A Parcel is an optimised serialisation format for Android which is designed to enable us to transfer data between processes. This is something that most Android developers need to do occasionally, but not that often. Making a class Pareclizable actually requires a little bit of effort, but there’s a Kotlin […]
One of the new features in Android Q is support for High Efficiency Image Format (HEIF) images, but why is this important? In this post we’ll take a look at what HEIF actually is, and understand a little about the benefits that it might offer. HEIF was developed by the […]
Posted by Wojtek Kaliciński, Developer Advocate, Android Stephanie Saad Cuthbertson announces support for Kotlin during the Developer Keynote at I/O 2017. Today at OSCON (the O’Reilly Open Source Software Conference), Kotlin was awarded the Open Source Award for Breakout Project of the Year. There is no doubt to us why […]
Posted by Sean McQuillan, Developer Advocate, Android Registration is now open for Android Dev Summit 2019! Learn, share, and connect at #AndroidDevSummit 2019. It’s a great place to learn new Android development skills, share feedback and ideas with the Android engineering team, and connect with Android developers from around the […]
Posted by Florina Muntenescu, Android Developer Advocate Displaying text is an important task in most apps, so in Android Q we’re continuing to introduce new features to support your needs and improve performance. We disabled hyphenation by default, enabled creating a typeface using multiple fonts or font families, exposed the […]
Most broadband specs are pathetic. 25 Mb/s was the broadband standard twenty-five years ago, back in 1994 (Think Clinton in the news for sexual harassment and the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland.) Technology has moved on. Your computer is 100 times faster and you have many more internet-connected devices: […]
Over 1,000 Android apps are harvesting your data without permission A new research study revealed that more than 1,000 Android apps available in Google Play Store violated permissions to steal private data such as messages, call logs, photos and more. Researchers from UC Berkeley’s International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), which […]