Quick Settings Tiles

While quick settings tiles such as WiFi, Bluetooth, and Airplane mode have been around for some time, Android 7.0 adds the ability for any app to provide their own quick settings tile, giving users quick access to the most important and frequent actions from your app.

Watch the video to learn about the lifecycle of your TileService, how to update your tile, and how to handle clicks, then read the blog post for all the details and a full rundown of the quick settings tile API: https://medium.com/google-developers/quick-settings-tiles-e3c22daf93a8

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Scheduling jobs like a pro with JobScheduler

One of the most important things with respect to background work is being as efficient and low impact as possible. JobScheduler works across the system to batch jobs together--meaning reduced battery drain, reduced memory pressure on API 24+ devices, and built-in awareness of Doze and App Standby.

Read the blog post for all the details and code examples: https://medium.com/@dontmesswithjo/scheduling-jobs-like-a-pro-with-jobscheduler-286ef8510129

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Android Studio 2.2

#AndroidStudio 2.2 is out today in the stable channel, a huge update designed to help you code faster with smart new tooling features built in https://goo.gl/nSGWgm

This update is packed with over a dozen new features, like a rewritten layout designer with the new constraint layout, support for Android 7.0 Nougat, Espresso test recorder, enhanced Jack compiler / Java 8 language support, expanded C++ support with CMake and NDK-Build, improved Instant Run and much more!

You can check for updates on the Stable channel from the navigation menu (Help → Check for Update [Windows/Linux] , Android Studio → Check for Updates [OS X]). You can also download Android Studio 2.2 at g.co/AndroidStudio

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ExoPlayer v2 released!
The ExoPlayer library a customizable and extensible alternative to the built-in MediaPlayer APIs that provides a consistent API for streaming audio and video across all API 16+ devices.

ExoPlayer v2 includes significant architectural improvements and new features such as:
- A VideoView equivalent in SimpleExoPlayerView
- Gapless audio playback
- Playlist Support
- MediaSource composition to support side-loading subtitles, looping videos, or concatenating multiple sources
- Improved Audio extension APIs with pre-built extensions for ffmpeg, opus, and flac
- Seeking in live playback for DASH and SmoothStreaming sources
- A greatly simplified demo app

All in addition to ExoPlayer’s existing support for DASH and SmoothStreaming adaptive playback.

If you’re building a new media app, we recommend building on ExoPlayer v2. For those who are using ExoPlayer 1.X, you can include both 1.X and 2.X in your app (due to a different package name), allowing you to test and migrate your users with minimal impact.

Follow the ExoPlayer blog for all of the details: https://medium.com/google-exoplayer
And start using ExoPlayer: https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer

New Android Wear Developer Preview 3

Today we are launching the Google Play Store on Android Wear in the third developer preview for Android Wear 2.0. In addition, we are releasing a number of enhancements including updates to the Complications API, launching the new WearableRecyclerView to better take advantage of circular displays when displaying vertical lists, inline actions for notifications, Smart Reply as well as fixes for a number of bugs you helped us identify (theatre mode anyone?). Let us know what you think and please send us your feedbacks!

Read more here: goo.gl/l27GJz

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Android Experiments - Paper Planes by Active Theory

PAPER PLANES, a celebration of International Peace Day. Send and catch paper plans all over the globe in this WebGL world with Nougat features baked in. By Active Theory. #AndroidExperiments

Virtual Files, Alternative Mime Types, and the Storage Access Framework

New in #AndroidNougat, apps using the Storage Access Framework can now provide virtual files - files without a direct bytestream representation. While you can’t use openInputStream() with these virtual files, you can use Android 7.0’s alternative mime types to potentially transcode the files into alternative file formats or simply use them with an ACTION_VIEW Intent to open them in their native editor.

Check out the documentation on virtual files at https://developer.android.com/about/versions/nougat/android-7.0.html#virtual_files and read more about the Storage Access Framework at https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/document-provider.html

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Building a DocumentsProvider

Android 4.4 KitKat introduced the Storage Access Framework, a common framework which allows apps use a system provided UI to request files from apps and from local storage. Your app can be an equal partner on that list by implementing a DocumentsProvider, making files your app owns available to other apps, all without needing the Storage permission or requiring you build your own file selection UI.

Watch the video to go through the required APIs needed for building a DocumentsProvider, then read the novel blog post for more details and all of the other functionality that you can add to a DocumentsProvider: https://medium.com/google-developers/building-a-documentsprovider-f7f2fb38e86a

See this video and many others in the full Android Development Patterns playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaMUvV-gOfE&list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc-lJo_RGGXL2Psr8vVCTWjM&index=10

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