Our top 3 picks from Modern Android Development at ADS '22
Last week was the first of three tracks at Android Dev Summit, this one on Modern Android Development: our set of libraries, tools and guidance that make it faster and easier to build amazing Android apps. We've made a YouTube playlist so you can watch all of the MAD sessions, and you can start by watching our top 3 picks from MAD below!
The October '22 stable release of Jetpack Compose brings many improvements including staggered grids, snapping behaviors, and the first stable release of Compose Material 3 library. We've also released a new Gradle BOM to simplify how you specify compose dependencies and a sneak preview of Compose for Android TV is now available in early alpha.
Baseline Profiles are a powerful way to improve app startup and runtime performance—without changing a single line of app code. With Jetpack Benchmark 1.1 and Android Gradle Plugin 7.3 both reaching stable, the toolchain for generating a profile is now completely stable and ready to integrate into your app.
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Location-based solution provider Telenav is seeking to disrupt the in-car services industry with a new monetization platform designed to offer a variety of in-car services such as free navigation to consumers and monetize them through advertising. Originally announced at Las Vegas, Nevada-based Consumer Electronics Show in January, Telenav's offering is effectively targeted at bringing the ad-supported software business model that already proved its worth in the mobile industry to the in-vehicle tech segment. The company's internal studies and a number of independent surveys suggest the vast majority of consumers "would prefer free in-car services monetized through ads rather than pay for them" like they would traditionally, Telenav Executive Director of Strategy Ky Tang told AndroidHeadlines in an interview. Telenav says its in-car solution can be applied to a wide variety of use cases and technologies that consumers have come to expect from contemporary vehicles....
The arrival of contemporary smartphones and mobile apps in the late 2000s didn't just fundamentally change what consumers expect from their handsets, it also ended up disrupting a wide variety of industries, with mobile navigation being its first target. Founded in 1999, Santa Clara, California-based Telenav was enjoying a relatively successful first decade of existence, having worked with major U.S. carriers such as AT&T and Sprint on offering navigation services. Following the arrival of Google Maps, it suddenly found itself having to rethink its flagship product after after Google's solution, offering a comparable navigation service free of charge, became available on every new smartphone. "It made the industry sweat quite a bit at the time," Telenav Executive Director of Strategy Ky Tang recalled in an interview with Android Headlines, asserting Google Maps had changed the navigation game significantly. At a time when smartphones were enjoying massive globa...