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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Sony has now announced a smaller follow-up to last year's Digital Paper E-ink writing tablet, the DPT-RP1. That's according to a new announcement made today via Sony's official blog. The new tablet – also dubbed with Digital Paper branding but sold under the model number DPT-CP1 – seems to be the same basic design as the previous model. However, while that earlier device was sized as close as possible to A4 paper with a 13.3-inch display, the new model drops to A5 with a 10.3-inch display. That should make its use much easier under a wider number of circumstances since it will arguably be easier to hold in one hand while writing with the other. However, there will certainly be other benefits as well. As with the larger model from last year, the new Digital Paper centers around its inclusion of a stylus that works in conjunction with a 1,404 × 1,872 dot E-ink display with 16 levels of grayscale. The display is also specially designed to provide a paper-like feedback to u...