The Android Dev summit happened from Nov 7-8 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Android team shared updates to Kotlin, Jetpack, Android Studio, App Bundles and talked about Foldables. In this talk, I will summarize the major announcements and new features for Android Developers and Product Managers.

1. Recap of Android Dev
Summit 2018
Hassan Abid
GDE - Android
@hassanabidpk
Singapore

2. “Its by developers, for
developers to share more
technical behind the scenes”
- Stephanie Cuthbertson - Keynote speaker

3. History Of Android
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5. Agenda
Foldables
App Bundle
Dynamic Features
Android Studio
Kotlin
JetPack
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6. Foldables
Screen can bend and fold
Two Variants : Two-screen and one-screen

7. App Bundles and
Dynamic Features
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9. App Bundles
App sizes have grown dramatically, up 5x since 2012
App Bundles sees 35% size savings
Mutli-apk
Android Studio 3.2 brought full IDE support of app
bundles
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10. App Bundle - How?
Use Android Studio 3.2 or Command line
Output will be saved at
modulename/build/outputs/bundleVarient/bundle.aab

11. App Bundles - How to test
Use Google Play app-signing to release apks to testers
Alternatively use bundletool to generate set of apks locally
$ bundletool build-apks
--bundle=/MyApp/my_app.aab
--output=/MyApp/my_app.apks
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13. Dynamic Features
Install and uninstall features on demand
Or defer install on demand
For Pre-L devices, fuse and deliver at install time
Early access - Apply at http://bit.ly/2Pb68Tv
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15. app
Add
Receipe
Feature
End
Modularization
core
VR Viewer
Feature

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19. Example of Modularization : Plaid 2.0
Github : https://github.com/nickbutcher/plaid/
Video : https://youtu.be/QdoEcfibG-s

20. In-App Update
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23. Android Studio
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25. Android Studio 3.3 Beta is available now

26. Android Studio 3.3
App Bundles support Instant App
Improvements in Profilers
Performance and Build time improvements
Try it out :
https://developer.android.com/studio/preview/features/

27. Kotlin 1.3
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29. Kotlin 1.3 - New Features
Inline classes
Unsigned Numbers
Multi-platform projects
Corountines stable release

30. Android JetPack
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31. Android Jetpack : Accelerate Android Development
Backward Compatible
Works on 95% of Android devices

33. Jetpack - Architecture Components
Paging 2.1 New!
Room 2.1 New!
Data Binding 3.2 New!
ViewModel New!
Navigation New!

34. Navigation Demo http://bit.ly/2Ep9e4B

35. Hassan Abid, GDE Android
@hassanabidpk
Singapore
Thank you!

36. Q&A
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