Overview of Android features announced in Google IO 2014

1. Google IO Dev Bytes

2. Contents
• What’s new in Android L
o Webview
o Android Job Scheduler
o Notifications
o Miscellaneous
• Google Play services
o App Indexing API

3. One ‘L ’ of a release?
(Android L)

4. Webview
• Webview.
setWebContentsDebuggingEnabled (true)
• Remote debugging of Android web views
• Screen Casting
https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/remote-debugging

5. Android Job Scheduler

6. Concept
Make your apps Lazy
o Reduce active time
o Coalesce tasks
o Defer tasks

7. Use Cases
• Non-user-facing work that you can defer.
• Work you'd prefer to do when the unit is plugged
in.
• Network(WiFi) dependent tasks.
• Periodic batch tasks.

8. Code Snippet

9. Execution Flow

10. Notifications

11. Evolution

12. Notifications in Android L

13. Lock screen Notifications
• Lock screens have the
ability to present
notifications
• Users can choose
via Settings whether to
allow sensitive
notification content to
be shown over a secure
lock screen.

14. Lock Screen Notifications

15. Heads up Notifications
• Grab user attention without
stealing focus from current
app
• User can swipe it away to
ignore
Use Cases
• Incoming phone call when
using device
• Alarm when using device
• New SMS message
• Low battery

16. And the rest….

17. More Recent Tasks
• Apps can open more
tasks as needed for
additional concurrent
activities
• Facilitates
multitasking by letting
users quickly switch
between individual
activities

18. Project Volta

19. Status Bar style

20. Multi networking APIs

21. Google Play Services

22. App Indexing

23. App Indexing API - Steps

24. Step 1 – Add deep link support

25. Step 2 – Verify Website

26. Step 3 – Publish Deep Links

27. Alternate Step 3 – Deep Links via API
• Specify web and app Uri in app itself
• Use App Indexing APIs bundled in Google play
services v5.0
https://developers.google.com/app-indexing/webmasters/appindexingapi

28. References
[Google IO video sessions]
https://www.google.com/events/io/io14videos
[Android L API overview]
https://developer.android.com/preview/api-overview.html
[Android Web view remote debugging]
https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/remote-debugging
[Job Scheduler]
Github sample code : https://github.com/googlesamples/android-JobScheduler
Dev Bytes Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdINLG5QrJc
[App Indexing]
Dev Bytes video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjLJoMWSXts
Developer Guidelines :
https://developers.google.com/app-indexing/webmasters/appindexingapi
https://developer.android.com/training/app-indexing/enabling-app-indexing.html

29. Thank you!