Whats New in Android
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The document discusses several new features and updates in Android, including: - The menu button is being deprecated in favor of an overflow menu for legacy apps in Jellybean. - New patterns are emerging for side navigation and notifications. - Google Now provides information from sources like weather, traffic, and sports. - Libraries like RoboGuice and Action Bar Sherlock make development more productive by handling tasks like dependency injection and backwards compatibility. - Testing services like apkudo allow real world testing of apps by humans.
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http-request
Open source library to make working with http easier.
Perform a GET request and get the status of the response
int response = HttpRequest.get(http://google.com).code();
Perform a POST request with some data and get the status of the response
int response = HttpRequest.post(http://google.com).send(name=kevin).code();
Perform a multipart POST request
HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.post(http://google.com);
request.part(status[body], Making a multipart request);
request.part(status[image], new File(/home/kevin/Pictures/ide.png));
if (request.ok())
System.out.println(Status was updated);
Post contents of a file
File input = new File(/input/data.txt);
int response = HttpRequest.post(http://google.com).send(input).code();](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/whats-new-in-android-120906155836-phpapp01/85/Whats-New-in-Android-25-320.jpg)
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Whats New in Android
- 1. What’s New in Android
- 2. about me
- 3. @donnfelker
- 4. Agenda • Ranging topics, all over the place. • Design • Hardware • Marketing Stuff (device art/icons/etc) • All kinds of good stuff
- 5. Jellybean
- 6. Bye Bye Menu overflow for legacy apps http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2012/01/say-goodbye-to-menu-button.html
- 8. Android Design Guide developer.android.com/design/
- 10. Device Art Generator ld
- 11. be
- 12. some
- 14. here... d evice
- 15. imag
- 16. www.androiduipatterns.com Great place to watch patterns emerge and figure out ways to perform complicated UI interactions.
- 17. Side/Slide Navigation Emerging Pattern Info implementations: http://goo.gl/MXZnH Dashboard is Dead(ish) Problems w/ Side Nav: Consistency “Up” What Opens it? Do actions go in there?
- 18. Notifications
- 19. Better Widgets Home Screen Items move out the way Resizable widgets More interactive widgets
- 20. Google Now Weather - Traffic - Transit - Places - Flights - Sports Translation - Currency
- 22. Native Emulator Android SDK Manager Include Map support and make it FAST http://goo.gl/EHGfV
- 23. Async Loaders / Managers http://goo.gl/hWA7D http://goo.gl/UvERc Easier to implement* Lifecycle management is less error prone Works great with content resolvers Overall less code to do the same thing, sometimes
- 24. Little Fluffy Location Library http://goo.gl/LI2U7 Receive more frequent location updates to your app to reduce overall GPS resolving time.
- 25. http://goo.gl/4ol1B http-request Open source library to make working with http easier. Perform a GET request and get the status of the response int response = HttpRequest.get(http://google.com).code(); Perform a POST request with some data and get the status of the response int response = HttpRequest.post(http://google.com).send(name=kevin).code(); Perform a multipart POST request HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.post(http://google.com); request.part(status[body], Making a multipart request); request.part(status[image], new File(/home/kevin/Pictures/ide.png)); if (request.ok()) System.out.println(Status was updated); Post contents of a file File input = new File(/input/data.txt); int response = HttpRequest.post(http://google.com).send(input).code();
- 26. roboguice.org RoboGuice 2 Dependency Injection for Android Faster than 1.x More Features Supports Fragments Cleaner code == easier to maintain
- 27. actionbarsherlock.com Action Bar Sherlock 4.x Completely re-written from ground up Matches Android 4.x Action Bar code call for call Works from version 2.x and up.
- 28. github.com/donnfelker/android-bootstrap Android Bootstrap A template project to bootstrap your next project or simply use as a reference
- 29. Testing
- 30. apkudo.com
- 31. Real world testing by humans.