The Google I/O 2018 has some really exciting announcements; developers got the treat with the Android Jetpack.
Highlights of Android Jetpack
Slices alpha release
Paging stable release
Navigation alpha release
WorkManager alpha release
Android KTX (Kotlin Extensions) alpha release
Google announced the major updates in the way developers write codes for apps on Android platform. The Android Jetpack is a real jet to boost the way developers used to work on writing code for Android apps. It has the next generation Android support library. Android support library doesn’t need any introduction to mobile application developers. It gives most of the basic functions of your mobile app, only developers know it. Android Jetpack has a major offering that it will allow apps to run on all Android platform versions.
What is Android Jetpack?
One who doesn’t know what Android Jetpack is, let's understand it in a simple way. Android Jetpack is a combination of tools, component and guidance to develop advanced mobile applications. Technically, it adjoins the existing Android support libraries and components to make a new set of components, which helps to create exciting features into an app. However, this is a choice of developer to use the Jetpack updates or not. There are some new updates, let's have a look.
What’s new with WorkManager?
The updates with WorkManager will give a simplified version of modern API, gives better the ability to work on devices with or without Google Play Services. It also has the ability to create graphs of work, and the ability to query the state of your work at the same time. The updates are enough to power-pack its library form background uses.
What are the updates with Paging?
App data is large in the quantity and it takes lots of space and cost to load; the preference here is to avoid the unnecessary downloading and presenting too much at a single time. The Paging 1.0.0 version makes the task easier. It helps to load and present a large set of data in a faster manner with infinite scrolling. It gives freedom to load the data from local storage or network or both and let you define it too.
What new Slices brings?
Slices is the new and exciting feature comes with Android Jetpack. Slices component has a bucketful of new features. It is the way to surface your app’s UI within your Google Assistant as a result of a search. This is to enhance the user experiences with their Android device.
What is new with Android KTX?
Android Jetpack will take advantage of Kotlin language. It features that make you more productive with your apps. It will let you allow complex Kotlin code in a very concise Kotlin code for an easier version. We can conclude it that new update for developers to increase the mobile app development process. It has some new features and support for developers, which will be ended up providing better user experience and increase the performance of the Android App.
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