Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Android World Update # Android 4.3 APIs now available in the Android SDK

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Android 4.3 APIs now available in the Android SDK
Jul 24th 2013, 16:44, by Jerry Hildenbrand

 

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The Android SDK is getting ready for the coming 4.3 update as well.

Attention developers -- grab your Android SDK and check for updates! We've got some new tools and platform-tools in the pipe, as well as the API 18 -- that'd be Android 4.3 -- update.

We're all excited about getting updated to Jelly Bean 4.3, but it won't mean much without a bunch of new apps that use the features. Don't forget us when you write them!

    


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Android World Update # Google Play Games announced - Google's games hub for Android

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Google Play Games announced - Google's games hub for Android
Jul 24th 2013, 16:40, by Alex Dobie

Google Play Games

Launching today on the Google Play Store

We're live from Google's event in San Francisco, where the search giant has just announced its new games center app for Android, Google Play Games.

Google Play Games allows users to view leaderboards and achievements for games, compare scores and discover games based on what friends are playing.

The new Google Play Games app launches today on Google Play, and it'll ship on the new Nexus 7.

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Android World Update # Google officially unveils Android 4.3 Jelly Bean

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Google officially unveils Android 4.3 Jelly Bean
Jul 24th 2013, 16:29, by Quentyn Kennemer

Google took to San Francisco this morning to announce Android 4.3 Jelly Bean, the latest major revision for the super popular mobile operating system. Coming pre-installed on the new Nexus 7, Android 4.3 will bring many new features. One such feature is the ability to control access to apps at the profile level. Restricted profiles [...]

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Android World Update # Android 4.3 updates pushing today for current Nexus devices

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Android 4.3 updates pushing today for current Nexus devices
Jul 24th 2013, 16:33, by Richard Devine

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Just announced at Google's live event in San Francisco, is the update schedule for the newly official Android 4.3. The good news for current Nexus device owners; it's heading your way starting today. 

Hugo Barra confirmed on stage that the Nexus 4, Nexus 10, current Nexus 7 and the Galaxy Nexus will start rolling out today. Google Edition device owners aren't included in the initial push, but their respective updates were confirmed to be landing soon. 

 

    


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Android World Update # Android 4.3 and Updated Developer Tools

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Jul 24th 2013, 16:30, by Android Developers

Posted by Dave Burke, Engineering Director, Android Platform

Today in San Francisco we announced Android 4.3, a sweeter version of Jelly Bean that includes great new features for users and developers. Android 4.3 powers the new Nexus 7 tablet that's coming soon to Google Play and retail outlets, and it's rolling out now as an update to Nexus 4, Nexus 7, Nexus 10, and Galaxy Nexus HSPA+ devices across the world.

For developers, Android 4.3 includes the latest performance enhancements to keep your apps fast, smooth, and efficient, together with new APIs and capabilities to use in your apps. Here's a taste of what's new:

  • OpenGL ES 3.0 — Game developers can now take advantage of OpenGL ES 3.0 and EGL extensions as standard features of Android, with access from either framework or native APIs.
  • Bluetooth Smart — Now your apps can communicate with the many types of low-power Bluetooth Smart devices and sensors available today, to provide new features for fitness, medical, location, proximity, and more.
  • Restricted profiles — Tablet owners can create restricted profiles to limit access to apps, for family, friends, kiosks, and more. Your app can offer various types of restrictions to let tablet owners control its capabilities in each profile.
  • New media capabilities — A modular DRM framework enables media application developers to more easily integrate DRM into their own streaming protocols such as MPEG DASH. Apps can also access a built-in VP8 encoder from framework or native APIs for high-quality video capture.
  • Notification access — Your apps can now access and interact with the stream of status bar notifications as they are posted. You can display them in any way you want, including routing them to nearby Bluetooth devices, and you can update and dismiss notifications as needed.
  • Improved profiling tools — New tags in the Systrace tool and on-screen GPU profiling give you new ways to build great performance into your app.

Check out the Android 4.3 platform highlights for a complete overview of what's new for developers. To read more about the new APIs and how to use them, take a look at the API Overview or watch the new DevBytes videos.

Along with the new Android 4.3 platform we're releasing an update to the Android NDK (r9). The new NDK gives you native access to the OpenGL ES 3.0 APIs and other stable APIs in Android 4.3, so if you use high-performance graphics in your games or apps, make sure to check it out.

Last, we've updated the Android Support Library (r18) with several key APIs to help you build great apps with broad compatibility. Most important, we've added an Action Bar API to let you build this essential Android design pattern into your app with compatibility back to Android 2.1. For apps targeting RTL languages, there's a new BidiFormatter utility you can use to manage RTL strings with compatibility back to Android 2.1. Also, watch for a new RenderScript feature coming soon that will let you take advantage of hardware-accelerated computation with compatibility back to Android 2.2.

You can get started developing and testing on Android 4.3 right away, in Android Studio or in ADT/Ant. You can download the Android 4.3 Platform (API level 18), as well as the SDK Tools, Platform Tools, and Support Library from the Android SDK Manager.

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Android World Update # Google officially unveils Android 4.3 Jelly Bean

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Google officially unveils Android 4.3 Jelly Bean
Jul 24th 2013, 16:22, by Alex Dobie

Nexus 4

After weeks of speculation and leaks, the next version of Jelly Bean is finally official

Google has announced a new version of Android — 4.3 Jelly Bean — at its breakfast event in San Francisco today.

As expected, version 4.3 brings new features and tools for developers, including Bluetooth Low Energy support and new for devs to interact  with Android's notification center. There's also a new camera app for vanilla Android devices — the same one that's shipping in the new Google Play edition phones. Performance and responsiveness has also been improved across the board.

Primarily, though, this is another maintenance release for Jelly Bean, and the 4.3 release builds on what was already there in 4.1 and 4.2. Most of the new additions to the Android code base are focused on getting the OS prepared for connecting to wearable devices (with Bluetooth LE) and helping developers make even better applications.

Android 4.3 Jelly Bean should begin hitting Nexus devices very soon, so now's the time to start hammering that "Check for updates" button, if you're into that sort of thing.

We'll bring you more on the new release as it comes. In the meantime, share your thoughts down in the comments.

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