The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development Version 8.7 Released

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In this update, I:

Added more coverage of Android 8.0, including:

Updating everything for ODP4

A new section in the autofill chapter, outlining a security flaw in
autofill and what autofill service developers need to do to try to minimize
the impacts of that flaw

Covered JobIntentService and the new JobScheduler work queue system

More references to ���O��� were replaced with ���8.0��� or ���26���, as appropriate

Overhauled the chapter on the NDK, updating it to using CMake for its build
system

Replaced the CWAC-Cam2 coverage in a chapter on working with the camera with
material on Fotoapparat and CameraKit-Android

Extended the coverage of ConstraintLayout, with more material on the
drag-and-drop GUI builder, biases on constraints tied to guidelines, and chains

Updated the Android Things coverage for Developer Preview 4.1

Rewrote the sample apps for the chapters on location tracking to use OkHttp
and a newer National Weather Service API

Added a chapter on working with the Samsung DeX desktop dock

Updated some really out of date code in the chapters on audio recording and
working with contacts

Removed some chapters:

the runtime permissions tutorial

the chapter on the percent library (which Google deprecated in favor of
ConstraintLayout)

the chapter on the Kindle Fire

Made other miscellaneous fixes and improvements

For those of you using the APK edition, there is a new appinar in the Community
Theater, on WebView communication between Java and JavaScript.

The next book update should be in late September or early October, continuing
the updates for Android 8.0, and possibly addressing Android Studio 3.0 if that
ships in the release channel by then.