The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development Version 8.11 Released
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Principally, this update adds ~30 pages on Android P, based on Developer Preview 1.
This is a lot less than I was hoping for, because many things in Android P do
not work (e.g., HTTPS requirement, WebView tracing, directory access settings,
FOREGROUND_SERVICE permission) or are still very nascent (e.g., slices). Future
book updates will cover more of this, as these features stabilize.
Beyond Android P, this update:
Updates the chapter on Android Things for the DP7 release
Updates the chapter on ACRA to cover version 5.1.1
Updates many samples to use the Support Library edition of fragments,
in lieu of the native fragment implementation
Updates the chapter on the fused location api to cover
the newer API for getting location updates
Updates the Maps V2 samples to their newer API
Replaced all references to ���Android Wear��� with ���Wear OS���, to reflect the
branding change
Removes three elaborate examples, with an eye towards moving them to
Android���s Architecture Components
(after a substantial rewrite):
the dynamic tab sample from the chapter on advanced RecyclerView techniques
the TinyTextEditor sample from the chapter on consuming documents
the document mode sample from the chapter on tasks
Removes the chapter on the percent library, which has been deprecated
and supplanted by ConstraintLayout
Removes the chapter on implementing a nav drawer, pending some future
rewrite
Fixes a variety of errata
If you���re wondering about the naming convention, this book will hit 9.0
sometime later this year, once Exploring Android
covers enough of Android. At that time, I will retire the EmPubLite series of tutorials
and start the 9.x numbering series.
The next update to this book depends a lot on what Google does. If I had to guess,
I will not update this book until shortly after Google I|O 2018. However, if
Google ships a substantial Developer Preview 2 in April, I may push out an update
to this book sooner.
