The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development Version 7.4 Released

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This update:

  • Adds a new chapter on Android’s drag-and-drop framework, including material on Android N’s cross-app drag-and-drop

  • Adds a new chapter on adding specialized support for keyboards and mice, including material on Android N’s keyboard shortcuts helper

  • Adds a new chapter on code coverage using Jacoco

  • Updates the chapter on Android N, including updates to the multi-window and TileService material, a new section on MessagingStyle, and a new section on the frame metrics API

  • Updates the TinyTextEditor sample to handle ACTION_EDIT requests, in addition to using the Storage Access Framework to open documents from within the app itself

  • Adds a section on EXIF header manipulation in the chapter on working with the camera

  • Adds a section on keyboard navigation in the chapter on RecyclerView

  • Adds more material on greenrobot EventBus 3.x

  • Adds material on the use of FLAG_SECURE and its limitations

  • Updates the coverage of ACRA to align with ACRA 4.9.0

  • Adds some notes in the chapters on Chrome OS and desktop-style apps about the impending availability of Android apps on Chrome OS

  • Removes most of the references to Eclipse, with coverage now limited to its historical role

Version 7.5 is tentatively slated for late July. This will depend a bit on when Android Studio 2.2 ships to the release channel, as I will need to substantially overhaul some of the introductory chapters to address this change, and that will take some time.

 

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