Android Developer
Google I/O 2021 Developer Keynote
Android
- Android 12
- User safety features: d.android.com/audit
- Stand-by bucket
- UX improvements
- Build beautiful apps, easier
- AS + Kotlin + JetPack + JetPack Compose
- Android Gradle plugin 7.0
- Jetpack
- Macrobenchmark (alpha)
- DataStore (beta)
- etc…
- Jetpack Compose
- Still Beta, already used in prod apps by loads of big tech comps
- 1.0 coming in July
- Building across screens
- New components to handle screen resizing
- Easier Google Assistant (voice) API via app capabilities
- More JetPack APIs for small (wearable) screens.
- AS Arctic Fox
Web
- Power
- WeRTC improvements
- Maps WebGL integration
- More hardware access
- Performance
- Chrome improvements
- Core Web Vitals (report), integrated in various tools (web.dev)
- Will be included in search results
- Privacy
- Privacy Sandbox, no more x-site tracking
Flutter
- Flutter 2.2 release
- Improved desktop support
- null safety by default
- Upgraded dev tools
- other Google SDK updates for Flutter
- Material You support
- photobooth.flutter.dev for demo project
Firebase
- Accelerate app development
- New Firebase Extensions
- Stripe
- MailChimp
- Etc…
- High-quality experiences
- FB performance monitoring updates:
- real-time metrics
- redesigned dashboard
- Trace table
- Engagement
- FB Remote Config updates
- Personalization feature (alpha)
Machine learning
- TensorFlow Hub contains loads of ML models.
- g.co/on-device-ml
- Mobile
- TensorFlow Lite
- Model Maker
- Web
- TensorFlow.js (Lite)
- for Microcontrollers
- CoLab
- Cloud
- Vertex AI (managed ML platform)
- AutoML
- Vertex Pipelines
- cloud.google.com/vertex-ai