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Learning Embedded Android N Programming

You're reading from  Learning Embedded Android N Programming

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785282881
Pages 282 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Ivan Morgillo Ivan Morgillo
Profile icon Ivan Morgillo

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Learning Embedded Android N Programming
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Understanding the Architecture 2. Obtaining the Source Code – Structure and Philosophy 3. Set up and Build – the Emulator Way 4. Moving to Real-World Hardware 5. Customizing Kernel and Boot Sequence 6. "Cooking" Your First ROM 7. Tailoring Your Personal Android System 8. Beyond the Smartphone Index

Looking forward


During the writing of this book, we were lucky enough to have a look at the upcoming Android N. The new version will probably be available at the end of 2016 as a stable release, after a few months of public developer preview.

Android N introduces a few interesting features, like the "Multi-Window" mode shown in the next image:

At Google, they are very focused on user feedback, and they decided to introduce this feature into the official version after a few months of testing by Samsung. Most of us will recognize the Multi-Windows mode from the already-available Android ROM, by Samsung. In Android N, this will be available for everybody, on every Android device, with full support for both orientations, portrait and landscape, and even the possibility to resize the split windows by dragging the "separator line".

According to lots of blog posts, one of the most popular categories for Google Play Store apps is Caller ID filters. With Android N, this feature will be already available...

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