Android 9 Pie Updates

Updated Android 9 (API level 28) introduce great new features and capabilities for users and developers.

Some important features points are given below.

• Device Indoor positioning with Wi-Fi RTT

- support for the IEEE 802.11mc Wi-Fi protocol

- The device must have location services enabled and Wi-Fi scanning turned on

- Need ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION permission

• Device Display cutout support

- lets you find out the location and shape of the non-functional areas where content shouldn't be displayed.

- use the getDisplayCutout() method.

- attribute, layoutInDisplayCutoutMode, allows your app to lay out its content around a device's cutouts.

- attribute

LAYOUT_IN_DISPLAY_CUTOUT_MODE_DEFAULT

LAYOUT_IN_DISPLAY_CUTOUT_MODE_SHORT_EDGES

LAYOUT_IN_DISPLAY_CUTOUT_MODE_NEVER

• Device Notifications Updated

 Enhanced messaging experience

- The Person class is used to identify people  their avatars and URIs

- other APIs, such as addMessage()

- The Person class also supports the Builder design pattern.

• Device Channel settings, broadcasts, and Do Not Disturb

You can use the isBlocked() method 

up settings using the new getNotificationChannelGroup() method.

NotificationManager reference

• Device now Multi-camera support and camera updates

ImageDecoder for drawables and bitmaps

• Device Animation

HDR VP9 Video, HEIF image compression, and Media APIs

supported in the MediaMuxer and MediaExtractor classes

• Device Data cost sensitivity in JobScheduler

• Device Neural Networks API 1.1

• Device having Autofill framework

• Device Security enhancements

• Device having Android Protected Confirmation

• Device having Hardware security module

• Device APK signature scheme with key rotation

• Device Option to allow key decryption only on unlocked devices

• Device have Legacy encryption support

• Device Deprecation of WPS

• Android backups

• Device Client-side encryption backups

• Define device conditions required for backup

• Accessibility

• Navigation semantics

• Accessibility pane titles

• Heading-based navigation

• Group navigation and output

• Window change details

• Rotation

• Text

• Power management

• Privacy changes

• Limited access to sensors in background

• Restricted access to call logs