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Android 6 Essentials

By : Yossi Elkrief
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Android 6 Essentials

By: Yossi Elkrief

Overview of this book

Android 6 is the latest and greatest version of the Android operating system, and comes packed with cutting edge new features for you to harness for the benefit of building better applications. This step-by-step guide will take you through the basics of the Android Marshmallow permissions model and beyond into other crucial areas such as the Audio,Video,Camera API and Android’s at work features. Learn how to create, deploy, and manage Android applications with Marshmallow’s API and the latest functionalities. The combination of instructions and real-world examples will make your application deployment and testing a breeze.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Android 6 Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Apache HTTP client removal


The Apache HTTP client has been deprecated for quite some time—since 2011 or so. Using this client on Android 2.3 and higher was not recommended; now with Android 6.0 Marshmallow, this API has been removed. So, we'll use the HttpURLConnection class instead.

This API is more efficient, reduces network use, and minimizes power consumption.

If you wish to continue using the Apache HTTP APIs, you must first declare the following compile-time dependencies in your build.gradle file:

android {
  useLibrary 'org.apache.http.legacy'
}

Note

If you have compile errors in the Android studio, you can head to these questions and solutions on stackoverflow: