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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

Video features


In Android Marshmallow, the video processing API has been upgraded with new capabilities. Some new methods and even a new class has been added just for developers.

android.media.MediaSync

The all new MediaSync class has been designed to help us with synchronous audio and video streams' rendering. You can also use it to play audio- or video-only streams. You can use the dynamic playback rate and feed the buffers in a nonblocking action with a callback return. For more information on the proper usage, read:

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/MediaSync.html

MediaCodecInfo.CodecCapabilities.getMaxSupportedInstances

Now, we have a MediaCodecInfo.CodecCapabilities.getMaxSupportedInstances helper method to get the maximum number of supported concurrent codec instances. However, we must consider this only an upper bound. The actual number of concurrent instances can be lower depending on the device and the amount of available resources at the time of usage.

Why do we...