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Android 6 Essentials

Android 6 Essentials

By : Elkrief
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Android 6 Essentials

Android 6 Essentials

4.7 (3)
By: Elkrief
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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 (10 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Android Marshmallow Permissions
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1. Android Marshmallow Permissions
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An overview of Android permissions
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Understanding Android Marshmallow permissions
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Taking coding permissions into account
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Need support handling runtime permissions?
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Summary
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2. App Links
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2. App Links
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The Android Intent system
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Testing app links
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Summary
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3. Apps' Auto Backup
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3. Apps' Auto Backup
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An overview
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Data backup configuration
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Backup configuration testing
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Important bytes
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Summary
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4. Changes Unfold
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4. Changes Unfold
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Power-saving modes
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Removable storage adoption
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Apache HTTP client removal
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Notifications
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Text selection
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Android Keystore changes
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Wi-Fi and networking changes
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Runtime
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Hardware identifier
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APK validation
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USB connection
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Direct Share
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Voice interactions
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The Assist API
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Bluetooth API Changes
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5. Audio, Video, and Camera Features
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5. Audio, Video, and Camera Features
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Audio features
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Video features
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Camera features
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6. Android for Work
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6. Android for Work
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Behavioral changes
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Single-use device improvements
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Silently installing/uninstalling apps
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Improved certificate access
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Automatic system updates
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Third-party certificate installation
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Data usage statistics
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Managing runtime permissions
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VPN access and display
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Work profile status
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Summary
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7. Chrome Custom Tabs
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7. Chrome Custom Tabs
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What is a Chrome custom tab?
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When to use Chrome custom tabs
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The implementation guide
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8. Authentication
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8. Authentication
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The Fingerprint authentication API
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Credentials' Grace Period
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Cleartext network traffic
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Index
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Index

The implementation guide

As discussed earlier, we have a couple of features integrated into Chrome custom tabs. The first customizes the UI and interaction with the custom tabs. The second allows pages to be loaded faster and keeps the application alive.

Can we use Chrome custom tabs?

Before we start using custom tabs, we want to make sure they're supported. Chrome custom tabs expose a service, so the best check for support is to try and bind to the service. Success means that custom tabs are supported and can be used. You can check out this gist, which shows a helper how to to check it, or check the project source code later on at:

https://gist.github.com/MaTriXy/5775cb0ff98216b2a99d

After checking and learning that support exists, we will start with the UI and interaction part.

Custom UI and tab interaction

Here, we will use the well-known ACTION_VIEW intent action, and by appending extras to the intent sent to Chrome, we will trigger changes in the UI. Remember that the ACTION_VIEW intent...

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