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Android 6 Essentials

By : Elkrief

4.7 (3)

Android 6 Essentials

4.7 (3)

By: 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.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Android Marshmallow Permissions

1. Android Marshmallow Permissions

An overview of Android permissions

Understanding Android Marshmallow permissions

Taking coding permissions into account

Need support handling runtime permissions?

Summary

2. App Links

2. App Links

The Android Intent system

Testing app links

Summary

3. Apps' Auto Backup

3. Apps' Auto Backup

An overview

Data backup configuration

Backup configuration testing

Important bytes

Summary

4. Changes Unfold

4. Changes Unfold

Power-saving modes

Removable storage adoption

Apache HTTP client removal

Notifications

Text selection

Android Keystore changes

Wi-Fi and networking changes

Runtime

Hardware identifier

APK validation

USB connection

Direct Share

Voice interactions

The Assist API

Bluetooth API Changes

Summary

5. Audio, Video, and Camera Features

5. Audio, Video, and Camera Features

Audio features

Video features

Camera features

Summary

6. Android for Work

6. Android for Work

Behavioral changes

Single-use device improvements

Silently installing/uninstalling apps

Improved certificate access

Automatic system updates

Third-party certificate installation

Data usage statistics

Managing runtime permissions

VPN access and display

Work profile status

Summary

7. Chrome Custom Tabs

7. Chrome Custom Tabs

What is a Chrome custom tab?

When to use Chrome custom tabs

The implementation guide

Summary

8. Authentication

8. Authentication

The Fingerprint authentication API

Credentials' Grace Period

Cleartext network traffic

Summary

Index

Index

Summary

Android Marshmallow gave us a new API to authenticate users with the Fingerprint API. We can use the sensor, authenticate the user even within our application, and save it for later use if we want to save the need for user login using the Credentials' Grace Period capabilities Android Marshmallow introduced.

We also covered a way to make our application more secure using HTTPS only, and the StrictMode policy, enforced with the help of the usesCleartextTraffic flag, which allows us to make sure that all the nodes we connect to the outer world and examine the need for are a secure connection or not.

I would like to thank you for reading.

I would like to thank the Android team. This product has changed my life.

The Android ecosystem has great developers contributing by publishing libraries, writing blog posts and answering support questions; I'm proud to be part of it.

Looking forward for future editions.

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