Exploring Android 14: Screenshot Detection

One of these new APIs is the Screenshot Detection API, which allows apps to reliably check when a screenshot has been captured. While this might sound like a bit of a niche scenario at first, there are several situations where this would be deemed useful.

Dark mode was natively supported by the release of Android Q. It has started to become a popular feature since it reduces eye strain in low-light environments, it’s aesthetically pleasing, and battery-efficient in modern hardware. We wanted to bring these benefits to the Android Uber Rider app.

Jetpack Compose is a game changer for Android developers. It provides an easy and flexible toolset for building UI. However, using Jetpack Compose beyond its basic tenets Box, Column, Row — might need us to put a little more work into one of two related areas: measuring/layout and performance.

Making timers lifecycle-aware.

In this chapter, we’re going to learn about data classes, which are super-powered classes that are especially helpful when you’ve got an immutable class that mainly just holds properties.