{"id":458371,"date":"2022-08-29T10:43:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T08:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=458371"},"modified":"2022-08-29T10:46:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T08:46:29","slug":"google-wants-developers-to-create-multi-device-android-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/458371-google-wants-developers-to-create-multi-device-android-apps.html","title":{"rendered":"Google wants developers to create multi-device Android apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is working on making it easier for app developers to develop Android apps with some form of continuity across various devices.<\/p>\n<p>The company announced its cross-device software development kit (SDK) in a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/android-developers.googleblog.com\/2022\/07\/announcing-cross-device-SDK-Developer-Preview-for-Android.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a><\/strong>. It said it allows developers to create &#8220;rich multi-device experiences with a simple and intuitive set of APIs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It specified that the core functionality of the APIs is centred around finding nearby devices, enabling secure connections between devices, and extending a user&#8217;s experience across multiple devices.<\/p>\n<p>Google said the SDK lets\u00a0developers build cross-device experiences by enabling the following use cases:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Discovering and authorising communication with nearby devices;<\/li>\n<li>Sharing an app&#8217;s state with the same app on another device;<\/li>\n<li>Starting the app on a secondary device without having to keep it running in the background;<\/li>\n<li>Establishing secure connections for devices to communicate with one another; and<\/li>\n<li>Enabling task handoff where the user starts a task on one device and can easily continue on another.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Regarding cross-device connectivity, Google said its new SDK could use wireless technologies such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and ultra-wideband.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our SDK does all the heavy-lifting under the hood, offering you a modular,connectivity-agnostic API that supports bi-directional communication between devices and is backward compatible to Android 8,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>Google made the Developer Preview for Android phones and tablets on 26 August 2022 and said it &#8220;will be available later for other Android surfaces and non-Android OSs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/457575-home-affairs-is-looking-for-app-developers-and-paying-up-to-r876000-a-year.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Home Affairs is looking for app developers and paying up to R876,000 a year<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google released its cross-device SDK preview to make it easier for developers to create apps that are compatible across a range of devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":442018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,81001,167,81003,81005],"class_list":["post-458371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-cross-device","tag-google","tag-multi-device","tag-software-development-kit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458381,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458371\/revisions\/458381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}