Android M Developer Preview and Tools • Hacker News Board

Re: Android M Developer Preview and Tools

#11

Post by heyheyhey » Thu, May 28, 2015, 7:04 PM UTC

> Battery - We’re making Android devices smarter about managing power through a new feature called Doze. With M, Android uses significant motion detection to learn if a device has been left unattended for a while. In this state, Android will exponentially back off background activity, trading off a little bit of app freshness for longer battery life.

Will this improve wakelock performance that has been plaguing Android for years?

Re: Android M Developer Preview and Tools

#12

Post by jfuhrman » Thu, May 28, 2015, 7:04 PM UTC

Will there be an official Android M for the Nexus 4 ? It's a very powerful device even by today's standards with a quadcore and 2GB RAM.

Re: Android M Developer Preview and Tools

#13

Post by jraines » Thu, May 28, 2015, 7:07 PM UTC

quotemstr wrote: post #8

amolgupta wrote: post #3

the NDK support in Studio will end the use of eclipse for Android development.

I like how people see Android developments as a choice of heavyweight IDEs. I do all my Android development, Java and native, with Emacs and Buck.

Can you recommend any good resources learning about taking this approach?

Re: Android M Developer Preview and Tools

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Post by runjake » Thu, May 28, 2015, 7:10 PM UTC

jfuhrman wrote: post #12

Will there be an official Android M for the Nexus 4 ? It's a very powerful device even by today's standards with a quadcore and 2GB RAM.

From the article this submission is linked to:

"The M Developer Preview includes an updated SDK with tools, system images for testing on the official Android emulator, and system images for testing on Nexus 5, Nexus 6, Nexus 9, and Nexus Player devices."

So, no.

Re: Android M Developer Preview and Tools

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Post by rhodysurf » Thu, May 28, 2015, 7:12 PM UTC

runjake wrote: post #14

jfuhrman wrote: post #12

Will there be an official Android M for the Nexus 4 ? It's a very powerful device even by today's standards with a quadcore and 2GB RAM.

From the article this submission is linked to: "The M Developer Preview includes an updated SDK with tools, system images for testing on the official Android emulator, and system images for testing on Nexus 5, Nexus 6, Nexus 9, and Nexus Player devices." So, no.

But the actual release may support it, theres no way to know now

Re: Android M Developer Preview and Tools

#16

Post by mahouse » Thu, May 28, 2015, 7:20 PM UTC

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LCRPmN9Lx_E/VWc6aVDdMkI/AAAAAAAAB...

That image... Seriously, when will Google stop doing things like these? Will they ever learn to be attentive?

Re: Android M Developer Preview and Tools

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Post by Zigurd » Thu, May 28, 2015, 7:20 PM UTC

The pace of development is impressive. Now if they could get OEMs to keep up.

Re: Android M Developer Preview and Tools

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Post by isbadawi » Thu, May 28, 2015, 7:28 PM UTC

mahouse wrote: post #16

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LCRPmN9Lx_E/VWc6aVDdMkI/AAAAAAAAB... That image... Seriously, when will Google stop doing things like these? Will they ever learn to be attentive?

What are you referring to?

Re: Android M Developer Preview and Tools

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Post by jophde » Thu, May 28, 2015, 7:34 PM UTC

quotemstr wrote: post #8

amolgupta wrote: post #3

the NDK support in Studio will end the use of eclipse for Android development.

I like how people see Android developments as a choice of heavyweight IDEs. I do all my Android development, Java and native, with Emacs and Buck.

The thought of writing Java without IntelliJ makes me want to quick programming. Ironically, Kotlin might be great in a text editor despite being made by Jetbrains.

Re: Android M Developer Preview and Tools

#20

Post by gtk40 » Thu, May 28, 2015, 7:38 PM UTC

mahouse wrote: post #16

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LCRPmN9Lx_E/VWc6aVDdMkI/AAAAAAAAB... That image... Seriously, when will Google stop doing things like these? Will they ever learn to be attentive?

That looks great to me.