Visão geral de recursos e APIs

O Android 14 introduz ótimos recursos e APIs para desenvolvedores. As informações a seguir ajudam você a conhecer os recursos disponíveis para os apps e a começar a usar as APIs relacionadas.

Para uma lista detalhada de APIs adicionadas, modificadas e removidas, leia a diferença de API . Para saber mais sobre as APIs adicionadas, acesse a Referência da API do Android. No Android 14, procure as APIs que foram adicionadas no nível 34 da API. Para saber mais sobre as áreas em que as mudanças na plataforma podem afetar seus apps, confira as mudanças de comportamento do Android 14 para apps destinados ao Android 14 e para todos os apps.

Internacionalização

Seleção de idioma por app

Android 14 expands on the per-app language features that were introduced in Android 13 (API level 33) with these additional capabilities:

  • Automatically generate an app's localeConfig: Starting with Android Studio Giraffe Canary 7 and AGP 8.1.0-alpha07, you can configure your app to support per-app language preferences automatically. Based on your project resources, the Android Gradle plugin generates the LocaleConfig file and adds a reference to it in the final manifest file, so you no longer have to create or update the file manually. AGP uses the resources in the res folders of your app modules and any library module dependencies to determine the locales to include in the LocaleConfig file.

  • Dynamic updates for an app's localeConfig: Use the setOverrideLocaleConfig() and getOverrideLocaleConfig() methods in LocaleManager to dynamically update your app's list of supported languages in the device's system settings. Use this flexibility to customize the list of supported languages per region, run A/B experiments, or provide an updated list of locales if your app utilizes server-side pushes for localization.

  • App language visibility for input method editors (IMEs): IMEs can utilize the getApplicationLocales() method to check the language of the current app and match the IME language to that language.

API Grammatical Inflection

Três bilhões de pessoas falam idiomas com marcação de gênero: idiomas em que categorias gramaticais, como substantivos, verbos, adjetivos e preposições, mudam de acordo com o gênero das pessoas e os objetos sobre os quais elas falam. Tradicionalmente, vários idiomas com marcação de gênero usam o gênero gramatical masculino como padrão ou genérico.

Referir-se a usuários no gênero gramatical errado, como falar com uma mulher no gênero gramatical masculino, pode afetar negativamente o desempenho e a atitude dela. Por outro lado, uma interface com linguagem que reflete corretamente o gênero gramatical do usuário pode melhorar o engajamento e fornecer uma experiência do usuário mais personalizada e natural.

To help you build a user-centric UI for gendered languages, Android 14 introduces the Grammatical Inflection API, which lets you add support for grammatical gender without refactoring your app.

Preferências regionais

Regional preferences enable users to personalize temperature units, the first day of the week, and numbering systems. A European living in the United States might prefer temperature units to be in Celsius rather than Fahrenheit and for apps to treat Monday as the beginning of the week instead of the US default of Sunday.

New Android Settings menus for these preferences provide users with a discoverable and centralized location to change app preferences. These preferences also persist through backup and restore. Several APIs and intents—such as getTemperatureUnit and getFirstDayOfWeek— grant your app read access to user preferences, so your app can adjust how it displays information. You can also register a BroadcastReceiver on ACTION_LOCALE_CHANGED to handle locale configuration changes when regional preferences change.

To find these settings, open the Settings app and navigate to System > Languages & input > Regional preferences.

Regional preferences screen in Android system settings.
Temperature options for regional preferences in Android system settings.

Acessibilidade

Dimensionamento de fonte não linear para 200%

Starting in Android 14, the system supports font scaling up to 200%, providing low-vision users with additional accessibility options that align with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

To prevent large text elements on screen from scaling too large, the system applies a nonlinear scaling curve. This scaling strategy means that large text doesn't scale at the same rate as smaller text. Nonlinear font scaling helps preserve the proportional hierarchy between elements of different sizes while mitigating issues with linear text scaling at high degrees (such as text being cut off or text that becomes harder to read due to an extremely large display sizes).

Test your app with nonlinear font scaling

Enable the maximum font size in a device's accessibility settings to test your app.

If you already use scaled pixels (sp) units to define text sizing, then these additional options and scaling improvements are applied automatically to the text in your app. However, you should still perform UI testing with the maximum font size enabled (200%) to ensure that your app applies the font sizes correctly and can accommodate larger font sizes without impacting usability.

To enable 200% font size, follow these steps:

  1. Open the Settings app and navigate to Accessibility > Display size and text.
  2. For the Font size option, tap the plus (+) icon until the maximum font size setting is enabled, as shown in the image that accompanies this section.

Use scaled pixel (sp) units for text-sizes

Remember to always specify text sizes in sp units. When your app uses sp units, Android can apply the user's preferred text size and scale it appropriately.

Don't use sp units for padding or define view heights assuming implicit padding: with nonlinear font scaling sp dimensions might not be proportional, so 4sp + 20sp might not equal 24sp.

Convert scaled pixel (sp) units

Use TypedValue.applyDimension() to convert from sp units to pixels, and use TypedValue.deriveDimension() to convert pixels to sp. These methods apply the appropriate nonlinear scaling curve automatically.

Avoid hardcoding equations using Configuration.fontScale or DisplayMetrics.scaledDensity. Because font scaling is nonlinear, the scaledDensity field is no longer accurate. The fontScale field should be used for informational purposes only because fonts are no longer scaled with a single scalar value.

Use sp units for lineHeight

Always define android:lineHeight using sp units instead of dp, so the line height scales along with your text. Otherwise, if your text is sp but your lineHeight is in dp or px, it doesn't scale and looks cramped. TextView automatically corrects the lineHeight so that your intended proportions are preserved, but only if both textSize and lineHeight are defined in sp units.

Câmera e mídia

Ultra HDR para imagens

An illustration of Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) versus High Dynamic Range (HDR) image quality.

Android 14 adds support for High Dynamic Range (HDR) images that retain more of the information from the sensor when taking a photo, which enables vibrant colors and greater contrast. Android uses the Ultra HDR format, which is fully backward compatible with JPEG images, allowing apps to seamlessly interoperate with HDR images, displaying them in Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) as needed.

Rendering these images in the UI in HDR is done automatically by the framework when your app opts in to using HDR UI for its Activity Window, either through a manifest entry or at runtime by calling Window.setColorMode(). You can also capture compressed Ultra HDR still images on supported devices. With more colors recovered from the sensor, editing in post can be more flexible. The Gainmap associated with Ultra HDR images can be used to render them using OpenGL or Vulkan.

Zoom, foco, visualização pós-gravação e muito mais nas extensões da câmera

Android 14 upgrades and improves camera extensions, allowing apps to handle longer processing times, which enables improved images using compute-intensive algorithms like low-light photography on supported devices. These features give users an even more robust experience when using camera extension capabilities. Examples of these improvements include:

Zoom no sensor

Quando REQUEST_AVAILABLE_CAPABILITIES_STREAM_USE_CASE em CameraCharacteristics contém SCALER_AVAILABLE_STREAM_USE_CASES_CROPPED_RAW, o app pode usar recursos avançados do sensor para fornecer a um fluxo RAW cortado os mesmos pixels do campo de visão completo usando um CaptureRequest com um destino RAW que tenha o caso de uso do fluxo definido como CameraMetadata.SCALER_AVAILABLE_STREAM_USE_CASES_CROPPED_RAW. Ao implementar os controles de substituição de solicitação, a câmera atualizada oferece aos usuários o controle de zoom antes mesmo que outros controles da câmera estejam prontos.

Áudio USB sem perdas

Android 14 gains support for lossless audio formats for audiophile-level experiences over USB wired headsets. You can query a USB device for its preferred mixer attributes, register a listener for changes in preferred mixer attributes, and configure mixer attributes using the AudioMixerAttributes class. This class represents the format, such as channel mask, sample rate, and behavior of the audio mixer. The class allows for audio to be sent directly, without mixing, volume adjustment, or processing effects.

Produtividade e ferramentas para desenvolvedores

Credential Manager

O Android 14 adiciona o Gerenciador de credenciais como uma API da plataforma, com suporte adicional para dispositivos com o Android 4.4 (nível 19 da API) por meio de uma biblioteca Jetpack que usa o Google Play Services. O objetivo do Gerenciador de credenciais é facilitar o login para os usuários com APIs que extraem e armazenam credenciais com provedores de credenciais configurados pelo usuário. O Gerenciador de credenciais oferece suporte a vários métodos de login, incluindo nome de usuário e senha, chaves de acesso e soluções de login federadas (como o recurso Fazer login com o Google) em uma única API.

As chaves de acesso oferecem muitas vantagens. Por exemplo, as chaves de acesso são criadas com base nos padrões do setor, podem funcionar em diferentes sistemas operacionais e ecossistemas de navegadores e podem ser usadas em sites e apps.

Para mais informações, consulte a documentação do Gerenciador de credenciais e das chaves de acesso e o post do blog sobre o Gerenciador de credenciais e as chaves de acesso.

Conexão Saúde

Health Connect is an on-device repository for user health and fitness data. It allows users to share data between their favorite apps, with a single place to control what data they want to share with these apps.

On devices running Android versions prior to Android 14, Health Connect is available to download as an app on the Google Play store. Starting with Android 14, Health Connect is part of the platform and receives updates through Google Play system updates without requiring a separate download. With this, Health Connect can be updated frequently, and your apps can rely on Health Connect being available on devices running Android 14 or higher. Users can access Health Connect from the Settings in their device, with privacy controls integrated into the system settings.

Users can get started using Health Connect without a separate app download on devices running Android 14 or higher.
Users can control which apps have access to their health and fitness data through system settings.

Health Connect includes several new features in Android 14, such as exercise routes, allowing users to share a route of their workout which can be visualized on a map. A route is defined as a list of locations saved within a window of time, and your app can insert routes into exercise sessions, tying them together. To ensure that users have complete control over this sensitive data, users must allow sharing individual routes with other apps.

For more information, see the Health Connection documentation and the blogpost on What's new in Android Health.

Atualizações do OpenJDK 17

O Android 14 continua o trabalho de atualizar as principais bibliotecas do Android para se alinhar aos recursos das versões mais recentes do LTS do OpenJDK, incluindo atualizações de bibliotecas e suporte à linguagem Java 17 para desenvolvedores de apps e plataformas.

Os seguintes recursos e melhorias estão incluídos:

  • Aproximadamente 300 classes java.base foram atualizadas para oferecer suporte ao Java 17.
  • Blocos de texto, que introduzem literais de string de várias linhas à linguagem de programação Java.
  • Correspondência de padrão para instanceof, que permite que um objeto seja tratado como um tipo específico em uma instanceof sem nenhuma outra variável.
  • Classes seladas, que permitem restringir quais classes e interfaces podem estender ou implementar essas classes.

Graças às atualizações do sistema do Google Play (Projeto Mainline), mais de 600 milhões de dispositivos podem receber as atualizações mais recentes do Android Runtime (ART), que incluem essas mudanças. Isso faz parte do nosso compromisso de oferecer aos apps um ambiente mais consistente e seguro em todos os dispositivos, com novos recursos para os usuários, independente da versão da plataforma.

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Melhorias para app stores

Android 14 introduces several PackageInstaller APIs that allow app stores to improve their user experience.

Request install approval before downloading

Installing or updating an app might require user approval. For example, when an installer making use of the REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES permission attempts to install a new app. In prior Android versions, app stores can only request user approval after APKs are written to the install session and the session is committed.

Starting with Android 14, the requestUserPreapproval() method lets installers request user approval before committing the install session. This improvement lets an app store defer downloading any APKs until after the installation has been approved by the user. Furthermore, once a user has approved installation, the app store can download and install the app in the background without interrupting the user.

Claim responsibility for future updates

The setRequestUpdateOwnership() method allows an installer to indicate to the system that it intends to be responsible for future updates to an app it is installing. This capability enables update ownership enforcement, meaning that only the update owner is permitted to install automatic updates to the app. Update ownership enforcement helps to ensure that users receive updates only from the expected app store.

Any other installer, including those making use of the INSTALL_PACKAGES permission, must receive explicit user approval in order to install an update. If a user decides to proceed with an update from another source, update ownership is lost.

Update apps at less-disruptive times

App stores typically want to avoid updating an app that is actively in use because this leads to the app's running processes being killed, which potentially interrupts what the user was doing.

Starting with Android 14, the InstallConstraints API gives installers a way to ensure that their app updates happen at an opportune moment. For example, an app store can call the commitSessionAfterInstallConstraintsAreMet() method to make sure that an update is only committed when the user is no longer interacting with the app in question.

Seamlessly install optional splits

With split APKs, features of an app can be delivered in separate APK files, rather than as a monolithic APK. Split APKs allow app stores to optimize the delivery of different app components. For example, app stores might optimize based on the properties of the target device. The PackageInstaller API has supported splits since its introduction in API level 22.

In Android 14, the setDontKillApp() method allows an installer to indicate that the app's running processes shouldn't be killed when new splits are installed. App stores can use this feature to seamlessly install new features of an app while the user is using the app.

Pacotes de metadados do app

A partir do Android 14, o instalador do pacote do Android permite que você especifique os metadados do app, como práticas de segurança de dados, que serão incluídos em páginas de app stores, como o Google Play.

Detectar quando usuários fazem capturas de tela no dispositivo

Para criar uma experiência mais padronizada para detectar capturas de tela, o Android 14 apresenta uma API de detecção de capturas de tela que preserva a privacidade. Ela permite que os apps registrem callbacks por atividade. Esses callbacks são invocados, e o usuário é notificado quando faz uma captura de tela enquanto a atividade está visível.

Experiência do usuário

Ações personalizadas e melhoria na classificação do Sharesheet

Android 14 updates the system sharesheet to support custom app actions and more informative preview results for users.

Add custom actions

With Android 14, your app can add custom actions to the system sharesheet it invokes.

Screenshot of custom actions on the sharesheet.

Improve ranking of Direct Share targets

Android 14 uses more signals from apps to determine the ranking of the direct share targets to provide more helpful results for the user. To provide the most useful signal for ranking, follow the guidance for improving rankings of your Direct Share targets. Communication apps can also report shortcut usage for outgoing and incoming messages.

Direct Share row in the sharesheet, as shown by 1

Suporte a animações de voltas preditivas integradas e personalizadas

Video: Predictive back animations

Android 13 introduced the predictive back-to-home animation behind a developer option. When used in a supported app with the developer option enabled, swiping back shows an animation indicating that the back gesture exits the app back to the home screen.

Android 14 includes multiple improvements and new guidance for Predictive Back:

With this Android 14 preview release, all features of Predictive Back remain behind a developer option. See the developer guide to migrate your app to predictive back, as well as the developer guide to creating custom in-app transitions.

Substituições por app do fabricante de dispositivos de tela grande

As substituições por app permitem que os fabricantes mudem o comportamento dos apps em dispositivos de tela grande. Por exemplo, a substituição FORCE_RESIZE_APP instrui o sistema a redimensionar o app para que se ajuste às dimensões de exibição (evitando o modo de compatibilidade de tamanho), mesmo que resizeableActivity="false" esteja definido no manifesto do app.

As substituições têm como objetivo melhorar a experiência do usuário em telas grandes.

As novas propriedades do manifesto permitem desativar algumas substituições do fabricante do dispositivo para o app.

Substituições por app para usuários de telas grandes

As substituições por app mudam o comportamento dos apps em dispositivos de tela grande. Por exemplo, a substituição do fabricante do dispositivo OVERRIDE_MIN_ASPECT_RATIO_LARGE define a proporção do app como 16:9, independente da configuração dele.

O Android 14 QPR1 permite que os usuários apliquem substituições por app usando um novo menu de configurações em dispositivos de tela grande.

Compartilhamento de tela de app

App screen sharing enables users to share an app window instead of the entire device screen during screen content recording.

With app screen sharing, the status bar, navigation bar, notifications, and other system UI elements are excluded from the shared display. Only the content of the selected app is shared.

App screen sharing improves productivity and privacy by enabling users to run multiple apps but limit content sharing to a single app.

Resposta inteligente com LLM no Gboard no Pixel 8 Pro

Em dispositivos Pixel 8 Pro com a versão de dezembro, os desenvolvedores podem testar respostas inteligentes de maior qualidade no Gboard com modelos de linguagem grandes (LLMs) no dispositivo em execução no Google Tensor.

Esse recurso está disponível como uma prévia limitada para o inglês dos EUA no WhatsApp, no Line e no KakaoTalk. É necessário usar um dispositivo Pixel 8 Pro com o Gboard como teclado.

Para testar, primeiro ative o recurso em Configurações > Opções do desenvolvedor > Configurações do AICore > Ativar o AICore persistente.

Em seguida, abra uma conversa em um app compatível para conferir a resposta inteligente com LLM na faixa de sugestões do Gboard em resposta às mensagens recebidas.

O Gboard usa LLMs no dispositivo para fornecer respostas inteligentes de melhor qualidade.

Gráficos

Os caminhos podem ser consultados e interpolados

Android's Path API is a powerful and flexible mechanism for creating and rendering vector graphics, with the ability to stroke or fill a path, construct a path from line segments or quadratic or cubic curves, perform boolean operations to get even more complex shapes, or all of these simultaneously. One limitation is the ability to find out what is actually in a Path object; the internals of the object are opaque to callers after creation.

To create a Path, you call methods such as moveTo(), lineTo(), and cubicTo() to add path segments. But there has been no way to ask that path what the segments are, so you must retain that information at creation time.

Starting in Android 14, you can query paths to find out what's inside of them. First, you need to get a PathIterator object using the Path.getPathIterator API:

Kotlin

val path = Path().apply {
    moveTo(1.0f, 1.0f)
    lineTo(2.0f, 2.0f)
    close()
}
val pathIterator = path.pathIterator

Java

Path path = new Path();
path.moveTo(1.0F, 1.0F);
path.lineTo(2.0F, 2.0F);
path.close();
PathIterator pathIterator = path.getPathIterator();

Next, you can call PathIterator to iterate through the segments one by one, retrieving all of the necessary data for each segment. This example uses PathIterator.Segment objects, which packages up the data for you:

Kotlin

for (segment in pathIterator) {
    println("segment: ${segment.verb}, ${segment.points}")
}

Java

while (pathIterator.hasNext()) {
    PathIterator.Segment segment = pathIterator.next();
    Log.i(LOG_TAG, "segment: " + segment.getVerb() + ", " + segment.getPoints());
}

PathIterator also has a non-allocating version of next() where you can pass in a buffer to hold the point data.

One of the important use cases of querying Path data is interpolation. For example, you might want to animate (or morph) between two different paths. To further simplify that use case, Android 14 also includes the interpolate() method on Path. Assuming the two paths have the same internal structure, the interpolate() method creates a new Path with that interpolated result. This example returns a path whose shape is halfway (a linear interpolation of .5) between path and otherPath:

Kotlin

val interpolatedResult = Path()
if (path.isInterpolatable(otherPath)) {
    path.interpolate(otherPath, .5f, interpolatedResult)
}

Java

Path interpolatedResult = new Path();
if (path.isInterpolatable(otherPath)) {
    path.interpolate(otherPath, 0.5F, interpolatedResult);
}

The Jetpack graphics-path library enables similar APIs for earlier versions of Android as well.

Malhas personalizadas com sombreadores de vértice e fragmento

Android has long supported drawing triangle meshes with custom shading, but the input mesh format has been limited to a few predefined attribute combinations. Android 14 adds support for custom meshes, which can be defined as triangles or triangle strips, and can, optionally, be indexed. These meshes are specified with custom attributes, vertex strides, varying, and vertex and fragment shaders written in AGSL.

The vertex shader defines the varyings, such as position and color, while the fragment shader can optionally define the color for the pixel, typically by using the varyings created by the vertex shader. If color is provided by the fragment shader, it is then blended with the current Paint color using the blend mode selected when drawing the mesh. Uniforms can be passed into the fragment and vertex shaders for additional flexibility.

Renderizador de buffer de hardware para Canvas

To assist in using Android's Canvas API to draw with hardware acceleration into a HardwareBuffer, Android 14 introduces HardwareBufferRenderer. This API is particularly useful when your use case involves communication with the system compositor through SurfaceControl for low-latency drawing.