Panoramica di funzionalità e API

Android 14 introduce funzionalità e API eccezionali per gli sviluppatori. Di seguito puoi scoprire le funzionalità per le tue app e iniziare a utilizzare le API correlate.

Per un elenco dettagliato delle API aggiunte, modificate e rimosse, leggi il report sulle differenze delle API. Per maggiori dettagli sulle API aggiunte, visita il Riferimento API Android. Per Android 14, cerca le API che sono state aggiunte nel livello API 34. Per scoprire di più sulle aree in cui le modifiche alla piattaforma potrebbero interessare le tue app, assicurati di controllare i cambiamenti di comportamento di Android 14 per le app destinate ad Android 14 e per tutte le app.

Internazionalizzazione

Lingua preferita nelle 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

3 billion people speak gendered languages: languages where grammatical categories—such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and prepositions—inflect according to the gender of people and objects you talk to or about. Traditionally, many gendered languages use masculine grammatical gender as the default or generic gender.

Addressing users in the wrong grammatical gender, such as addressing women in masculine grammatical gender, can negatively impact their performance and attitude. In contrast, a UI with language that correctly reflects the user's grammatical gender can improve user engagement and provide a more personalized and natural-sounding user experience.

Per aiutarti a creare un'interfaccia utente incentrata sull'utente per le lingue di genere, Android 14 introduce l'API Grammatical Inflection, che consente di aggiungere supporto per il genere grammaticale senza dover ricorrere al refactoring dell'app.

Preferenze regionali

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.

Accessibilità

Ridimensionamento dei caratteri non lineari al 200%

A partire da Android 14, il sistema supporta la scalabilità dei caratteri fino al 200%, offrendo agli utenti ipovedenti opzioni di accessibilità aggiuntive in linea con le linee guida per l'accessibilità dei contenuti web (WCAG).

Per evitare che gli elementi di testo di grandi dimensioni sullo schermo vengano ridimensionati in modo eccessivo, il sistema applica una curva di ridimensionamento non lineare. Questa strategia di ridimensionamento prevede che il testo di grandi dimensioni non venga ridimensionato alla stessa velocità del testo di dimensioni ridotte. Il ridimensionamento non lineare dei caratteri consente preservare la gerarchia proporzionale tra elementi di dimensioni diverse, mitigare i problemi legati alla scalabilità lineare del testo a gradi elevati (ad esempio, tagliato o testo che diventa più difficile da leggere a causa di un display molto grande dimensioni).

Testa l'app con il ridimensionamento non lineare dei caratteri

Attiva la dimensione massima dei caratteri nelle impostazioni di accessibilità di un dispositivo per testare la tua app.

Se utilizzi già unità in pixel scalati (sp) per definire le dimensioni del testo, questi le ulteriori opzioni e i miglioramenti della scalabilità vengono applicati automaticamente testo nella tua app. Tuttavia, devi comunque eseguire il test dell'interfaccia utente con il numero massimo di delle dimensioni dei caratteri attivate (200%) per garantire che l'app applichi le dimensioni dei caratteri correttamente ed è in grado di supportare caratteri di dimensioni maggiori senza influire sull'usabilità.

Per attivare le dimensioni dei caratteri al 200%:

  1. Apri l'app Impostazioni e vai a Accessibilità > Dimensioni visualizzazione e testo.
  2. Per l'opzione Dimensione carattere, tocca l'icona più (+) fino a quando non viene raggiunto il limite massimo di caratteri. dell'impostazione delle dimensioni sia attivata, come mostrato nell'immagine associata .

Utilizza unità di pixel scalati (sp) per le dimensioni del testo

Ricorda sempre di specificare le dimensioni del testo in unità sp. Quando la tua app utilizza le unità sp, Android può applicare la dimensione del testo preferita dell'utente e ridimensionarlo in modo adeguato.

Non utilizzare unità sp per la spaziatura interna o definire le altezze delle visualizzazioni presupponendo una spaziatura interna implicita: con la scalabilità non lineare dei caratteri, le dimensioni in sp potrebbero non essere proporzionali, quindi 4sp + 20sp potrebbe non equivalere a 24sp.

Convertire le unità di pixel scalabili (sp)

Utilizzare TypedValue.applyDimension() per convertire le unità sp a pixel e utilizza TypedValue.deriveDimension() per convertire i pixel in sp. Questi metodi applicano la scalabilità non lineare appropriata curva automaticamente.

Evita di codificare le equazioni utilizzando Configuration.fontScale o DisplayMetrics.scaledDensity. Poiché il ridimensionamento dei caratteri è non lineare, il campo scaledDensity non è più preciso. Il campo fontScale deve essere utilizzato solo a scopo informativo, in quanto i caratteri non sono più scalati con un singolo valore scalare.

Utilizza unità sp per lineHeight

Definisci sempre android:lineHeight utilizzando unità sp anziché dp, in modo che l'altezza della riga vari in base al testo. In caso contrario, se il testo è in sp, ma lineHeight è in dp o px, non si adatta e sembra troppo stretto. TextView corregge automaticamente lineHeight in modo che le proporzioni previste vengano conservate, ma solo se sia textSize sia lineHeight sono definiti in unità sp.

Fotocamera e contenuti multimediali

Ultra HDR per le immagini

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, Messa a fuoco, Postview e altro nelle estensioni fotocamera

Android 14 esegue l'upgrade e migliora le estensioni della fotocamera, consentendo alle app di gestire tempi di elaborazione più lunghi. Ciò permette di migliorare le immagini grazie ad algoritmi ad alta intensità di calcolo come le fotografie in condizioni di scarsa illuminazione sui dispositivi supportati. Queste caratteristiche offrono agli utenti un'esperienza ancora più solida quando utilizzano le funzionalità delle estensioni della videocamera. Ecco alcuni esempi di questi miglioramenti:

Zoom nel sensore

When REQUEST_AVAILABLE_CAPABILITIES_STREAM_USE_CASE in CameraCharacteristics contains SCALER_AVAILABLE_STREAM_USE_CASES_CROPPED_RAW, your app can use advanced sensor capabilities to give a cropped RAW stream the same pixels as the full field of view by using a CaptureRequest with a RAW target that has stream use case set to CameraMetadata.SCALER_AVAILABLE_STREAM_USE_CASES_CROPPED_RAW. By implementing the request override controls, the updated camera gives users zoom control even before other camera controls are ready.

Audio USB senza perdita

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.

Produttività e strumenti per sviluppatori

Gestore delle credenziali

Android 14 adds Credential Manager as a platform API, with additional support back to Android 4.4 (API level 19) devices through a Jetpack Library using Google Play services. Credential Manager aims to make sign-in easier for users with APIs that retrieve and store credentials with user-configured credential providers. Credential Manager supports multiple sign-in methods, including username and password, passkeys, and federated sign-in solutions (such as Sign-in with Google) in a single API.

Passkeys provide many advantages. For example, passkeys are built on industry standards, can work across different operating systems and browser ecosystems, and can be used with both websites and apps.

For more information, see the Credential Manager and passkeys documentation and the blogpost about Credential Manager and passkeys.

Connessione Salute

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.

Aggiornamenti di OpenJDK 17

Android 14 continues the work of refreshing Android's core libraries to align with the features in the latest OpenJDK LTS releases, including both library updates and Java 17 language support for app and platform developers.

The following features and improvements are included:

  • Updated approximately 300 java.base classes to Java 17 support.
  • Text Blocks, which introduce multi-line string literals to the Java programming language.
  • Pattern Matching for instanceof, which allows an object to be treated as having a specific type in an instanceof without any additional variables.
  • Sealed classes, which allow you restrict which classes and interfaces can extend or implement them.

Thanks to Google Play system updates (Project Mainline), over 600 million devices are enabled to receive the latest Android Runtime (ART) updates that include these changes. This is part of our commitment to give apps a more consistent, secure environment across devices, and to deliver new features and capabilities to users independent of platform releases.

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Miglioramenti per gli store

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.

App bundle di metadati

A partire da Android 14, il programma di installazione dei pacchetti Android ti consente di specificare i metadati dell'app, ad esempio le misure di sicurezza dei dati, da includere nelle pagine dello store come Google Play.

Rileva quando gli utenti acquisiscono screenshot del dispositivo

To create a more standardized experience for detecting screenshots, Android 14 introduces a privacy-preserving screenshot detection API. This API lets apps register callbacks on a per-activity basis. These callbacks are invoked, and the user is notified, when the user takes a screenshot while that activity is visible.

Esperienza utente

Azioni personalizzate di Sharesheet e miglioramento del ranking

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

Supporto per animazioni integrate e personalizzate per il sistema Indietro predittivo

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.

Override per app del produttore di dispositivi con schermi di grandi dimensioni

Gli override per app consentono ai produttori di modificare il comportamento delle app sui dispositivi con schermi grandi. Ad esempio, l'override FORCE_RESIZE_APP indica al sistema di ridimensionare l'app in base alle dimensioni del display (evitando la modalità di compatibilità delle dimensioni) anche se resizeableActivity="false" è impostato nel file manifest dell'app.

Le sostituzioni hanno lo scopo di migliorare l'esperienza utente su schermi di grandi dimensioni.

Le nuove proprietà del file manifest ti consentono di disattivare alcuni override del produttore del dispositivo per la tua app.

Override per app utente su schermi di grandi dimensioni

Per-app overrides change the behavior of apps on large screen devices. For example, the OVERRIDE_MIN_ASPECT_RATIO_LARGE device manufacturer override sets the app aspect ratio to 16:9 regardless of the app's configuration.

Android 14 QPR1 enables users to apply per‑app overrides by means of a new settings menu on large screen devices.

Condivisione schermo dell'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.

Risposta rapida basata su LLM in Gboard su Pixel 8 Pro

On Pixel 8 Pro devices with the December Feature Drop, developers can try out higher-quality smart replies in Gboard powered by on-device Large Language Models (LLMs) running on Google Tensor.

This feature is available as a limited preview for US English in WhatsApp, Line, and KakaoTalk. It requires using a Pixel 8 Pro device with Gboard as your keyboard.

To try it out, first enable the feature in Settings > Developer Options > AiCore Settings > Enable Aicore Persistent.

Next, open a conversation in a supported app to see LLM-powered Smart Reply in Gboard's suggestion strip in response to incoming messages.

Gboard utilizes on-device LLMs to provide higher-quality smart replies.

Grafica

I percorsi sono interrogabili e interpolabili

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.

Mesh personalizzati con Shader di vertex e frammenti

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.

Renderer del buffer hardware per 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.