Chapter 4. Changes Unfold

Android Marshmallow holds some changes that might get overlooked. A lot of these changes are short but will require your full attention to fully understand them and make sure you don't miss out when trying to use a removed/deprecated API, a new flow, or a new and improved API.

I've bundled up a group of changes that you might use or need to know and understand when building your applications for Android 6.0 (Marshmallow):

• Power-saving modes

• Removable storage adoption

• Apache HTTP client removal

• Notifications

• Text selection

• Support library notice

• Android Keystore changes

• Wi-Fi and networking changes

• Runtime

• Hardware identifier

• APK validation

• USB connection

• Direct Share

• Voice interactions

• The Assist API

• Bluetooth API changes

The preceding group doesn't include a separate chapter for major changes, for example, the permissions model covered in Chapter 1, Android Marshmallow Permissions, or an improved API, such as the video/audio/camera API that we will cover in the next chapter.