Descripción general de las funciones y API

Android 14 incluye excelentes funciones y APIs para desarrolladores. A continuación, se incluyen secciones que te ayudarán a obtener información sobre las funciones de tus apps y a comenzar a usar las APIs relacionadas.

Para obtener una lista detallada de las APIs agregadas, modificadas y quitadas, consulta el informe de diferencias de la API. Para obtener detalles sobre las APIs agregadas, consulta la referencia de la API de Android. En Android 14, busca las APIs que se agregaron en el nivel de API 34. Para obtener información sobre las áreas en las que los cambios de la plataforma podrían afectar tus apps, asegúrate de revisar los cambios en el comportamiento de Android 14 para apps orientadas a Android 14 y para todas las apps.

Internacionalización

Preferencias de idioma de las apps

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 de Grammatical Inflection

有 30 亿人在使用区分性别的语言，此类语言的语法类别（例如名词、动词、形容词和介词）会根据您交谈所涉及的人或物的性别而变化。传统上，许多区分性别的语言使用阳性语法性别作为默认或通用性别。

以错误的语法性别来称呼用户，例如以阳性语法性别来称呼女性，可能会对她们的表现和态度产生负面影响。相比之下，界面语言如果能正确反映用户的语法性别，就可以提高用户互动度，并提供更个性化、更自然的用户体验。

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.

Preferencias regionales

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.

Accesibilidad

Escalamiento de fuente no lineal al 200%

A partir de Android 14, el sistema admite el escalamiento de la fuente hasta el 200%, lo que les brinda a los usuarios opciones de accesibilidad adicionales.

Para evitar que los elementos de texto grandes en la pantalla escalen demasiado, el sistema aplica una curva de escalamiento no lineal. Esta estrategia de escalamiento implica que el texto grande no escala a la misma velocidad que uno más pequeño. El escalamiento de fuente no lineal ayuda a preservar la jerarquía proporcional entre elementos de diferentes tamaños y, al mismo tiempo, mitiga los problemas con el escalamiento lineal de texto en grados altos (como el texto cortado o el texto que se vuelve más difícil de leer por su gran tamaño de visualización).

Prueba tu app con el escalamiento de fuente no lineal

Habilita el tamaño máximo de fuente en la configuración de accesibilidad de un dispositivo para probar tu app.

Si ya usas unidades de píxeles escalables (sp) para definir el tamaño del texto, estas opciones adicionales y las mejoras en el escalamiento se aplicarán automáticamente al texto de tu app. Sin embargo, debes realizar pruebas de la IU con el tamaño de fuente máximo habilitado (200%) para asegurarte de que tu app aplique los tamaños de fuente correctamente y pueda admitir tamaños de fuente más grandes sin afectar la usabilidad.

Para habilitar el tamaño de la fuente al 200%, sigue estos pasos:

  1. Abre la app de Configuración y dirígete a Accesibilidad > Tamaño y texto de la pantalla.
  2. En la opción Tamaño de fuente, presiona el ícono de signo más (+) hasta que se habilite la configuración de tamaño máximo de fuente, como se muestra en la imagen que acompaña esta sección.

Usa unidades de píxeles ajustados (sp) para los tamaños de texto

Recuerda que siempre debes especificar los tamaños de texto en unidades de sp. Cuando tu app usa unidades de sp, Android puede aplicar el tamaño de texto que prefiere el usuario y escalarlo de forma correcta.

No uses unidades de sp para el padding ni definas alturas de vista suponiendo un padding implícito: Con el escalamiento de fuente no lineal, las dimensiones de sp podrían no ser proporcionales, por lo que 4 sp + 20 sp podría no ser igual a 24 sp.

Convierte unidades de píxeles ajustados (sp)

Usa TypedValue.applyDimension() para convertir unidades de sp en píxeles y TypedValue.deriveDimension() para convertir píxeles en sp. Estos métodos aplican automáticamente la curva de escalamiento no lineal adecuada.

Evita codificar la ecuación con Configuration.fontScale o DisplayMetrics.scaledDensity. Como el escalamiento de fuente no es lineal, el campo scaledDensity ya no es preciso. El campo fontScale solo debe usarse con fines informativos, ya que las fuentes ya no se ajustan con un solo valor escalar.

Usa unidades sp para lineHeight

Siempre define android:lineHeight con unidades sp en lugar de dp, de modo que la altura de la línea se ajuste junto con el texto. De lo contrario, si tu texto está en sp, pero tu lineHeight está en dp o px, no se ajustará y se verá apretado. TextView corrige automáticamente el lineHeight para que se conserven las proporciones deseadas, pero solo si textSize y lineHeight se definen en unidades sp.

Cámara y contenido multimedia

Ultra HDR para imágenes

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, enfoque, Postview y más en las extensiones de cámara

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 en el sensor

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 sin pérdida

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.

Productividad y herramientas para desarrolladores

Credential Manager

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.

Health Connect

Health Connect 是用户健康与健身数据的设备端仓库。借助该功能，用户可以在一个位置控制要与这些应用共享哪些数据，并在自己喜爱的应用之间共享数据。

在搭载 Android 14 之前的 Android 版本的设备上，Health Connect 可作为应用从 Google Play 商店下载。从 Android 14 开始，Health Connect 将成为 Android 平台的一部分，并通过 Google Play 系统更新接收更新，而无需单独下载。这样一来，Health Connect 就可以频繁更新，您的应用可以依赖于搭载 Android 14 或更高版本的设备上提供的 Health Connect。用户可以通过设备的“设置”访问 Health Connect，隐私控制功能集成到系统设置中。

用户无需在搭载 Android 14 或更高版本的设备上单独下载应用，即可开始使用 Health Connect。
用户可以通过系统设置控制哪些应用可以访问其健康与健身数据。

Health Connect 在 Android 14 中包含多项新功能，例如锻炼路线，可让用户分享可在地图上直观呈现的锻炼路线。路线定义为在一定时间范围内保存的位置列表，您的应用可以将路线插入锻炼时段，将它们关联起来。为确保用户能够完全控制此类敏感数据，用户必须允许与其他应用共享单个路线。

如需了解详情，请参阅 Health Connect 文档以及有关 Android Health 中的新功能的博文。

Actualizaciones de OpenJDK 17

Android 14 continúa la tarea de actualizar las bibliotecas principales de Android para alinearlas con las funciones de las versiones más recientes de LTS de OpenJDK, lo que incluye las actualizaciones de bibliotecas y la compatibilidad con el lenguaje Java 17 para desarrolladores de apps y plataformas.

Se incluyen las siguientes funciones y mejoras:

  • Se actualizaron aproximadamente 300 clases java.base para admitir Java 17.
  • Bloques de texto, que introducen literales de cadena de varias líneas en el lenguaje de programación Java.
  • Coincidencia de patrones para instanceof, que permite que un objeto se trate como si tuviera un tipo específico en un instanceof sin variables adicionales.
  • Clases selladas, que te permiten restringir qué clases e interfaces pueden extenderlas o implementarlas.

Gracias a las actualizaciones del sistema de Google Play (Project Mainline), más de 600 millones de dispositivos están habilitados para recibir las actualizaciones más recientes de Android Runtime (ART) que incluyen estos cambios. Esto forma parte de nuestro compromiso de brindar a las apps un entorno más seguro y coherente en todos los dispositivos, y de ofrecer funciones y capacidades nuevas a los usuarios, independientemente de los lanzamientos de la plataforma.

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Mejoras para tiendas de aplicaciones

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.

Paquetes de metadatos de la app

Starting in Android 14, the Android package installer lets you specify app metadata, such as data safety practices, to include on app store pages such as Google Play.

Detecta cuando los usuarios toman capturas de pantalla 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.

Experiencia del usuario

Acciones personalizadas y clasificación mejorada de 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

Compatibilidad con animaciones integradas y personalizadas para el gesto atrás predictivo

Video: Animaciones de atrás predictivo

En Android 13, se introdujo la animación de atrás predictivo a la página principal detrás de una opción para desarrolladores. Cuando se usa en una app compatible que tiene habilitada la opción para desarrolladores, al deslizar hacia atrás, se muestra una animación que indica que el gesto de retroceso permite cerrar la app y regresar a la pantalla principal.

Android 14 incluye varias mejoras y orientación nueva para el gesto atrás predictivo:

Con esta versión preliminar de Android 14, todas las funciones de atrás predictivo permanecen detrás de una opción para desarrolladores. Consulta la guía para desarrolladores para migrar tu app al gesto atrás predictivo, así como la guía para desarrolladores para crear transiciones personalizadas en la app.

Anulaciones por app del fabricante de dispositivos con pantalla grande

Per-app overrides enable device manufacturers to change the behavior of apps on large screen devices. For example, the FORCE_RESIZE_APP override instructs the system to resize the app to fit display dimensions (avoiding size compatibility mode) even if resizeableActivity="false" is set in the app manifest.

Overrides are intended to improve the user experience on large screens.

New manifest properties enable you to disable some device manufacturer overrides for your app.

Anulaciones por app para usuarios de pantallas grandes

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.

Compartir pantalla de una 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.

Respuesta inteligente potenciada por LLM en Gboard en el 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.

Gráficos

Las rutas de acceso son consultables e interpolables

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.

Mallas personalizadas con sombreadores de vértices y fragmentos

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.

Procesador de búfer 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.