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This document provides an introduction to the most notable new APIs.</p> + +<h3><a href="https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_5_white_32gb">New Nexus 5</a></h3> +<p>Nexus 5 helps you capture the everyday and the epic in fresh new ways. It's the slimmest and fastest Nexus phone ever made, powered by Android 4.4, KitKat.</p> +</div> +<p></p> + +<h2 id="Community" style="clear:left">Community Spotlight</h2> + +<div class="col-8" style="margin-left:0"> +<h3>Android Community Groups</h3> +<h4>July 2013</h4> +<p><a href="mailto:gtugam@gmail.com">GDG Armenia</a> held <a href="http://eca.hackathon.am/">ecaHack Yerevan</a>, an Android hackathon featuring "Angry Designers vs Android Developers", where the designers had a look into developers apps and gave them some advices regarding to design. The hackathon was sponsored by Alcatel One Touch and each member of the winner team got one Alcatel One Touch Idol. Check out the <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/gallery/cgj9d39gphiephlq0e2899dv6j4?cfem=1">photos.</a></p> +<h4>September 2013</h4> +<p><a href="mailto:soham.mondal@gmail.com">GDG Blrdroid</a> held a <a href="http://www.meetup.com/blrdroid/events/140665852/">meetup</a> on performance optimisation.</p> +<p><a href="mailto:baileye@gmail.com">GDG Dublin</a> held their meetup with a talk on AdMob for Android and iOS, entitled “Admob for Android and iOS developers”. </p> +<p>GDG Mbale’s <a href="mailto:nsubugahassan@gmail.com">Hassan Nsubuga</a> has been managing a university <a href="https://plus.google.com/103735976334615631393/posts/gQMWCGUhMBn">course session</a> since September. They are now through with the basics and have a firm foundation, so this month they will be doing a lot of advanced stuff including exploring the latest API enhancements with KitKat. </p> +<p><a href="mailto:wojtek.kalicinski@gmail.com">GDG Warsaw</a> held an Android Barcamp focused on App Quality. The discussion was moderated by GDG organisers, but the talks were given by the community members, including some top Android companies and developers in Poland.</p> +<h4>October 2013</h4> +<p><a href="mailto:benjamin.r.m.weiss@gmail.com">GDG Berlin Android</a> held their <a href="https://berlin.ticketbud.com/devfest-berlin-2013">DevFest</a>.</p> +<p><a href="mailto:soham.mondal@gmail.com">GDG Blrdroid</a> held their <a href="http://www.meetup.com/blrdroid/events/144457162/">meetup</a> in collaboration with GDG Bangalore, where they talked about a wider range of things from incorporating user feedback to effectively using the cell radio. David McLaughlin from the Developer Relations team also visited during the meetup and delivered the keynote. They also hit a milestone with its 4th anniversary on the 9th of October and crossed 4300 members in the past few days so its been a memorable couple of months for them.</p> +<p><a href="mailto:hir3npatel@gmail.com">GDG Cape Town</a> held an <a href="https://plus.google.com/108309780217630451504/posts/9BTCEqnBHoQ">Android Workshop</a> where they gave away lots of branded KitKats.</p> +<p><a href="mailto:baileye@gmail.com">GDG Dublin</a> held its DevFest, which featured a codeLab on Android titled “Codelab: Intro to Android Development.”</p> +<p><a href="mailto:hugo@dutchaug.org">GDG Dutch Android User Group</a> held their <a href="http://www.devfest.nl/program">DevFest</a>. They had a bunch of Android sessions, mostly by local speakers. In addition to the Android sessions, they also ran a workshop on writing custom views.</p> +<p><a href="mailto:hugo@dutchaug.org">Hugo Visser</a> from the Dutch Android User Group spoke at <a href="https://bitbucket.org/qbusict/cupboard">DroidCon UK barcamp</a>, where he delivered a talk on Cupboard, a simple and lightweight persistence framework, specifically for Android.</p> +<p><a href="mailto:prajyotmainkar@gmail.com">GDG GAUG</a> held the <a href="https://plus.google.com/110448195989468248957/posts/8doJuCpySWS">Google Devfest 2013</a>, where they had two tracks and more than 200 delegates attending. They also had a <a href="https://plus.google.com/110448195989468248957/posts/6rxLzj2Rpde">Hackathon</a> and they hit the <a href="https://plus.google.com/110448195989468248957">1000 member</a> mark this month, which makes them the second largest android community in India after GDG Blrdroid. </p> +<p><a href="mailto:cyrilleguipie@gmail.com">GDG Miage</a> held their DevFest where they gave a talk about Intents and Services. The also held a startup Weekend Bootcamp where they talked about Activites and Layouts. They will also hold an Android Workshop in December.</p> +<p><a href="mailto:gabriel.kb@gmail.com">GDG Uruguay</a> had their <a href="http://gdg.uy/devfest2013">DevFest</a>, where they held an Android workshop for beginners as an Android vs iOS comparison, a session on best practices using YouTube APIs in Android, and What's new in Google for developers (with a special section about Android). You can see pictures on <a href="https://plus.google.com/114520966453242230657/posts/dqZAuMqc12Z">the G+ page</a>. </p> + +<h4>November 2013</h4> +<p><a href="mailto:yorogoule@gmail.com">Abidjandroid/GDG Côte d'Ivoire</a> held an Android Launch Party featuring the KitKat release.</p> +<p>The <a href="mailto:hugo@dutchaug.org">Dutch Android User Group</a> had a very interactive presentation on Android Code Puzzlers and Tips & tricks, where they rewarded participation by giving out books, tshirts, jelly beans and kitkats. The presentation was at the <a href="http://www.nljug.org/jfall">Dutch JFall conference</a>, organized by the NLJUG. It's a large yearly Java conference and the DAUG had the only Android session there.</p> +<p>The <a href="mailto:benjamin.r.m.weiss@gmail.com">GDG Berlin Android</a> meetup this month featured the KitKat release.</p> +<p><a href="mailto:soham.mondal@gmail.com">The GDG Blrdroid</a> <a href="http://www.meetup.com/blrdroid/events/148210762/%20">meetup</a> was another focused on KitKat.</p> +<p>At the <a href="mailto:amahdy7@gmail.com">GDG Cairo</a> <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/co59j0870in5a4kh8n5navifnm8">DevFest</a> there was a "What's new in Android SDK" session on day 1, and an Android workshop on day 2. Kitkat also provided interest in the sessions and the snacks bar. The KitKat <a href="http://buff.ly/HNE7yq">presentation</a>, the track organization, and everything related to it were all organized by women.</p> +<p><a href="mailto:hir3npatel@gmail.com">GDG Cape Town</a> held an Android Workshop.</p> +<p><a href="mailto:alessandro.gbridge@gmail.com">GDG Udine</a> organized a talk after the release of KitKat for a school in Pordenone.</p> +<p><a href="mailto:hugo@dutchaug.org">Hugo Visser</a> from Droidcon Netherlands organized an Android hackathon themed "Location, Location, Location". </p> +<p><a href="mailto:eyal.lezmy@gmail.com">Paris Android User Group</a> welcomed <a href="https://plus.google.com/+RomainGuy">Romain Guy</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/+ChetHaase">Chet Haase</a> to their meetup this month. They’ll be meeting up with other GDG leads and UG managers meet at <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/cupo201fjreo9g9t2e596gv8nd4">Devoxx</a> next Thursday.</p> +<p><a href="mailto:wojtek.kalicinski@gmail.com">GDG Warsaw</a> had over 250 attendees at their DevFest, which featured session tracks on Android and Web and a whole day of Code Labs in Android, AngularJS and Arduino.</p> +<h4>December 2013</h4> +<p><a href="mailto:prajyotmainkar@gmail.com">GDG GAUG</a> are planning a codelab and hackathon.</p> +<p><a href="mailto:psvensson@gmail.com">Peter Svensson</a> spoke at <a href="http://swdc.se/droidcon/events/stockholm-2013/">DroidCon Stockholm</a></p> +The unstoppable <a href="mailto:bonbhel@gmail.com">Max Bonbhel</a> from the African GDG Android is hosting AAC 2014 and Android GDG Barcamp events in December. Also, in order to encourage African Java developers to move to the Android platform, he created the <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtFPan-z2ps-dHBtX1luY2pRQjdtRjliUGcxMVBNeVE&usp=sharing#gid=0">Africa Android Training (AAT) program</a>. The training material targets developers with different levels of experience in Java development. More than 60 developers have been taking part in the weekly sessions. The next 10 sessions will start Saturday, November 9, 2013. 260 GDG and Java User Group members have already registered from 12 Countries. +<p> </p> +</div> + +<div class="col-8" style="margin-right:0"> +<h3>Android Community Experts</h3> + +<h4>October 2013</h4> +<p><a href="mailto:eyal.lezmy@gmail.com">Eyal Lezmy</a> presented two sessions. “<a href="http://bit.ly/andbigfail">Play Store bashing, learn from the biggest fails</a>” looked at several applications, mainly developed by huge companies, and analyzed why they failed to satisfy the users or the Android guidelines. “<a href="http://bit.ly/lifeofapp">Android, the life of your app</a>” tells a story, living the life of a user, identify the frustrations he can encounter and present ways to avoid it, as a developer.</p> +<p><a href="mailto:mariux01@gmail.com">Mario Viviani</a> presented and recorded the next <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaT0bYhhaGY">Android App Clinic - Italia</a>. This episode was regarding the Cards UI and SMS app support in Android 4.4. They experimented with a short form of the video (10 minutes instead of 20) and in less than day it got almost 400+ views -- which is great considering it's in Italian! The previous episode reached 1300 views all-time and was the most successful video of GDL Italia in Q2.</p> +<p><a href="mailto:m.kaeppler@gmail.com">Matthias Käppler</a> contributed the <a href="https://github.com/Netflix/RxJava/tree/master/rxjava-contrib/rxjava-android">first Android specific component</a> to the RxJava project, and spoke about <a href="http://uk.droidcon.com/2013/sessions/conquering-concurrency-bringing-the-reactive-extensions-to-the-android-platform/">RxJava and reactive programming on Android</a> at DroidCon UK. He has also open sourced <a href="https://github.com/mttkay/memento">Memento</a>, an Android annotation processor to replace the deprecated onRetainNonConfigurationInstance.</p> +<p><a href="mailto:wojtek.kalicinski@gmail.com">Wojtek Kaliciński</a>’s talk, "Android - is it time for a break yet?" highlights not only what's new in Android 4.4 KitKat, but also how to take your app to the next level by making sure you provide the best app experience possible to all 4.0+ users.</p> +<a href="https://plus.sandbox.google.com/110448195989468248957/posts"><img src="/images/community/hackathon-gdgaug.jpg" alt="" align="right"></a> + +</div> + +<h2 id="Content" style="clear:left">New Content</h2> +<div class="col-8" style="margin-left:0"> +<p><h4>Android 4.4 What's New</h4> +KitKat has been optimized to run on a much broader range of devices, with special focus on the millions of entry-level devices that have as little as 512MB RAM. To help, we've created new APIs, better tools, and better documentation to let you create apps that perform well on all devices.<br> +Check out this video summary of some of the most significant developer features in the latest Android release, including new ways to make your apps beautiful, NFC Host Card Emulation, a printing framework, the storage access framework, low-power step detector and step counter sensors, and more!<br> +<h5><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sONcojECWXs&list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc-2quE-o0enpILZF3nBZg_K">Video</a></h5> +<h5><a href="https://drive.google.com/a/google.com/folderview?id=0BwhAiXVwzMoFc28wWEpyeE9qYTQ&usp=sharing">Presentation</a></h5> +<i>Be sure to get the <a href="http://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-4.4.html">full Android 4.4 API Overview</a>, and take a look at our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc-2quE-o0enpILZF3nBZg_K">related DevBytes videos</a></i></p> + +<p><h4>WebView in Android 4.4</h4> +Android 4.4 (API level 19) introduces a new version of WebView that is based on Chromium. This change upgrades WebView performance and standards support for HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript to match the latest web browsers. Any apps using WebView will inherit these upgrades when running on Android 4.4 and higher. +<h5><a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/webapps/migrating.html">API Guide</a></h5> +</p> + +<p><h4>Android 4.4 Immersive Mode</h4> +With Android 4.4 KitKat, your apps can now truly go full-screen with a new Immersive Mode. Immersive Mode lets your apps hide the system's status and navigation bars while capturing all touch events—ideal for rich interactive content such as books and games. This video demonstrates how to use the new API, in addition to recapping earlier full-screen APIs on Android. +<h5><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBi8fjv90E4&list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc-2quE-o0enpILZF3nBZg_K">Video</a></h5> +<h5><a href="https://drive.google.com/a/google.com/folderview?id=0BwhAiXVwzMoFc28wWEpyeE9qYTQ&usp=sharing">Presentation</a></h5> +<h5><a href="http://developer.android.com/samples/ImmersiveMode/index.html">Sample</a></h5> +</p> + +<p> +<h4>Android 4.4 Storage Access Framework - Provider</h4> +Get up to speed on the new document storage API in Android 4.4 KitKat. This video gets you up and running with your own DocumentProvider by stepping you through the making of a simple cloud storage app. +<h5><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxHVeXbK1P4&list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc-2quE-o0enpILZF3nBZg_K">Video</a></h5> +<h5><a href="https://drive.google.com/a/google.com/folderview?id=0BwhAiXVwzMoFc28wWEpyeE9qYTQ&usp=sharing">Presentation</a></h5> +<h5><a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/document-provider.html">Training</a></h5> +<h5><a href="http://developer.android.com/samples/StorageProvider/index.html">Sample</a>, <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.box.android">Box Application</a></h5> +</blockquote> + +</p> + + +<p><h4>Android 4.4 Storage Access Framework - Client</h4> +Get up to speed on the new storage access framework in Android 4.4 KitKat. This video teaches you how to quickly create, edit, save and delete documents provided by other apps as a client of the storage access framework. +<h5><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFj9AEz0DHQ&list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc-2quE-o0enpILZF3nBZg_K">Video</a></h5> +<h5><a href="https://drive.google.com/a/google.com/folderview?id=0BwhAiXVwzMoFc28wWEpyeE9qYTQ&usp=sharing">Presentation</a></h5> +<h5><a href="http://developer.android.com/samples/StorageClient/index.html">Sample</a></h5> +</p> + +<p><h4>Android 4.4 Closed Captioning</h4> +Displaying closed captions in your app's videos can be quick and simple in Android 4.4 KitKat,. Learn how to attach timed text tracks to VideoView and allow users to customize how captions are displayed. +<h5><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCRGc2PcmB8&list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc-2quE-o0enpILZF3nBZg_K">Video</a></h5> +<h5><a href="https://drive.google.com/a/google.com/folderview?id=0BwhAiXVwzMoFc28wWEpyeE9qYTQ&usp=sharing">Presentation</a> +</p> +</h5> +</div> + +<div class="col-8" style="margin-right:0"> + +<p> +<h4>Android 4.4 Transitions</h4> +In this episode, we introduce the new Transitions API in Android 4.4 Kitkat. This API provides a simple way for developers to provide animated segues to different scenes of their application, helping users to understand the application flow with very little code. The general approach is to tell the system that you'd like to run a transition animation, then make the necessary changes to your UI. The system figures out the differences and animates the changes. +<h5><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3H7nJ4QaD8&list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc-2quE-o0enpILZF3nBZg_K&index=3">Video</a></h5> +<h5><a href="https://drive.google.com/a/google.com/folderview?id=0BwhAiXVwzMoFc28wWEpyeE9qYTQ&usp=sharing">Presentation</a></p> +</h5> +<p><h4>Android 4.4: SMS APIs</h4> +Android 4.4 KitKat introduces the new SMS APIs as well as the new concept of a default SMS app. This video discusses these new APIs and how your app should use them to send and receive SMS and MMS messages.<br> +<h5><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdq0R2WQssQ&list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc-2quE-o0enpILZF3nBZg_K">Video</a></h5> +<h5><a href="https://drive.google.com/a/google.com/folderview?id=0BwhAiXVwzMoFc28wWEpyeE9qYTQ&usp=sharing">Presentation</a></h5> +<i>See also -<br> +<a href="http://goo.gl/sw5NdH">Android Developer Blog post on Android 4.4 KitKat SMS APIs</a><br> +<a href="http://goo.gl/7vTx3s">Android Protip on using booleans in your AndroidManifest.xml</a></i></p> + + +<p><h4>Android 4.4 Printing API</h4> +In this video, we introduce the new Printing API in Android 4.4 KitKat. This API provides a simple way for developers to print to cloud-connected printers using Google Cloud Print. It's really easy to print bitmaps, and HTML (that you generate on the device, or just web content).<br> +<h5><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iub67ic87KI&list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc-2quE-o0enpILZF3nBZg_K">Video</a></h5> +<h5><a href="https://drive.google.com/a/google.com/folderview?id=0BwhAiXVwzMoFc28wWEpyeE9qYTQ&usp=sharing">Presentation</a></h5> +<h5><a href="http://developer.android.com/training/printing/index.html">Training</a></h5> +<i>Some pro-tips:</i> +<ul> + <li>For Webview/HTML printing, printing from javascript is not supported yet (window.print() for example). Also we are planning to address the limitations around WebView/HTML printing in future releases (eg: headers/footers, and specifying print ranges).</li> +<li>We encourage developers to open Android Open Source bugs for features that they feel important as a feedback.</li> +</ul> + +<p><h4>App Indexing</h4> +In this episode we discuss the new App Indexing feature that we recently announced for Google Search for Android.<br> +Currently, when you do a google search on the web, you get results that are links to websites. With App Indexing, you will be able to point Google Search users on Android directly to content within your app! +If you’re an Android app developer who has a web presence and you want more control over how your content is accessed from search, via your website or Android app, App Indexing is a great feature for you to explore. +Also, enabling your website and app for indexing is a way to increase engagement with your app by making the content more discoverable, and more accessible to users directly from the search results page. +For information on App Indexing, please visit <a href="http://g.co/appindexing">http://g.co/appindexing</a> +<h5><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh_W82JgOms&list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc-2quE-o0enpILZF3nBZg_K">Video</a></h5> +<h5><a href="https://drive.google.com/a/google.com/folderview?id=0BwhAiXVwzMoFc28wWEpyeE9qYTQ&usp=sharing">Presentation</a> +</p> +</h5> +</div> + +<h2 id="Social" style="clear:left">Social</h2> +<div class="col-8" style="margin-left:0"> + +<h3 >G+</h3> + +<ul> +<li><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/1/108967384991768947849/posts/1iVvwyfTM8y">What's New in Android 4.4</a> + <ul> + <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrFRY32i_sE">What's New in Android 4.4 [JAPANESE!]</a></li> + <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9jAcwaETD4">What's New in Android 4.4 [KOREAN!]</a></li> + <li><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/1/108967384991768947849/posts/WfqdvDG2Cyr">Quer saber das novidades do Android 4.4? [PORTUGUESE!]</a></li> + </ul> +</li> +<li><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/1/+AndroidDevelopers/posts/femjRbay18f">Android 4.4 and Updated Developer Tools +</a></li> +<li><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/1/108967384991768947849/posts/P2q82aYN7do">Google Play Services 4.0 +</a></li> +</ul> +</div> + +<div class="col-8" style="margin-right:0"> +<h3>Blog</h3> + +<ul> + <li><a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.hk/2013/10/android-44-kitkat-and-updated-developer.html">Android 4.4 KitKat and Updated Developer Tools</a></li> + <li><a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.hk/2013/10/google-play-services-40.html">Google Play Services 4.0</a></li> + <li><a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.hk/2013/10/making-your-app-content-more-accessible.html">Making your App Content more Accessible from Googl...</a></li> + <li><a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.hk/2013/10/getting-your-sms-apps-ready-for-kitkat.html">Getting Your SMS Apps Ready for KitKat</a></li> +</ul> +</div> + +</div><!-- /MAIN CONTENT 'wrap' --> +</body> +</html> + + + diff --git a/docs/html/images/community/aco1small.png b/docs/html/images/community/aco1small.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..ce4cb66 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/html/images/community/aco1small.png diff --git a/docs/html/images/community/hackathon-gdgaug.jpg b/docs/html/images/community/hackathon-gdgaug.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..8c939c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/html/images/community/hackathon-gdgaug.jpg diff --git a/docs/html/images/community/kk-hero.jpg b/docs/html/images/community/kk-hero.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..713c861 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/html/images/community/kk-hero.jpg diff --git a/docs/html/images/community/kk-hero2.jpg b/docs/html/images/community/kk-hero2.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..c404116 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/html/images/community/kk-hero2.jpg diff --git a/docs/html/robots.txt b/docs/html/robots.txt index 503e4b1..f522220 100644 --- a/docs/html/robots.txt +++ b/docs/html/robots.txt @@ -14,4 +14,5 @@ Disallow: /sdk/1.6_r1/ Disallow: /shareables/ Disallow: /guide/tutorials/ Disallow: /guide/samples/ +Disallow: /community/ Sitemap: http://developer.android.com/sitemap.txt diff --git a/docs/html/training/app-indexing/deep-linking.jd b/docs/html/training/app-indexing/deep-linking.jd new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a52ae95 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/html/training/app-indexing/deep-linking.jd @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +page.title=Enabling Deep Links for App Content +trainingnavtop=true + +@jd:body + +<!-- This is the training bar --> +<div id="tb-wrapper"> +<div id="tb"> + +<h2>This lesson teaches you to</h2> +<ol> + <li><a href="#adding-filters">Add Intent Filters for Your Deep Links</a></li> + <li><a href="#handling-intents">Read Data from Incoming Intents</a></li> + <li><a href="#testing-filters">Test Your Deep Links</a></li> +</ol> + +<h2>You should also read</h2> +<ul> +<li><a href="{@docRoot}guide/components/intents-filters.html">Intents and Intent Filters</a></li> +<li><a href="{@docRoot}training/basics/intents/filters.html">Allow Other Apps to Start Your Activity</a></li> +</ul> + +</div> +</div> + +<p>To enable Google to crawl your app content and allow users to enter your app + from search results, you must add intent filters for the relevant + activities in your app manifest. These intent filters allow + <em>deep linking</em> to the content in any of your activities. For example, the user might click on a deep link to view a page within a shopping app that describes a product offering that the user is searching for.</p> + +<h2 id="adding-filters">Add Intent Filters for Your Deep Links</h2> +<p>To create a deep link to your app content, add an intent filter that + contains these elements and attribute values in your manifest:</p> +<dl> +<dt><a href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/manifest/action-element.html">{@code <action>}</a></dt> +<dd>Specify the {@link android.content.Intent#ACTION_VIEW} intent action so + that the intent filter can be reached from Google Search.</dd> +<dt><a href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/manifest/data-element.html">{@code <data>}</a></dt> +<dd>Add one or more <a href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/manifest/data-element.html">{@code <data>}</a> tags, where each tag represents a URI format that resolves to the activity. At minimum, the <a href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/manifest/data-element.html">{@code <data>}</a> tag must include the <a href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/manifest/data-element.html#scheme">{@code android:scheme}</a> attribute. +<p>You can add additional attributes to further refine the type of URI that the activity accepts. For example, you might have multiple activities that accept similar URIs, but which differ simply based on the path name. In this case, use the <a href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/manifest/data-element.html#path">{@code android:path}</a> attribute or its variants ({@code pathPattern} or {@code pathPrefix}) to differentiate which activity the system should open for different URI paths.</p></dd> +<dt><a href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/manifest/category-element.html">{@code <category>}</a></dt> +<dd>Include the {@link android.content.Intent#CATEGORY_BROWSABLE BROWSABLE} +category. The {@link android.content.Intent#CATEGORY_BROWSABLE BROWSABLE} +category is required in order for the intent filter to be accessible from a web +browser. Without it, clicking a link in a browser cannot resolve to your app. +The {@link android.content.Intent#CATEGORY_DEFAULT DEFAULT} category is +optional, but recommended. Without this category, the activity can be started +only with an explicit intent, using your app component name. +</dd> +</dl> + +<p>The following XML snippet shows how you might specify an intent filter +in your manifest for deep linking. The URIs {@code “example://gizmos”} and +{@code “http://www.example.com/gizmos”} both resolve to this activity.</p> + +<pre> +<activity + android:name="com.example.android.GizmosActivity" + android:label="@string/title_gizmos" > + <intent-filter android:label="@string/filter_title_viewgizmos"> + <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" /> + <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" /> + <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" /> + <!-- Accepts URIs that begin with "example://gizmos” --> + <data android:scheme="example" + android:host="gizmos" /> + <!-- Accepts URIs that begin with "http://www.example.com/gizmos” --> + <data android:scheme="http" + android:host="www.example.com" + android:pathPrefix="gizmos" /> + </intent-filter> +</activity> +</pre> + +<p>Once you've added intent filters with URIs for activity content to your app +manifest, Android is able to route any {@link android.content.Intent} +that has matching URIs to your app at runtime.</p> + +<p>To learn more about defining intent filters, see <a href="{@docRoot}training/basics/intents/filters.html">Allow Other Apps to Start Your Activity</a>.</p> + +<h2 id="handling-intents">Read Data from Incoming Intents</h2> +<p>Once the system starts your activity through an intent filter, you can + use data provided by the {@link android.content.Intent} to determine what you need to render. Call the {@link android.content.Intent#getData()} and +{@link android.content.Intent#getAction()} methods to retrieve the data and +action associated with the incoming {@link android.content.Intent}. You can +call these methods at any time during the lifecycle of the activity, but you +should generally do so during early callbacks such as {@link +android.app.Activity#onCreate(android.os.Bundle) onCreate()} or +{@link android.app.Activity#onStart()}.</p> +<p>Here’s a snippet that shows how to retrieve data from an +{@link android.content.Intent}:</p> +<pre> +@Override +public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { + super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); + setContentView(R.layout.main); + + Intent intent = getIntent(); + String action = intent.getAction(); + Uri data = intent.getData(); +} +</pre> +<p>Follow these best practices to improve the user's experience:</p> +<ul> +<li>The deep link should take users directly to the content, +without any prompts, interstitial pages, or logins. Make sure that users can +see the app content even if they never previously opened the application. +It is okay to prompt users on subsequent interactions or when they open the app +from the Launcher. This is the same principle as the <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/74536?hl=en" class="external-link" target="_blank">first click free</a> experience for web sites.</li> +<li>Follow the design guidance described in + <a href="{@docRoot}design/patterns/navigation.html">Navigation with Back and Up</a> + so that your app matches users' expectations for backward navigation after + they enter your app through a deep link. +</li> +</ul> + +<h2 id="testing-filters">Test Your Deep Links</h2> +<p>You can use the <a href="{@docRoot}tools/help/adb.html">Android Debug +Bridge</a> with the activity manager (am) tool to test that the intent filter +URIs you specified for deep linking resolve to the correct app activity. You +can run the adb command against a device or an emulator.</p> +<p>The general syntax for testing an intent filter URI with adb is:</p> +<pre> +$ adb shell am start + -W -a android.intent.action.VIEW + -d <URI> <PACKAGE> +</pre> +<p>For example, the command below tries to view a target app activity that +is associated with the specified URI.</p> +<pre> +$ adb shell am start + -W -a android.intent.action.VIEW + -d "example://gizmos" com.example.android +</pre> diff --git a/docs/html/training/app-indexing/enabling-app-indexing.jd b/docs/html/training/app-indexing/enabling-app-indexing.jd new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1636bbc --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/html/training/app-indexing/enabling-app-indexing.jd @@ -0,0 +1,115 @@ +page.title=Specifying App Content for Indexing +trainingnavtop=true + +@jd:body + +<!-- This is the training bar --> +<div id="tb-wrapper"> +<div id="tb"> + +<h2>This lesson teaches you to</h2> +<ol> + <li><a href="#sitemap">Add Deep Links in Your Sitemap</a></li> + <li><a href="#webpages">Add Deep Links in Your Web Pages</a></li> + <li><a href="#robots">Allow Google to Crawl URLs Requested By Your App</a></li> +</ol> + +<h2>You should also read</h2> +<ul> +<li><a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en" class="external-link" target="_blank">Webmaster Tools</a></li> +<li><a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/183668" class="external-link" target="_blank">Creating Sitemaps</a></li> +<li><a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182072?hl=en" class="external-link" target="_blank">Googlebot</a></li> +</ul> +</div> +</div> + +<p>Google's web crawling bot (<a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182072?hl=en" class="external-link" target="_blank">Googlebot</a>), which crawls and indexes web sites +for the Google search engine, can also index content in your Android app. +By opting in, you can allow Googlebot to crawl the content in the APK +through the Google Play Store to index the app content. To indicate which app +content you’d like Google to index, simply add link elements either to +your existing <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/156184?hl=en" class="external-link" target="_blank">Sitemap</a> file or in the {@code <head>} element of each web +page in your site, in the same way as you would for web pages.</p> +<p class="note"><strong>Note: </strong> +Currently, the Google Search app indexing capability is restricted to +English-only Android apps from developers participating in the early adopter +program. You can sign up to be a participant by submitting the <a +href="https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/forms/d/1itcqPAQqggJ6e4m8aejWLM8Dc5O8P6qybgGbKCNxGV0/viewform" +class="external-link" target="_blank">App Indexing Expression of Interest</a> form. +</p> + +<p>The deep links that you share with Google Search must take this URI +format:</p> +<pre> +android-app://<package_name>/<scheme>/<host_path> +</pre> +<p>The components that make up the URI format are:</p> +<ul> +<li><strong>package_name.</strong> Represents the package name for your APK as +listed in the <a href="https://play.google.com/apps/publish" class="external-link" target="_blank">Google Play Developer Console</a>.</li> +<li><strong>scheme.</strong> The URI scheme that matches your intent filter.</li> +<li><strong>host_path.</strong> Identifies the specific content within your application. +</li> +</ul> +<p>The following sections describe how to add a deep link URI to your Sitemap +or web pages.</p> +<h2 id="sitemap">Add Deep Links in Your Sitemap</h2> +<p>To annotate the deep link for Google Search app indexing in your +<a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/156184?hl=en" class="external-link" target="_blank">Sitemap</a>, use the +{@code <xhtml:link>} tag and specify the deep link as an alternate URI.</p> +<p>For example, the following XML snippet shows how you might specify a link to +your web page by using the {@code <loc>} tag, and a corresponding deep +link to your Android app by using the {@code <xhtml:link>} tag.</p> +<pre> +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> +<urlset + xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" + xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> + <url> + <loc>example://gizmos</loc> + <xhtml:link + rel="alternate" + href="android-app://com.example.android/example/gizmos" /> + </url> + ... +</urlset> +</pre> +<h2 id="webpages">Add Deep Links in Your Web Pages</h2> +<p>Instead of specifying the deep links for Google Search app indexing in your +Sitemap file, you can annotate the deep links in the HTML markup of your web +pages. You can do this in the {@code <head>} section for each web +page by adding a {@code <link>} tag and specifying the deep link as an +alternate URI.</p> +<p>For example, the following HTML snippet shows how you might specify the +corresponding deep link in a web page that has the URL +{@code example://gizmos}.</p> +<pre> +<html> +<head> + <link rel="alternate" + href="android-app://com.example.android/example/gizmos" /> + ... +</head> +<body> ... </body> +</pre> + +<h2 id="robots">Allow Google to Crawl URLs Requested By Your App</h2> +<p>Typically, you control how Googlebot crawls publicly accessible URLs on + your site by using a <a href="https://developers.google.com/webmasters/control-crawl-index/docs/robots_txt" class="external-link" target="_blank">{@code robots.txt}</a> +file. When Googlebot indexes your app content, your app might make HTTP +requests as part of its normal operations. However, these requests will +appear to your servers as originating from Googlebot. Therefore, you must +configure your server's {@code robots.txt} file properly to allow these +requests.</p> +<p>For example, the following {@code robots.txt} directive shows how you might +allow access to a specific directory in your web site (for example, +{@code /api/}) that your app needs to access, while restricting Googlebot's +access to other parts of your site.</p> +<pre> +User-Agent: Googlebot +Allow: /api/ +Disallow: / +</pre> +<p>To learn more about how to modify {@code robots.txt} to control web +crawling, see the <a href="https://developers.google.com/webmasters/control-crawl-index/docs/getting_started" class="external-link" target="_blank">Controlling Crawling +and Indexing Getting Started</a> guide.</p> diff --git a/docs/html/training/app-indexing/index.jd b/docs/html/training/app-indexing/index.jd new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6965ce5 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/html/training/app-indexing/index.jd @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ +page.title=Making Your App Searchable +page.tags="app indexing" + +trainingnavtop=true +startpage=true + +@jd:body + +<div id="tb-wrapper"> +<div id="tb"> + +<h2>Dependencies and prerequisites</h2> +<ul> + <li>Android 2.3 (API level 9) and higher</li> +</ul> + +<h2>You Should Also Read</h2> +<ul> +<li><a href="http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-power-of-search-now-across-apps.html" class="external-link" target="_blank">The power of Search, now across apps (blog post)</a></li> +<li><a href="https://developers.google.com/app-indexing/" class="external-link" +target="_blank">App Indexing for Google Search</a></li> +<li><a href="{@docRoot}guide/components/intents-filters.html">Intents and Intent +Filters</a></li> +</ul> +</div> +</div> +<a class="notice-developers-video wide" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh_W82JgOms"> +<div> + <h3>Video</h3> + <p>DevBytes: App Indexing</p> +</div> +</a> + +<p>As mobile apps become more pervasive, users are looking for relevant +information not only from web sites but also from apps they have installed. +You can enable Google to crawl through your app content and present your +Android app as a destination to users through Google Search results, when +that content corresponds to a web page that you own.</p> + +<p>You can make it possible for Google Search to open specific content in your + app by providing intent filters for your activities. Google Search +app indexing complements this capability by presenting links to relevant app +content alongside links to your web pages in users' search results. Users on +mobile devices can then click on a link to open your app from their search +results, allowing them to directly view your app's content instead of a +web page.</p> + +<p>To enable Google Search app indexing, you need to provide Google with +information about the relationship between your app and web site. This process +involves the following steps:</p> +<ol> +<li>Enable deep linking to specific content +in your app by adding intent filters in your app manifest.</li> +<li>Annotate these links in the associated web pages on your web site or in a + Sitemap file.</li> +<li>Opt in to allow Googlebot to crawl through your APK in the Google Play store + to index your app content. You are automatically opted-in when you join as + a participant in the early adopter program. +</li> +</ol> + +<p class="note"><strong>Note: </strong> +Currently, the Google Search app indexing capability is restricted to +English-only Android apps from developers participating in the early adopter +program. You can sign up to be a participant by submitting the <a +href="https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/forms/d/1itcqPAQqggJ6e4m8aejWLM8Dc5O8P6qybgGbKCNxGV0/viewform" +class="external-link" target="_blank">App Indexing Expression of Interest</a> form. +</p> + +<p>This class shows how to enable deep linking and indexing of your application +content so that users can open this content directly from mobile search +results.</p> + +<h2>Lessons</h2> + +<!-- Create a list of the lessons in this class along with a short description of each lesson. +These should be short and to the point. It should be clear from reading the summary whether someone +will want to jump to a lesson or not.--> + +<dl> + <dt><b><a href="deep-linking.html">Enabling Deep Links for App +Content</a></b></dt> + <dd>Shows how to add intent filters to enable deep linking to app +content.</dd> + <dt><b><a href="enabling-app-indexing.html">Specifying App Content for +Indexing</a></b></dt> + <dd>Shows how to annotate web site metadata to allow Google's algorithms to index +app content.</dd> +</dl> diff --git a/docs/html/training/training_toc.cs b/docs/html/training/training_toc.cs index 1314c7a..d28f37b 100644 --- a/docs/html/training/training_toc.cs +++ b/docs/html/training/training_toc.cs @@ -1001,6 +1001,27 @@ include the action bar on devices running Android 2.1 or higher." </ul> </li> + <li class="nav-section"> + <div class="nav-section-header"> + <a href="<?cs var:toroot ?>training/app-indexing/index.html" + description= + "How to enable deep linking and indexing of your application +content so that users can open this content directly from their mobile search +results." + >Making Your App Content Searchable</a> + </div> + <ul> + <li><a href="<?cs var:toroot ?>training/app-indexing/deep-linking.html"> + Enabling Deep Links for App Content + </a> + </li> + <li><a href="<?cs var:toroot ?>training/app-indexing/enabling-app-indexing.html"> + Specifying App Content for Indexing + </a> + </li> + </ul> + </li> + </ul> </li> <!-- End best UX and UI --> |
