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Explore Android Jetpack components

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Explore Android Jetpack components

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- [Instructor] The Android Jetpack collection was announced at the 2018 Google IO conference. It's a loose collection of software components that are designed to speed up development of Android apps. The Jetpack components are built and delivered in a set of libraries that are prefixed with Android X in their packages. Many of these libraries and components existed before Jetpack and were previously delivered as part of the support libraries and in fact if you have an existing application that uses support libraries, Android Studio makes it easy to convert over to Android X. Toward the bottom of this page you'll find a listing of the components that make up the Jetpack collection. Again many of these existed previously, the AppCompat components were part of the support libraries and they're designed to let your application degrade gracefully when you run the app on older versions of Android. These components are delivered as part of the support libraries or as part of Jetpack instead…

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