{"id":19436,"date":"2015-06-23T17:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T00:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.xamarin.com\/?p=19436"},"modified":"2015-06-23T17:00:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T00:00:56","slug":"android-m-preview-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/android-m-preview-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Android M Preview Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tToday, we&#8217;re excited to announce the preview release of Xamarin.Android featuring support for Android M&#8217;s developer preview. Android M is an exciting release, <a href=\"\/google-io-2015-recap-for-android-developers\/\" title=\"Google I\/O Recap for Android Developers\" target=\"_blank\">that introduces several new features for Android developers<\/a> including new app Permissions, Fingerprint Authorization, enhanced Notifications, Voice Interactions, and Direct Sharing. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/devices-hero_620px_2x-1024x591.png\" alt=\"Android M\" width=\"1024\" height=\"591\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18865\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: #555555\">Installing the Android M Preview<\/h3>\n<ul style=\"color: #4e5758\">\n<li>Starting with Android Lollipop, Java JDK 1.7 is required to properly compile apps. You can download one for your system <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/technetwork\/java\/javase\/downloads\/jdk7-downloads-1880260.html\" target=\"_blank\">from Oracle&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Update your Android SDK Tools  to 24.3.3 from the Android SDK Manager<\/li>\n<li>Install the latest Android SDK Platform and Platform and Build-tools<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/mnc-preview-tools.png\" alt=\"mnc-preview-tools\" width=\"523\" height=\"98\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19472\" \/><\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #4e5758\">\n<li>Download the Android M (API 22, MNC preview) SDKs<\/li>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/mnc-preview-packages.png\" alt=\"mnc-preview-packages\" width=\"534\" height=\"148\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19473\" \/>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"color: #4e5758\">\n<li>Install the <a href=\"https:\/\/releases.xamarin.com\/preview-android-m-support\/\" target=\"_blank\">Xamarin.Android Preview Release<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"color: #555555\">Getting Started<\/h3>\n<p>With this preview installed, you should have\u00a0the new APIs available to use in your Xamarin.Android apps.\u00a0Check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/releases.xamarin.com\/preview-android-m-support\/\" title=\"Xamarin.Android release notes\" target=\"_blank\">release notes<\/a>, download links, and\u00a0more details on our <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.xamarin.com\/guides\/android\/platform_features\/introduction-to-m\/\" title=\"Android M documentation\" target=\"_blank\">Introduction to Android M<\/a> documentation to guide you through setup and the new APIs.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we&#8217;re excited to announce the preview release of Xamarin.Android featuring support for Android M&#8217;s developer preview. Android M is an exciting release, that introduces several new features for Android developers including new app Permissions, Fingerprint Authorization, enhanced Notifications, Voice Interactions, and Direct Sharing. Installing the Android M Preview Starting with Android Lollipop, Java JDK [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1917,"featured_media":20688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,4],"class_list":["post-19436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-developers","tag-android","tag-xamarin-platform"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Today, we&#8217;re excited to announce the preview release of Xamarin.Android featuring support for Android M&#8217;s developer preview. 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