2001956 - [meta] Explore new APIs introduced in Android 16

Status: ASSIGNED

(Firefox for Android :: Tooling, task)

Description

[Mihai Adrian Carare [:mcarare]]

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/16/summary

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/16/qpr2/release-notes

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox for Android::Tooling' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Mihai Adrian Carare [:mcarare]]

Out of the list presented here: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/16/summary, by filtering to New features and APIs only some of the new APIs are related to use cases in our app:

1. New a11y features: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/16/features#accessibility.
2. Performance related new info: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/16/features#performance-battery

Some other possible APIs to explore:

1. Adaptive refresh rate: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/16/features#arr
2. Progress-centric notifications https://developer.android.com/about/versions/16/features/progress-centric-notifications ( for downloads?)