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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]9<h6>Table of Contents</h6>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]15<p class="toc_h1"><a href="#1_introduction">1. Introduction</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]17<p class="toc_h1"><a href="#2_device_types">2. Device Types</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]19<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#2_1_device_configurations">2.1 Device Configurations</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]21<p class="toc_h1"><a href="#3_software">3. Software</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]23<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#3_1_managed_api_compatibility">3.1. Managed API Compatibility</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]25<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#3_2_soft_api_compatibility">3.2. Soft API Compatibility</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]27<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#3_2_1_permissions">3.2.1. Permissions</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]29<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#3_2_2_build_parameters">3.2.2. Build Parameters</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]31<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#3_2_3_intent_compatibility">3.2.3. Intent Compatibility</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]33<p class="toc_h4"><a href="#3_2_3_1_core_application_intents">3.2.3.1. Core Application Intents</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]35<p class="toc_h4"><a href="#3_2_3_2_intent_overrides">3.2.3.2. Intent Overrides</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]37<p class="toc_h4"><a href="#3_2_3_3_intent_namespaces">3.2.3.3. Intent Namespaces</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]39<p class="toc_h4"><a href="#3_2_3_4_broadcast_intents">3.2.3.4. Broadcast Intents</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]41<p class="toc_h4"><a href="#3_2_3_5_default_app_settings">3.2.3.5. Default App Settings</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]43<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#3_3_native_api_compatibility">3.3. Native API Compatibility</a></p>
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Unsuk Junga16d5c72015-06-05 02:10:14 -0700[diff] [blame]45<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#3_3_1_application_binary_interfaces">3.3.1. Application Binary Interfaces</a></p>
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47<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#3_3_2_32-bit_arm_native_code_compatibility">3.3.2. 32-bit ARM Native Code Compatibility</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]49<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#3_4_web_compatibility">3.4. Web Compatibility</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]53<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#3_4_2_browser_compatibility">3.4.2. Browser Compatibility</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]55<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#3_5_api_behavioral_compatibility">3.5. API Behavioral Compatibility</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]57<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#3_6_api_namespaces">3.6. API Namespaces</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]59<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#3_7_runtime_compatibility">3.7. Runtime Compatibility</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]61<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#3_8_user_interface_compatibility">3.8. User Interface Compatibility</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]63<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#3_8_1_launcher_home_screen">3.8.1. Launcher (Home Screen)</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]65<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#3_8_2_widgets">3.8.2. Widgets</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]67<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#3_8_3_notifications">3.8.3. Notifications</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]75<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#3_8_7_live_wallpapers">3.8.7. Live Wallpapers</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]77<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#3_8_8_activity_switching">3.8.8. Activity Switching</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]79<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#3_8_9_input_management">3.8.9. Input Management</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]81<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#3_8_10_lock_screen_media_control">3.8.10. Lock Screen Media Control</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]83<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#3_8_11_dreams">3.8.11. Dreams</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]85<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#3_8_12_location">3.8.12. Location</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]87<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#3_8_13_unicode_and_font">3.8.13. Unicode and Font</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]99<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#3_10_accessibility">3.10. Accessibility</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]105<p class="toc_h1"><a href="#4_application_packaging_compatibility">4. Application Packaging Compatibility</a></p>
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127<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#5_4_3_capture_for_rerouting_of_playback">5.4.3. Capture for Rerouting of Playback</a></p>
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143<p class="toc_h1"><a href="#6_developer_tools_and_options_compatibility">6. Developer Tools and Options Compatibility</a></p>
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145<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#6_1_developer_tools">6.1. Developer Tools</a></p>
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147<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#6_2_developer_options">6.2. Developer Options</a></p>
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149<p class="toc_h1"><a href="#7_hardware_compatibility">7. Hardware Compatibility</a></p>
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151<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#7_1_display_and_graphics">7.1. Display and Graphics</a></p>
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153<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_1_1_screen_configuration">7.1.1. Screen Configuration</a></p>
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155<p class="toc_h4"><a href="#7_1_1_1_screen_size">7.1.1.1. Screen Size</a></p>
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157<p class="toc_h4"><a href="#7_1_1_2_screen_aspect_ratio">7.1.1.2. Screen Aspect Ratio</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]175<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_1_5_legacy_application_compatibility_mode">7.1.5. Legacy Application Compatibility Mode</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]177<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_1_6_screen_technology">7.1.6. Screen Technology</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]183<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_2_1_keyboard">7.2.1. Keyboard</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]185<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_2_2_non-touch_navigation">7.2.2. Non-touch Navigation</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]189<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_2_4_touchscreen_input">7.2.4. Touchscreen Input</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]199<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#7_3_sensors">7.3. Sensors</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]201<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_3_1_accelerometer">7.3.1. Accelerometer</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]203<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_3_2_magnetometer">7.3.2. Magnetometer</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]205<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_3_3_gps">7.3.3. GPS</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]207<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_3_4_gyroscope">7.3.4. Gyroscope</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]209<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_3_5_barometer">7.3.5. Barometer</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]211<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_3_6_thermometer">7.3.6. Thermometer</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]213<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_3_7_photometer">7.3.7. Photometer</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]215<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_3_8_proximity_sensor">7.3.8. Proximity Sensor</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]217<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#7_4_data_connectivity">7.4. Data Connectivity</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]219<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_4_1_telephony">7.4.1. Telephony</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]221<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_4_2_ieee_80211_wi-fi">7.4.2. IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi)</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]223<p class="toc_h4"><a href="#7_4_2_1_wi-fi_direct">7.4.2.1. Wi-Fi Direct</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]225<p class="toc_h4"><a href="#7_4_2_2_wi-fi-tunneled-direct-link-setup">7.4.2.2. Wi-Fi Tunneled Direct Link Setup</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]227<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_4_3_bluetooth">7.4.3. Bluetooth</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]229<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_4_4_near-field_communications">7.4.4. Near-Field Communications</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]231<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_4_5_minimum_network_capability">7.4.5. Minimum Network Capability</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]233<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_4_6_sync_settings">7.4.6. Sync Settings</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]235<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#7_5_cameras">7.5. Cameras</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]237<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_5_1_rear-facing_camera">7.5.1. Rear-Facing Camera</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]239<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_5_2_front-facing_camera">7.5.2. Front-Facing Camera</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]241<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_5_3_external_camera">7.5.3. External Camera</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]243<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_5_4_camera_api_behavior">7.5.4. Camera API Behavior</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]249</div>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]250
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]251<div id="toc_right_2">
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]252
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]253<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_5_5_camera_orientation">7.5.5. Camera Orientation</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]255<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#7_6_memory_and_storage">7.6. Memory and Storage</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]257<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_6_1_minimum_memory_and_storage">7.6.1. Minimum Memory and Storage</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]259<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_6_2_application_shared_storage">7.6.2. Application Shared Storage</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]261<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#7_7_usb">7.7. USB</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]263<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#7_8_audio">7.8. Audio</a></p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]264
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]265<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_8_1_microphone">7.8.1. Microphone</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]267<p class="toc_h3"><a href="#7_8_2_audio_output">7.8.2. Audio Output</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]269<p class="toc_h4"><a href="#7_8_2_1_analog_audio_ports">7.8.2.1. Analog Audio Ports</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]271<p class="toc_h1"><a href="#8_performance_compatibility">8. Performance Compatibility</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]273<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#8_1_user_experience_consistency">8.1. User Experience Consistency</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]275<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#8_2_memory_performance">8.2. Memory Performance</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]277<p class="toc_h1"><a href="#9_security_model_compatibility">9. Security Model Compatibility</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]279<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#9_1_permissions">9.1. Permissions</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]281<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#9_2_uid_and_process_isolation">9.2. UID and Process Isolation</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]283<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#9_3_filesystem_permissions">9.3. Filesystem Permissions</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]285<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#9_4_alternate_execution_environments">9.4. Alternate Execution Environments</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]287<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#9_5_multi-user_support">9.5. Multi-User Support</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]289<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#9_6_premium_sms_warning">9.6. Premium SMS Warning</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]291<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#9_7_kernel_security_features">9.7. Kernel Security Features</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]293<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#9_8_privacy">9.8. Privacy</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]295<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#9_9_full-disk-encryption">9.9. Full-Disk Encryption</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]297<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#9_10_verified_boot">9.10. Verified Boot</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]299<p class="toc_h1"><a href="#10_software_compatibility_testing">10. Software Compatibility Testing</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]301<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#10_1_compatibility_test_suite">10.1. Compatibility Test Suite</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]303<p class="toc_h2"><a href="#10_2_cts_verifier">10.2. CTS Verifier</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]305<p class="toc_h1"><a href="#11_updatable_software">11. Updatable Software</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]307<p class="toc_h1"><a href="#12_document_changelog">12. Document Changelog</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]309<p class="toc_h1"><a href="#13_contact_us">13. Contact Us</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]311<p class="toc_h1"><a href="#14_resources">14. Resources</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]313</div>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]317<div style="clear: both"></div>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]319<div id="main">
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]321<h1 id="1_introduction">1. Introduction</h1>
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323
324<p>This document enumerates the requirements that must be met in order for devices
Unsuk Jungd1ac9fe2015-04-01 08:18:41 -0700[diff] [blame]325to be compatible with Android 5.1.</p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]327<p>The use of &ldquo;MUST&rdquo;, &ldquo;MUST NOT&rdquo;, &ldquo;REQUIRED&rdquo;, &ldquo;SHALL&rdquo;, &ldquo;SHALL NOT&rdquo;, &ldquo;SHOULD&rdquo;,&ldquo;SHOULD NOT&rdquo;, &ldquo;RECOMMENDED&rdquo;, &ldquo;MAY&rdquo;, and &ldquo;OPTIONAL&rdquo; is per the IETF standard
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]328defined in RFC2119 [<a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt">Resources, 1</a>].</p>
329
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]330<p>As used in this document, a &ldquo;device implementer&rdquo; or &ldquo;implementer&rdquo; is a person
Unsuk Jungd1ac9fe2015-04-01 08:18:41 -0700[diff] [blame]331or organization developing a hardware/software solution running Android 5.1. A
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]332&ldquo;device implementation&rdquo; or &ldquo;implementation is the hardware/software solution
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]333so developed.</p>
334
Unsuk Jungd1ac9fe2015-04-01 08:18:41 -0700[diff] [blame]335<p>To be considered compatible with Android 5.1, device implementations MUST meet
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]336the requirements presented in this Compatibility Definition, including any
337documents incorporated via reference.</p>
338
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]339<p>Where this definition or the software tests described in <a href="#10_software_compatibility_testing">section 10</a> is silent, ambiguous, or incomplete, it is the responsibility of the device
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]340implementer to ensure compatibility with existing implementations.</p>
341
342<p>For this reason, the Android Open Source Project [<a href="http://source.android.com/">Resources, 2</a>] is both the reference and preferred implementation of Android. Device
343implementers are strongly encouraged to base their implementations to the
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]344greatest extent possible on the &ldquo;upstream&rdquo; source code available from the
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]345Android Open Source Project. While some components can hypothetically be
346replaced with alternate implementations this practice is strongly discouraged,
347as passing the software tests will become substantially more difficult. It is
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]348the implementer&rsquo;s responsibility to ensure full behavioral compatibility with
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]349the standard Android implementation, including and beyond the Compatibility
350Test Suite. Finally, note that certain component substitutions and
351modifications are explicitly forbidden by this document.</p>
352
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]353<p>Many of the resources listed in <a href="#14_resources">section 14</a> are derived directly or indirectly from the Android SDK, and will be
354functionally identical to the information in that SDK&rsquo;s documentation. For any
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]355case where this Compatibility Definition or the Compatibility Test Suite
356disagrees with the SDK documentation, the SDK documentation is considered
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]357authoritative. Any technical details provided in the references included in <a href="#14_resources">section 14</a> are considered by inclusion to be part of this Compatibility Definition. </p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]359<h1 id="2_device_types">2. Device Types</h1>
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361
362<p>While the Android Open Source Project has been used in the implementation of a
363variety of device types and form factors, many aspects of the architecture and
364compatibility requirements were optimized for handheld devices. Starting from
365Android 5.0, the Android Open Source Project aims to embrace a wider variety of
366device types as described in this section.</p>
367
368<p><strong>Android Handheld device</strong> refers to an Android device implementation that is typically used by holding
369it in the hand, such as mp3 players, phones, and tablets. Android Handheld
370device implementations:</p>
371
372<ul>
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374 <li>MUST have a power source that provides mobility, such as a battery.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]375</ul>
376
377<p><strong>Android Television device</strong> refers to an Android device implementation that is an entertainment interface
378for consuming digital media, movies, games, apps, and/or live TV for users
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]379sitting about ten feet away (a &ldquo;lean back&rdquo; or &ldquo;10-foot user interface&rdquo;).
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]380Android Television devices:</p>
381
382<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]383 <li>MUST have an embedded screen OR include a video output port, such as VGA, HDMI,
384or a wireless port for display.</li>
385 <li>MUST declare the features android.software.leanback and
386android.hardware.type.television [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageManager.html#FEATURE_LEANBACK">Resources, 3</a>].</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]387</ul>
388
389<p><strong>Android Watch device</strong> refers to an Android device implementation intended to be worn on the body,
390perhaps on the wrist, and:</p>
391
392<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]393 <li>MUST have a screen with the physical diagonal length in the range from 1.1 to
3942.5 inches.</li>
395 <li>MUST declare the feature android.hardware.type.watch.</li>
396 <li>MUST support uiMode = UI_MODE_TYPE_WATCH [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/Configuration.html#UI_MODE_TYPE_WATCH">Resources, 4</a>].</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]397</ul>
398
Heidi von Markham61607242015-04-02 12:59:09 -0700[diff] [blame]399<p><strong>Android Automotive implementation</strong> refers to a vehicle head
400unit running Android as an operating system for part or all of the system and/or
401infotainment functionality. Android Automotive implementations MUST support
402uiMode = UI_MODE_TYPE_CAR [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/Configuration.html#UI_MODE_TYPE_CAR">Resources, 111</a>].</p>
403
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]404<p>All Android device implementations that do not fit into any of the above device
Unsuk Jungd1ac9fe2015-04-01 08:18:41 -0700[diff] [blame]405types still MUST meet all requirements in this document to be Android 5.1
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]406compatible, unless the requirement is explicitly described to be only
407applicable to a specific Android device type. </p>
408
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]409<h2 id="2_1_device_configurations">2.1 Device Configurations</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]410
411
412<p>This is a summary of major differences in hardware configuration by device
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]413type. (Empty cells denote a &ldquo;MAY&rdquo;). Not all configurations are covered in this
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]414table; see relevant hardware sections for more detail.</p>
415<table>
416 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]417 <th>Category</th>
418 <th>Feature</th>
419 <th>Section</th>
420 <th>Handheld</th>
421 <th>Television</th>
422 <th>Watch</th>
Heidi von Markhamb183b322015-05-26 15:17:37 -0700[diff] [blame]423 <th>Automotive</th>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]424 <th>Other</th>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]425 </tr>
426 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]427 <td rowspan="3">Input</td>
428 <td>D-pad</td>
429 <td><a href="#7_2_2_non-touch-navigation">7.2.2. Non-touch Navigation</a></td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]430 <td></td>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]431 <td>MUST</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]432 <td></td>
433 <td></td>
Heidi von Markhamb183b322015-05-26 15:17:37 -0700[diff] [blame]434 <td></td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]435 </tr>
436 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]437 <td>Touchscreen </td>
438 <td><a href="#7_2_4_touchscreen_input">7.2.4. Touchscreen input</a></td>
439 <td>MUST</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]440 <td></td>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]441 <td>MUST</td>
Heidi von Markhamb183b322015-05-26 15:17:37 -0700[diff] [blame]442 <td></td>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]443 <td>SHOULD</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]444 </tr>
445 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]446 <td>Microphone </td>
447 <td><a href="#7_8_1_microphone">7.8.1. Microphone</a></td>
448 <td>MUST</td>
449 <td>SHOULD </td>
450 <td>MUST</td>
Heidi von Markhamb183b322015-05-26 15:17:37 -0700[diff] [blame]451 <td>MUST</td>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]452 <td>SHOULD</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]453 </tr>
454 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]455 <td rowspan="2">Sensors</td>
456 <td>Accelerometer </td>
457 <td><a href="#7_3_1_accelerometer">7.3.1 Accelerometer</a></td>
458 <td>SHOULD</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]459 <td></td>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]460 <td>SHOULD</td>
Heidi von Markhamb183b322015-05-26 15:17:37 -0700[diff] [blame]461 <td></td>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]462 <td>SHOULD</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]463 </tr>
464 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]465 <td>GPS</td>
466 <td><a href="#7_3_3_gps">7.3.3. GPS</a></td>
467 <td>SHOULD</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]468 <td></td>
469 <td></td>
Heidi von Markhamb183b322015-05-26 15:17:37 -0700[diff] [blame]470 <td>SHOULD</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]471 <td></td>
472 </tr>
473 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]474 <td rowspan="5">Connectivity</td>
475 <td>Wi-Fi</td>
476 <td><a href="#7_4_2_ieee_802.11">7.4.2. IEEE 802.11</a></td>
477 <td>SHOULD</td>
478 <td> MUST</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]479 <td></td>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]480 <td>SHOULD</td>
Heidi von Markhamb183b322015-05-26 15:17:37 -0700[diff] [blame]481 <td>SHOULD</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]482 </tr>
483 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]484 <td>Wi-Fi Direct</td>
485 <td><a href="#7_4_2_1_wi-fi-direct">7.4.2.1. Wi-Fi Direct</a></td>
486 <td>SHOULD</td>
487 <td>SHOULD</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]488 <td></td>
Heidi von Markhamb183b322015-05-26 15:17:37 -0700[diff] [blame]489 <td></td>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]490 <td>SHOULD</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]491 </tr>
492 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]493 <td>Bluetooth</td>
494 <td><a href="#7_4_3_bluetooth">7.4.3. Bluetooth</a></td>
495 <td>SHOULD</td>
496 <td>MUST</td>
497 <td>MUST</td>
Heidi von Markhamb183b322015-05-26 15:17:37 -0700[diff] [blame]498 <td>MUST</td>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]499 <td>SHOULD</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]500 </tr>
501 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]502 <td>Bluetooth Low Energy</td>
503 <td><a href="#7_4_3_bluetooth">7.4.3. Bluetooth</a></td>
504 <td>SHOULD</td>
505 <td>MUST</td>
506 <td>SHOULD</td>
507 <td>SHOULD</td>
Heidi von Markhamb183b322015-05-26 15:17:37 -0700[diff] [blame]508 <td>SHOULD</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]509 </tr>
510 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamb183b322015-05-26 15:17:37 -0700[diff] [blame]511 <td>USB peripheral/host mode</td>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]512 <td><a href="#7_7_usb">7.7. USB</a></td>
513 <td>SHOULD</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]514 <td></td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]515 <td></td>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]516 <td>SHOULD</td>
Heidi von Markhamb183b322015-05-26 15:17:37 -0700[diff] [blame]517 <td>SHOULD</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]518 </tr>
519 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]520 <td>Output</td>
521 <td>Speaker and/or Audio output ports</td>
522 <td><a href="#7_8_2_audio_output">7.8.2. Audio Output</a></td>
523 <td>MUST</td>
524 <td>MUST</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]525 <td></td>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]526 <td>MUST</td>
Heidi von Markhamb183b322015-05-26 15:17:37 -0700[diff] [blame]527 <td>MUST</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]528 </tr>
529</table>
530
531
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]532<h1 id="3_software">3. Software</h1>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]533
534
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]535<h2 id="3_1_managed_api_compatibility">3.1. Managed API Compatibility</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]536
537
538<p>The managed Dalvik bytecode execution environment is the primary vehicle for
539Android applications. The Android application programming interface (API) is
540the set of Android platform interfaces exposed to applications running in the
541managed runtime environment. Device implementations MUST provide complete
542implementations, including all documented behaviors, of any documented API
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]543exposed by the Android SDK [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/packages.html">Resources, 5</a>] or any API decorated with the &ldquo;@SystemApi&rdquo; marker in the upstream Android
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]544source code. </p>
545
546<p>Device implementations MUST NOT omit any managed APIs, alter API interfaces or
547signatures, deviate from the documented behavior, or include no-ops, except
548where specifically allowed by this Compatibility Definition.</p>
549
550<p>This Compatibility Definition permits some types of hardware for which Android
551includes APIs to be omitted by device implementations. In such cases, the APIs
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]552MUST still be present and behave in a reasonable way. See <a href="#7_hardware_compatibility">section 7</a> for specific requirements for this scenario.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]553
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]554<h2 id="3_2_soft_api_compatibility">3.2. Soft API Compatibility</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]555
556
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]557<p>In addition to the managed APIs from <a href="#3_1_managed_api_compatibility">section 3.1</a>, Android also includes a significant runtime-only &ldquo;soft&rdquo; API, in the form of
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]558such things as intents, permissions, and similar aspects of Android
559applications that cannot be enforced at application compile time.</p>
560
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]561<h3 id="3_2_1_permissions">3.2.1. Permissions</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]562
563
564<p>Device implementers MUST support and enforce all permission constants as
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]565documented by the Permission reference page [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html">Resources, 6]</a>. Note that <a href="#9_security_model_compatibility">section 9</a> lists additional requirements related to the Android security model.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]566
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]567<h3 id="3_2_2_build_parameters">3.2.2. Build Parameters</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]568
569
570<p>The Android APIs include a number of constants on the android.os.Build class [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.html">Resources, 7</a>] that are intended to describe the current device. To provide consistent,
571meaningful values across device implementations, the table below includes
572additional restrictions on the formats of these values to which device
573implementations MUST conform.</p>
574<table>
575 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]576 <th>Parameter</th>
577 <th>Details</th>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]578 </tr>
579 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]580 <td>VERSION.RELEASE</td>
581 <td>The version of the currently-executing Android system, in human-readable
582format. This field MUST have one of the string values defined in [<a href="http://source.android.com/compatibility/5.1/versions.html">Resources, 8]</a>.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]583 </tr>
584 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]585 <td>VERSION.SDK</td>
586 <td>The version of the currently-executing Android system, in a format accessible
Unsuk Jungd1ac9fe2015-04-01 08:18:41 -0700[diff] [blame]587to third-party application code. For Android 5.1, this field MUST have the
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]588integer value 22.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]589 </tr>
590 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]591 <td>VERSION.SDK_INT</td>
592 <td>The version of the currently-executing Android system, in a format accessible
Unsuk Jungd1ac9fe2015-04-01 08:18:41 -0700[diff] [blame]593to third-party application code. For Android 5.1, this field MUST have the
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]594integer value 22.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]595 </tr>
596 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]597 <td>VERSION.INCREMENTAL</td>
598 <td>A value chosen by the device implementer designating the specific build of the
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]599currently-executing Android system, in human-readable format. This value MUST
600NOT be reused for different builds made available to end users. A typical use
601of this field is to indicate which build number or source-control change
602identifier was used to generate the build. There are no requirements on the
603specific format of this field, except that it MUST NOT be null or the empty
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]604string ("").</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]605 </tr>
606 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]607 <td>BOARD</td>
608 <td>A value chosen by the device implementer identifying the specific internal
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]609hardware used by the device, in human-readable format. A possible use of this
610field is to indicate the specific revision of the board powering the device.
611The value of this field MUST be encodable as 7-bit ASCII and match the regular
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]612expression &ldquo;^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$&rdquo;.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]613 </tr>
614 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]615 <td>BRAND</td>
616 <td>A value reflecting the brand name associated with the device as known to the
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]617end users. MUST be in human-readable format and SHOULD represent the
618manufacturer of the device or the company brand under which the device is
619marketed. The value of this field MUST be encodable as 7-bit ASCII and match
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]620the regular expression &ldquo;^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$&rdquo;.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]621 </tr>
622 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]623 <td>SUPPORTED_ABIS</td>
624 <td>The name of the instruction set (CPU type + ABI convention) of native code. See <a href="#3_3_native_api_compatibility">section 3.3. Native API Compatibility</a>.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]625 </tr>
626 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]627 <td>SUPPORTED_32_BIT_ABIS</td>
628 <td>The name of the instruction set (CPU type + ABI convention) of native code. See <a href="#3_3_native_api_compatibility">section 3.3. Native API Compatibility</a>.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]629 </tr>
630 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]631 <td>SUPPORTED_64_BIT_ABIS</td>
632 <td>The name of the second instruction set (CPU type + ABI convention) of native
633code. See <a href="#3_3_native_api_compatibility">section 3.3. Native API Compatibility</a>.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]634 </tr>
635 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]636 <td>CPU_ABI</td>
637 <td>The name of the instruction set (CPU type + ABI convention) of native code. See <a href="#3_3_native_api_compatibility">section 3.3. Native API Compatibility</a>.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]638 </tr>
639 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]640 <td>CPU_ABI2</td>
641 <td>The name of the second instruction set (CPU type + ABI convention) of native
642code. See <a href="#3_3_native_api_compatibility">section 3.3. Native API Compatibility</a>.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]643 </tr>
644 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]645 <td>DEVICE</td>
646 <td>A value chosen by the device implementer containing the development name or
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]647code name identifying the configuration of the hardware features and industrial
648design of the device. The value of this field MUST be encodable as 7-bit ASCII
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]649and match the regular expression &ldquo;^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$&rdquo;.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]650 </tr>
651 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]652 <td>FINGERPRINT</td>
653 <td>A string that uniquely identifies this build. It SHOULD be reasonably
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]654human-readable. It MUST follow this template:</p>
655
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]656<p class="small">$(BRAND)/$(PRODUCT)/$(DEVICE):$(VERSION.RELEASE)/$(ID)/$(VERSION.INCREMENTAL):$(TYPE)/$(TAGS)</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]657
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]658<p>For example: acme/myproduct/mydevice:5.1/LMYXX/3359:userdebug/test-keys</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]659
660<p>The fingerprint MUST NOT include whitespace characters. If other fields
661included in the template above have whitespace characters, they MUST be
662replaced in the build fingerprint with another character, such as the
663underscore ("_") character. The value of this field MUST be encodable as 7-bit
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]664ASCII.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]665 </tr>
666 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]667 <td>HARDWARE</td>
668 <td>The name of the hardware (from the kernel command line or /proc). It SHOULD be
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]669reasonably human-readable. The value of this field MUST be encodable as 7-bit
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]670ASCII and match the regular expression &ldquo;^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$&rdquo;. </td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]671 </tr>
672 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]673 <td>HOST</td>
674 <td>A string that uniquely identifies the host the build was built on, in
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]675human-readable format. There are no requirements on the specific format of this
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]676field, except that it MUST NOT be null or the empty string ("").</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]677 </tr>
678 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]679 <td>ID</td>
680 <td>An identifier chosen by the device implementer to refer to a specific release,
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]681in human-readable format. This field can be the same as
682android.os.Build.VERSION.INCREMENTAL, but SHOULD be a value sufficiently
683meaningful for end users to distinguish between software builds. The value of
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]684this field MUST be encodable as 7-bit ASCII and match the regular expression &ldquo;^[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+$&rdquo;.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]685 </tr>
686 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]687 <td>MANUFACTURER</td>
688 <td>The trade name of the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) of the product.
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]689There are no requirements on the specific format of this field, except that it
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]690MUST NOT be null or the empty string ("").</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]691 </tr>
692 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]693 <td>MODEL</td>
694 <td>A value chosen by the device implementer containing the name of the device as
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]695known to the end user. This SHOULD be the same name under which the device is
696marketed and sold to end users. There are no requirements on the specific
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]697format of this field, except that it MUST NOT be null or the empty string ("").</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]698 </tr>
699 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]700 <td>PRODUCT</td>
701 <td>A value chosen by the device implementer containing the development name or
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]702code name of the specific product (SKU) that MUST be unique within the same
703brand. MUST be human-readable, but is not necessarily intended for view by end
704users. The value of this field MUST be encodable as 7-bit ASCII and match the
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]705regular expression &ldquo;^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$&rdquo;.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]706 </tr>
707 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]708 <td>SERIAL</td>
709 <td>A hardware serial number, which MUST be available. The value of this field MUST
710be encodable as 7-bit ASCII and match the regular expression &ldquo;^([a-zA-Z0-9]{6,20})$&rdquo;.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]711 </tr>
712 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]713 <td>TAGS</td>
714 <td>A comma-separated list of tags chosen by the device implementer that further
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]715distinguishes the build. This field MUST have one of the values corresponding
716to the three typical Android platform signing configurations: release-keys,
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]717dev-keys, test-keys. </td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]718 </tr>
719 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]720 <td>TIME</td>
721 <td>A value representing the timestamp of when the build occurred.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]722 </tr>
723 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]724 <td>TYPE</td>
725 <td>A value chosen by the device implementer specifying the runtime configuration
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]726of the build. This field MUST have one of the values corresponding to the three
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]727typical Android runtime configurations: user, userdebug, or eng.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]728 </tr>
729 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]730 <td>USER</td>
731 <td>A name or user ID of the user (or automated user) that generated the build.
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]732There are no requirements on the specific format of this field, except that it
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]733MUST NOT be null or the empty string ("").</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]734 </tr>
735</table>
736
737
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]738<h3 id="3_2_3_intent_compatibility">3.2.3. Intent Compatibility</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]739
740
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]741<p>Device implementations MUST honor Android&rsquo;s loose-coupling intent system, as
742described in the sections below. By&ldquo;honored &rdquo; it is meant that the device
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]743implementer MUST provide an Android Activity or Service that specifies a
744matching intent filter that binds to and implements correct behavior for each
745specified intent pattern.</p>
746
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]747<h4 id="3_2_3_1_core_application_intents">3.2.3.1. Core Application Intents</h4>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]748
749
750<p>Android intents allow application components to request functionality from
751other Android components. The Android upstream project includes a list of
752applications considered core Android applications, which implements several
753intent patterns to perform common actions. The core Android applications are:</p>
754
755<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]756 <li>Desk Clock</li>
757 <li>Browser</li>
758 <li>Calendar</li>
759 <li>Contacts</li>
760 <li>Gallery</li>
761 <li>GlobalSearch</li>
762 <li>Launcher</li>
763 <li>Music</li>
764 <li>Settings</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]765</ul>
766
767<p>Device implementations SHOULD include the core Android applications as
768appropriate but MUST include a component implementing the same intent patterns
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]769defined by all the &ldquo;public&rdquo; Activity or Service components of these core
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]770Android applications. Note that Activity or Service components are considered
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]771&ldquo;public&rdquo; when the attribute android:exported is absent or has the value true.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]772
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]773<h4 id="3_2_3_2_intent_overrides">3.2.3.2. Intent Overrides</h4>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]774
775
776<p>As Android is an extensible platform, device implementations MUST allow each
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]777intent pattern referenced in <a href="#3_2_3_1_core_application_intents">section 3.2.3.1</a> to be overridden by third-party applications. The upstream Android open source
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]778implementation allows this by default; device implementers MUST NOT attach
779special privileges to system applications' use of these intent patterns, or
780prevent third-party applications from binding to and assuming control of these
781patterns. This prohibition specifically includes but is not limited to
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]782disabling the&ldquo;Chooser&rdquo; user interface that allows the user to select between
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]783multiple applications that all handle the same intent pattern.</p>
784
785<p>However, device implementations MAY provide default activities for specific URI
786patterns (eg. http://play.google.com) if the default activity provides a more
787specific filter for the data URI. For example, an intent filter specifying the
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]788data URI &ldquo;http://www.android.com&rdquo; is more specific than the browser filter for&ldquo;http://&rdquo;. Device implementations MUST provide a user interface for users to
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]789modify the default activity for intents.</p>
790
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]791<h4 id="3_2_3_3_intent_namespaces">3.2.3.3. Intent Namespaces</h4>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]792
793
794<p>Device implementations MUST NOT include any Android component that honors any
795new intent or broadcast intent patterns using an ACTION, CATEGORY, or other key
796string in the android.* or com.android.* namespace. Device implementers MUST
797NOT include any Android components that honor any new intent or broadcast
798intent patterns using an ACTION, CATEGORY, or other key string in a package
799space belonging to another organization. Device implementers MUST NOT alter or
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]800extend any of the intent patterns used by the core apps listed in <a href="#3_2_3_1_core_application_intents">section 3.2.3.1</a>. Device implementations MAY include intent patterns using namespaces clearly
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]801and obviously associated with their own organization. This prohibition is
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]802analogous to that specified for Java language classes in <a href="#3_6_api_namespaces">section 3.6</a>.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]803
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]804<h4 id="3_2_3_4_broadcast_intents">3.2.3.4. Broadcast Intents</h4>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]805
806
807<p>Third-party applications rely on the platform to broadcast certain intents to
808notify them of changes in the hardware or software environment.
809Android-compatible devices MUST broadcast the public broadcast intents in
810response to appropriate system events. Broadcast intents are described in the
811SDK documentation.</p>
812
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]813<h4 id="3_2_3_5_default_app_settings">3.2.3.5. Default App Settings</h4>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]814
815
816<p>Android includes settings that provide users an easy way to select their
817default applications, for example for Home screen or SMS. Where it makes sense,
818device implementations MUST provide a similar settings menu and be compatible
819with the intent filter pattern and API methods described in the SDK
820documentation as below.</p>
821
822<p>Device implementations:</p>
823
824<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]825 <li>MUST honor the android.settings.HOME_SETTINGS intent to show a default app
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]826settings menu for Home Screen, if the device implementation reports
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]827android.software.home_screen [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/Settings.html">Resources, 10]</a></li>
828 <li>MUST provide a settings menu that will call the
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]829android.provider.Telephony.ACTION_CHANGE_DEFAULT intent to show a dialog to
830change the default SMS application, if the device implementation reports
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]831android.hardware.telephony [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/Telephony.Sms.Intents.html">Resources, 9</a>]</li>
832 <li>MUST honor the android.settings.NFC_PAYMENT_SETTINGS intent to show a default
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]833app settings menu for Tap and Pay, if the device implementation reports
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]834android.hardware.nfc.hce [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/Settings.html">Resources, 10]</a></li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]835</ul>
836
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]837<h2 id="3_3_native_api_compatibility">3.3. Native API Compatibility</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]838
839
Unsuk Junga16d5c72015-06-05 02:10:14 -0700[diff] [blame]840<h3 id="3_3_1_application_binary_interfaces">3.3.1. Application Binary Interfaces</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]841
842
843<p>Managed Dalvik bytecode can call into native code provided in the application
844.apk file as an ELF .so file compiled for the appropriate device hardware
845architecture. As native code is highly dependent on the underlying processor
846technology, Android defines a number of Application Binary Interfaces (ABIs) in
847the Android NDK. Device implementations MUST be compatible with one or more
848defined ABIs, and MUST implement compatibility with the Android NDK, as below.</p>
849
850<p>If a device implementation includes support for an Android ABI, it:</p>
851
852<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]853 <li>MUST include support for code running in the managed environment to call into
854native code, using the standard Java Native Interface (JNI) semantics</li>
855 <li>MUST be source-compatible (i.e. header compatible) and binary-compatible (for
856the ABI) with each required library in the list below</li>
857 <li>MUST support the equivalent 32-bit ABI if any 64-bit ABI is supported</li>
858 <li>MUST accurately report the native Application Binary Interface (ABI) supported
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]859by the device, via the android.os.Build.SUPPORTED_ABIS,
860android.os.Build.SUPPORTED_32_BIT_ABIS, and
861android.os.Build.SUPPORTED_64_BIT_ABIS parameters, each a comma separated list
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]862of ABIs ordered from the most to the least preferred one</li>
863 <li>MUST report, via the above parameters, only those ABIs documented in the latest
864version of the Android NDK, &ldquo;NDK Programmer&rsquo;s Guide | ABI Management&rdquo; in docs/
865directory</li>
866 <li>SHOULD be built using the source code and header files available in the
867upstream Android Open Source Project</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]868</ul>
869
870<p>The following native code APIs MUST be available to apps that include native
871code:</p>
872
873<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]874 <li>libc (C library)</li>
875 <li>libm (math library)</li>
876 <li>Minimal support for C++</li>
877 <li>JNI interface</li>
878 <li>liblog (Android logging)</li>
879 <li>libz (Zlib compression)</li>
880 <li>libdl (dynamic linker)</li>
881 <li>libGLESv1_CM.so (OpenGL ES 1.x)</li>
882 <li>libGLESv2.so (OpenGL ES 2.0)</li>
883 <li>libGLESv3.so (OpenGL ES 3.x)</li>
884 <li>libEGL.so (native OpenGL surface management)</li>
885 <li>libjnigraphics.so</li>
886 <li>libOpenSLES.so (OpenSL ES 1.0.1 audio support)</li>
887 <li>libOpenMAXAL.so (OpenMAX AL 1.0.1 support)</li>
888 <li>libandroid.so (native Android activity support)</li>
889 <li>libmediandk.so (native media APIs support)</li>
890 <li>Support for OpenGL, as described below</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]891</ul>
892
893<p>Note that future releases of the Android NDK may introduce support for
894additional ABIs. If a device implementation is not compatible with an existing
895predefined ABI, it MUST NOT report support for any ABIs at all.</p>
896
897<p>Note that device implementations MUST include libGLESv3.so and it MUST symlink
898(symbolic link) to libGLESv2.so. in turn, MUST export all the OpenGL ES 3.1 and
899Android Extension Pack [<a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/opengl.html#aep">Resources, 11</a>] function symbols as defined in the NDK release android-21. Although all the
900symbols must be present, only the corresponding functions for OpenGL ES
901versions and extensions actually supported by the device must be fully
902implemented.</p>
903
904<p>Native code compatibility is challenging. For this reason, device implementers
905are <strong>very strongly encouraged</strong> to use the implementations of the libraries listed above from the upstream
906Android Open Source Project. </p>
907
Unsuk Junga16d5c72015-06-05 02:10:14 -0700[diff] [blame]908<h3 id="3_3_2_32-bit_arm_native_code_compatibility">
9093.3.2. 32-bit ARM Native Code Compatibility
910</h3>
911
912<p>The ARMv8 architecture deprecates several CPU operations, including some
913operations used in existing native code. On 64-bit ARM devices, the following
914deprecated operations MUST remain available to 32-bit native ARM code, either
915through native CPU support or through software emulation:</p>
916
917<ul>
918<li>SWP and SWPB instructions</li>
919<li>SETEND instruction</li>
920<li>CP15ISB, CP15DSB, and CP15DMB barrier operations</li>
921</ul>
922
923<p>Legacy versions of the Android NDK used /proc/cpuinfo to discover CPU features
924from 32-bit ARM native code. For compatibility with applications built using this
925NDK, devices MUST include the following lines in /proc/cpuinfo when it is read
926by 32-bit ARM applications:</p>
927
928<ul>
929<li>&quot;Features: &quot;, followed by a list of any optional ARMv7 CPU features
930supported by the device</li>
931<li>&quot;CPU architecture: &quot;, followed by an integer describing the device's
932highest supported ARM architecture (e.g., &quot;8&quot; for ARMv8 devices)</li>
933</ul>
934
935<p>These requirements only apply when /proc/cpuinfo is read by 32-bit ARM
936applications. Devices SHOULD not alter /proc/cpuinfo when read by 64-bit ARM or
937non-ARM applications.</p>
938
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]939<h2 id="3_4_web_compatibility">3.4. Web Compatibility</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]940
941
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]942<h3 id="3_4_1_webview_compatibility">3.4.1. WebView Compatibility</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]943
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]944<div class="note">
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]945<p>The complete implementation of the android.webkit.Webview API MAY be provided
946on Android Watch devices but MUST be provided on all other types of device
947implementations.</p>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]948</div>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]949
950
951<p>The platform feature android.software.webview MUST be reported on any device
952that provides a complete implementation of the android.webkit.WebView API, and
953MUST NOT be reported on devices without a complete implementation of the API.
954The Android Open Source implementation uses code from the Chromium Project to
955implement the android.webkit.WebView [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.html">Resources, 12</a>]. Because it is not feasible to develop a comprehensive test suite for a web
956rendering system, device implementers MUST use the specific upstream build of
957Chromium in the WebView implementation. Specifically:</p>
958
959<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]960 <li>Device android.webkit.WebView implementations MUST be based on the Chromium
Unsuk Jungd1ac9fe2015-04-01 08:18:41 -0700[diff] [blame]961build from the upstream Android Open Source Project for Android 5.1. This build
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]962includes a specific set of functionality and security fixes for the WebView [<a href="http://www.chromium.org/">Resources, 13</a>].</li>
963 <li>The user agent string reported by the WebView MUST be in this format:
Unsuk Jungff3da6d2015-05-18 09:35:24 -0700[diff] [blame]964<p>Mozilla/5.1 (Linux; Android $(VERSION); $(MODEL) Build/$(BUILD)$(WEBVIEW))
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]965AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 $(CHROMIUM_VER) Mobile
966Safari/537.36</p>
967 <ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]968 <li>The value of the $(VERSION) string MUST be the same as the value for
969android.os.Build.VERSION.RELEASE.</li>
Unsuk Jungff3da6d2015-05-18 09:35:24 -0700[diff] [blame]970 <li>The $(WEBVIEW) string MAY be omitted, but if included MUST be "; wv" to
971 note that this is a webview</li>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]972 <li>The value of the $(MODEL) string MUST be the same as the value for
973android.os.Build.MODEL.</li>
974 <li>The value of the $(BUILD) string MUST be the same as the value for
975android.os.Build.ID.</li>
976 <li>The value of the $(CHROMIUM_VER) string MUST be the version of Chromium in the
977upstream Android Open Source Project.</li>
978 <li>Device implementations MAY omit Mobile in the user agent string.</li>
979 </ul></li></ul>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]980
981<p>The WebView component SHOULD include support for as many HTML5 features as
982possible and if it supports the feature SHOULD conform to the HTML5
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]983specification [<a href="http://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/">Resources, 14</a>].</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]984
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]985<h3 id="3_4_2_browser_compatibility">3.4.2. Browser Compatibility</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]986
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]987<div class="note">
Heidi von Markham37e2b0a2015-05-26 15:40:06 -0700[diff] [blame]988<p>Android Television, Watch, and Android Automotive implementations MAY omit a
989browser application, but MUST support the public intent patterns as described in
990<a href="#3_2_3_1_core_application_intents">section 3.2.3.1</a>. All other types
991of device implementations MUST include a standalone Browser application for
992general user web browsing.</p>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]993</div>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]994
995<p>The standalone Browser MAY be based on a browser technology other than WebKit.
996However, even if an alternate Browser application is used, the
997android.webkit.WebView component provided to third-party applications MUST be
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]998based on WebKit, as described in <a href="#3_4_1_webview_compatibility">section 3.4.1</a>.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]999
1000<p>Implementations MAY ship a custom user agent string in the standalone Browser
1001application.</p>
1002
1003<p>The standalone Browser application (whether based on the upstream WebKit
1004Browser application or a third-party replacement) SHOULD include support for as
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1005much of HTML5 [<a href="http://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/">Resources, 14</a>] as possible. Minimally, device implementations MUST support each of these
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1006APIs associated with HTML5:</p>
1007
1008<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1009 <li>application cache/offline operation [<a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/browsers.html#offline">Resources, 15</a>]</li>
1010 <li>the &#60;video&#62; tag [<a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/semantics.html#video">Resources, 16</a>]</li>
1011 <li>geolocation [<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/geolocation-API/">Resources, 17</a>]</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1012</ul>
1013
1014<p>Additionally, device implementations MUST support the HTML5/W3C webstorage API
1015[<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/webstorage/">Resources, 18</a>], and SHOULD support the HTML5/W3C IndexedDB API [<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/IndexedDB/">Resources, 19</a>]. Note that as the web development standards bodies are transitioning to favor
1016IndexedDB over webstorage, IndexedDB is expected to become a required component
1017in a future version of Android.</p>
1018
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1019<h2 id="3_5_api_behavioral_compatibility">3.5. API Behavioral Compatibility</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1020
1021
1022<p>The behaviors of each of the API types (managed, soft, native, and web) must be
1023consistent with the preferred implementation of the upstream Android Open
1024Source Project [<a href="http://source.android.com/">Resources, 2</a>]. Some specific areas of compatibility are:</p>
1025
1026<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1027 <li>Devices MUST NOT change the behavior or semantics of a standard intent.</li>
1028 <li>Devices MUST NOT alter the lifecycle or lifecycle semantics of a particular
1029type of system component (such as Service, Activity, ContentProvider, etc.).</li>
1030 <li>Devices MUST NOT change the semantics of a standard permission.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1031</ul>
1032
1033<p>The above list is not comprehensive. The Compatibility Test Suite (CTS) tests
1034significant portions of the platform for behavioral compatibility, but not all.
1035It is the responsibility of the implementer to ensure behavioral compatibility
1036with the Android Open Source Project. For this reason, device implementers
1037SHOULD use the source code available via the Android Open Source Project where
1038possible, rather than re-implement significant parts of the system.</p>
1039
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1040<h2 id="3_6_api_namespaces">3.6. API Namespaces</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1041
1042
1043<p>Android follows the package and class namespace conventions defined by the Java
1044programming language. To ensure compatibility with third-party applications,
1045device implementers MUST NOT make any prohibited modifications (see below) to
1046these package namespaces:</p>
1047
1048<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1049 <li>java.*</li>
1050 <li>javax.*</li>
1051 <li>sun.*</li>
1052 <li>android.*</li>
1053 <li>com.android.*</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1054</ul>
1055
1056<p><strong>Prohibited modifications include</strong>:</p>
1057
1058<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1059 <li>Device implementations MUST NOT modify the publicly exposed APIs on the Android
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1060platform by changing any method or class signatures, or by removing classes or
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1061class fields.</li>
1062 <li>Device implementers MAY modify the underlying implementation of the APIs, but
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1063such modifications MUST NOT impact the stated behavior and Java-language
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1064signature of any publicly exposed APIs.</li>
1065 <li>Device implementers MUST NOT add any publicly exposed elements (such as classes
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1066or interfaces, or fields or methods to existing classes or interfaces) to the
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1067APIs above.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1068</ul>
1069
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1070<p>A &ldquo;publicly exposed element&rdquo; is any construct which is not decorated with the&ldquo;@hide&rdquo; marker as used in the upstream Android source code. In other words,
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1071device implementers MUST NOT expose new APIs or alter existing APIs in the
1072namespaces noted above. Device implementers MAY make internal-only
1073modifications, but those modifications MUST NOT be advertised or otherwise
1074exposed to developers.</p>
1075
1076<p>Device implementers MAY add custom APIs, but any such APIs MUST NOT be in a
1077namespace owned by or referring to another organization. For instance, device
1078implementers MUST NOT add APIs to the com.google.* or similar namespace: only
1079Google may do so. Similarly, Google MUST NOT add APIs to other companies'
1080namespaces. Additionally, if a device implementation includes custom APIs
1081outside the standard Android namespace, those APIs MUST be packaged in an
1082Android shared library so that only apps that explicitly use them (via the
1083<uses-library> mechanism) are affected by the increased memory usage of such
1084APIs.</p>
1085
1086<p>If a device implementer proposes to improve one of the package namespaces above
1087(such as by adding useful new functionality to an existing API, or adding a new
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1088API), the implementer SHOULD visit <a href="http://source.android.com/">source.android.com</a> and begin the process for contributing changes and code, according to the
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1089information on that site.</p>
1090
1091<p>Note that the restrictions above correspond to standard conventions for naming
1092APIs in the Java programming language; this section simply aims to reinforce
1093those conventions and make them binding through inclusion in this Compatibility
1094Definition.</p>
1095
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1096<h2 id="3_7_runtime_compatibility">3.7. Runtime Compatibility</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1097
1098
1099<p>Device implementations MUST support the full Dalvik Executable (DEX) format and
1100Dalvik bytecode specification and semantics [<a href="https://android.googlesource.com/platform/dalvik/+/lollipop-release/docs/">Resources, 20</a>]. Device implementers SHOULD use ART, the reference upstream implementation of
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1101the Dalvik Executable Format, and the reference implementation&rsquo;s package
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1102management system.</p>
1103
1104<p>Device implementations MUST configure Dalvik runtimes to allocate memory in
1105accordance with the upstream Android platform, and as specified by the
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1106following table. (See <a href="#7_1_1_screen_configuration">section 7.1.1</a> for screen size and screen density definitions.)</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1107
1108<p>Note that memory values specified below are considered minimum values and
1109device implementations MAY allocate more memory per application.</p>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1110
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1111<table>
1112 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1113 <th>Screen Layout</th>
1114 <th>Screen Density</th>
1115 <th>Minimum Application Memory</th>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1116 </tr>
1117 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1118 <td rowspan="10">small/normal</td>
1119 <td>120 dpi (ldpi)</td>
Unsuk Jung7a702af2015-06-05 02:26:23 -0700[diff] [blame]1120 <td rowspan="2">32MB</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1121 </tr>
1122 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1123 <td>160 dpi (mdpi)</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1124 </tr>
1125 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1126 <td>213 dpi (tvdpi)</td>
Unsuk Jung7a702af2015-06-05 02:26:23 -0700[diff] [blame]1127 <td rowspan="3">48MB</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1128 </tr>
1129 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1130 <td>240 dpi (hdpi)</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1131 </tr>
1132 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1133 <td>280 dpi (280dpi)</td>
Unsuk Jungaa55a672015-04-01 08:30:23 -0700[diff] [blame]1134 </tr>
1135 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1136 <td>320 dpi (xhdpi)</td>
Unsuk Jung7a702af2015-06-05 02:26:23 -0700[diff] [blame]1137 <td>80MB</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1138 </tr>
1139 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1140 <td>400 dpi (400dpi)</td>
1141 <td>96MB</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1142 </tr>
1143 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1144 <td>480 dpi (xxhdpi)</td>
1145 <td>128MB</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1146 </tr>
1147 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1148 <td>560 dpi (560dpi)</td>
1149 <td>192MB</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1150 </tr>
1151 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1152 <td>640 dpi (xxxhdpi)</td>
1153 <td>256MB</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1154 </tr>
1155 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1156 <td rowspan="10">large</td>
1157 <td>120 dpi (ldpi)</td>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1158 <td>32MB</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1159 </tr>
1160 <tr>
Unsuk Jung7a702af2015-06-05 02:26:23 -0700[diff] [blame]1161 <td>160 dpi (mdpi)</td>
1162 <td>48MB</td>
1163 </tr>
1164 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1165 <td>213 dpi (tvdpi)</td>
Unsuk Jung7a702af2015-06-05 02:26:23 -0700[diff] [blame]1166 <td rowspan="2">80MB</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1167 </tr>
1168 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1169 <td>240 dpi (hdpi)</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1170 </tr>
1171 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1172 <td>280 dpi (280dpi)</td>
1173 <td>96MB</td>
Unsuk Jungaa55a672015-04-01 08:30:23 -0700[diff] [blame]1174 </tr>
1175 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1176 <td>320 dpi (xhdpi)</td>
1177 <td>128MB</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1178 </tr>
1179 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1180 <td>400 dpi (400dpi)</td>
1181 <td>192MB</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1182 </tr>
1183 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1184 <td>480 dpi (xxhdpi)</td>
1185 <td>256MB</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1186 </tr>
1187 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1188 <td>560 dpi (560dpi)</td>
1189 <td>384MB</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1190 </tr>
1191 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1192 <td>640 dpi (xxxhdpi)</td>
1193 <td>512MB</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1194 </tr>
1195 <tr>
Unsuk Jung7a702af2015-06-05 02:26:23 -0700[diff] [blame]1196 <td rowspan="10">xlarge</td>
1197 <td>120 dpi (ldpi)</td>
1198 <td>48MB</td>
1199 </tr>
1200 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1201 <td>160 dpi (mdpi)</td>
Unsuk Jung7a702af2015-06-05 02:26:23 -0700[diff] [blame]1202 <td>80MB</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1203 </tr>
1204 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1205 <td>213 dpi (tvdpi)</td>
Unsuk Jung7a702af2015-06-05 02:26:23 -0700[diff] [blame]1206 <td rowspan="2">96MB</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1207 </tr>
1208 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1209 <td>240 dpi (hdpi)</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1210 </tr>
1211 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1212 <td>280 dpi (280dpi)</td>
1213 <td>144MB</td>
Unsuk Jungaa55a672015-04-01 08:30:23 -0700[diff] [blame]1214 </tr>
1215 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1216 <td>320 dpi (xhdpi)</td>
1217 <td>192MB</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1218 </tr>
1219 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1220 <td>400 dpi (400dpi)</td>
1221 <td>288MB</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1222 </tr>
1223 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1224 <td>480 dpi (xxhdpi)</td>
1225 <td>384MB</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1226 </tr>
1227 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1228 <td>560 dpi (560dpi)</td>
1229 <td>576MB</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1230 </tr>
1231 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1232 <td>640 dpi (xxxhdpi)</td>
1233 <td>768MB</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1234 </tr>
1235</table>
1236
1237
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1238<h2 id="3_8_user_interface_compatibility">3.8. User Interface Compatibility</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1239
1240
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1241<h3 id="3_8_1_launcher_home_screen">3.8.1. Launcher (Home Screen)</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1242
1243
1244<p>Android includes a launcher application (home screen) and support for
1245third-party applications to replace the device launcher (home screen). Device
1246implementations that allow third-party applications to replace the device home
1247screen MUST declare the platform feature android.software.home_screen.</p>
1248
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1249<h3 id="3_8_2_widgets">3.8.2. Widgets</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1250
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1251<div class="note">
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1252<p>Widgets are optional for all Android device implementations, but SHOULD be
1253supported on Android Handheld devices.</p>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1254</div>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1255
1256
1257<p>Android defines a component type and corresponding API and lifecycle that
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1258allows applications to expose an &ldquo;AppWidget&rdquo; to the end user [<a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/widget_design.html">Resources, 21</a>] a feature that is strongly RECOMMENDED to be supported on Handheld Device
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1259implementations. Device implementations that support embedding widgets on the
1260home screen MUST meet the following requirements and declare support for
1261platform feature android.software.app_widgets.</p>
1262
1263<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1264 <li>Device launchers MUST include built-in support for AppWidgets, and expose user
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1265interface affordances to add, configure, view, and remove AppWidgets directly
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1266within the Launcher.</li>
1267 <li>Device implementations MUST be capable of rendering widgets that are 4 x 4 in
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1268the standard grid size. See the App Widget Design Guidelines in the Android SDK
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1269documentation [<a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/widget_design.html">Resources, 21</a>] for details.</li>
1270 <li>Device implementations that include support for lock screen MAY support
1271application widgets on the lock screen.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1272</ul>
1273
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1274<h3 id="3_8_3_notifications">3.8.3. Notifications</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1275
1276
1277<p>Android includes APIs that allow developers to notify users of notable events [<a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/notifiers/notifications.html">Resources, 22</a>], using hardware and software features of the device.</p>
1278
1279<p>Some APIs allow applications to perform notifications or attract attention
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1280using hardware&#8212;specifically sound, vibration, and light. Device implementations
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1281MUST support notifications that use hardware features, as described in the SDK
1282documentation, and to the extent possible with the device implementation
1283hardware. For instance, if a device implementation includes a vibrator, it MUST
1284correctly implement the vibration APIs. If a device implementation lacks
1285hardware, the corresponding APIs MUST be implemented as no-ops. This behavior
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1286is further detailed in <a href="#7_hardware_compatibility">section 7</a>.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1287
1288<p>Additionally, the implementation MUST correctly render all resources (icons,
1289sound files, etc.) provided for in the APIs [<a href="https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/available-resources.html">Resources, 23</a>], or in the Status/System Bar icon style guide [<a href="http://developer.android.com/design/style/iconography.html">Resources, 24</a>]. Device implementers MAY provide an alternative user experience for
1290notifications than that provided by the reference Android Open Source
1291implementation; however, such alternative notification systems MUST support
1292existing notification resources, as above. </p>
1293
1294<p>Android includes support for various notifications, such as:</p>
1295
1296<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1297 <li><strong>Rich notifications</strong>. Interactive Views for ongoing notifications.</li>
1298 <li><strong>Heads-up notifications</strong>. Interactive Views users can act on or dismiss without leaving the current app.</li>
1299 <li><strong>Lockscreen notifications</strong>. Notifications shown over a lock screen with granular control on visibility.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1300</ul>
1301
1302<p>Device implementations MUST properly display and execute these notifications,
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1303including the title/name, icon, text as documented in the Android APIs <a href="http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/notifications.html">[Resources, 25]</a>.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1304
1305<p>Android includes Notification Listener Service APIs that allow apps (once
1306explicitly enabled by the user) to receive a copy of all notifications as they
1307are posted or updated. Device implementations MUST correctly and promptly send
1308notifications in their entirety to all such installed and user-enabled listener
1309services, including any and all metadata attached to the Notification object.</p>
1310
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1311<h3 id="3_8_4_search">3.8.4. Search</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1312
1313
1314<p>Android includes APIs [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/SearchManager.html">Resources, 26</a>] that allow developers to incorporate search into their applications, and
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1315expose their application&rsquo;s data into the global system search. Generally
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1316speaking, this functionality consists of a single, system-wide user interface
1317that allows users to enter queries, displays suggestions as users type, and
1318displays results. The Android APIs allow developers to reuse this interface to
1319provide search within their own apps, and allow developers to supply results to
1320the common global search user interface.</p>
1321
1322<p>Android device implementations SHOULD include global search, a single, shared,
1323system-wide search user interface capable of real-time suggestions in response
1324to user input. Device implementations SHOULD implement the APIs that allow
1325developers to reuse this user interface to provide search within their own
1326applications. Device implementations that implement the global search interface
1327MUST implement the APIs that allow third-party applications to add suggestions
1328to the search box when it is run in global search mode. If no third-party
1329applications are installed that make use of this functionality, the default
1330behavior SHOULD be to display web search engine results and suggestions.</p>
1331
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1332<h3 id="3_8_5_toasts">3.8.5. Toasts</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1333
1334
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1335<p>Applications can use the &ldquo;Toast&rdquo; API to display short non-modal strings to the
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1336end user, that disappear after a brief period of time [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Toast.html">Resources, 27</a>]. Device implementations MUST display Toasts from applications to end users in
1337some high-visibility manner.</p>
1338
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1339<h3 id="3_8_6_themes">3.8.6. Themes</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1340
1341
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1342<p>Android provides &ldquo;themes&rdquo; as a mechanism for applications to apply styles
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1343across an entire Activity or application.</p>
1344
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1345<p>Android includes a &ldquo;Holo&rdquo; theme family as a set of defined styles for
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1346application developers to use if they want to match the Holo theme look and
1347feel as defined by the Android SDK [<a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/themes.html">Resources, 28</a>]. Device implementations MUST NOT alter any of the Holo theme attributes
1348exposed to applications [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.style.html">Resources, 29</a>].</p>
1349
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1350<p>Android includes a &ldquo;Material&rdquo; theme family as a set of defined styles for
1351application developers to use if they want to match the design theme&rsquo;s look and
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1352feel across the wide variety of different Android device types. Device
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1353implementations MUST support the &ldquo;Material&rdquo; theme family and MUST NOT alter any
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1354of the Material theme attributes or their assets exposed to applications [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.style.html#Theme_Material">Resources, 30</a>].</p>
1355
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1356<p>Android also includes a &ldquo;Device Default&rdquo; theme family as a set of defined
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1357styles for application developers to use if they want to match the look and
1358feel of the device theme as defined by the device implementer. Device
1359implementations MAY modify the Device Default theme attributes exposed to
1360applications [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.style.html">Resources, 29</a>].</p>
1361
1362<p>Android supports a new variant theme with translucent system bars, which allows
1363application developers to fill the area behind the status and navigation bar
1364with their app content. To enable a consistent developer experience in this
1365configuration, it is important the status bar icon style is maintained across
1366different device implementations. Therefore, Android device implementations
1367MUST use white for system status icons (such as signal strength and battery
1368level) and notifications issued by the system, unless the icon is indicating a
1369problematic status [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.style.html">Resources, 29</a>].</p>
1370
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1371<h3 id="3_8_7_live_wallpapers">3.8.7. Live Wallpapers</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1372
1373
1374<p>Android defines a component type and corresponding API and lifecycle that
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1375allows applications to expose one or more &ldquo;Live Wallpapers&rdquo; to the end user [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/service/wallpaper/WallpaperService.html">Resources, 31</a>]. Live wallpapers are animations, patterns, or similar images with limited
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1376input capabilities that display as a wallpaper, behind other applications.</p>
1377
1378<p>Hardware is considered capable of reliably running live wallpapers if it can
1379run all live wallpapers, with no limitations on functionality, at a reasonable
1380frame rate with no adverse effects on other applications. If limitations in the
1381hardware cause wallpapers and/or applications to crash, malfunction, consume
1382excessive CPU or battery power, or run at unacceptably low frame rates, the
1383hardware is considered incapable of running live wallpaper. As an example, some
1384live wallpapers may use an OpenGL 2.0 or 3.x context to render their content.
1385Live wallpaper will not run reliably on hardware that does not support multiple
1386OpenGL contexts because the live wallpaper use of an OpenGL context may
1387conflict with other applications that also use an OpenGL context.</p>
1388
1389<p>Device implementations capable of running live wallpapers reliably as described
1390above SHOULD implement live wallpapers, and when implemented MUST report the
1391platform feature flag android.software.live_wallpaper.</p>
1392
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1393<h3 id="3_8_8_activity_switching">3.8.8. Activity Switching</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1394
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1395<div class="note">
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1396<p>As the Recent function navigation key is OPTIONAL, the requirements to
1397implement the overview screen is OPTIONAL for Android Television devices and
1398Android Watch devices.</p>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1399</div>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1400
1401
1402<p>The upstream Android source code includes the overview screen [<a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/components/recents.html">Resources, 32</a>], a system-level user interface for task switching and displaying recently
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1403accessed activities and tasks using a thumbnail image of the application&rsquo;s
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1404graphical state at the moment the user last left the application. Device
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1405implementations including the recents function navigation key as detailed in <a href="#7_2_3_navigation_keys">section 7.2.3</a>, MAY alter the interface but MUST meet the following requirements:</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1406
1407<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1408 <li>MUST display affiliated recents as a group that moves together.</li>
1409 <li>MUST support at least up to 20 displayed activities.</li>
1410 <li>MUST at least display the title of 4 activities at a time.</li>
1411 <li>SHOULD display highlight color, icon, screen title in recents.</li>
1412 <li>MUST implement the screen pinning behavior [<a href="http://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-5.0.html#ScreenPinning">Resources, 33</a>] and provide the user with a settings menu to toggle the feature.</li>
1413 <li>SHOULD display a closing affordance ("x") but MAY delay this until user
1414interacts with screens.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1415</ul>
1416
1417<p>Device implementations are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED to use the upstream Android user
1418interface (or a similar thumbnail-based interface) for the overview screen.</p>
1419
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1420<h3 id="3_8_9_input_management">3.8.9. Input Management</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1421
1422
1423<p>Android includes support for Input Management and support for third-party input
1424method editors [<a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/text/creating-input-method.html">Resources, 34</a>]. Device implementations that allow users to use third-party input methods on
1425the device MUST declare the platform feature android.software.input_methods and
1426support IME APIs as defined in the Android SDK documentation.</p>
1427
1428<p>Device implementations that declare the android.software.input_methods feature
1429MUST provide a user-accessible mechanism to add and configure third-party input
1430methods. Device implementations MUST display the settings interface in response
1431to the android.settings.INPUT_METHOD_SETTINGS intent.</p>
1432
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1433<h3 id="3_8_10_lock_screen_media_control">3.8.10. Lock Screen Media Control</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1434
1435
1436<p>The Remote Control Client API is deprecated from Android 5.0 in favor of the
1437Media Notification Template that allows media applications to integrate with
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1438playback controls that are displayed on the lock screen [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.MediaStyle.html">Resources, 35</a>]. Device implementations that support a lock screen in the device MUST support
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1439the Media Notification Template along with other notifications.</p>
1440
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1441<h3 id="3_8_11_dreams">3.8.11. Dreams</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1442
1443
1444<p>Android includes support for interactive screensavers called Dreams [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/service/dreams/DreamService.html">Resources, 36</a>]. Dreams allows users to interact with applications when a device connected to
1445a power source is idle or docked in a desk dock. Android Watch devices MAY
1446implement Dreams, but other types of device implementations SHOULD include
1447support for Dreams and provide a settings option for users to configure Dreams
1448in response to the android.settings.DREAM_SETTINGS intent.</p>
1449
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1450<h3 id="3_8_12_location">3.8.12. Location</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1451
1452
1453<p>When a device has a hardware sensor (e.g. GPS) that is capable of providing the
1454location coordinates, location modes MUST be displayed in the Location menu
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1455within Settings [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/Settings.Secure.html#LOCATION_MODE">Resources, 37</a>].</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1456
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1457<h3 id="3_8_13_unicode_and_font">3.8.13. Unicode and Font</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1458
1459
1460<p>Android includes support for color emoji characters. When Android device
Heidi von Markham74c574c2015-06-05 11:29:08 -0700[diff] [blame]1461implementations include an IME, devices SHOULD provide an input method to the
1462user for the Emoji characters defined in Unicode 6.1 [<a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.1.0/">Resources, 38</a>]. All devices MUST be capable of rendering these emoji characters in color glyph.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1463
Unsuk Jungd1ac9fe2015-04-01 08:18:41 -0700[diff] [blame]1464<p>Android includes support for Roboto 2 font with different
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1465weights&mdash;sans-serif-thin, sans-serif-light, sans-serif-medium, sans-serif-black,
1466sans-serif-condensed, sans-serif-condensed-light&mdash;which MUST all be included for
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1467the languages available on the device and full Unicode 7.0 coverage of Latin,
1468Greek, and Cyrillic, including the Latin Extended A, B, C, and D ranges, and
1469all glyphs in the currency symbols block of Unicode 7.0.</p>
1470
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1471<h2 id="3_9_device_administration">3.9. Device Administration</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1472
1473
1474<p>Android includes features that allow security-aware applications to perform
1475device administration functions at the system level, such as enforcing password
1476policies or performing remote wipe, through the Android Device Administration
Unsuk Jung18378642015-05-18 19:26:50 -0700[diff] [blame]1477API [<a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/admin/device-admin.html">Resources, 39</a>].
1478Device implementations MUST provide an implementation of the DevicePolicyManager class
1479[<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/admin/DevicePolicyManager.html">Resources, 40</a>].
1480Device implementations that include support for PIN (numeric) or PASSWORD
1481(alphanumeric) based lock screens MUST support the full range of device
1482administration policies defined in the Android SDK documentation
1483[<a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/admin/device-admin.html">Resources, 39</a>]
1484and report the platform feature android.software.device_admin.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1485
1486<p>Device implementations MAY have a preinstalled application performing device
1487administration functions but this application MUST NOT be set out-of-the box as
1488the default Device Owner app [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/admin/DevicePolicyManager.html#isDeviceOwnerApp(java.lang.String)">Resources, 41</a>].</p>
1489
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1490<h2 id="3_10_accessibility">3.10. Accessibility</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1491
1492
1493<p>Android provides an accessibility layer that helps users with disabilities to
1494navigate their devices more easily. In addition, Android provides platform APIs
1495that enable accessibility service implementations to receive callbacks for user
1496and system events and generate alternate feedback mechanisms, such as
1497text-to-speech, haptic feedback, and trackball/d-pad navigation [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/accessibilityservice/AccessibilityService.html">Resources, 42</a>]. Device implementations MUST provide an implementation of the Android
1498accessibility framework consistent with the default Android implementation.
1499Device implementations MUST meet the following requirements:</p>
1500
1501<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1502 <li>MUST support third-party accessibility service implementations through the
1503android.accessibilityservice APIs [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/accessibility/package-summary.html">Resources, 43</a>].</li>
1504 <li>MUST generate AccessibilityEvents and deliver these events to all registered
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1505AccessibilityService implementations in a manner consistent with the default
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1506Android implementation.</li>
1507 <li>Unless an Android Watch device with no audio output, device implementations
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1508MUST provide a user-accessible mechanism to enable and disable accessibility
1509services, and MUST display this interface in response to the
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1510android.provider.Settings.ACTION_ACCESSIBILITY_SETTINGS intent.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1511</ul>
1512
1513<p>Additionally, device implementations SHOULD provide an implementation of an
1514accessibility service on the device, and SHOULD provide a mechanism for users
1515to enable the accessibility service during device setup. An open source
1516implementation of an accessibility service is available from the Eyes Free
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1517project [<a href="http://code.google.com/p/eyes-free/">Resources, 44</a>].</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1518
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1519<h2 id="3_11_text-to-speech">3.11. Text-to-Speech</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1520
1521
1522<p>Android includes APIs that allow applications to make use of text-to-speech
1523(TTS) services and allows service providers to provide implementations of TTS
1524services [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/speech/tts/package-summary.html">Resources, 45</a>]. Device implementations reporting the feature android.hardware.audio.output
1525MUST meet these requirements related to the Android TTS framework. </p>
1526
Heidi von Markhame400e052015-05-26 14:35:49 -0700[diff] [blame]1527<p>Android Automotive implementations:</p>
1528<ul>
1529<li>MUST support the Android TTS framework APIs.</li>
1530<li>MAY support installation of third-party TTS engines. If supported, partners
1531MUST provide a user-accessible interface that allows the user to select a TTS
1532engine for use at system level.</li>
1533</ul>
1534
1535<p>All other device implementations:</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1536
1537<ul>
Heidi von Markhame400e052015-05-26 14:35:49 -0700[diff] [blame]1538 <li> MUST support the Android TTS framework APIs and SHOULD include a TTS engine
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1539supporting the languages available on the device. Note that the upstream
1540Android open source software includes a full-featured TTS engine
Heidi von Markhame400e052015-05-26 14:35:49 -0700[diff] [blame]1541implementation.
1542 <li> MUST support installation of third-party TTS engines
1543 <li> MUST provide a user-accessible interface that allows users to select a TTS
1544engine for use at the system level
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1545</ul>
1546
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1547<h2 id="3_12_tv_input_framework">3.12. TV Input Framework</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1548
1549
1550<p>The Android Television Input Framework (TIF) simplifies the delivery of live
1551content to Android Television devices. TIF provides a standard API to create
1552input modules that control Android Television devices. Android Television
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1553device implementations MUST support Television Input Framework [<a href="http://source.android.com/devices/tv/index.html">Resources, 46</a>].</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1554
1555<p>Device implementations that support TIF MUST declare the platform feature
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1556android.software.live_tv.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1557
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1558<h1 id="4_application_packaging_compatibility">4. Application Packaging Compatibility</h1>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1559
1560
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1561<p>Device implementations MUST install and run Android &ldquo;.apk&rdquo; files as generated
1562by the &ldquo;aapt&rdquo; tool included in the official Android SDK [<a href="http://developer.android.com/tools/help/index.html">Resources, 47</a>].</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1563
1564<p>Devices implementations MUST NOT extend either the .apk [<a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/components/fundamentals.html">Resources, 48</a>], Android Manifest [<a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/manifest-intro.html">Resources, 49</a>], Dalvik bytecode [<a href="https://android.googlesource.com/platform/dalvik/+/lollipop-release/docs/">Resources, 20</a>], or RenderScript bytecode formats in such a way that would prevent those
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1565files from installing and running correctly on other compatible devices.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1566
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1567<h1 id="5_multimedia_compatibility">5. Multimedia Compatibility</h1>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1568
1569
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1570<h2 id="5_1_media_codecs">5.1. Media Codecs</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1571
1572
1573<p>Device implementations MUST support the core media formats specified in the
1574Android SDK documentation [<a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html">Resources, 50</a>] except where explicitly permitted in this document. Specifically, device
1575implementations MUST support the media formats, encoders, decoders, file types,
1576and container formats defined in the tables below. All of these codecs are
1577provided as software implementations in the preferred Android implementation
1578from the Android Open Source Project.</p>
1579
1580<p>Please note that neither Google nor the Open Handset Alliance make any
1581representation that these codecs are free from third-party patents. Those
1582intending to use this source code in hardware or software products are advised
1583that implementations of this code, including in open source software or
1584shareware, may require patent licenses from the relevant patent holders.</p>
1585
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1586<h3 id="5_1_1_audio_codecs">5.1.1. Audio Codecs</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1587
1588<table>
1589 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1590 <th>Format/Codec</th>
1591 <th>Encoder</th>
1592 <th>Decoder</th>
1593 <th>Details</th>
1594 <th>Supported File Types/Container Formats</th>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1595 </tr>
1596 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1597 <td>MPEG-4 AAC Profile</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1598
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1599<p>(AAC LC)</td>
1600 <td>REQUIRED<sup>1</sup></td>
1601 <td>REQUIRED</td>
1602 <td>Support for mono/stereo/5.0/5.12 content with standard sampling rates from 8 to
160348 kHz.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1604 <td>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1605 <ul>
1606 <li class="table_list">3GPP (.3gp)</li>
1607 <li class="table_list">MPEG-4 (.mp4, .m4a)</li>
1608 <li class="table_list">ADTS raw AAC (.aac, decode in Android 3.1+, encode in Android 4.0+, ADIF not
1609supported)</li>
1610 <li class="table_list">MPEG-TS (.ts, not seekable, Android 3.0+)</li></ul></td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1611 </tr>
1612 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1613 <td>MPEG-4 HE AAC Profile (AAC+)</td>
1614 <td>REQUIRED<sup>1</sup><br>(Android 4.1+)</td>
1615 <td>REQUIRED</td>
1616 <td>Support for mono/stereo/5.0/5.12 content with standard sampling rates from 16
1617to 48 kHz.</td>
1618 <td></td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1619 </tr>
1620 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1621 <td>MPEG-4 HE AACv2</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1622
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1623<p>Profile (enhanced AAC+)</td>
1624 <td> </td>
1625 <td>REQUIRED</td>
1626 <td>Support for mono/stereo/5.0/5.12 content with standard sampling rates from 16
1627to 48 kHz.</td>
1628 <td></td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1629 </tr>
1630 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1631 <td>AAC ELD (enhanced low delay AAC)</td>
1632 <td>REQUIRED<sup>1</sup> </p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1633
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1634<p>(Android 4.1+)</td>
1635 <td>REQUIRED</p>
1636
1637<p>(Android 4.1+)</td>
1638 <td>Support for mono/stereo content with standard sampling rates from 16 to 48 kHz.</td>
1639 <td></td>
1640 </tr>
1641 <tr>
1642 <td>AMR-NB</td>
1643 <td>REQUIRED<sup>3</sup></td>
1644 <td>REQUIRED<sup>3</sup></td>
1645 <td>4.75 to 12.2 kbps sampled @ 8kHz</td>
1646 <td>3GPP (.3gp)</td>
1647 </tr>
1648 <tr>
1649 <td>AMR-WB</td>
1650 <td>REQUIRED<sup>3</sup></td>
1651 <td>REQUIRED<sup>3</sup></td>
1652 <td>9 rates from 6.60 kbit/s to 23.85 kbit/s sampled @ 16kHz</td>
1653 <td></td>
1654 </tr>
1655 <tr>
1656 <td>FLAC</td>
1657 <td></td>
1658 <td>REQUIRED <br>(Android 3.1+)</td>
1659 <td>Mono/Stereo (no multichannel). Sample rates up to 48 kHz (but up to 44.1 kHz is
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1660recommended on devices with 44.1 kHz output, as the 48 to 44.1 kHz downsampler
1661does not include a low-pass filter). 16-bit recommended; no dither applied for
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]166224-bit.</td>
1663 <td>FLAC (.flac) only</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1664 </tr>
1665 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1666 <td>MP3</td>
1667 <td></td>
1668 <td>REQUIRED</td>
1669 <td>Mono/Stereo 8-320Kbps constant (CBR) or variable bitrate (VBR)</td>
1670 <td>MP3 (.mp3)</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1671 </tr>
1672 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1673 <td>MIDI</td>
1674 <td></td>
1675 <td>REQUIRED</td>
1676 <td>MIDI Type 0 and 1. DLS Version 1 and 2. XMF and Mobile XMF. Support for
1677ringtone formats RTTTL/RTX, OTA, and iMelody</td>
1678 <td><ul>
1679 <li class="table_list">Type 0 and 1 (.mid, .xmf, .mxmf)</li>
1680 <li class="table_list">RTTTL/RTX (.rtttl, .rtx)</li>
1681 <li class="table_list">OTA (.ota)</li>
1682 <li class="table_list">iMelody (.imy)</li></ul></td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1683 </tr>
1684 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1685 <td>Vorbis</td>
1686 <td></td>
1687 <td>REQUIRED</td>
1688 <td></td>
1689 <td><ul>
1690 <li class="table_list">Ogg (.ogg)</li>
1691 <li class="table_list">Matroska (.mkv, Android 4.0+)</li></ul></td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1692 </tr>
1693 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1694 <td>PCM/WAVE</td>
1695 <td>REQUIRED<sup>4</sup><br> (Android 4.1+)</td>
1696 <td>REQUIRED</td>
1697 <td>16-bit linear PCM (rates up to limit of hardware). Devices MUST support
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1698sampling rates for raw PCM recording at 8000, 11025, 16000, and 44100 Hz
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1699frequencies.</td>
1700 <td>WAVE (.wav)</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1701 </tr>
1702 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1703 <td>Opus</td>
1704 <td></td>
1705 <td>REQUIRED<br> (Android 5.0+)</td>
1706 <td></td>
1707 <td>Matroska (.mkv)</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1708 </tr>
1709</table>
1710
1711
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1712<p class="table_footnote"> 1 Required for device implementations that define android.hardware.microphone
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1713but optional for Android Watch device implementations.</p>
1714
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1715<p class="table_footnote">2 Only downmix of 5.0/5.1 content is required; recording or rendering more than
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]17162 channels is optional.</p>
1717
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1718<p class="table_footnote">3 Required for Android Handheld device implementations. </p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1719
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1720<p class="table_footnote">4 Required for device implementations that define android.hardware.microphone,
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1721including Android Watch device implementations.</p>
1722
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1723<h3 id="5_1_2_image_codecs">5.1.2. Image Codecs</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1724
1725<table>
1726 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1727 <th>Format/Codec</th>
1728 <th>Encoder</th>
1729 <th>Decoder</th>
1730 <th>Details</th>
1731 <th>Supported File Types/Container Formats</th>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1732 </tr>
1733 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1734 <td>JPEG</td>
1735 <td>REQUIRED</td>
1736 <td>REQUIRED</td>
1737 <td>Base+progressive</td>
1738 <td>JPEG (.jpg)</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1739 </tr>
1740 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1741 <td>GIF</td>
1742 <td></td>
1743 <td>REQUIRED</td>
1744 <td></td>
1745 <td>GIF (.gif)</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1746 </tr>
1747 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1748 <td>PNG</td>
1749 <td>REQUIRED</td>
1750 <td>REQUIRED</td>
1751 <td></td>
1752 <td>PNG (.png)</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1753 </tr>
1754 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1755 <td>BMP</td>
1756 <td></td>
1757 <td>REQUIRED</td>
1758 <td></td>
1759 <td>BMP (.bmp)</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1760 </tr>
1761 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1762 <td>WebP</td>
1763 <td>REQUIRED</td>
1764 <td>REQUIRED</td>
1765 <td></td>
1766 <td>WebP (.webp)</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1767 </tr>
1768</table>
1769
1770
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1771<h3 id="5_1_3_video_codecs">5.1.3. Video Codecs</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1772
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1773<div class="div">
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1774<p>Video codecs are optional for Android Watch device implementations.</p>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1775</div>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1776
1777<table>
1778 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1779 <th>Format/Codec</th>
1780 <th>Encoder</th>
1781 <th>Decoder</th>
1782 <th>Details</th>
1783 <th>Supported File Types/Container Formats</th>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1784 </tr>
1785 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1786 <td>H.263</td>
1787 <td>REQUIRED<sup>1</sup></td>
1788 <td>REQUIRED<sup>2</sup></td>
1789 <td></td>
1790 <td><ul>
1791 <li class="table_list">3GPP (.3gp)</li>
1792 <li class="table_list">MPEG-4 (.mp4)</li></ul></td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1793 </tr>
1794 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1795 <td>H.264 AVC</td>
1796 <td>REQUIRED<sup>2</sup></td>
1797 <td>REQUIRED<sup>2</sup></td>
1798 <td>See <a href="#5_2_video_encoding">section 5.2 </a>and <a href="#5_3_video_decoding">5.3</a> for details</td>
1799 <td><ul>
1800 <li class="table_list">3GPP (.3gp)</li>
1801 <li class="table_list">MPEG-4 (.mp4)</li>
1802 <li class="table_list">MPEG-TS (.ts, AAC audio only, not seekable, Android 3.0+)</li></ul></td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1803 </tr>
1804 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1805 <td>H.265 HEVC</td>
1806 <td></td>
1807 <td>REQUIRED<sup>2</sup></td>
1808 <td>See <a href="#5_3_video_decoding">section 5.3</a> for details</td>
1809 <td>MPEG-4 (.mp4)</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1810 </tr>
1811 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1812 <td>MPEG-4 SP</td>
1813 <td></td>
1814 <td>REQUIRED<sup>2</sup></td>
1815 <td></td>
1816 <td>3GPP (.3gp)</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1817 </tr>
1818 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1819 <td>VP83</td>
1820 <td>REQUIRED<sup>2</sup></p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1821
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1822<p>(Android 4.3+)</td>
1823 <td>REQUIRED<sup>2</sup></p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1824
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1825<p>(Android 2.3.3+)</td>
1826 <td>See <a href="#5_2_video_encoding">section 5.2</a> and <a href="#5_3_video_decoding">5.3</a> for details</td>
1827 <td><ul>
1828 <li class="table_list">WebM (.webm) [<a href="http://www.webmproject.org/">Resources, 110</a></li>
1829 <li class="table_list">Matroska (.mkv, Android 4.0+)4</li></ul></td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1830 </tr>
1831 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1832 <td>VP9</td>
1833 <td></td>
1834 <td>REQUIRED<sup>2</sup><br> (Android 4.4+)</td>
1835 <td>See <a href="#5_3_video_decoding">section 5.3</a> for details</td>
1836 <td><ul>
1837 <li class="table_list">WebM (.webm) [<a href="http://www.webmproject.org/">Resources, 110</a>]</li>
1838 <li class="table_list">Matroska (.mkv, Android 4.0+)4</li></ul></td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1839 </tr>
1840</table>
1841
1842
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1843<p class="table_footnote">1 Required for device implementations that include camera hardware and define
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1844android.hardware.camera or android.hardware.camera.front.</p>
1845
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1846<p class="table_footnote">2 Required for device implementations except Android Watch devices. </p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1847
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1848<p class="table_footnote">3 For acceptable quality of web video streaming and video-conference services,
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1849device implementations SHOULD use a hardware VP8 codec that meets the
1850requirements in [<a href="http://www.webmproject.org/hardware/rtc-coding-requirements/">Resources, 51</a>].</p>
1851
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1852<p class="table_footnote">4 Device implementations SHOULD support writing Matroska WebM files.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1853
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1854<h2 id="5_2_video_encoding">5.2. Video Encoding</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1855
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1856<div class="note">
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1857<p>Video codecs are optional for Android Watch device implementations.</p>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1858</div>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1859
1860
1861<p>Android device implementations with H.264 codec support, MUST support Baseline
1862Profile Level 3 and the following SD (Standard Definition) video encoding
1863profiles and SHOULD support Main Profile Level 4 and the following HD (High
1864Definition) video encoding profiles. Android Television devices are STRONGLY
1865RECOMMENDED to encode HD 1080p video at 30 fps.</p>
1866<table>
1867 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1868 <th></th>
1869 <th>SD (Low quality)</th>
1870 <th>SD (High quality)</th>
1871 <th>HD 720p1</th>
1872 <th>HD 1080p1</th>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1873 </tr>
1874 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1875 <th>Video resolution</th>
1876 <td>320 x 240 px</td>
1877 <td>720 x 480 px</td>
1878 <td>1280 x 720 px</td>
1879 <td>1920 x 1080 px</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1880 </tr>
1881 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1882 <th>Video frame rate</th>
1883 <td>20 fps</td>
1884 <td>30 fps</td>
1885 <td>30 fps</td>
1886 <td>30 fps</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1887 </tr>
1888 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1889 <th>Video bitrate</th>
1890 <td>384 Kbps</td>
1891 <td>2 Mbps</td>
1892 <td>4 Mbps</td>
1893 <td>10 Mbps</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1894 </tr>
1895</table>
1896
1897
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1898<p class="table_footnote">1 When supported by hardware, but STRONGLY RECOMMENDED for Android Television
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1899devices.</p>
1900
1901<p>Android device implementations with VP8 codec support MUST support the SD video
1902encoding profiles and SHOULD support the following HD (High Definition) video
1903encoding profiles.</p>
1904<table>
1905 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1906 <th></th>
1907 <th>SD (Low quality)</th>
1908 <th>SD (High quality)</th>
1909 <th>HD 720p1</th>
1910 <th>HD 1080p1</th>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1911 </tr>
1912 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1913 <th>Video resolution</th>
1914 <td>320 x 180 px</td>
1915 <td>640 x 360 px</td>
1916 <td>1280 x 720 px</td>
1917 <td>1920 x 1080 px</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1918 </tr>
1919 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1920 <th>Video frame rate</th>
1921 <td>30 fps</td>
1922 <td>30 fps</td>
1923 <td>30 fps</td>
1924 <td>30 fps</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1925 </tr>
1926 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1927 <th>Video bitrate</th>
1928 <td>800 Kbps </td>
1929 <td>2 Mbps</td>
1930 <td>4 Mbps</td>
1931 <td>10 Mbps</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1932 </tr>
1933</table>
1934
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1935<p class="table_footnote">1 When supported by hardware.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1936
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1937<h2 id="5_3_video_decoding">5.3. Video Decoding</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1938
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1939<div class="note">
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1940<p>Video codecs are optional for Android Watch device implementations.</p>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1941</div>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1942
1943
1944<p>Device implementations MUST support dynamic video resolution switching within
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1945the same stream for VP8, VP9, H.264, and H.265 codecs.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1946
1947<p>Android device implementations with H.264 decoders, MUST support Baseline
1948Profile Level 3 and the following SD video decoding profiles and SHOULD support
1949the HD decoding profiles. Android Television devices MUST support High Profile
1950Level 4.2 and the HD 1080p decoding profile.</p>
1951<table>
1952 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1953 <th></th>
1954 <th>SD (Low quality)</th>
1955 <th>SD (High quality)</th>
1956 <th>HD 720p1</th>
1957 <th>HD 1080p1</th>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1958 </tr>
1959 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1960 <th>Video resolution</th>
1961 <td>320 x 240 px</td>
1962 <td>720 x 480 px</td>
1963 <td>1280 x 720 px</td>
1964 <td>1920 x 1080 px</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1965 </tr>
1966 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1967 <th>Video frame rate</th>
1968 <td>30 fps</td>
1969 <td>30 fps</td>
1970 <td>30 fps / 60 fps2</td>
1971 <td>30 fps / 60 fps2</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1972 </tr>
1973 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1974 <th>Video bitrate</th>
1975 <td>800 Kbps </td>
1976 <td>2 Mbps</td>
1977 <td>8 Mbps</td>
1978 <td>20 Mbps</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1979 </tr>
1980</table>
1981
1982
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1983<p class="table_footnote">1 Required for Android Television device implementations, but for other device
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1984types only when supported by hardware.</p>
1985
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1986<p class="table_footnote">2 Required for Android Television device implementations.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1987
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1988<p>Android device implementations when supporting VP8 codec as described in <a href="#5_1_3_video_codecs">section 5.1.3</a>, MUST support the following SD decoding profiles and SHOULD support the HD
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1989decoding profiles. Android Television devices MUST support the HD 1080p
1990decoding profile. </p>
1991<table>
1992 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]1993 <th></th>
1994 <th>SD (Low quality)</th>
1995 <th>SD (High quality)</th>
1996 <th>HD 720p1</th>
1997 <th>HD 1080p1</th>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]1998 </tr>
1999 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2000 <th>Video resolution</th>
2001 <td>320 x 180 px</td>
2002 <td>640 x 360 px</td>
2003 <td>1280 x 720 px</td>
2004 <td>1920 x 1080 px</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2005 </tr>
2006 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2007 <th>Video frame rate</th>
2008 <td>30 fps</td>
2009 <td>30 fps</td>
2010 <td>30 fps / 60 fps2</td>
2011 <td>30 / 60 fps2</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2012 </tr>
2013 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2014 <th>Video bitrate</th>
2015 <td>800 Kbps </td>
2016 <td>2 Mbps</td>
2017 <td>8 Mbps</td>
2018 <td>20 Mbps</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2019 </tr>
2020</table>
2021
2022
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2023<p class="table_footnote">1 Required for Android Television device implementations, but for other type of
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2024devices only when supported by hardware.</p>
2025
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2026<p class="table_footnote">2 Required for Android Television device implementations.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2027
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2028<p>Android device implementations, when supporting VP9 codec as described in <a href="#5_1_3_video_codecs">section 5.1.3</a>, MUST support the following SD video decoding profiles and SHOULD support the
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2029HD decoding profiles. Android Television devices are STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to
2030support the HD 1080p decoding profile and SHOULD support the UHD decoding
2031profile. When the UHD video decoding profile is supported, it MUST support 8
2032bit color depth.</p>
2033<table>
2034 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2035 <th></th>
2036 <th>SD (Low quality)</th>
2037 <th>SD (High quality)</th>
2038 <th>HD 720p 1</th>
2039 <th>HD 1080p 2</th>
2040 <th>UHD 2</th>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2041 </tr>
2042 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2043 <th>Video resolution</th>
2044 <td>320 x 180 px</td>
2045 <td>640 x 360 px</td>
2046 <td>1280 x 720 px</td>
2047 <td>1920 x 1080 px</td>
2048 <td>3840 x 2160 px</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2049 </tr>
2050 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2051 <th>Video frame rate</th>
2052 <td>30 fps</td>
2053 <td>30 fps</td>
2054 <td>30 fps</td>
2055 <td>30 fps</td>
2056 <td>30 fps</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2057 </tr>
2058 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2059 <th>Video bitrate</th>
2060 <td>600 Kbps </td>
2061 <td>1.6 Mbps</td>
2062 <td>4 Mbps</td>
2063 <td>10 Mbps</td>
2064 <td>20 Mbps</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2065 </tr>
2066</table>
2067
2068
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2069<p class="table_footnote">1 Required for Android Television device implementations, but for other type of
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2070devices only when supported by hardware.</p>
2071
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2072<p class="table_footnote">2 STRONGLY RECOMMENDED for Android Television device implementations when
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2073supported by hardware.</p>
2074
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2075<p>Android device implementations, when supporting H.265 codec as described in <a href="#5_1_3_video_codecs">section 5.1.3</a>, MUST support the Main Profile Level 3 Main tier and the following SD video
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2076decoding profiles and SHOULD support the HD decoding profiles. Android
2077Television devices MUST support the Main Profile Level 4.1 Main tier and the HD
20781080p decoding profile and SHOULD support Main10 Level 5 Main Tier profile and
2079the UHD decoding profile.</p>
2080<table>
2081 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2082 <th></th>
2083 <th>SD (Low quality)</th>
2084 <th>SD (High quality)</th>
2085 <th>HD 720p </strong>1 </td>
2086 <th>HD 1080p </strong>1 </td>
2087 <th>UHD </strong>2</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2088 </tr>
2089 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2090 <th>Video resolution</th>
2091 <td>352 x 288 px</td>
2092 <td>640 x 360 px</td>
2093 <td>1280 x 720 px</td>
2094 <td>1920 x 1080 px</td>
2095 <td>3840 x 2160 px</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2096 </tr>
2097 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2098 <th>Video frame rate</th>
2099 <td>30 fps</td>
2100 <td>30 fps</td>
2101 <td>30 fps</td>
2102 <td>30 fps</td>
2103 <td>30 fps</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2104 </tr>
2105 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2106 <th>Video bitrate</th>
2107 <td>600 Kbps </td>
2108 <td>1.6 Mbps</td>
2109 <td>4 Mbps</td>
2110 <td>10 Mbps</td>
2111 <td>20 Mbps</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2112 </tr>
2113</table>
2114
2115
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2116<p class="table_footnote">1 Required for Android Television device implementation, but for other type of
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2117devices only when supported by hardware.</p>
2118
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2119<p class="table_footnote">2 Required for Android Television device implementations when supported by
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2120hardware.</p>
2121
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2122<h2 id="5_4_audio_recording">5.4. Audio Recording</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2123
2124
2125<p>While some of the requirements outlined in this section are stated as SHOULD
2126since Android 4.3, the Compatibility Definition for a future version is planned
2127to change these to MUST. Existing and new Android devices are <strong>very strongly encouraged</strong> to meet these requirements, or they will not be able to attain Android
2128compatibility when upgraded to the future version.</p>
2129
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2130<h3 id="5_4_1_raw_audio_capture">5.4.1. Raw Audio Capture</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2131
2132
2133<p>Device implementations that declare android.hardware.microphone MUST allow
2134capture of raw audio content with the following characteristics:</p>
2135
2136<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2137 <li><strong>Format</strong>: Linear PCM, 16-bit
2138 <li><strong>Sampling rates</strong>: 8000, 11025, 16000, 44100
2139 <li><strong>Channels</strong>: Mono
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2140</ul>
2141
2142<p>Device implementations that declare android.hardware.microphone SHOULD allow
2143capture of raw audio content with the following characteristics:</p>
2144
2145<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2146 <li><strong>Format</strong>: Linear PCM, 16-bit
2147 <li><strong>Sampling rates</strong>: 22050, 48000
2148 <li><strong>Channels</strong>: Stereo
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2149</ul>
2150
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2151<h3 id="5_4_2_capture_for_voice_recognition">5.4.2. Capture for Voice Recognition</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2152
2153
2154<p>In addition to the above recording specifications, when an application has
2155started recording an audio stream using the
2156android.media.MediaRecorder.AudioSource.VOICE_RECOGNITION audio source:</p>
2157
2158<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2159 <li>The device SHOULD exhibit approximately flat amplitude versus frequency
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2160characteristics: specifically, ±3 dB, from 100 Hz to 4000 Hz.
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2161 <li>Audio input sensitivity SHOULD be set such that a 90 dB sound power level (SPL)
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2162source at 1000 Hz yields RMS of 2500 for 16-bit samples.
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2163 <li>PCM amplitude levels SHOULD linearly track input SPL changes over at least a 30
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2164dB range from -18 dB to +12 dB re 90 dB SPL at the microphone.
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2165 <li>Total harmonic distortion SHOULD be less than 1% for 1Khz at 90 dB SPL input
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2166level at the microphone.
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2167 <li>Noise reduction processing, if present, MUST be disabled.
2168 <li>Automatic gain control, if present, MUST be disabled
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2169</ul>
2170
2171<p>If the platform supports noise suppression technologies tuned for speech
2172recognition, the effect MUST be controllable from the
2173android.media.audiofx.NoiseSuppressor API. Moreover, the UUID field for the
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2174noise suppressor&rsquo;s effect descriptor MUST uniquely identify each implementation
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2175of the noise suppression technology.</p>
2176
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2177<h3 id="5_4_3_capture_for_rerouting_of_playback">5.4.3. Capture for Rerouting of Playback</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2178
2179
2180<p>The android.media.MediaRecorder.AudioSource class includes the REMOTE_SUBMIX
2181audio source. Devices that declare android.hardware.audio.output MUST properly
2182implement the REMOTE_SUBMIX audio source so that when an application uses the
2183android.media.AudioRecord API to record from this audio source, it can capture
2184a mix of all audio streams except for the following:</p>
2185
2186<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2187 <li>STREAM_RING
2188 <li>STREAM_ALARM
2189 <li>STREAM_NOTIFICATION
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2190</ul>
2191
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2192<h2 id="5_5_audio_playback">5.5. Audio Playback</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2193
2194
2195<p>Device implementations that declare android.hardware.audio.output MUST conform
2196to the requirements in this section.</p>
2197
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2198<h3 id="5_5_1_raw_audio_playback">5.5.1. Raw Audio Playback</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2199
2200
2201<p>The device MUST allow playback of raw audio content with the following
2202characteristics:</p>
2203
2204<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2205 <li><strong>Format</strong>: Linear PCM, 16-bit</li>
2206 <li><strong>Sampling rates</strong>: 8000, 11025, 16000, 22050, 32000, 44100</li>
2207 <li><strong>Channels</strong>: Mono, Stereo</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2208</ul>
2209
2210<p>The device SHOULD allow playback of raw audio content with the following
2211characteristics:</p>
2212
2213<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2214 <li><strong>Sampling rates</strong>: 24000, 48000</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2215</ul>
2216
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2217<h3 id="5_5_2_audio_effects">5.5.2. Audio Effects</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2218
2219
2220<p>Android provides an API for audio effects for device implementations [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/audiofx/AudioEffect.html">Resources, 52</a>]. Device implementations that declare the feature
2221android.hardware.audio.output:</p>
2222
2223<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2224 <li>MUST support the EFFECT_TYPE_EQUALIZER and EFFECT_TYPE_LOUDNESS_ENHANCER
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2225implementations controllable through the AudioEffect subclasses Equalizer,
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2226LoudnessEnhancer.</li>
2227 <li>MUST support the visualizer API implementation, controllable through the
2228Visualizer class.</li>
2229 <li>SHOULD support the EFFECT_TYPE_BASS_BOOST, EFFECT_TYPE_ENV_REVERB,
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2230EFFECT_TYPE_PRESET_REVERB, and EFFECT_TYPE_VIRTUALIZER implementations
2231controllable through the AudioEffect sub-classes BassBoost,
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2232EnvironmentalReverb, PresetReverb, and Virtualizer.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2233</ul>
2234
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2235<h3 id="5_5_3_audio_output_volume">5.5.3. Audio Output Volume</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2236
2237
2238<p>Android Television device implementations MUST include support for system
2239Master Volume and digital audio output volume attenuation on supported outputs,
2240except for compressed audio passthrough output (where no audio decoding is done
2241on the device).</p>
2242
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2243<h2 id="5_6_audio_latency">5.6. Audio Latency</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2244
2245
2246<p>Audio latency is the time delay as an audio signal passes through a system.
2247Many classes of applications rely on short latencies, to achieve real-time
2248sound effects.</p>
2249
2250<p>For the purposes of this section, use the following definitions:</p>
2251
2252<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2253 <li><strong>output latency</strong>. The interval between when an application writes a frame of PCM-coded data and
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2254when the corresponding sound can be heard by an external listener or observed
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2255by a transducer.</li>
2256 <li><strong>cold output latency</strong>. The output latency for the first frame, when the audio output system has been
2257idle and powered down prior to the request.</li>
2258 <li><strong>continuous output latency</strong>. The output latency for subsequent frames, after the device is playing audio.</li>
2259 <li><strong>input latency</strong>. The interval between when an external sound is presented to the device and
2260when an application reads the corresponding frame of PCM-coded data.</li>
2261 <li><strong>cold input latency</strong>. The sum of lost input time and the input latency for the first frame, when the
2262audio input system has been idle and powered down prior to the request.</li>
2263 <li><strong>continuous input latency</strong>. The input latency for subsequent frames, while the device is capturing audio.</li>
2264 <li><strong>cold output jitter</strong>. The variance among separate measurements of cold output latency values.</li>
2265 <li><strong>cold input jitter</strong>. The variance among separate measurements of cold input latency values.</li>
2266 <li><strong>continuous round-trip latency</strong>. The sum of continuous input latency plus continuous output latency plus 5
2267milliseconds.</li>
2268 <li><strong>OpenSL ES PCM buffer queue API</strong>. The set of PCM-related OpenSL ES APIs within Android NDK; see
2269NDK_root/docs/opensles/index.html.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2270</ul>
2271
2272<p>Device implementations that declare android.hardware.audio.output SHOULD meet
2273or exceed these audio output requirements:</p>
2274
2275<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2276 <li>cold output latency of 100 milliseconds or less</li>
2277 <li>continuous output latency of 45 milliseconds or less</li>
2278 <li>minimize the cold output jitter</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2279</ul>
2280
2281<p>If a device implementation meets the requirements of this section after any
2282initial calibration when using the OpenSL ES PCM buffer queue API, for
2283continuous output latency and cold output latency over at least one supported
2284audio output device, it MAY report support for low-latency audio, by reporting
2285the feature android.hardware.audio.low_latency via the
2286android.content.pm.PackageManager class [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageManager.html">Resources, 53</a>]. Conversely, if the device implementation does not meet these requirements it
2287MUST NOT report support for low-latency audio.</p>
2288
2289<p>Device implementations that include android.hardware.microphone SHOULD meet
2290these input audio requirements:</p>
2291
2292<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2293 <li>cold input latency of 100 milliseconds or less</li>
2294 <li>continuous input latency of 30 milliseconds or less</li>
2295 <li>continuous round-trip latency of 50 milliseconds or less</li>
2296 <li>minimize the cold input jitter</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2297</ul>
2298
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2299<h2 id="5_7_network_protocols">5.7. Network Protocols</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2300
2301
2302<p>Devices MUST support the media network protocols for audio and video playback
2303as specified in the Android SDK documentation [<a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html">Resources, 50</a>]. Specifically, devices MUST support the following media network protocols:</p>
2304
2305<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2306 <li>RTSP (RTP, SDP)</li>
2307 <li>HTTP(S) progressive streaming</li>
2308 <li>HTTP(S) Live Streaming draft protocol, Version 3 [<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pantos-http-live-streaming-03">Resources, 54</a>]</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2309</ul>
2310
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2311<h2 id="5_8_secure_media">5.8. Secure Media</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2312
2313
2314<p>Device implementations that support secure video output and are capable of
2315supporting secure surfaces MUST declare support for Display.FLAG_SECURE. Device
2316implementations that declare support for Display.FLAG_SECURE, if they support a
2317wireless display protocol, MUST secure the link with a cryptographically strong
2318mechanism such as HDCP 2.x or higher for Miracast wireless displays. Similarly
2319if they support a wired external display, the device implementations MUST
2320support HDCP 1.2 or higher. Android Television device implementations MUST
2321support HDCP 2.2 for devices supporting 4K resolution and HDCP 1.4 or above for
2322lower resolutions. The upstream Android open source implementation includes
2323support for wireless (Miracast) and wired (HDMI) displays that satisfies this
2324requirement.</p>
2325
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2326<h1 id="6_developer_tools_and_options_compatibility">6. Developer Tools and Options Compatibility</h1>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2327
2328
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2329<h2 id="6_1_developer_tools">6.1. Developer Tools</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2330
2331
2332<p>Device implementations MUST support the Android Developer Tools provided in the
2333Android SDK. Android compatible devices MUST be compatible with:</p>
2334
2335<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2336 <li><strong>Android Debug Bridge (adb)</strong> [<a href="http://developer.android.com/tools/help/adb.html">Resources, 55</a>]</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2337</ul>
2338
2339<p>Device implementations MUST support all adb functions as documented in the
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2340Android SDK including dumpsys [<a href="https://source.android.com/devices/input/diagnostics.html">Resources, 56</a>]. The device-side adb daemon MUST be inactive by default and there MUST be a
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2341user-accessible mechanism to turn on the Android Debug Bridge. If a device
2342implementation omits USB peripheral mode, it MUST implement the Android Debug
2343Bridge via local-area network (such as Ethernet or 802.11). </p>
2344
2345<p>Android includes support for secure adb. Secure adb enables adb on known
2346authenticated hosts. Device implementations MUST support secure adb.</p>
2347
2348<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2349 <li><strong>Dalvik Debug Monitor Service (ddms)</strong> [<a href="http://developer.android.com/tools/debugging/ddms.html">Resources, 57</a>]</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2350</ul>
2351
2352<p>Device implementations MUST support all ddms features as documented in the
2353Android SDK. As ddms uses adb, support for ddms SHOULD be inactive by default,
2354but MUST be supported whenever the user has activated the Android Debug Bridge,
2355as above.</p>
2356
2357<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2358 <li><strong>Monkey</strong> [<a href="http://developer.android.com/tools/help/monkey.html">Resources, 58</a>]</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2359</ul>
2360
2361<p>Device implementations MUST include the Monkey framework, and make it available
2362for applications to use.</p>
2363
2364<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2365 <li><strong>SysTrace</strong> [<a href="http://developer.android.com/tools/help/systrace.html">Resources, 59</a>]</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2366</ul>
2367
2368<p>Device implementations MUST support systrace tool as documented in the Android
2369SDK. Systrace must be inactive by default, and there MUST be a user-accessible
2370mechanism to turn on Systrace.</p>
2371
2372<p>Most Linux-based systems and Apple Macintosh systems recognize Android devices
2373using the standard Android SDK tools, without additional support; however
2374Microsoft Windows systems typically require a driver for new Android devices.
2375(For instance, new vendor IDs and sometimes new device IDs require custom USB
2376drivers for Windows systems.) If a device implementation is unrecognized by the
2377adb tool as provided in the standard Android SDK, device implementers MUST
2378provide Windows drivers allowing developers to connect to the device using the
2379adb protocol. These drivers MUST be provided for Windows XP, Windows Vista,
2380Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 9 in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.</p>
2381
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2382<h2 id="6_2_developer_options">6.2. Developer Options</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2383
2384
2385<p>Android includes support for developers to configure application
2386development-related settings. Device implementations MUST honor the
2387android.settings.APPLICATION_DEVELOPMENT_SETTINGS intent to show application
2388development-related settings [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/Settings.html#ACTION_APPLICATION_DEVELOPMENT_SETTINGS">Resources, 60</a>]. The upstream Android implementation hides the Developer Options menu by
2389default and enables users to launch Developer Options after pressing seven (7)
2390times on the <strong>Settings</strong> > <strong>About Device</strong> > <strong>Build Number</strong> menu item. Device implementations MUST provide a consistent experience for
2391Developer Options. Specifically, device implementations MUST hide Developer
2392Options by default and MUST provide a mechanism to enable Developer Options
2393that is consistent with the upstream Android implementation.</p>
2394
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2395<h1 id="7_hardware_compatibility">7. Hardware Compatibility</h1>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2396
2397
2398<p>If a device includes a particular hardware component that has a corresponding
2399API for third-party developers, the device implementation MUST implement that
2400API as described in the Android SDK documentation. If an API in the SDK
2401interacts with a hardware component that is stated to be optional and the
2402device implementation does not possess that component:</p>
2403
2404<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2405 <li>Complete class definitions (as documented by the SDK) for the component APIs
2406MUST still be presented.
2407 <li>The API&rsquo;s behaviors MUST be implemented as no-ops in some reasonable fashion.
2408 <li>API methods MUST return null values where permitted by the SDK documentation.
2409 <li>API methods MUST return no-op implementations of classes where null values are
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2410not permitted by the SDK documentation.
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2411 <li>API methods MUST NOT throw exceptions not documented by the SDK documentation.
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2412</ul>
2413
2414<p>A typical example of a scenario where these requirements apply is the telephony
2415API: even on non-phone devices, these APIs must be implemented as reasonable
2416no-ops.</p>
2417
2418<p>Device implementations MUST consistently report accurate hardware configuration
2419information via the getSystemAvailableFeatures() and hasSystemFeature(String)
2420methods on the android.content.pm.PackageManager class for the same build
2421fingerprint. [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageManager.html">Resources, 53]</a></p>
2422
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2423<h2 id="7_1_display_and_graphics">7.1. Display and Graphics</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2424
2425
2426<p>Android includes facilities that automatically adjust application assets and UI
2427layouts appropriately for the device, to ensure that third-party applications
2428run well on a variety of hardware configurations [<a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html">Resources, 61</a>]. Devices MUST properly implement these APIs and behaviors, as detailed in
2429this section.</p>
2430
2431<p>The units referenced by the requirements in this section are defined as
2432follows:</p>
2433
2434<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2435 <li><strong>physical diagonal size</strong>. The distance in inches between two opposing corners of the illuminated portion
2436of the display.</li>
2437 <li><strong>dots per inch (dpi)</strong>. The number of pixels encompassed by a linear horizontal or vertical span of
24381&rdquo;. Where dpi values are listed, both horizontal and vertical dpi must fall
2439within the range.</li>
2440 <li><strong>aspect ratio</strong>. The ratio of the longer dimension of the screen to the shorter dimension. For
2441example, a display of 480x854 pixels would be 854/480 = 1.779, or roughly &ldquo;16:9&rdquo;.</li>
2442 <li><strong>density-independent pixel (dp)</strong> The virtual pixel unit normalized to a 160 dpi screen, calculated as: pixels =
2443dps * (density/160).</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2444</ul>
2445
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2446<h3 id="7_1_1_screen_configuration">7.1.1. Screen Configuration</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2447
2448
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2449<h4 id="7_1_1_1_screen_size">7.1.1.1. Screen Size</h4>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2450
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2451<div class="note">
2452<p>Android Watch devices (detailed in <a href="#2_device_types">section 2</a>) MAY have smaller screen sizes as described in this section.</p>
2453</div>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2454
2455<p>The Android UI framework supports a variety of different screen sizes, and
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2456allows applications to query the device screen size (aka &ldquo;screen layout") via
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2457android.content.res.Configuration.screenLayout with the SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_MASK.
2458Device implementations MUST report the correct screen size as defined in the
2459Android SDK documentation [<a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html">Resources, 61</a>] and determined by the upstream Android platform. Specifically, device
2460implementations MUST report the correct screen size according to the following
2461logical density-independent pixel (dp) screen dimensions.</p>
2462
2463<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2464 <li>Devices MUST have screen sizes of at least 426 dp x 320 dp (&lsquo;small&rsquo;), unless it
2465is an Android Watch device.</li>
2466 <li>Devices that report screen size &lsquo;normal&rsquo; MUST have screen sizes of at least 480
2467dp x 320 dp.</li>
2468 <li>Devices that report screen size &lsquo;large&rsquo; MUST have screen sizes of at least 640
2469dp x 480 dp.</li>
2470 <li>Devices that report screen size &lsquo;xlarge&rsquo; MUST have screen sizes of at least 960
2471dp x 720 dp.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2472</ul>
2473
2474<p>In addition, </p>
2475
2476<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2477 <li>Android Watch devices MUST have a screen with the physical diagonal size in the
2478range from 1.1 to 2.5 inches.</li>
2479 <li>Other types of Android device implementations, with a physically integrated
2480screen, MUST have a screen at least 2.5 inches in physical diagonal size.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2481</ul>
2482
2483<p>Devices MUST NOT change their reported screen size at any time.</p>
2484
2485<p>Applications optionally indicate which screen sizes they support via the
2486<supports-screens> attribute in the AndroidManifest.xml file. Device
2487implementations MUST correctly honor applications' stated support for small,
2488normal, large, and xlarge screens, as described in the Android SDK
2489documentation.</p>
2490
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2491<h4 id="7_1_1_2_screen_aspect_ratio">7.1.1.2. Screen Aspect Ratio</h4>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2492
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2493<div class="note">
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2494<p>Android Watch devices MAY have an aspect ratio of 1.0 (1:1).</p>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2495</div>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2496
2497
2498<p>The screen aspect ratio MUST be a value from 1.3333 (4:3) to 1.86 (roughly
249916:9), but Android Watch devices MAY have an aspect ratio of 1.0 (1:1) because
2500such a device implementation will use a UI_MODE_TYPE_WATCH as the
2501android.content.res.Configuration.uiMode.</p>
2502
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2503<h4 id="7_1_1_3_screen_density">7.1.1.3. Screen Density</h4>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2504
2505
2506<p>The Android UI framework defines a set of standard logical densities to help
2507application developers target application resources. Device implementations
2508MUST report only one of the following logical Android framework densities
2509through the android.util.DisplayMetrics APIs, and MUST execute applications at
2510this standard density and MUST NOT change the value at at any time for the
2511default display.</p>
2512
2513<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2514 <li>120 dpi (ldpi)</li>
2515 <li>160 dpi (mdpi)</li>
2516 <li>213 dpi (tvdpi)</li>
2517 <li>240 dpi (hdpi)</li>
2518 <li>280 dpi (280dpi)</li>
2519 <li>320 dpi (xhdpi)</li>
2520 <li>400 dpi (400dpi)</li>
2521 <li>480 dpi (xxhdpi)</li>
2522 <li>560 dpi (560dpi)</li>
2523 <li>640 dpi (xxxhdpi)</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2524</ul>
2525
2526<p>Device implementations SHOULD define the standard Android framework density
2527that is numerically closest to the physical density of the screen, unless that
2528logical density pushes the reported screen size below the minimum supported. If
2529the standard Android framework density that is numerically closest to the
2530physical density results in a screen size that is smaller than the smallest
2531supported compatible screen size (320 dp width), device implementations SHOULD
2532report the next lowest standard Android framework density.</p>
2533
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2534<h3 id="7_1_2_display_metrics">7.1.2. Display Metrics</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2535
2536
2537<p>Device implementations MUST report correct values for all display metrics
2538defined in android.util.DisplayMetrics [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/DisplayMetrics.html">Resources, 62</a>] and MUST report the same values regardless of whether the embedded or
2539external screen is used as the default display.</p>
2540
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2541<h3 id="7_1_3_screen_orientation">7.1.3. Screen Orientation</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2542
2543
2544<p>Devices MUST report which screen orientations they support
2545(android.hardware.screen.portrait and/or android.hardware.screen.landscape) and
2546MUST report at least one supported orientation. For example, a device with a
2547fixed orientation landscape screen, such as a television or laptop, SHOULD only
2548report android.hardware.screen.landscape.</p>
2549
2550<p>Devices that report both screen orientations MUST support dynamic orientation
2551by applications to either portrait or landscape screen orientation. That is,
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2552the device must respect the application&rsquo;s request for a specific screen
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2553orientation. Device implementations MAY select either portrait or landscape
2554orientation as the default.</p>
2555
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2556<p>Devices MUST report the correct value for the device&rsquo;s current orientation,
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2557whenever queried via the android.content.res.Configuration.orientation,
2558android.view.Display.getOrientation(), or other APIs.</p>
2559
2560<p>Devices MUST NOT change the reported screen size or density when changing
2561orientation.</p>
2562
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2563<h3 id="7_1_4_2d_and_3d_graphics_acceleration">7.1.4. 2D and 3D Graphics Acceleration</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2564
2565
2566<p>Device implementations MUST support both OpenGL ES 1.0 and 2.0, as embodied and
2567detailed in the Android SDK documentations. Device implementations SHOULD
2568support OpenGL ES 3.0 or 3.1 on devices capable of supporting it. Device
2569implementations MUST also support Android RenderScript, as detailed in the
2570Android SDK documentation [<a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/renderscript/">Resources, 63</a>].</p>
2571
2572<p>Device implementations MUST also correctly identify themselves as supporting
2573OpenGL ES 1.0, OpenGL ES 2.0, OpenGL ES 3.0 or OpenGL 3.1. That is:</p>
2574
2575<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2576 <li>The managed APIs (such as via the GLES10.getString()method MUST report support
2577for OpenGL ES 1.0 and OpenGL ES 2.0.</li>
2578 <li>The native C/C++ OpenGL APIs (APIs available to apps via libGLES_v1CM.so,
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2579libGLES_v2.so, or libEGL.so) MUST report support for OpenGL ES 1.0 and OpenGL
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2580ES 2.0.</li>
2581 <li>Device implementations that declare support for OpenGL ES 3.0 or 3.1 MUST
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2582support the corresponding managed APIs and include support for native C/C++
2583APIs. On device implementations that declare support for OpenGL ES 3.0 or 3.1,
2584libGLESv2.so MUST export the corresponding function symbols in addition to the
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2585OpenGL ES 2.0 function symbols.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2586</ul>
2587
2588<p>In addition to OpenGL ES 3.1, Android provides an extension pack with Java
2589interfaces [<a href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/opengl/GLES31Ext.html">Resources, 64</a>] and native support for advanced graphics functionality such as tessellation
2590and the ASTC texture compression format. Android device implementations MAY
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2591support this extension pack, and&mdash;only if fully implemented&mdash;MUST identify the
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2592support through the android.hardware.opengles.aep feature flag.</p>
2593
2594<p>Also, device implementations MAY implement any desired OpenGL ES extensions.
2595However, device implementations MUST report via the OpenGL ES managed and
2596native APIs all extension strings that they do support, and conversely MUST NOT
2597report extension strings that they do not support.</p>
2598
2599<p>Note that Android includes support for applications to optionally specify that
2600they require specific OpenGL texture compression formats. These formats are
2601typically vendor-specific. Device implementations are not required by Android
2602to implement any specific texture compression format. However, they SHOULD
2603accurately report any texture compression formats that they do support, via the
2604getString() method in the OpenGL API.</p>
2605
2606<p>Android includes a mechanism for applications to declare that they want to
2607enable hardware acceleration for 2D graphics at the Application, Activity,
2608Window, or View level through the use of a manifest tag
2609android:hardwareAccelerated or direct API calls [<a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/hardware-accel.html">Resources, 65</a>].</p>
2610
2611<p>Device implementations MUST enable hardware acceleration by default, and MUST
2612disable hardware acceleration if the developer so requests by setting
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2613android:hardwareAccelerated="false&rdquo; or disabling hardware acceleration directly
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2614through the Android View APIs.</p>
2615
2616<p>In addition, device implementations MUST exhibit behavior consistent with the
2617Android SDK documentation on hardware acceleration [<a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/hardware-accel.html">Resources, 65</a>].</p>
2618
2619<p>Android includes a TextureView object that lets developers directly integrate
2620hardware-accelerated OpenGL ES textures as rendering targets in a UI hierarchy.
2621Device implementations MUST support the TextureView API, and MUST exhibit
2622consistent behavior with the upstream Android implementation.</p>
2623
2624<p>Android includes support for EGL_ANDROID_RECORDABLE, an EGLConfig attribute
2625that indicates whether the EGLConfig supports rendering to an ANativeWindow
2626that records images to a video. Device implementations MUST support
2627EGL_ANDROID_RECORDABLE extension [<a href="https://www.khronos.org/registry/egl/extensions/ANDROID/EGL_ANDROID_recordable.txt">Resources, 66</a>].</p>
2628
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2629<h3 id="7_1_5_legacy_application_compatibility_mode">7.1.5. Legacy Application Compatibility Mode</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2630
2631
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2632<p>Android specifies a &ldquo;compatibility mode&rdquo; in which the framework operates in a
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2633'normal' screen size equivalent (320dp width) mode for the benefit of legacy
2634applications not developed for old versions of Android that pre-date
2635screen-size independence. Device implementations MUST include support for
2636legacy application compatibility mode as implemented by the upstream Android
2637open source code. That is, device implementations MUST NOT alter the triggers
2638or thresholds at which compatibility mode is activated, and MUST NOT alter the
2639behavior of the compatibility mode itself.</p>
2640
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2641<h3 id="7_1_6_screen_technology">7.1.6. Screen Technology</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2642
2643
2644<p>The Android platform includes APIs that allow applications to render rich
2645graphics to the display. Devices MUST support all of these APIs as defined by
2646the Android SDK unless specifically allowed in this document. </p>
2647
2648<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2649 <li>Devices MUST support displays capable of rendering 16-bit color graphics and
2650SHOULD support displays capable of 24-bit color graphics.</li>
2651 <li>Devices MUST support displays capable of rendering animations.</li>
2652 <li>The display technology used MUST have a pixel aspect ratio (PAR) between 0.9
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2653and 1.15. That is, the pixel aspect ratio MUST be near square (1.0) with a 10 ~
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]265415% tolerance.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2655</ul>
2656
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2657<h3 id="7_1_7_external_displays">7.1.7. External Displays</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2658
2659
2660<p>Android includes support for secondary display to enable media sharing
2661capabilities and developer APIs for accessing external displays. If a device
2662supports an external display either via a wired, wireless, or an embedded
2663additional display connection then the device implementation MUST implement the
2664display manager API as described in the Android SDK documentation [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/display/DisplayManager.html">Resources, 67</a>].</p>
2665
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2666<h2 id="7_2_input_devices">7.2. Input Devices</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2667
Heidi von Markham43b1cc72015-04-02 16:04:43 -0700[diff] [blame]2668<p>Devices MUST support a touchscreen or meet the requirements listed in 7.2.2
2669for non-touch navigation.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2670
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2671<h3 id="7_2_1_keyboard">7.2.1. Keyboard</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2672
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2673<div class="note">
Heidi von Markhamcf532432015-06-05 10:40:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2674<p>Android Watch and Android Automotive implementations MAY implement a soft
2675keyboard. All other device implementations MUST implement a soft keyboard and:</p>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2676</div>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2677
2678
2679<p>Device implementations:</p>
2680
2681<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2682 <li>MUST include support for the Input Management Framework (which allows
2683third-party developers to create Input Method Editors&mdash;i.e. soft keyboard) as
2684detailed at <a href="http://developer.android.com">http://developer.android.com</a>.</li>
2685 <li>MUST provide at least one soft keyboard implementation (regardless of whether a
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2686hard keyboard is present) except for Android Watch devices where the screen
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2687size makes it less reasonable to have a soft keyboard.</li>
2688 <li>MAY include additional soft keyboard implementations.</li>
2689 <li>MAY include a hardware keyboard.</li>
2690 <li>MUST NOT include a hardware keyboard that does not match one of the formats
2691specified in android.content.res.Configuration.keyboard [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/Configuration.html">Resources, 68</a>] (QWERTY or 12-key).</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2692</ul>
2693
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2694<h3 id="7_2_2_non-touch_navigation">7.2.2. Non-touch Navigation</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2695
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2696<div class="note">
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2697<p>Android Television devices MUST support D-pad.</p>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2698</div>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2699
2700<p>Device implementations:</p>
2701
2702<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2703 <li>MAY omit a non-touch navigation option (trackball, d-pad, or wheel) if the
2704device implementation is not an Android Television device.</li>
2705 <li>MUST report the correct value for android.content.res.Configuration.navigation
2706[<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/Configuration.html">Resources, 68</a>].</li>
2707 <li>MUST provide a reasonable alternative user interface mechanism for the
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2708selection and editing of text, compatible with Input Management Engines. The
2709upstream Android open source implementation includes a selection mechanism
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2710suitable for use with devices that lack non-touch navigation inputs.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2711</ul>
2712
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2713<h3 id="7_2_3_navigation_keys">7.2.3. Navigation Keys</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2714
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2715<div class="note">
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2716<p>The availability and visibility requirement of the Home, Recents, and Back
2717functions differ between device types as described in this section.</p>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2718</div>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2719
2720<p>The Home, Recents, and Back functions (mapped to the key events KEYCODE_HOME,
2721KEYCODE_APP_SWITCH, KEYCODE_BACK, respectively) are essential to the Android
Heidi von Markhamce34dbb2015-06-05 11:59:14 -0700[diff] [blame]2722navigation paradigm and therefore:</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2723
2724<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2725 <li>Android Handheld device implementations MUST provide the Home, Recents, and
2726Back functions.</li>
2727 <li>Android Television device implementations MUST provide the Home and Back
2728functions.</li>
2729 <li>Android Watch device implementations MUST have the Home function available to
2730the user, and the Back function except for when it is in UI_MODE_TYPE_WATCH.</li>
Heidi von Markhamce34dbb2015-06-05 11:59:14 -0700[diff] [blame]2731 <li>Android Automotive implementations MUST provide the Home function and MAY
2732provide Back and Recent functions.</li>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2733 <li>All other types of device implementations MUST provide the Home and Back
2734functions.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2735</ul>
2736
2737<p>These functions MAY be implemented via dedicated physical buttons (such as
2738mechanical or capacitive touch buttons), or MAY be implemented using dedicated
2739software keys on a distinct portion of the screen, gestures, touch panel, etc.
2740Android supports both implementations. All of these functions MUST be
2741accessible with a single action (e.g. tap, double-click or gesture) when
2742visible.</p>
2743
2744<p>Recents function, if provided, MUST have a visible button or icon unless hidden
2745together with other navigation functions in full-screen mode. This does not
2746apply to devices upgrading from earlier Android versions that have physical
2747buttons for navigation and no recents key.</p>
2748
2749<p> The Home and Back functions, if provided, MUST each have a visible button or
2750icon unless hidden together with other navigation functions in full-screen mode
2751or when the uiMode UI_MODE_TYPE_MASK is set to UI_MODE_TYPE_WATCH.</p>
2752
2753<p>The Menu function is deprecated in favor of action bar since Android 4.0.
Unsuk Jungd1ac9fe2015-04-01 08:18:41 -0700[diff] [blame]2754Therefore the new device implementations shipping with Android 5.0 and later MUST NOT
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2755implement a dedicated physical button for the Menu function. Older device
2756implementations SHOULD NOT implement a dedicated physical button for the Menu
2757function, but if the physical Menu button is implemented and the device is
2758running applications with targetSdkVersion > 10, the device implementation:</p>
2759
2760<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2761 <li>MUST display the action overflow button on the action bar when it is visible
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2762and the resulting action overflow menu popup is not empty. For a device
Unsuk Jungd1ac9fe2015-04-01 08:18:41 -0700[diff] [blame]2763implementation launched before Android 4.4 but upgrading to Android 5.1, this
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2764is RECOMMENDED.</li>
2765 <li>MUST NOT modify the position of the action overflow popup displayed by
2766selecting the overflow button in the action bar.</li>
2767 <li>MAY render the action overflow popup at a modified position on the screen when
2768it is displayed by selecting the physical menu button.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2769</ul>
2770
2771<p>For backwards compatibility, device implementations MUST make the Menu function
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2772available to applications when targetSdkVersion is less than 10, either by a physical
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2773button, a software key, or gestures. This Menu function should be presented
2774unless hidden together with other navigation functions.</p>
2775
2776<p>Android supports Assist action [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html#ACTION_ASSIST">Resources, 69</a>]. Android device implementations except for Android Watch devices MUST make
2777the Assist action available to the user at all times when running applications.
2778The Assist action SHOULD be implemented as a long-press on the Home button or a
2779swipe-up gesture on the software Home key. This function MAY be implemented via
2780another physical button, software key, or gesture, but MUST be accessible with
2781a single action (e.g. tap, double-click, or gesture) when other navigation keys
2782are visible.</p>
2783
2784<p>Device implementations MAY use a distinct portion of the screen to display the
2785navigation keys, but if so, MUST meet these requirements:</p>
2786
2787<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2788 <li>Device implementation navigation keys MUST use a distinct portion of the
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2789screen, not available to applications, and MUST NOT obscure or otherwise
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2790interfere with the portion of the screen available to applications.</li>
2791 <li>Device implementations MUST make available a portion of the display to
2792applications that meets the requirements defined in <a href="#7_1_1_screen_configuration">section 7.1.1</a>.</li>
2793 <li>Device implementations MUST display the navigation keys when applications do
2794not specify a system UI mode, or specify SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_VISIBLE.</li>
2795 <li>Device implementations MUST present the navigation keys in an unobtrusive &ldquo;low
2796profile&rdquo; (eg. dimmed) mode when applications specify
2797SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LOW_PROFILE.</li>
2798 <li>Device implementations MUST hide the navigation keys when applications specify
2799SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_HIDE_NAVIGATION.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2800</ul>
2801
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2802<h3 id="7_2_4_touchscreen_input">7.2.4. Touchscreen Input</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2803
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2804<div class="note">
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2805<p>Android Handhelds and Watch Devices MUST support touchscreen input.</p>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2806</div>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2807
2808
2809<p>Device implementations SHOULD have a pointer input system of some kind (either
2810mouse-like or touch). However, if a device implementation does not support a
2811pointer input system, it MUST NOT report the android.hardware.touchscreen or
2812android.hardware.faketouch feature constant. Device implementations that do
2813include a pointer input system:</p>
2814
2815<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2816 <li>SHOULD support fully independently tracked pointers, if the device input system
2817supports multiple pointers.</li>
2818 <li>MUST report the value of android.content.res.Configuration.touchscreen [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/Configuration.html">Resources, 68</a>] corresponding to the type of the specific touchscreen on the device.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2819</ul>
2820
2821<p>Android includes support for a variety of touchscreens, touch pads, and fake
2822touch input devices. Touchscreen based device implementations are associated
2823with a display [<a href="http://source.android.com/devices/tech/input/touch-devices.html">Resources, 70</a>] such that the user has the impression of directly manipulating items on
2824screen. Since the user is directly touching the screen, the system does not
2825require any additional affordances to indicate the objects being manipulated.
2826In contrast, a fake touch interface provides a user input system that
2827approximates a subset of touchscreen capabilities. For example, a mouse or
2828remote control that drives an on-screen cursor approximates touch, but requires
2829the user to first point or focus then click. Numerous input devices like the
2830mouse, trackpad, gyro-based air mouse, gyro-pointer, joystick, and multi-touch
Unsuk Jungd1ac9fe2015-04-01 08:18:41 -0700[diff] [blame]2831trackpad can support fake touch interactions. Android includes the feature
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2832constant android.hardware.faketouch, which corresponds to a high-fidelity
2833non-touch (pointer-based) input device such as a mouse or trackpad that can
2834adequately emulate touch-based input (including basic gesture support), and
2835indicates that the device supports an emulated subset of touchscreen
2836functionality. Device implementations that declare the fake touch feature MUST
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2837meet the fake touch requirements in <a href="#7_2_5_fake_touch_input">section 7.2.5</a>.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2838
2839<p>Device implementations MUST report the correct feature corresponding to the
2840type of input used. Device implementations that include a touchscreen
2841(single-touch or better) MUST report the platform feature constant
2842android.hardware.touchscreen. Device implementations that report the platform
2843feature constant android.hardware.touchscreen MUST also report the platform
2844feature constant android.hardware.faketouch. Device implementations that do not
2845include a touchscreen (and rely on a pointer device only) MUST NOT report any
2846touchscreen feature, and MUST report only android.hardware.faketouch if they
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2847meet the fake touch requirements in <a href="#7_2_5_fake_touch_input">section 7.2.5</a>.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2848
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2849<h3 id="7_2_5_fake_touch_input">7.2.5. Fake Touch Input</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2850
2851
2852<p>Device implementations that declare support for android.hardware.faketouch:</p>
2853
2854<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2855 <li>MUST report the absolute X and Y screen positions of the pointer location and
2856display a visual pointer on the screen [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/MotionEvent.html">Resources, 71</a>].</li>
2857 <li>MUST report touch event with the action code that specifies the state change
2858that occurs on the pointer going down or up on the screen [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/MotionEvent.html">Resources, 71</a>].</li>
2859 <li>MUST support pointer down and up on an object on the screen, which allows users
2860to emulate tap on an object on the screen.</li>
2861 <li>MUST support pointer down, pointer up, pointer down then pointer up in the same
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2862place on an object on the screen within a time threshold, which allows users to
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2863emulate double tap on an object on the screen [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/MotionEvent.html">Resources, 71</a>].</li>
2864 <li>MUST support pointer down on an arbitrary point on the screen, pointer move to
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2865any other arbitrary point on the screen, followed by a pointer up, which allows
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2866users to emulate a touch drag.</li>
2867 <li>MUST support pointer down then allow users to quickly move the object to a
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2868different position on the screen and then pointer up on the screen, which
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2869allows users to fling an object on the screen.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2870</ul>
2871
2872<p>Devices that declare support for android.hardware.faketouch.multitouch.distinct
2873MUST meet the requirements for faketouch above, and MUST also support distinct
2874tracking of two or more independent pointer inputs.</p>
2875
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2876<h3 id="7_2_6_game_controller_support">7.2.6. Game Controller Support</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2877
2878
2879<p>Android Television device implementations MUST support button mappings for game
2880controllers as listed below. The upstream Android implementation includes
2881implementation for game controllers that satisfies this requirement. </p>
2882
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2883<h4 id="7_2_6_1_button_mappings">7.2.6.1. Button Mappings</h4>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2884
2885
2886<p>Android Television device implementations MUST support the following key
2887mappings:</p>
2888<table>
2889 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2890 <th>Button</th>
2891 <th>HID Usage</strong><sup>2</sup></td>
2892 <th>Android Button</th>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2893 </tr>
2894 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2895 <td><a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html#KEYCODE_BUTTON_A">A</a><sup>1</sup></td>
2896 <td>0x09 0x0001</td>
2897 <td>KEYCODE_BUTTON_A (96)</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2898 </tr>
2899 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2900 <td><a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html#KEYCODE_BUTTON_B">B</a><sup>1</sup></td>
2901 <td>0x09 0x0002</td>
2902 <td>KEYCODE_BUTTON_B (97)</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2903 </tr>
2904 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2905 <td><a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html#KEYCODE_BUTTON_X">X</a><sup>1</sup></td>
2906 <td>0x09 0x0004</td>
2907 <td>KEYCODE_BUTTON_X (99)</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2908 </tr>
2909 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2910 <td><a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html#KEYCODE_BUTTON_Y">Y</a><sup>1</sup></td>
2911 <td>0x09 0x0005</td>
2912 <td>KEYCODE_BUTTON_Y (100)</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2913 </tr>
2914 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2915 <td><a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html#KEYCODE_DPAD_UP">D-pad up</a><sup>1</sup></p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2916
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2917<p><a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html#KEYCODE_DPAD_DOWN">D-pad down</a><sup>1</sup></td>
2918 <td>0x01 0x00393</td>
2919 <td><a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/MotionEvent.html#AXIS_HAT_Y">AXIS_HAT_Y</a><sup>4</sup></td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2920 </tr>
2921 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2922 <td><a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html#KEYCODE_DPAD_LEFT">D-pad left</a>1</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2923
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2924<p><a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html#KEYCODE_DPAD_RIGHT">D-pad right</a><sup>1</sup></td>
2925 <td>0x01 0x00393</td>
2926 <td><a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/MotionEvent.html#AXIS_HAT_X">AXIS_HAT_X</a><sup>4</sup></td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2927 </tr>
2928 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2929 <td><a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html#KEYCODE_BUTTON_L1">Left shoulder button</a><sup>1</sup></td>
2930 <td>0x09 0x0007</td>
2931 <td>KEYCODE_BUTTON_L1 (102)</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2932 </tr>
2933 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2934 <td><a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html#KEYCODE_BUTTON_R1">Right shoulder button</a><sup>1</sup></td>
2935 <td>0x09 0x0008</td>
2936 <td>KEYCODE_BUTTON_R1 (103)</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2937 </tr>
2938 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2939 <td><a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html#KEYCODE_BUTTON_THUMBL">Left stick click</a><sup>1</sup></td>
2940 <td>0x09 0x000E</td>
2941 <td>KEYCODE_BUTTON_THUMBL (106)</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2942 </tr>
2943 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2944 <td><a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html#KEYCODE_BUTTON_THUMBR">Right stick click</a><sup>1</sup></td>
2945 <td>0x09 0x000F</td>
2946 <td>KEYCODE_BUTTON_THUMBR (107)</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2947 </tr>
2948 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2949 <td><a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html#KEYCODE_HOME">Home</a><sup>1</sup></td>
2950 <td>0x0c 0x0223</td>
2951 <td>KEYCODE_HOME (3)</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2952 </tr>
2953 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2954 <td><a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html#KEYCODE_BACK">Back</a><sup>1</sup></td>
2955 <td>0x0c 0x0224</td>
2956 <td>KEYCODE_BACK (4)</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2957 </tr>
2958</table>
2959
2960
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2961<p class="table_footnote">1 [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html">Resources, 72</a>]</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2962
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2963<p class="table_footnote">2 The above HID usages must be declared within a Game pad CA (0x01 0x0005).</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2964
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2965<p class="table_footnote">3 This usage must have a Logical Minimum of 0, a Logical Maximum of 7, a
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2966Physical Minimum of 0, a Physical Maximum of 315, Units in Degrees, and a
2967Report Size of 4. The logical value is defined to be the clockwise rotation
2968away from the vertical axis; for example, a logical value of 0 represents no
2969rotation and the up button being pressed, while a logical value of 1 represents
2970a rotation of 45 degrees and both the up and left keys being pressed.</p>
2971
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2972<p class="table_footnote">4 [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/MotionEvent.html">Resources, 71</a>]</p>
2973
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2974<table>
2975 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2976 <th>Analog Controls</strong><sup>1</sup></td>
2977 <th>HID Usage</th>
2978 <th>Android Button</th>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2979 </tr>
2980 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2981 <td><a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/MotionEvent.html#AXIS_LTRIGGER">Left Trigger</a></td>
2982 <td>0x02 0x00C5</td>
2983 <td>AXIS_LTRIGGER </td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2984 </tr>
2985 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2986 <td><a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/MotionEvent.html#AXIS_THROTTLE">Right Trigger</a></td>
2987 <td>0x02 0x00C4</td>
2988 <td>AXIS_RTRIGGER </td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2989 </tr>
2990 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2991 <td><a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/MotionEvent.html#AXIS_Y">Left Joystick</a></td>
2992 <td>0x01 0x0030</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2993
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2994<p>0x01 0x0031</td>
2995 <td>AXIS_X</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2996
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]2997<p>AXIS_Y</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]2998 </tr>
2999 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3000 <td><a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/MotionEvent.html#AXIS_Z">Right Joystick</a></td>
3001 <td>0x01 0x0032</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3002
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3003<p>0x01 0x0035</td>
3004 <td>AXIS_Z</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3005
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3006<p>AXIS_RZ</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3007 </tr>
3008</table>
3009
3010
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3011<p class="table_footnote">1 [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/MotionEvent.html">Resources, 71</a>]</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3012
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3013<h3 id="7_2_7_remote_control">7.2.7. Remote Control</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3014
3015
3016<p>Android Television device implementations SHOULD provide a remote control to
3017allow users to access the TV interface. The remote control MAY be a physical
3018remote or can be a software-based remote that is accessible from a mobile phone
3019or tablet. The remote control MUST meet the requirements defined below.</p>
3020
3021<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3022 <li><strong>Search affordance</strong>. Device implementations MUST fire KEYCODE_SEARCH when the user invokes voice search either on the physical or software-based remote.</li>
3023 <li><strong>Navigation</strong>. All Android Television remotes MUST include Back, Home, and Select buttons and
3024support for D-pad events [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html">Resources, 72</a>].</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3025</ul>
3026
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3027<h2 id="7_3_sensors">7.3. Sensors</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3028
3029
3030<p>Android includes APIs for accessing a variety of sensor types. Devices
3031implementations generally MAY omit these sensors, as provided for in the
3032following subsections. If a device includes a particular sensor type that has a
3033corresponding API for third-party developers, the device implementation MUST
3034implement that API as described in the Android SDK documentation and the
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3035Android Open Source documentation on sensors [<a href="http://source.android.com/devices/sensors/">Resources, 73</a>]. For example, device implementations:</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3036
3037<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3038 <li>MUST accurately report the presence or absence of sensors per the
3039android.content.pm.PackageManager class [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageManager.html">Resources, 53]</a>.</li>
3040 <li>MUST return an accurate list of supported sensors via the
3041SensorManager.getSensorList() and similar methods.</li>
3042 <li>MUST behave reasonably for all other sensor APIs (for example, by returning
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3043true or false as appropriate when applications attempt to register listeners,
3044not calling sensor listeners when the corresponding sensors are not present;
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3045etc.).</li>
3046 <li>MUST report all sensor measurements using the relevant International System of
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3047Units (metric) values for each sensor type as defined in the Android SDK
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3048documentation [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/SensorEvent.html">Resources, 74</a>].</li>
3049 <li>SHOULD report the event time in nanoseconds as defined in the Android SDK
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3050documentation, representing the time the event happened and synchronized with
3051the SystemClock.elapsedRealtimeNano() clock. Existing and new Android devices
3052are <strong>very strongly encouraged</strong> to meet these requirement so they will be able to upgrade to the future
3053platform releases where this might become a REQUIRED component. The
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3054synchronization error SHOULD be below 100 milliseconds [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/SensorEvent.html#timestamp">Resources, 75</a>].</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3055</ul>
3056
3057<p>The list above is not comprehensive; the documented behavior of the Android SDK
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3058and the Android Open Source Documentations on Sensors [<a href="http://source.android.com/devices/sensors/">Resources, 73</a>] is to be considered authoritative.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3059
3060<p>Some sensor types are composite, meaning they can be derived from data provided
3061by one or more other sensors. (Examples include the orientation sensor, and the
3062linear acceleration sensor.) Device implementations SHOULD implement these
3063sensor types, when they include the prerequisite physical sensors as described
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3064in [<a href="https://source.android.com/devices/sensors/sensor-types.html">Resources, 76</a>].
3065If a device implementation includes a composite sensor it MUST implement the
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3066sensor as described in the Android Open Source documentation on composite
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3067sensors [<a href="https://source.android.com/devices/sensors/sensor-types.html#composite_sensor_type_summary">Resources, 76</a>].</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3068
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3069<p>Some Android sensors support a &ldquo;continuous&rdquo; trigger mode, which returns data
3070continuously [<a href="https://source.android.com/devices/sensors/report-modes.html#continuous">Resources, 77</a>]. For any API indicated by the Android SDK documentation to be a continuous
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3071sensor, device implementations MUST continuously provide periodic data samples
3072that SHOULD have a jitter below 3%, where jitter is defined as the standard
3073deviation of the difference of the reported timestamp values between
3074consecutive events.</p>
3075
3076<p>Note that the device implementations MUST ensure that the sensor event stream
3077MUST NOT prevent the device CPU from entering a suspend state or waking up from
3078a suspend state.</p>
3079
3080<p>Finally, when several sensors are activated, the power consumption SHOULD NOT
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3081exceed the sum of the individual sensor&rsquo;s reported power consumption.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3082
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3083<h3 id="7_3_1_accelerometer">7.3.1. Accelerometer</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3084
3085
3086<p>Device implementations SHOULD include a 3-axis accelerometer. Android Handheld
3087devices and Android Watch devices are strongly encouraged to include this
3088sensor. If a device implementation does include a 3-axis accelerometer, it:</p>
3089
3090<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3091 <li>MUST implement and report TYPE_ACCELEROMETER sensor [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/Sensor.html#TYPE_ACCELEROMETER">Resources, 78</a>].</li>
Unsuk Jung42630a32015-06-05 03:59:33 -0700[diff] [blame]3092 <li>MUST be able to report events up to a frequency of at least 50 Hz for
3093 Android Watch devices as such devices have a stricter power constraint and
3094 100 Hz for all other device types.</li>
3095 <li>SHOULD report events up to at least 200 Hz.</li>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3096 <li>MUST comply with the Android sensor coordinate system as detailed in the
3097Android APIs [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/SensorEvent.html">Resources, 74</a>].</li>
3098 <li>MUST be capable of measuring from freefall up to four times the gravity (4g) or
3099more on any axis.</li>
3100 <li>MUST have a resolution of at least 8-bits and SHOULD have a resolution of at
3101least 16-bits.</li>
3102 <li>SHOULD be calibrated while in use if the characteristics changes over the life
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3103cycle and compensated, and preserve the compensation parameters between device
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3104reboots.</li>
3105 <li>SHOULD be temperature compensated.</li>
3106 <li>MUST have a standard deviation no greater than 0.05 m/s^, where the standard
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3107deviation should be calculated on a per axis basis on samples collected over a
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3108period of at least 3 seconds at the fastest sampling rate.</li>
3109 <li>SHOULD implement the TYPE_SIGNIFICANT_MOTION, TYPE_TILT_DETECTOR,
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3110TYPE_STEP_DETECTOR, TYPE_STEP_COUNTER composite sensors as described in the
3111Android SDK document. Existing and new Android devices are <strong>very strongly encouraged</strong> to implement the TYPE_SIGNIFICANT_MOTION composite sensor. If any of these
3112sensors are implemented, the sum of their power consumption MUST always be less
3113than 4 mW and SHOULD each be below 2 mW and 0.5 mW for when the device is in a
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3114dynamic or static condition.</li>
3115 <li>If a gyroscope sensor is included, MUST implement the TYPE_GRAVITY and
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3116TYPE_LINEAR_ACCELERATION composite sensors and SHOULD implement the
3117TYPE_GAME_ROTATION_VECTOR composite sensor. Existing and new Android devices
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3118are strongly encouraged to implement the TYPE_GAME_ROTATION_VECTOR sensor.</li>
3119 <li>SHOULD implement a TYPE_ROTATION_VECTOR composite sensor, if a gyroscope sensor
3120and a magnetometer sensor is also included.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3121</ul>
3122
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3123<h3 id="7_3_2_magnetometer">7.3.2. Magnetometer</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3124
3125
3126<p>Device implementations SHOULD include a 3-axis magnetometer (compass). If a
3127device does include a 3-axis magnetometer, it:</p>
3128
3129<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3130 <li>MUST implement the TYPE_MAGNETIC_FIELD sensor and SHOULD also implement
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3131TYPE_MAGNETIC_FIELD_UNCALIBRATED sensor. Existing and new Android devices are
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3132strongly encouraged to implement the TYPE_MAGNETIC_FIELD_UNCALIBRATED sensor.</li>
3133 <li>MUST be able to report events up to a frequency of at least 10 Hz and SHOULD
3134report events up to at least 50 Hz.</li>
3135 <li>MUST comply with the Android sensor coordinate system as detailed in the
3136Android APIs [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/SensorEvent.html">Resources, 74</a>].</li>
3137 <li>MUST be capable of measuring between -900 &micro;T and +900 &micro;T on each axis before
3138saturating.</li>
3139 <li>MUST have a hard iron offset value less than 700 &micro;T and SHOULD have a value
3140below 200 &micro;T, by placing the magnetometer far from dynamic (current-induced)
3141and static (magnet-induced) magnetic fields.</li>
3142 <li>MUST have a resolution equal or denser than 0.6 &micro;T and SHOULD have a resolution
3143equal or denser than 0.2 &micro;.</li>
3144 <li>SHOULD be temperature compensated.</li>
3145 <li>MUST support online calibration and compensation of the hard iron bias, and
3146preserve the compensation parameters between device reboots.</li>
3147 <li>MUST have the soft iron compensation applied&mdash;the calibration can be done either
3148while in use or during the production of the device.</li>
3149 <li>SHOULD have a standard deviation, calculated on a per axis basis on samples
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3150collected over a period of at least 3 seconds at the fastest sampling rate, no
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3151greater than 0.5 &micro;T.</li>
3152 <li>SHOULD implement a TYPE_ROTATION_VECTOR composite sensor, if an accelerometer
3153sensor and a gyroscope sensor is also included.</li>
3154 <li>MAY implement the TYPE_GEOMAGNETIC_ROTATION_VECTOR sensor if an accelerometer
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3155sensor is also implemented. However if implemented, it MUST consume less than
315610 mW and SHOULD consume less than 3 mW when the sensor is registered for batch
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3157mode at 10 Hz.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3158</ul>
3159
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3160<h3 id="7_3_3_gps">7.3.3. GPS</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3161
3162
3163<p>Device implementations SHOULD include a GPS receiver. If a device
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3164implementation does include a GPS receiver, it SHOULD include some form of&ldquo;assisted GPS&rdquo; technique to minimize GPS lock-on time.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3165
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3166<h3 id="7_3_4_gyroscope">7.3.4. Gyroscope</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3167
3168
3169<p>Device implementations SHOULD include a gyroscope (angular change sensor).
3170Devices SHOULD NOT include a gyroscope sensor unless a 3-axis accelerometer is
3171also included. If a device implementation includes a gyroscope, it:</p>
3172
3173<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3174 <li>MUST implement the TYPE_GYROSCOPE sensor and SHOULD also implement
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3175TYPE_GYROSCOPE_UNCALIBRATED sensor. Existing and new Android devices are
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3176strongly encouraged to implement the SENSOR_TYPE_GYROSCOPE_UNCALIBRATED sensor.</li>
3177 <li>MUST be capable of measuring orientation changes up to 1,000 degrees per second.</li>
Unsuk Jung42630a32015-06-05 03:59:33 -0700[diff] [blame]3178 <li>MUST be able to report events up to a frequency of at least 50 Hz for
3179 Android Watch devices as such devices have a stricter power constraint and
3180 100 Hz for all other device types.</li>
3181 <li>SHOULD report events up to at least 200 Hz.</li>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3182 <li>MUST have a resolution of 12-bits or more and SHOULD have a resolution of
318316-bits or more.</li>
3184 <li>MUST be temperature compensated.</li>
3185 <li>MUST be calibrated and compensated while in use, and preserve the compensation
3186parameters between device reboots.</li>
3187 <li>MUST have a variance no greater than 1e-7 rad^2 / s^2 per Hz (variance per Hz,
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3188or rad^2 / s). The variance is allowed to vary with the sampling rate, but must
3189be constrained by this value. In other words, if you measure the variance of
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3190the gyro at 1 Hz sampling rate it should be no greater than 1e-7 rad^2/s^2.</li>
3191 <li>SHOULD implement a TYPE_ROTATION_VECTOR composite sensor, if an accelerometer
3192sensor and a magnetometer sensor is also included.</li>
3193 <li>If an accelerometer sensor is included, MUST implement the TYPE_GRAVITY and
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3194TYPE_LINEAR_ACCELERATION composite sensors and SHOULD implement the
3195TYPE_GAME_ROTATION_VECTOR composite sensor. Existing and new Android devices
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3196are strongly encouraged to implement the TYPE_GAME_ROTATION_VECTOR sensor.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3197</ul>
3198
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3199<h3 id="7_3_5_barometer">7.3.5. Barometer</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3200
3201
3202<p>Device implementations SHOULD include a barometer (ambient air pressure
3203sensor). If a device implementation includes a barometer, it:</p>
3204
3205<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3206 <li>MUST implement and report TYPE_PRESSURE sensor.</li>
3207 <li>MUST be able to deliver events at 5 Hz or greater.</li>
3208 <li>MUST have adequate precision to enable estimating altitude.</li>
3209 <li>MUST be temperature compensated.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3210</ul>
3211
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3212<h3 id="7_3_6_thermometer">7.3.6. Thermometer</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3213
3214
3215<p>Device implementations MAY include an ambient thermometer (temperature sensor).
3216If present, it MUST be defined as SENSOR_TYPE_AMBIENT_TEMPERATURE and it MUST
3217measure the ambient (room) temperature in degrees Celsius.</p>
3218
3219<p>Device implementations MAY but SHOULD NOT include a CPU temperature sensor. If
3220present, it MUST be defined as SENSOR_TYPE_TEMPERATURE, it MUST measure the
3221temperature of the device CPU, and it MUST NOT measure any other temperature.
3222Note the SENSOR_TYPE_TEMPERATURE sensor type was deprecated in Android 4.0.</p>
3223
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3224<h3 id="7_3_7_photometer">7.3.7. Photometer</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3225
3226
3227<p>Device implementations MAY include a photometer (ambient light sensor).</p>
3228
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3229<h3 id="7_3_8_proximity_sensor">7.3.8. Proximity Sensor</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3230
3231
3232<p>Device implementations MAY include a proximity sensor. Devices that can make a
3233voice call and indicate any value other than PHONE_TYPE_NONE in getPhoneType
3234SHOULD include a proximity sensor. If a device implementation does include a
3235proximity sensor, it:</p>
3236
3237<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3238 <li>MUST measure the proximity of an object in the same direction as the screen.
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3239That is, the proximity sensor MUST be oriented to detect objects close to the
3240screen, as the primary intent of this sensor type is to detect a phone in use
3241by the user. If a device implementation includes a proximity sensor with any
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3242other orientation, it MUST NOT be accessible through this API.</li>
3243 <li>MUST have 1-bit of accuracy or more.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3244</ul>
3245
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3246<h2 id="7_4_data_connectivity">7.4. Data Connectivity</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3247
3248
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3249<h3 id="7_4_1_telephony">7.4.1. Telephony</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3250
3251
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3252<p>&ldquo;Telephony&rdquo; as used by the Android APIs and this document refers specifically
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3253to hardware related to placing voice calls and sending SMS messages via a GSM
3254or CDMA network. While these voice calls may or may not be packet-switched,
3255they are for the purposes of Android considered independent of any data
3256connectivity that may be implemented using the same network. In other words,
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3257the Android &ldquo;telephony&rdquo; functionality and APIs refer specifically to voice
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3258calls and SMS. For instance, device implementations that cannot place calls or
3259send/receive SMS messages MUST NOT report the android.hardware.telephony
3260feature or any subfeatures, regardless of whether they use a cellular network
3261for data connectivity.</p>
3262
3263<p>Android MAY be used on devices that do not include telephony hardware. That is,
3264Android is compatible with devices that are not phones. However, if a device
3265implementation does include GSM or CDMA telephony, it MUST implement full
3266support for the API for that technology. Device implementations that do not
3267include telephony hardware MUST implement the full APIs as no-ops.</p>
3268
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3269<h3 id="7_4_2_ieee_802_11_wi-fi">7.4.2. IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi)</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3270
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3271<div class="note">
3272<p>Android Television device implementations MUST include Wi-Fi support.</p>
3273</div>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3274
3275
3276<p>Android Television device implementations MUST include support for one or more
3277forms of 802.11 (b/g/a/n, etc.) and other types of Android device
3278implementation SHOULD include support for one or more forms of 802.11. If a
3279device implementation does include support for 802.11 and exposes the
3280functionality to a third-party application, it MUST implement the corresponding
3281Android API and:</p>
3282
3283<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3284 <li>MUST report the hardware feature flag android.hardware.wifi.</li>
3285 <li>MUST implement the multicast API as described in the SDK documentation [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/wifi/WifiManager.MulticastLock.html">Resources, 79</a>].</li>
3286 <li>MUST support multicast DNS (mDNS) and MUST NOT filter mDNS packets
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3287(224.0.0.251) at any time of operation including when the screen is not in an
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3288active state.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3289</ul>
3290
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3291<h4 id="7_4_2_1_wi-fi_direct">7.4.2.1. Wi-Fi Direct</h4>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3292
3293
3294<p>Device implementations SHOULD include support for Wi-Fi Direct (Wi-Fi
3295peer-to-peer). If a device implementation does include support for Wi-Fi
3296Direct, it MUST implement the corresponding Android API as described in the SDK
3297documentation [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/wifi/p2p/WifiP2pManager.html">Resources, 80</a>]. If a device implementation includes support for Wi-Fi Direct, then it:</p>
3298
3299<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3300 <li>MUST report the hardware feature android.hardware.wifi.direct.</li>
3301 <li>MUST support regular Wi-Fi operation.</li>
3302 <li>SHOULD support concurrent Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi Direct operation.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3303</ul>
3304
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3305<h4 id="7_4_2_2_wi-fi_tunneled_direct_link_setup">7.4.2.2. Wi-Fi Tunneled Direct Link Setup</h4>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3306
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3307<div class="note">
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3308<p>Android Television device implementations MUST include support for Wi-Fi
3309Tunneled Direct Link Setup (TDLS).</p>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3310</div>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3311
3312
3313<p>Android Television device implementations MUST include support for Wi-Fi
3314Tunneled Direct Link Setup (TDLS) and other types of Android device
3315implementations SHOULD include support for Wi-Fi TDLS as described in the
3316Android SDK Documentation [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/wifi/WifiManager.html">Resources, 81</a>]. If a device implementation does include support for TDLS and TDLS is enabled
3317by the WiFiManager API, the device:</p>
3318
3319<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3320 <li>SHOULD use TDLS only when it is possible AND beneficial.</li>
3321 <li>SHOULD have some heuristic and NOT use TDLS when its performance might be worse
3322than going through the Wi-Fi access point.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3323</ul>
3324
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3325<h3 id="7_4_3_bluetooth">7.4.3. Bluetooth</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3326
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3327<div class="note">
Heidi von Markhamdf9fb7c2015-04-02 16:49:09 -0700[diff] [blame]3328<p>Android Watch and Automotive implementations MUST support Bluetooth. Android
3329Television implementations MUST support Bluetooth and Bluetooth LE.</p>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3330</div>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3331
3332
3333<p>Android includes support for Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/bluetooth/package-summary.html">Resources, 82</a>]. Device implementations that include support for Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low
3334Energy MUST declare the relevant platform features (android.hardware.bluetooth
3335and android.hardware.bluetooth_le respectively) and implement the platform
3336APIs. Device implementations SHOULD implement relevant Bluetooth profiles such
3337as A2DP, AVCP, OBEX, etc. as appropriate for the device. Android Television
3338device implementations MUST support Bluetooth and Bluetooth LE. </p>
3339
3340<p>Device implementations including support for Bluetooth Low Energy:</p>
3341
3342<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3343 <li>MUST declare the hardware feature android.hardware.bluetooth_le.</li>
3344 <li>MUST enable the GATT (generic attribute profile) based Bluetooth APIs as
3345described in the SDK documentation and [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/bluetooth/package-summary.html">Resources, 82</a>].</li>
3346 <li>SHOULD support offloading of the filtering logic to the bluetooth chipset when
3347implementing the ScanFilter API [<a href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/bluetooth/le/ScanFilter.html">Resources, 83</a>], and MUST report the correct value of where the filtering logic is implemented whenever queried via the
3348android.bluetooth.BluetoothAdapter.isOffloadedFilteringSupported() method.</li>
3349 <li>SHOULD support offloading of the batched scanning to the bluetooth chipset, but
3350if not supported, MUST report &lsquo;false&rsquo; whenever queried via the
3351android.bluetooth.BluetoothAdapater.isOffloadedScanBatchingSupported() method.</li>
3352 <li>SHOULD support multi advertisement with at least 4 slots, but if not supported,
3353MUST report &lsquo;false&rsquo; whenever queried via the
3354android.bluetooth.BluetoothAdapter.isMultipleAdvertisementSupported() method.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3355</ul>
3356
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3357<h3 id="7_4_4_near-field_communications">7.4.4. Near-Field Communications</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3358
3359
3360<p>Device implementations SHOULD include a transceiver and related hardware for
3361Near-Field Communications (NFC). If a device implementation does include NFC
3362hardware and plans to make it available to third-party apps, then it:</p>
3363
3364<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3365 <li>MUST report the android.hardware.nfc feature from the
3366android.content.pm.PackageManager.hasSystemFeature() method [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageManager.html">Resources, 53</a>].</li>
3367 <li>MUST be capable of reading and writing NDEF messages via the following NFC
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3368standards:
3369 <ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3370 <li>MUST be capable of acting as an NFC Forum reader/writer (as defined by the NFC
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3371Forum technical specification NFCForum-TS-DigitalProtocol-1.0) via the
3372following NFC standards:
3373 <ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3374 <li>NfcA (ISO14443-3A)</li>
3375 <li>NfcB (ISO14443-3B)</li>
3376 <li>NfcF (JIS 6319-4)</li>
3377 <li>IsoDep (ISO 14443-4)</li>
3378 <li>NFC Forum Tag Types 1, 2, 3, 4 (defined by the NFC Forum)</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3379 </ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3380 <li>SHOULD be capable of reading and writing NDEF messages via the following NFC
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3381standards. Note that while the NFC standards below are stated as SHOULD, the
3382Compatibility Definition for a future version is planned to change these to
3383MUST. These standards are optional in this version but will be required in
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3384future versions. Existing and new devices that run this version of Android are <strong>very strongly encouraged</strong> to meet these requirements now so they will be able to upgrade to the future platform releases.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3385 <ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3386 <li>NfcV (ISO 15693)</li>
3387 </ul></li>
3388 <li>MUST be capable of transmitting and receiving data via the following
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3389peer-to-peer standards and protocols:
3390 <ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3391 <li>ISO 18092</li>
3392 <li>LLCP 1.0 (defined by the NFC Forum)</li>
3393 <li>SDP 1.0 (defined by the NFC Forum)</li>
3394 <li>NDEF Push Protocol [<a href="http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/source.android.com/en/us/compatibility/ndef-push-protocol.pdf">Resources, 84</a>]</li>
3395 <li>SNEP 1.0 (defined by the NFC Forum)</li>
3396 </ul></li>
3397 <li>MUST include support for Android Beam [<a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/nfc/nfc.html">Resources, 85</a>]:
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3398 <ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3399 <li>MUST implement the SNEP default server. Valid NDEF messages received by the
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3400default SNEP server MUST be dispatched to applications using the
3401android.nfc.ACTION_NDEF_DISCOVERED intent. Disabling Android Beam in settings
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3402MUST NOT disable dispatch of incoming NDEF message.</li>
3403 <li>MUST honor the android.settings.NFCSHARING_SETTINGS intent to show NFC sharing
3404settings [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/Settings.html#ACTION_NFCSHARING_SETTINGS">Resources, 86</a>].</li>
3405 <li>MUST implement the NPP server. Messages received by the NPP server MUST be
3406processed the same way as the SNEP default server.</li>
3407 <li>MUST implement a SNEP client and attempt to send outbound P2P NDEF to the
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3408default SNEP server when Android Beam is enabled. If no default SNEP server is
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3409found then the client MUST attempt to send to an NPP server.</li>
3410 <li>MUST allow foreground activities to set the outbound P2P NDEF message using
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3411android.nfc.NfcAdapter.setNdefPushMessage, and
3412android.nfc.NfcAdapter.setNdefPushMessageCallback, and
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3413android.nfc.NfcAdapter.enableForegroundNdefPush.</li>
3414 <li>SHOULD use a gesture or on-screen confirmation, such as 'Touch to Beam', before
3415sending outbound P2P NDEF messages.</li>
3416 <li>SHOULD enable Android Beam by default and MUST be able to send and receive
3417using Android Beam, even when another proprietary NFC P2p mode is turned on.</li>
3418 <li>MUST support NFC Connection handover to Bluetooth when the device supports
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3419Bluetooth Object Push Profile. Device implementations MUST support connection
3420handover to Bluetooth when using android.nfc.NfcAdapter.setBeamPushUris, by
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3421implementing the &ldquo;Connection Handover version 1.2&rdquo; [<a href="http://members.nfc-forum.org/specs/spec_list/#conn_handover">Resources, 87</a>] and &ldquo;Bluetooth Secure Simple Pairing Using NFC version 1.0&rdquo; [<a href="http://members.nfc-forum.org/apps/group_public/download.php/18688/NFCForum-AD-BTSSP_1_1.pdf">Resources, 88</a>] specs from the NFC Forum. Such an implementation MUST implement the handover
3422LLCP service with service name &ldquo;urn:nfc:sn:handover&rdquo; for exchanging the
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3423handover request/select records over NFC, and it MUST use the Bluetooth Object
3424Push Profile for the actual Bluetooth data transfer. For legacy reasons (to
3425remain compatible with Android 4.1 devices), the implementation SHOULD still
3426accept SNEP GET requests for exchanging the handover request/select records
3427over NFC. However an implementation itself SHOULD NOT send SNEP GET requests
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3428for performing connection handover.</li>
3429 </ul></li>
3430 <li>MUST poll for all supported technologies while in NFC discovery mode.</li>
3431 <li>SHOULD be in NFC discovery mode while the device is awake with the screen
3432active and the lock-screen unlocked.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3433</ul>
3434</ul>
3435
3436<p>(Note that publicly available links are not available for the JIS, ISO, and NFC
3437Forum specifications cited above.)</p>
3438
Unsuk Jungd1ac9fe2015-04-01 08:18:41 -0700[diff] [blame]3439<p>Android includes support for NFC Host Card Emulation (HCE) mode. If a
Unsuk Junga4705782015-06-05 04:13:28 -0700[diff] [blame]3440device implementation does include an NFC controller chipset capable of HCE and
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3441Application ID (AID) routing, then it:</p>
3442
3443<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3444 <li>MUST report the android.hardware.nfc.hce feature constant.</li>
3445 <li>MUST support NFC HCE APIs as defined in the Android SDK [<a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/nfc/hce.html">Resources, 10</a>].</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3446</ul>
3447
3448<p>Additionally, device implementations MAY include reader/writer support for the
3449following MIFARE technologies.</p>
3450
3451<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3452 <li>MIFARE Classic</li>
3453 <li>MIFARE Ultralight</li>
3454 <li>NDEF on MIFARE Classic</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3455</ul>
3456
3457<p>Note that Android includes APIs for these MIFARE types. If a device
3458implementation supports MIFARE in the reader/writer role, it:</p>
3459
3460<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3461 <li>MUST implement the corresponding Android APIs as documented by the Android SDK.</li>
3462 <li>MUST report the feature com.nxp.mifare from the
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3463android.content.pm.PackageManager.hasSystemFeature() meth<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageManager.html">od [Resources, 53]</a>. Note that this is not a standard Android feature and as such does not appear
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3464as a constant on the PackageManager class.</li>
3465 <li>MUST NOT implement the corresponding Android APIs nor report the com.nxp.mifare
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3466feature unless it also implements general NFC support as described in this
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3467section.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3468</ul>
3469
3470<p>If a device implementation does not include NFC hardware, it MUST NOT declare
3471the android.hardware.nfc feature from the
3472android.content.pm.PackageManager.hasSystemFeature() method [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageManager.html">Resources, 53]</a>, and MUST implement the Android NFC API as a no-op.</p>
3473
3474<p>As the classes android.nfc.NdefMessage and android.nfc.NdefRecord represent a
3475protocol-independent data representation format, device implementations MUST
3476implement these APIs even if they do not include support for NFC or declare the
3477android.hardware.nfc feature.</p>
3478
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3479<h3 id="7_4_5_minimum_network_capability">7.4.5. Minimum Network Capability</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3480
3481
3482<p>Device implementations MUST include support for one or more forms of data
3483networking. Specifically, device implementations MUST include support for at
3484least one data standard capable of 200Kbit/sec or greater. Examples of
3485technologies that satisfy this requirement include EDGE, HSPA, EV-DO, 802.11g,
3486Ethernet, Bluetooth PAN, etc.</p>
3487
3488<p>Device implementations where a physical networking standard (such as Ethernet)
3489is the primary data connection SHOULD also include support for at least one
3490common wireless data standard, such as 802.11 (Wi-Fi).</p>
3491
3492<p>Devices MAY implement more than one form of data connectivity.</p>
3493
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3494<h3 id="7_4_6_sync_settings">7.4.6. Sync Settings</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3495
3496
3497<p>Device implementations MUST have the master auto-sync setting on by default so
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3498that the method getMasterSyncAutomatically() returns &ldquo;true&rdquo; [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/ContentResolver.html">Resources, 89</a>].</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3499
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3500<h2 id="7_5_cameras">7.5. Cameras</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3501
3502
3503<p>Device implementations SHOULD include a rear-facing camera and MAY include a
3504front-facing camera. A rear-facing camera is a camera located on the side of
3505the device opposite the display; that is, it images scenes on the far side of
3506the device, like a traditional camera. A front-facing camera is a camera
3507located on the same side of the device as the display; that is, a camera
3508typically used to image the user, such as for video conferencing and similar
3509applications.</p>
3510
3511<p>If a device implementation includes at least one camera, it SHOULD be possible
3512for an application to simultaneously allocate 3 bitmaps equal to the size of
3513the images produced by the largest-resolution camera sensor on the device.</p>
3514
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3515<h3 id="7_5_1_rear-facing_camera">7.5.1. Rear-Facing Camera</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3516
3517
3518<p>Device implementations SHOULD include a rear-facing camera. If a device
3519implementation includes at least one rear-facing camera, it:</p>
3520
3521<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3522 <li>MUST report the feature flag android.hardware.camera and
3523android.hardware.camera.any.</li>
3524 <li>MUST have a resolution of at least 2 megapixels.</li>
3525 <li>SHOULD have either hardware auto-focus or software auto-focus implemented in
3526the camera driver (transparent to application software).</li>
3527 <li>MAY have fixed-focus or EDOF (extended depth of field) hardware.</li>
3528 <li>MAY include a flash. If the Camera includes a flash, the flash lamp MUST NOT be
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3529lit while an android.hardware.Camera.PreviewCallback instance has been
3530registered on a Camera preview surface, unless the application has explicitly
3531enabled the flash by enabling the FLASH_MODE_AUTO or FLASH_MODE_ON attributes
3532of a Camera.Parameters object. Note that this constraint does not apply to the
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3533device&rsquo;s built-in system camera application, but only to third-party
3534applications using Camera.PreviewCallback.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3535</ul>
3536
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3537<h3 id="7_5_2_front-facing_camera">7.5.2. Front-Facing Camera</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3538
3539
3540<p>Device implementations MAY include a front-facing camera. If a device
3541implementation includes at least one front-facing camera, it:</p>
3542
3543<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3544 <li>MUST report the feature flag android.hardware.camera.any and
3545android.hardware.camera.front.</li>
3546 <li>MUST have a resolution of at least VGA (640x480 pixels).</li>
3547 <li>MUST NOT use a front-facing camera as the default for the Camera API. The
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3548camera API in Android has specific support for front-facing cameras and device
3549implementations MUST NOT configure the API to to treat a front-facing camera as
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3550the default rear-facing camera, even if it is the only camera on the device.</li>
3551 <li>MAY include features (such as auto-focus, flash, etc.) available to rear-facing
3552cameras as described in <a href="#7_5_1_rear-facing_camera">section 7.5.1</a>.</li>
3553 <li>MUST horizontally reflect (i.e. mirror) the stream displayed by an app in a
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3554CameraPreview, as follows:
3555 <ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3556 <li>If the device implementation is capable of being rotated by user (such as
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3557automatically via an accelerometer or manually via user input), the camera
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3558preview MUST be mirrored horizontally relative to the device&rsquo;s current
3559orientation.</li>
3560 <li>If the current application has explicitly requested that the Camera display be
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3561rotated via a call to the android.hardware.Camera.setDisplayOrientation()[<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/Camera.html#setDisplayOrientation(int)">Resources, 90</a>] method, the camera preview MUST be mirrored horizontally relative to the
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3562orientation specified by the application.</li>
3563 <li>Otherwise, the preview MUST be mirrored along the device&rsquo;s default horizontal
3564axis.</li>
3565 </ul></li>
3566 <li>MUST mirror the image displayed by the postview in the same manner as the
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3567camera preview image stream. If the device implementation does not support
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3568postview, this requirement obviously does not apply.</li>
3569 <li>MUST NOT mirror the final captured still image or video streams returned to
3570application callbacks or committed to media storage.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3571</ul>
3572
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3573<h3 id="7_5_3_external_camera">7.5.3. External Camera</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3574
3575
3576<p>Device implementations with USB host mode MAY include support for an external
3577camera that connects to the USB port. If a device includes support for an
3578external camera, it:</p>
3579
3580<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3581 <li>MUST declare the platform feature android.hardware.camera.external and
3582android.hardware camera.any.</li>
3583 <li>MUST support USB Video Class (UVC 1.0 or higher).</li>
3584 <li>MAY support multiple cameras.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3585</ul>
3586
3587<p>Video compression (such as MJPEG) support is RECOMMENDED to enable transfer of
3588high-quality unencoded streams (i.e. raw or independently compressed picture
3589streams). Camera-based video encoding MAY be supported. If so, a simultaneous
3590unencoded/ MJPEG stream (QVGA or greater resolution) MUST be accessible to the
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3591device implementation.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3592
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3593<h3 id="7_5_4_camera_api_behavior">7.5.4. Camera API Behavior</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3594
3595
3596<p>Android includes two API packages to access the camera, the newer
3597android.hardware.camera2 API expose lower-level camera control to the app,
3598including efficient zero-copy burst/streaming flows and per-frame controls of
3599exposure, gain, white balance gains, color conversion, denoising, sharpening,
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3600and more.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3601
3602<p>The older API package, android.hardware.Camera, is marked as deprecated in
3603Android 5.0 but as it should still be available for apps to use Android device
3604implementations MUST ensure the continued support of the API as described in
3605this section and in the Android SDK.</p>
3606
3607<p>Device implementations MUST implement the following behaviors for the
3608camera-related APIs, for all available cameras:</p>
3609
3610<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3611 <li>If an application has never called
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3612android.hardware.Camera.Parameters.setPreviewFormat(int), then the device MUST
3613use android.hardware.PixelFormat.YCbCr_420_SP for preview data provided to
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3614application callbacks.</li>
3615 <li>If an application registers an android.hardware.Camera.PreviewCallback instance
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3616and the system calls the onPreviewFrame() method when the preview format is
3617YCbCr_420_SP, the data in the byte[] passed into onPreviewFrame() must further
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3618be in the NV21 encoding format. That is, NV21 MUST be the default.</li>
3619 <li>For android.hardware.Camera, device implementations MUST support the YV12
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3620format (as denoted by the android.graphics.ImageFormat.YV12 constant) for
3621camera previews for both front- and rear-facing cameras. (The hardware video
3622encoder and camera may use any native pixel format, but the device
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3623implementation MUST support conversion to YV12.)</li>
3624 <li>For android.hardware.camera2, device implementations must support the
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3625android.hardware.ImageFormat.YUV_420_888 and android.hardware.ImageFormat.JPEG
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3626formats as outputs through the android.media.ImageReader API.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3627</ul>
3628
3629<p>Device implementations MUST still implement the full Camera API included in the
3630Android SDK documentation [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/Camera.html">Resources, 91</a>], regardless of whether the device includes hardware autofocus or other
3631capabilities. For instance, cameras that lack autofocus MUST still call any
3632registered android.hardware.Camera.AutoFocusCallback instances (even though
3633this has no relevance to a non-autofocus camera.) Note that this does apply to
3634front-facing cameras; for instance, even though most front-facing cameras do
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3635not support autofocus, the API callbacks must still be &ldquo;faked&rdquo; as described.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3636
3637<p>Device implementations MUST recognize and honor each parameter name defined as
3638a constant on the android.hardware.Camera.Parameters class, if the underlying
3639hardware supports the feature. If the device hardware does not support a
3640feature, the API must behave as documented. Conversely, device implementations
3641MUST NOT honor or recognize string constants passed to the
3642android.hardware.Camera.setParameters() method other than those documented as
3643constants on the android.hardware.Camera.Parameters. That is, device
3644implementations MUST support all standard Camera parameters if the hardware
3645allows, and MUST NOT support custom Camera parameter types. For instance,
3646device implementations that support image capture using high dynamic range
3647(HDR) imaging techniques MUST support camera parameter Camera.SCENE_MODE_HDR [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/Camera.Parameters.html">Resources, 92</a>].</p>
3648
3649<p>Because not all device implementations can fully support all the features of
3650the android.hardware.camera2 API, device implementations MUST report the proper
3651level of support with the android.info.supportedHardwareLevel property as
3652described in the Android SDK [<a href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/camera2/CameraCharacteristics.html#INFO_SUPPORTED_HARDWARE_LEVEL">Resources, 93]</a> and report the appropriate framework feature flags [<a href="http://source.android.com/devices/camera/versioning.html">Resources, 94]</a>. </p>
3653
3654<p>Device implementations MUST also declare its Individual camera capabilities of
3655android.hardware.camera2 via the android.request.availableCapabilities property
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3656and declare the appropriate feature flags [<a href="http://source.android.com/devices/camera/versioning.html">Resources, 94]</a>; a device must define the feature flag if any of its attached camera devices supports the feature.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3657
3658<p>Device implementations MUST broadcast the Camera.ACTION_NEW_PICTURE intent
3659whenever a new picture is taken by the camera and the entry of the picture has
3660been added to the media store.</p>
3661
3662<p>Device implementations MUST broadcast the Camera.ACTION_NEW_VIDEO intent
3663whenever a new video is recorded by the camera and the entry of the picture has
3664been added to the media store.</p>
3665
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3666<h3 id="7_5_5_camera_orientation">7.5.5. Camera Orientation</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3667
3668
3669<p>Both front- and rear-facing cameras, if present, MUST be oriented so that the
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3670long dimension of the camera aligns with the screen&rsquo;s long dimension. That is,
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3671when the device is held in the landscape orientation, cameras MUST capture
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3672images in the landscape orientation. This applies regardless of the device&rsquo;s
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3673natural orientation; that is, it applies to landscape-primary devices as well
3674as portrait-primary devices.</p>
3675
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3676<h2 id="7_6_memory_and_storage">7.6. Memory and Storage</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3677
3678
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3679<h3 id="7_6_1_minimum_memory_and_storage">7.6.1. Minimum Memory and Storage</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3680
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3681<div class="note">
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3682<p>Android Television devices MUST have at least 5GB of non-volatile storage
3683available for application private data.</p>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3684</div>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3685
3686
3687<p>The memory available to the kernel and userspace on device implementations MUST
3688be at least equal or larger than the minimum values specified by the following
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3689table. (See <a href="#7_1_1_screen_configuration">section 7.1.1</a> for screen size and density definitions.)</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3690<table>
3691 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3692 <th>Density and screen size</th>
3693 <th>32-bit device</th>
3694 <th>64-bit device</th>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3695 </tr>
3696 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3697 <td>Android Watch devices (due to smaller screens)</td>
3698 <td>416MB</td>
3699 <td>Not applicable</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3700 </tr>
3701 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3702 <td><ul>
Unsuk Jungbd2e50c2015-05-18 21:45:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3703 <li class="table_list">hdpi or lower on small/normal screens</li>
3704 <li class="table_list">mdpi or lower on large screens</li>
3705 <li class="table_list">ldpi or lower on extra large screens</li>
3706 </ul></td>
3707 <td>424MB</td>
3708 <td>Not applicable</td>
3709 </tr>
3710 <tr>
3711 <td><ul>
3712 <li class="table_list">xhdpi or higher on small/normal screens</li>
3713 <li class="table_list">hdpi or higher on large screens</li>
3714 <li class="table_list">mdpi or higher on extra large screens</li></ul></td>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3715 <td>512MB</td>
3716 <td>832MB</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3717 </tr>
3718 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3719 <td><ul>
3720 <li class="table_list">400dpi or higher on small/normal screens</li>
3721 <li class="table_list">xhdpi or higher on large screens</li>
3722 <li class="table_list">tvdpi or higher on extra large screens</li></ul></td>
3723 <td>896MB</td>
3724 <td>1280MB</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3725 </tr>
3726 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3727 <td><ul>
3728 <li class="table_list">560dpi or higher on small/normal screens</li>
3729 <li class="table_list">400dpi or higher on large screens</li>
3730 <li class="table_list">xhdpi or higher on extra large screens</li></ul></td>
3731 <td>1344MB</td>
3732 <td>1824MB</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3733 </tr>
3734</table>
3735
3736
3737<p>The minimum memory values MUST be in addition to any memory space already
3738dedicated to hardware components such as radio, video, and so on that is not
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3739under the kernel&rsquo;s control.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3740
Unsuk Jungbd2e50c2015-05-18 21:45:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3741<p>Device implementations with less than 512MB of memory available to the kernel
3742and userspace, unless an Android Watch, MUST return the value "true" for
3743ActivityManager.isLowRamDevice().</p>
3744
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3745<p>Android Television devices MUST have at least 5GB and other device
3746implementations MUST have at least 1.5GB of non-volatile storage available for
3747application private data. That is, the /data partition MUST be at least 5GB for
3748Android Television devices and at least 1.5GB for other device implementations.
3749Device implementations that run Android are <strong>very strongly encouraged</strong> to have at least 3GB of non-volatile storage for application private data so
3750they will be able to upgrade to the future platform releases.</p>
3751
3752<p>The Android APIs include a Download Manager that applications MAY use to
3753download data files [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/DownloadManager.html">Resources, 95</a>]. The device implementation of the Download Manager MUST be capable of
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3754downloading individual files of at least 100MB in size to the default &ldquo;cache"
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3755location.</p>
3756
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3757<h3 id="7_6_2_application_shared_storage">7.6.2. Application Shared Storage</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3758
3759
3760<p>Device implementations MUST offer shared storage for applications also often
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3761referred as &ldquo;shared external storage&rdquo;. </p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3762
3763<p>Device implementations MUST be configured with shared storage mounted by
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3764default, &ldquo;out of the box&rdquo;. If the shared storage is not mounted on the Linux
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3765path /sdcard, then the device MUST include a Linux symbolic link from /sdcard
3766to the actual mount point.</p>
3767
3768<p>Device implementations MAY have hardware for user-accessible removable storage,
3769such as a Secure Digital (SD) card slot. If this slot is used to satisfy the
3770shared storage requirement, the device implementation:</p>
3771
3772<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3773 <li>MUST implement a toast or pop-up user interface warning the user when there is
3774no SD card.</li>
3775 <li>MUST include a FAT-formatted SD card 1GB in size or larger OR show on the box
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3776and other material available at time of purchase that the SD card has to be
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3777separately purchased.</li>
3778 <li>MUST mount the SD card by default.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3779</ul>
3780
3781<p>Alternatively, device implementations MAY allocate internal (non-removable)
3782storage as shared storage for apps as included in the upstream Android Open
3783Source Project; device implementations SHOULD use this configuration and
3784software implementation. If a device implementation uses internal
3785(non-removable) storage to satisfy the shared storage requirement, that storage
3786MUST be 1GB in size or larger and mounted on /sdcard (or /sdcard MUST be a
3787symbolic link to the physical location if it is mounted elsewhere).</p>
3788
3789<p>Device implementations MUST enforce as documented the
3790android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission on this shared storage.
3791Shared storage MUST otherwise be writable by any application that obtains that
3792permission.</p>
3793
3794<p>Device implementations that include multiple shared storage paths (such as both
3795an SD card slot and shared internal storage) MUST NOT allow Android
3796applications to write to the secondary external storage, except for their
3797package-specific directories on the secondary external storage, but SHOULD
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3798expose content from both storage paths transparently through Android&rsquo;s media
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3799scanner service and android.provider.MediaStore.</p>
3800
Unsuk Jung3711cdf2015-06-05 04:25:36 -0700[diff] [blame]3801<p>Regardless of the form of shared storage used, if the device implementation
3802has a USB port with USB peripheral mode support, it MUST provide some mechanism
3803to access the contents of shared storage from a host computer. Device
3804implementations MAY use USB mass storage, but SHOULD use Media Transfer Protocol
3805to satisfy this requirement. If the device implementation supports Media
3806Transfer Protocol, it:</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3807
3808<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3809 <li>SHOULD be compatible with the reference Android MTP host, Android File Transfer
3810[<a href="http://www.android.com/filetransfer">Resources, 96</a>].</li>
3811 <li>SHOULD report a USB device class of 0x00.</li>
3812 <li>SHOULD report a USB interface name of 'MTP'.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3813</ul>
3814
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3815<h2 id="7_7_usb">7.7. USB</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3816
3817
3818<p>Device implementations SHOULD support USB peripheral mode and SHOULD support
3819USB host mode.</p>
3820
3821<p>If a device implementation includes a USB port supporting peripheral mode:</p>
3822
3823<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3824 <li>The port MUST be connectable to a USB host that has a standard type-A or type
3825-C USB port.</li>
3826 <li>The port SHOULD use micro-A, micro-AB or type-C USB form factor. Existing and
3827new Android devices are <strong>very strongly encouraged to meet these requirements</strong> so they will be able to upgrade to the future platform releases.</li>
3828 <li>The port SHOULD be centered in the middle of an edge. Device implementations
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3829SHOULD either locate the port on the bottom of the device (according to natural
3830orientation) or enable software screen rotation for all apps (including home
3831screen), so that the display draws correctly when the device is oriented with
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3832the port at bottom. Existing and new Android devices are <strong>very strongly encouraged to meet these requirements</strong> so they will be able to upgrade to future platform releases.</li>
3833 <li>It MUST allow a USB host connected with the Android device to access the
Unsuk Jung3711cdf2015-06-05 04:25:36 -0700[diff] [blame]3834contents of the shared storage volume using standard protocols such as USB mass
3835storage or Media Transfer Protocol, if the device reports the android.hardware.feature.output
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3836feature or the android.hardware.camera feature.</li>
3837 <li>It SHOULD implement the Android Open Accessory (AOA) API and specification as
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3838documented in the Android SDK documentation, and if it is an Android Handheld
3839device it MUST implement the AOA API. Device implementations implementing the
3840AOA specification:
3841 <ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3842 <li>MUST declare support for the hardware feature android.hardware.usb.accessory [<a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/usb/accessory.html">Resources, 97</a>].</li>
3843 <li>MUST implement the USB audio class as documented in the Android SDK
3844documentation [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/usb/UsbConstants.html#USB_CLASS_AUDIO">Resources, 98</a>].</li>
3845 </ul></li>
3846 <li>It SHOULD implement support to draw 1.5 A current during HS chirp and traffic
3847as specified in the USB battery charging specification [<a href="http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/devclass_docs/USB_Battery_Charging_1.2.pdf">Resources, 99</a>]. Existing and new Android devices are <strong>very strongly encouraged to meet these requirements</strong> so they will be able to upgrade to the future platform releases.</li>
3848 <li>The value of iSerialNumber in USB standard device descriptor MUST be equal to
3849the value of android.os.Build.SERIAL.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3850</ul>
3851
3852<p>If a device implementation includes a USB port supporting host mode, it:</p>
3853
3854<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3855 <li>SHOULD use a type-C USB port, if the device implementation supports USB 3.1.</li>
3856 <li>MAY use a non-standard port form factor, but if so MUST ship with a cable or
3857cables adapting the port to a standard type-A or type-C USB port.</li>
3858 <li>MAY use a micro-AB USB port, but if so SHOULD ship with a cable or cables
3859adapting the port to a standard type-A or type-C USB port.</li>
3860 <li>is <strong>very strongly RECOMMENDED</strong> to implement the USB audio class as documented in the Android SDK
3861documentation [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/usb/UsbConstants.html#USB_CLASS_AUDIO">Resources, 98</a>].</li>
3862 <li>MUST implement the Android USB host API as documented in the Android SDK, and
3863MUST declare support for the hardware feature android.hardware.usb.host [<a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/usb/host.html">Resources, 100</a>].</li>
3864 <li>SHOULD support the Charging Downstream Port output current range of 1.5 A ~ 5 A
3865as specified in the USB Battery Charging Specifications [<a href="http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/devclass_docs/USB_Battery_Charging_1.2.pdf">Resources, 99</a>].</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3866</ul>
3867
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3868<h2 id="7_8_audio">7.8. Audio</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3869
3870
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3871<h3 id="7_8_1_microphone">7.8.1. Microphone</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3872
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3873<div class="note">
Heidi von Markhamcd3d6aa2015-06-05 11:13:20 -0700[diff] [blame]3874<p>Android Handheld, Watch, and Automotive implementations MUST include a
3875microphone.</p>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3876</div>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3877
3878
3879<p>Device implementations MAY omit a microphone. However, if a device
3880implementation omits a microphone, it MUST NOT report the
3881android.hardware.microphone feature constant, and MUST implement the audio
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3882recording API at least as no-ops, per <a href="#7_hardware_compatibility">section 7</a>. Conversely, device implementations that do possess a microphone:</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3883
3884<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3885 <li>MUST report the android.hardware.microphone feature constant
3886 <li>MUST meet the audio recording requirements in <a href="#5_4_audio_recording">section 5.4</a>
3887 <li>MUST meet the audio latency requirements in <a href="#5_6_audio_latency">section 5.6</a>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3888</ul>
3889
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3890<h3 id="7_8_2_audio_output">7.8.2. Audio Output</h3>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3891
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3892<div class="note">
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3893<p>Android Watch devices MAY include an audio output.</p>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3894</div>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3895
3896<p>Device implementations including a speaker or with an audio/multimedia output
3897port for an audio output peripheral as a headset or an external speaker:</p>
3898
3899<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3900 <li>MUST report the android.hardware.audio.output feature constant.</li>
3901 <li>MUST meet the audio playback requirements in <a href="#5_5_audio_playback">section 5.5</a>.</li>
3902 <li>MUST meet the audio latency requirements in <a href="#5_6_audio_latency">section 5.6</a>.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3903</ul>
3904
3905<p>Conversely, if a device implementation does not include a speaker or audio
3906output port, it MUST NOT report the android.hardware.audio output feature, and
3907MUST implement the Audio Output related APIs as no-ops at least. </p>
3908
3909<p>Android Watch device implementation MAY but SHOULD NOT have audio output, but
3910other types of Android device implementations MUST have an audio output and
3911declare android.hardware.audio.output.</p>
3912
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3913<h4 id="7_8_2_1_analog_audio_ports">7.8.2.1. Analog Audio Ports</h4>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3914
3915
3916<p>In order to be compatible with the headsets and other audio accessories using
3917the 3.5mm audio plug across the Android ecosystem [<a href="http://source.android.com/accessories/headset-spec.html">Resources, 101</a>], if a device implementation includes one or more analog audio ports, at least
3918one of the audio port(s) SHOULD be a 4 conductor 3.5mm audio jack. If a device
3919implementation has a 4 conductor 3.5mm audio jack, it:</p>
3920
3921<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3922 <li>MUST support audio playback to stereo headphones and stereo headsets with a
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3923microphone, and SHOULD support audio recording from stereo headsets with a
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3924microphone.</li>
3925 <li>MUST support TRRS audio plugs with the CTIA pin-out order, and SHOULD support
3926audio plugs with the OMTP pin-out order.</li>
3927 <li>MUST support the detection of microphone on the plugged in audio accessory, if
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3928the device implementation supports a microphone, and broadcast the
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3929android.intent.action.HEADSET_PLUG with the extra value microphone set as 1.</li>
3930 <li>SHOULD support the detection and mapping to the keycodes for the following 3
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3931ranges of equivalent impedance between the microphone and ground conductors on
3932the audio plug:
3933 <ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3934 <li><strong>70 ohm or less</strong>: KEYCODE_HEADSETHOOK</li>
3935 <li><strong>210&#45;290 Ohm</strong>:<strong> </strong>KEYCODE_VOLUME_UP</li>
3936 <li><strong>360&#45;680 Ohm</strong>: KEYCODE_VOLUME_DOWN</li>
3937 </ul></li>
3938 <li>SHOULD support the detection and mapping to the keycode for the following range
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3939of equivalent impedance between the microphone and ground conductors on the
3940audio plug:
3941 <ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3942 <li><strong>110&#45;180 Ohm: </strong>KEYCODE_VOICE_ASSIST</li>
3943 </ul></li>
3944 <li>MUST trigger ACTION_HEADSET_PLUG upon a plug insert, but only after all
3945contacts on plug are touching their relevant segments on the jack.</li>
3946 <li>MUST be capable of driving at least 150mV +/- 10% of output voltage on a 32 Ohm
3947speaker impedance.</li>
3948 <li>MUST have a microphone bias voltage between 1.8V ~ 2.9V.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3949</ul>
3950
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3951<h1 id="8_performance_compatibility">8. Performance Compatibility</h1>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3952
3953
3954<p>Some minimum performance criterias are critical to the user experience and
3955impacts the baseline assumptions developers would have when developing an app.
3956Android Watch devices SHOULD and other type of device implementations MUST meet
3957the following criteria:</p>
3958
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3959<h2 id="8_1_user_experience_consistency">8.1. User Experience Consistency</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3960
3961
3962<p>Device implementations MUST provide a smooth user interface by ensuring a
3963consistent frame rate and response times for applications and games. Device
3964implementations MUST meet the following requirements: </p>
3965
3966<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3967 <li><strong>Consistent frame latency</strong>. Inconsistent frame latency or a delay to render frames MUST NOT happen more
3968often than 5 frames in a second, and SHOULD be below 1 frames in a second.</li>
3969 <li><strong>User interface latency</strong>. Device implementations MUST ensure low latency user experience by scrolling a
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3970list of 10K list entries as defined by the Android Compatibility Test Suite
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3971(CTS) in less than 36 secs.</li>
3972 <li><strong>Task switching</strong>. When multiple applications have been launched, re-launching an already-running
3973application after it has been launched MUST take less than 1 second.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3974</ul>
3975
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3976<h2 id="8_2_file_i_o_access_performance">8.2. File I/O Access Performance</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3977
3978
3979<p>Device implementations MUST ensure file access performance consistency for read
3980and write operations. </p>
3981
3982<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3983 <li><strong>Sequential write</strong>. Device implementations MUST ensure a sequential write performance of 10MB/s
3984for a 256MB file using 10MB write buffer.</li>
3985 <li><strong>Random write</strong>. Device implementations MUST ensure a random write performance of 0.5MB/s for a
3986256MB file using 4KB write buffer.</li>
3987 <li><strong>Sequential read</strong>. Device implementations MUST ensure a sequential read performance of 15MB/s for
3988a 256MB file using 10MB write buffer.</li>
3989 <li><strong>Random read</strong>. Device implementations MUST ensure a random read performance of 3.5MB/s for a
3990256MB file using 4KB write buffer.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3991</ul>
3992
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]3993<h1 id="9_security_model_compatibility">9. Security Model Compatibility</h1>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]3994
3995
3996<p>Device implementations MUST implement a security model consistent with the
3997Android platform security model as defined in Security and Permissions
3998reference document in the APIs [<a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/security/permissions.html">Resources, 102</a>] in the Android developer documentation. Device implementations MUST support
3999installation of self-signed applications without requiring any additional
4000permissions/certificates from any third parties/authorities. Specifically,
4001compatible devices MUST support the security mechanisms described in the follow
4002subsections.</p>
4003
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4004<h2 id="9_1_permissions">9.1. Permissions</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4005
4006
4007<p>Device implementations MUST support the Android permissions model as defined in
4008the Android developer documentation [<a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/security/permissions.html">Resources, 102</a>]. Specifically, implementations MUST enforce each permission defined as
4009described in the SDK documentation; no permissions may be omitted, altered, or
4010ignored. Implementations MAY add additional permissions, provided the new
4011permission ID strings are not in the android.* namespace.</p>
4012
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4013<h2 id="9_2_uid_and_process_isolation">9.2. UID and Process Isolation</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4014
4015
4016<p>Device implementations MUST support the Android application sandbox model, in
4017which each application runs as a unique Unixstyle UID and in a separate
4018process. Device implementations MUST support running multiple applications as
4019the same Linux user ID, provided that the applications are properly signed and
4020constructed, as defined in the Security and Permissions reference [<a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/security/permissions.html">Resources, 102</a>].</p>
4021
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4022<h2 id="9_3_filesystem_permissions">9.3. Filesystem Permissions</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4023
4024
4025<p>Device implementations MUST support the Android file access permissions model
4026as defined in the Security and Permissions reference [<a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/security/permissions.html">Resources, 102</a>].</p>
4027
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4028<h2 id="9_4_alternate_execution_environments">9.4. Alternate Execution Environments</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4029
4030
4031<p>Device implementations MAY include runtime environments that execute
4032applications using some other software or technology than the Dalvik Executable
4033Format or native code. However, such alternate execution environments MUST NOT
4034compromise the Android security model or the security of installed Android
4035applications, as described in this section.</p>
4036
4037<p>Alternate runtimes MUST themselves be Android applications, and abide by the
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4038standard Android security model, as described elsewhere in <a href="#9_security_model_compatibility">section 9</a>.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4039
4040<p>Alternate runtimes MUST NOT be granted access to resources protected by
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4041permissions not requested in the runtime&rsquo;s AndroidManifest.xml file via the
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4042<uses-permission> mechanism.</p>
4043
4044<p>Alternate runtimes MUST NOT permit applications to make use of features
4045protected by Android permissions restricted to system applications.</p>
4046
4047<p>Alternate runtimes MUST abide by the Android sandbox model. Specifically,
4048alternate runtimes:</p>
4049
4050<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4051 <li>SHOULD install apps via the PackageManager into separate Android sandboxes (
4052Linux user IDs, etc.).</li>
4053 <li>MAY provide a single Android sandbox shared by all applications using the
4054alternate runtime.</li>
4055 <li>and installed applications using an alternate runtime, MUST NOT reuse the
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4056sandbox of any other app installed on the device, except through the standard
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4057Android mechanisms of shared user ID and signing certificate.</li>
4058 <li>MUST NOT launch with, grant, or be granted access to the sandboxes
4059corresponding to other Android applications.</li>
4060 <li>MUST NOT be launched with, be granted, or grant to other applications any
4061privileges of the superuser (root), or of any other user ID.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4062</ul>
4063
4064<p>The .apk files of alternate runtimes MAY be included in the system image of a
4065device implementation, but MUST be signed with a key distinct from the key used
4066to sign other applications included with the device implementation.</p>
4067
4068<p>When installing applications, alternate runtimes MUST obtain user consent for
4069the Android permissions used by the application. If an application needs to
4070make use of a device resource for which there is a corresponding Android
4071permission (such as Camera, GPS, etc.), the alternate runtime MUST inform the
4072user that the application will be able to access that resource. If the runtime
4073environment does not record application capabilities in this manner, the
4074runtime environment MUST list all permissions held by the runtime itself when
4075installing any application using that runtime.</p>
4076
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4077<h2 id="9_5_multi-user_support">9.5. Multi-User Support</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4078
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4079<div class="note">
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4080<p>This feature is optional for all device types.</p>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4081</div>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4082
4083
4084<p>Android includes support for multiple users and provides support for full user
4085isolation [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/UserManager.html">Resources, 103]</a>. Device implementations MAY enable multiple users, but when enabled MUST meet
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4086the following requirements related to multi-user support [<a href="http://source.android.com/devices/storage/">Resources, 104</a>]:</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4087
4088<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4089 <li>Device implementations that do not declare the android.hardware.telephony
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4090feature flag MUST support restricted profiles, a feature that allows device
4091owners to manage additional users and their capabilities on the device. With
4092restricted profiles, device owners can quickly set up separate environments for
4093additional users to work in, with the ability to manage finer-grained
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4094restrictions in the apps that are available in those environments.</li>
4095 <li>Conversely device implementations that declare the android.hardware.telephony
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4096feature flag MUST NOT support restricted profiles but MUST align with the AOSP
4097implementation of controls to enable /disable other users from accessing the
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4098voice calls and SMS.</li>
4099 <li>Device implementations MUST, for each user, implement a security model
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4100consistent with the Android platform security model as defined in Security and
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4101Permissions reference document in the APIs [<a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/security/permissions.html">Resources, 102</a>].</li>
4102 <li>Device implementations MAY support creating users and managed profiles via the
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4103android.app.admin.DevicePolicyManager APIs, and if supported, MUST declare the
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4104platform feature flag android.software.managed_users.
4105 <li>Device implementations that declare the feature flag
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4106android.software.managed_users MUST use the upstream AOSP icon badge to
4107represent the managed applications and other badge UI elements like Recents &
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4108Notifications.</li>
4109 <li>Each user instance on an Android device MUST have separate and isolated
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4110external storage directories. Device implementations MAY store multiple users'
4111data on the same volume or filesystem. However, the device implementation MUST
4112ensure that applications owned by and running on behalf a given user cannot
4113list, read, or write to data owned by any other user. Note that removable
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4114media, such as SD card slots, can allow one user to access another&rsquo;s data by
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4115means of a host PC. For this reason, device implementations that use removable
4116media for the external storage APIs MUST encrypt the contents of the SD card if
4117multiuser is enabled using a key stored only on non-removable media accessible
4118only to the system. As this will make the media unreadable by a host PC, device
4119implementations will be required to switch to MTP or a similar system to
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4120provide host PCs with access to the current user&rsquo;s data. Accordingly, device
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4121implementations MAY but SHOULD NOT enable multi-user if they use removable
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4122media [<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Environment.html">Resources, 105</a>] for primary external storage.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4123</ul>
4124
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4125<h2 id="9_6_premium_sms_warning">9.6. Premium SMS Warning</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4126
4127
4128<p>Android includes support for warning users of any outgoing premium SMS message
4129[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_code">Resources, 106</a>] . Premium SMS messages are text messages sent to a service registered with a
4130carrier that may incur a charge to the user. Device implementations that
4131declare support for android.hardware.telephony MUST warn users before sending a
4132SMS message to numbers identified by regular expressions defined in
4133/data/misc/sms/codes.xml file in the device. The upstream Android Open Source
4134Project provides an implementation that satisfies this requirement.</p>
4135
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4136<h2 id="9_7_kernel_security_features">9.7. Kernel Security Features</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4137
4138
4139<p>The Android Sandbox includes features that can use the Security-Enhanced Linux
4140(SELinux) mandatory access control (MAC) system and other security features in
4141the Linux kernel. SELinux or any other security features, if implemented below
4142the Android framework:</p>
4143
4144<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4145 <li>MUST maintain compatibility with existing applications.</li>
4146 <li>MUST NOT have a visible user interface when a security violation is detected
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4147and successfully blocked, but MAY have a visible user interface when an
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4148unblocked security violation occurs resulting in a successful exploit.</li>
4149 <li>SHOULD NOT be user or developer configurable.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4150</ul>
4151
4152<p>If any API for configuration of policy is exposed to an application that can
4153affect another application (such as a Device Administration API), the API MUST
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4154NOT allow configurations that break compatibility.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4155
4156<p>Devices MUST implement SELinux or an equivalent mandatory access control system
4157if using a kernel other than Linux and meet the following requirements, which
4158are satisfied by the reference implementation in the upstream Android Open
4159Source Project.</p>
4160
4161<p>Device implementations:</p>
4162
4163<ul>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4164 <li>MUST support a SELinux policy that allows the SELinux mode to be set on a
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4165per-domain basis, and MUST configure all domains in enforcing mode. No
4166permissive mode domains are allowed, including domains specific to a
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4167device/vendor.</li>
4168 <li>SHOULD load policy from /sepolicy file on the device.</li>
4169 <li>MUST NOT modify, omit, or replace the neverallow rules present within the
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4170sepolicy file provided in the upstream Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and
4171the policy MUST compile with all neverallow present, for both AOSP SELinux
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4172domains as well as device/vendor specific domains.</li>
4173 <li>MUST support dynamic updates of the SELinux policy file without requiring a
4174system image update.</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4175</ul>
4176
4177<p>Device implementations SHOULD retain the default SELinux policy provided in the
4178upstream Android Open Source Project, until they have first audited their
4179additions to the SELinux policy. Device implementations MUST be compatible with
4180the upstream Android Open Source Project.</p>
4181
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4182<h2 id="9_8_privacy">9.8. Privacy</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4183
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4184<p>If the device implements functionality in the system that captures the contents
4185displayed on the screen and/or records the audio stream played on the device,
4186it MUST continuously notify the user whenever this functionality is enabled and
4187actively capturing/recording.</p>
4188
Unsuk Jungf57ea352015-05-27 16:38:32 -0700[diff] [blame]4189<p>If a device implementation has a mechanism that routes network data traffic
4190through a proxy server or VPN gateway by default (for example, preloading a VPN
4191service with android.permission.CONTROL_VPN granted), the device implementation
4192MUST ask for the user's consent before enabling that mechanism.</p>
4193
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4194<h2 id="9_9_full-disk_encryption">9.9. Full-Disk Encryption</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4195
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4196<div class="note">
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4197<p>Optional for Android device implementations without a lock screen.</p>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4198</div>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4199
4200
Unsuk Jung18378642015-05-18 19:26:50 -0700[diff] [blame]4201<p>If the device implementation supports a lock screen with PIN (numeric) or
4202PASSWORD (alphanumeric), the device MUST support full-disk encryption of the
4203application private data (/data partition), as well
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4204as the SD card partition if it is a permanent, non-removable part of the device
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4205[<a href="http://source.android.com/devices/tech/security/encryption/index.html">Resources, 107</a>]. For devices supporting full-disk encryption, the full-disk encryption SHOULD
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4206be enabled all the time after the user has completed the out-of-box experience.
4207While this requirement is stated as SHOULD for this version of the Android
4208platform, it is <strong>very strongly RECOMMENDED</strong> as we expect this to change to MUST in the future versions of Android.
4209Encryption MUST use AES with a key of 128-bits (or greater) and a mode designed
4210for storage (for example, AES-XTS, AES-CBC-ESSIV). The encryption key MUST NOT
4211be written to storage at any time without being encrypted. Other than when in
4212active use, the encryption key SHOULD be AES encrypted with the lockscreen
4213passcode stretched using a slow stretching algorithm (e.g. PBKDF2 or scrypt).
4214If the user has not specified a lockscreen passcode or has disabled use of the
4215passcode for encryption, the system SHOULD use a default passcode to wrap the
4216encryption key. If the device provides a hardware-backed keystore, the password
4217stretching algorithm MUST be cryptographically bound to that keystore. The
4218encryption key MUST NOT be sent off the device (even when wrapped with the user
4219passcode and/or hardware bound key). The upstream Android Open Source project
4220provides a preferred implementation of this feature based on the linux kernel
4221feature dm-crypt.</p>
4222
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4223<h2 id="9_10_verified_boot">9.10. Verified Boot</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4224
4225
4226<p>Device implementations SHOULD support verified boot for device integrity, and
4227if the feature is supported it MUST declare the platform feature flag
4228android.software.verified_boot. While this requirement is stated as SHOULD for
4229this version of the Android platform, it is <strong>very strongly RECOMMENDED</strong> as we expect this to change to MUST in the future versions of Android. The
4230upstream Android Open Source Project provides a preferred implementation of
4231this feature based on the linux kernel feature dm-verity.</p>
4232
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4233<h1 id="10_software_compatibility_testing">10. Software Compatibility Testing</h1>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4234
4235
4236<p>Device implementations MUST pass all tests described in this section.</p>
4237
4238<p>However, note that no software test package is fully comprehensive. For this
4239reason, device implementers are <strong>very strongly encouraged</strong> to make the minimum number of changes as possible to the reference and
4240preferred implementation of Android available from the Android Open Source
4241Project. This will minimize the risk of introducing bugs that create
4242incompatibilities requiring rework and potential device updates.</p>
4243
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4244<h2 id="10_1_compatibility_test_suite">10.1. Compatibility Test Suite</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4245
4246
4247<p>Device implementations MUST pass the Android Compatibility Test Suite (CTS) [<a href="http://source.android.com/compatibility/index.html">Resources, 108</a>] available from the Android Open Source Project, using the final shipping
4248software on the device. Additionally, device implementers SHOULD use the
4249reference implementation in the Android Open Source tree as much as possible,
4250and MUST ensure compatibility in cases of ambiguity in CTS and for any
4251reimplementations of parts of the reference source code.</p>
4252
4253<p>The CTS is designed to be run on an actual device. Like any software, the CTS
4254may itself contain bugs. The CTS will be versioned independently of this
4255Compatibility Definition, and multiple revisions of the CTS may be released for
Unsuk Jungd1ac9fe2015-04-01 08:18:41 -0700[diff] [blame]4256Android 5.1. Device implementations MUST pass the latest CTS version available
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4257at the time the device software is completed.</p>
4258
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4259<h2 id="10_2_cts_verifier">10.2. CTS Verifier</h2>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4260
4261
4262<p>Device implementations MUST correctly execute all applicable cases in the CTS
4263Verifier. The CTS Verifier is included with the Compatibility Test Suite, and
4264is intended to be run by a human operator to test functionality that cannot be
4265tested by an automated system, such as correct functioning of a camera and
4266sensors.</p>
4267
4268<p>The CTS Verifier has tests for many kinds of hardware, including some hardware
4269that is optional. Device implementations MUST pass all tests for hardware that
4270they possess; for instance, if a device possesses an accelerometer, it MUST
4271correctly execute the Accelerometer test case in the CTS Verifier. Test cases
4272for features noted as optional by this Compatibility Definition Document MAY be
4273skipped or omitted.</p>
4274
4275<p>Every device and every build MUST correctly run the CTS Verifier, as noted
4276above. However, since many builds are very similar, device implementers are not
4277expected to explicitly run the CTS Verifier on builds that differ only in
4278trivial ways. Specifically, device implementations that differ from an
4279implementation that has passed the CTS Verifier only by the set of included
4280locales, branding, etc. MAY omit the CTS Verifier test.</p>
4281
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4282<h1 id="11_updatable_software">11. Updatable Software</h1>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4283
4284
4285<p>Device implementations MUST include a mechanism to replace the entirety of the
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4286system software. The mechanism need not perform &ldquo;live&rdquo; upgrades&mdash;that is, a
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4287device restart MAY be required.</p>
4288
4289<p>Any method can be used, provided that it can replace the entirety of the
4290software preinstalled on the device. For instance, any of the following
4291approaches will satisfy this requirement:</p>
4292
4293<ul>
Heidi von Markham560986b2015-06-05 12:43:25 -0700[diff] [blame]4294 <li>&ldquo;Over-the-air (OTA)&rdquo; downloads with offline update via reboot</li>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4295 <li>&ldquo;Tethered&rdquo; updates over USB from a host PC</li>
4296 <li>&ldquo;Offline&rdquo; updates via a reboot and update from a file on removable storage</li>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4297</ul>
4298
4299<p>However, if the device implementation includes support for an unmetered data
Heidi von Markham560986b2015-06-05 12:43:25 -0700[diff] [blame]4300connection such as 802.11 or Bluetooth PAN (Personal Area Network) profile:</p>
4301
4302<ul>
4303<li>Android Automotive implementations SHOULD support OTA downloads with offline
4304update via reboot.</li>
4305<li>All other device implementations MUST support OTA downloads with offline
4306update via reboot.</li>
4307</ul>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4308
4309<p>The update mechanism used MUST support updates without wiping user data. That
4310is, the update mechanism MUST preserve application private data and application
4311shared data. Note that the upstream Android software includes an update
4312mechanism that satisfies this requirement.</p>
4313
Unsuk Jungd1ac9fe2015-04-01 08:18:41 -0700[diff] [blame]4314<p>For device implementations that are launching with Android 5.1 and later, the
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4315update mechanism SHOULD support verifying that the system image is binary
4316identical to expected result following an OTA. The block-based OTA
4317implementation in the upstream Android Open Source Project, added since Android
Unsuk Jungd1ac9fe2015-04-01 08:18:41 -0700[diff] [blame]43185.1, satisfies this requirement.</p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4319
4320<p>If an error is found in a device implementation after it has been released but
4321within its reasonable product lifetime that is determined in consultation with
4322the Android Compatibility Team to affect the compatibility of third-party
4323applications, the device implementer MUST correct the error via a software
4324update available that can be applied per the mechanism just described.</p>
4325
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4326<h1 id="12_document_changelog">12. Document Changelog</h1>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4327
4328
4329<p>The following table contains a summary of the changes to the Compatibility
4330Definition in this release. </p>
4331<table>
4332 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4333 <th>Section</th>
4334 <th>Summary of change</th>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4335 </tr>
4336 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4337 <td>1. Introduction</td>
4338 <td>Updated requirements to refer to SDK documentation as source of truth.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4339 </tr>
4340 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4341 <td>2. Device Types</td>
4342 <td>Included definitions for device types for handheld, television, and watch
4343devices.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4344 </tr>
4345 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4346 <td>2.1 Device Configuration</td>
4347 <td>Added non-exhaustive list to illustrate hardware configuration deviation across
4348devices.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4349 </tr>
4350 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4351 <td>3.1. Managed API Compatibility</td>
4352 <td>MUST also provide complete implementations of APIs with &ldquo;@SystemApi&rdquo; marker in
4353the upstream Android source code.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4354 </tr>
4355 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4356 <td>3.2.2. Build Parameters</td>
4357 <td>Included SUPPORTED_ABIS, SUPPORTED_32_BIT_ABIS, and SUPPORTED_64_BIT_ABIS
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4358parameters in list, updated PRODUCT to require unique Product SKUs, and updated
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4359TAGS.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4360 </tr>
4361 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4362 <td>3.2.3.1. Core Application Intents</td>
4363 <td>Clarified language that the compatibility requirement is for mainly the intents
4364pattern </td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4365 </tr>
4366 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4367 <td>3.2.3.5. Default App Settings</td>
4368 <td>Included new requirements for home screen, NFC, and default SMS applications.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4369 </tr>
4370 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4371 <td>3.3.1 Application Binary Interfaces</td>
4372 <td>Added requirements to support equivalent 32-bit ABI if any 64-bit ABI is
4373supported. Updated parameters to reflect this change.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4374 </tr>
4375 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4376 <td>3.4.1. WebView Compatibility</td>
4377 <td>Webview compatibility required for all devices except Android Watch devices.
4378Removed Locale string requirement.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4379 </tr>
4380 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4381 <td>3.4.2. Browser compatibility</td>
Heidi von Markham37e2b0a2015-05-26 15:40:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4382 <td>Android Television, Watch, and Android Automotive implementations MAY
4383 omit a browser application, but all other types of device implementations
4384 MUST include one.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4385 </tr>
4386 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4387 <td>3.7. Runtime compatibility</td>
4388 <td>Updated Minimum application memory requirements</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4389 </tr>
4390 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4391 <td>3.8.2. Widgets</td>
4392 <td>Widget support is optional for all device types, but recommended for Handheld
4393Devices.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4394 </tr>
4395 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4396 <td>3.8.3. Notifications</td>
4397 <td>Expanded definitions for types of supported notifications. </td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4398 </tr>
4399 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4400 <td>3.8.4. Search</td>
4401 <td>Android Television devices MUST include global search. All other device types
4402SHOULD.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4403 </tr>
4404 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4405 <td>3.8.6. Themes</td>
4406 <td>Devices MUST support material theme.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4407 </tr>
4408 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4409 <td>3.8.7. Live Wallpapers</td>
4410 <td>Devices that include live wallpaper MUST report the platform feature flag
4411android.software.live_wallpaper.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4412 </tr>
4413 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4414 <td>3.8.8. Activity Switching</td>
4415 <td>Advised requirement to support new Recents User Interface</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4416 </tr>
4417 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4418 <td>3.8.10. Lock Screen Media Remote Control</td>
4419 <td> Remote Control Client API deprecated in favor of the Media Notification
4420Template</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4421 </tr>
4422 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4423 <td>3.8.11. Dreams</td>
4424 <td>Optional for Android Watch devices. Required for all other device types.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4425 </tr>
4426 <tr>
Heidi von Markham74c574c2015-06-05 11:29:08 -0700[diff] [blame]4427 <td>3.8.13. Unicode and font</td>
4428 <td>MUST support Roboto 2 in addition to existing requirements. Added Android automotive requirements.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4429 </tr>
Heidi von Markhame400e052015-05-26 14:35:49 -0700[diff] [blame]4430 <tr>
Heidi von Markham74c574c2015-06-05 11:29:08 -0700[diff] [blame]4431 <td>3.11. Text-To-Speech</td>
Heidi von Markhame400e052015-05-26 14:35:49 -0700[diff] [blame]4432 <td>Added Android automotive requirements.</td>
4433 </tr>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4434 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4435 <td>3.12. TV Input Framework</td>
4436 <td>Android Television device implementations MUST support Television Input
4437Framework.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4438 </tr>
4439 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4440 <td>5.1. Media Codecs</td>
4441 <td>Added 3 sections for Audio, Image, and Video codecs.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4442 </tr>
4443 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4444 <td>5.4 Audio Recording</td>
4445 <td>Broken into subsections</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4446 </tr>
4447 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4448 <td>5.4.1. Raw audio capture</td>
4449 <td>Defined characteristics for raw audio capture on devices that declare
4450android.hardware.microphone</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4451 </tr>
4452 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4453 <td>5.5. Audio Playback</td>
4454 <td>Added section 5.5. Audio Playback with 2 subsections: 5.5.1 Audio Effects and
44555.5.2. Audio Output Volume</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4456 </tr>
4457 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4458 <td>5.6 Audio Latency</td>
4459 <td>Added definitions and requirements for cold output jitter, cold input jitter,
4460and continuous round-trip latency.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4461 </tr>
4462 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4463 <td>5.8 Secure Media</td>
4464 <td>Included secure media requirements from 7.1.8. External Displays and added
4465requirements for Android Television.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4466 </tr>
4467 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4468 <td>6.1. Developer Tools</td>
4469 <td>Updated resources.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4470 </tr>
4471 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4472 <td>6.2.1. Experimental</td>
4473 <td>Removed section</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4474 </tr>
4475 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4476 <td>7. Hardware Compatibility</td>
4477 <td>Updated to reflect that device implementations MUST consistently report
4478accurate hardware configuration for the same build fingerprint.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4479 </tr>
4480 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4481 <td>7.1.1.1. Screen Size</td>
4482 <td>Updated to reflect Android Watch devices screen size and that the value can&rsquo;t
4483change</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4484 </tr>
4485 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4486 <td>7.1.1.2. Screen Aspect Ratio</td>
4487 <td>Updated to reflect Android Watch devices screen aspect ratio (1:1).</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4488 </tr>
4489 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4490 <td>7.1.3. Screen Orientation</td>
4491 <td>Updated to reflect that devices with a fixed orientation landscape screen
4492SHOULD only report that orientation. </td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4493 </tr>
4494 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4495 <td>7.1.4. 2D and 3D Graphics Acceleration</td>
4496 <td>Added that Android devices MAY support the Android extension pack. </td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4497 </tr>
4498 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4499 <td>(old) 7.1.6. Screen Types</td>
4500 <td>Section Removed </td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4501 </tr>
4502 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4503 <td>7.1.6. Screen Technology</td>
4504 <td>Updated pixel aspect ratio (PAR) to be between 0.9 and 1.15. (~15% tolerance)</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4505 </tr>
4506 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4507 <td>7.1.7. External Displays</td>
4508 <td>Moved part of section to section 5.8. Secure Media.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4509 </tr>
Heidi von Markhamcf532432015-06-05 10:40:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4510 <tr>
4511 <td>7.2.1. Keyboard</td>
4512 <td>Added Android Automotive requirements.</td>
4513 </tr>
Heidi von Markham43b1cc72015-04-02 16:04:43 -0700[diff] [blame]4514 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4515 <td>7.2 Input Devices</td>
4516 <td>Added general intro statement.</td>
Heidi von Markham43b1cc72015-04-02 16:04:43 -0700[diff] [blame]4517 </tr>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4518 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4519 <td>7.2.2. Non-touch Navigation</td>
4520 <td>Android Television devices MUST support D-pad. </td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4521 </tr>
4522 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamce34dbb2015-06-05 11:59:14 -0700[diff] [blame]4523 <td>7.2.3. Navigation Keys</td>
4524 <td>Included language for support across different device types. Added
4525 Android Automotive requirements.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4526 </tr>
4527 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamce34dbb2015-06-05 11:59:14 -0700[diff] [blame]4528 <td>7.2.4. Touchscreen Input</td>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4529 <td>Android Watch devices MUST support touchscreen input. </td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4530 </tr>
4531 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4532 <td>7.2.6. Game Controller Support</td>
4533 <td>Added section with Android Television requirements.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4534 </tr>
4535 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4536 <td>7.2.7. Remote Control </td>
4537 <td>Added section with Android Television requirements.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4538 </tr>
4539 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4540 <td>7.3. Sensors</td>
4541 <td>Redefined synthetic sensors as composite sensors and streaming sensors as
4542continuous sensors. Sensors should report event time in nanoseconds.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4543 </tr>
4544 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4545 <td>7.3.1. Accelerometer</td>
4546 <td>Clarified required sensor types and revised requirement thresholds. </td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4547 </tr>
4548 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4549 <td>7.3.2. Magnetometer</td>
4550 <td>Clarified required sensor types and revised requirement thresholds.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4551 </tr>
4552 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4553 <td>7.3.4. Gyroscope</td>
4554 <td>Clarified required sensor types and revised requirement thresholds.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4555 </tr>
4556 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4557 <td>7.3.5. Barometer</td>
4558 <td>Changed from MAY to SHOULD implement barometer. MUST implement and report
4559TYPE_PRESSURE sensor.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4560 </tr>
4561 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4562 <td>7.3.6. Thermometer</td>
4563 <td>Devices MAY include ambient thermometer. MAY but SHOULD NOT include CPU
4564thermometer.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4565 </tr>
4566 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4567 <td>7.3.8. Proximity Sensor</td>
4568 <td>Devices that can make a voice call and indicate any value other than
4569PHONE_TYPE_NONE in getPhoneType SHOULD include a proximity sensor.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4570 </tr>
4571 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4572 <td>7.4.2. IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi)</td>
4573 <td>Android Television devices MUST include Wi-Fi support. Devices that DO support
4574wifi must report android.hardware.wifi. </td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4575 </tr>
4576 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4577 <td>7.4.2.1. Wi-Fi Direct</td>
4578 <td>MUST report the hardware feature android.hardware.wifi.direct.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4579 </tr>
4580 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4581 <td>7.4.2.2. Wi-Fi Tunneled Direct Link Setup</td>
4582 <td>Android Television devices MUST include support for Wi-Fi TDLS.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4583 </tr>
4584 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4585 <td>7.4.3 Bluetooth</td>
4586 <td>Added Android Automotive requirements.</td>
Heidi von Markhamdf9fb7c2015-04-02 16:49:09 -0700[diff] [blame]4587 </tr>
4588 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4589 <td>7.5. Cameras</td>
4590 <td>If a device implementation includes at least one camera, it SHOULD be possible
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4591for an application to simultaneously allocate 3 bitmaps equal to the size of
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4592the images produced by the largest-resolution camera sensor on the device.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4593 </tr>
4594 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4595 <td>7.5.3. External Cameras</td>
4596 <td>Added requirements that device implementations with USB host mode MAY include
4597support for an external camera.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4598 </tr>
4599 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4600 <td>7.5.5. Camera System Features</td>
4601 <td>Added list of camera features and when they should be defined. </td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4602 </tr>
4603 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4604 <td>7.6.1. Minimum Memory and Storage</td>
4605 <td>Updated requirements for 32- and 64-bit devices. SVELTE memory requirement
4606removed. Devices MUST have at least 1.5GB of non-volatile storage</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4607 </tr>
4608 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4609 <td>7.6.2. Application Shared Storage</td>
4610 <td>Updated requirements for user-accessible removable storage</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4611 </tr>
4612 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4613 <td>7.7. USB</td>
4614 <td>Removed requirements for non-charging ports being on the same edge as the
4615micro-USB port. Updated requirements for Host and Peripheral mode. </td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4616 </tr>
4617 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamcd3d6aa2015-06-05 11:13:20 -0700[diff] [blame]4618 <td>7.8. Audio</td>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4619 <td>Moved microphone section here. Added requirements for Audio Output and Audio
Heidi von Markhamcd3d6aa2015-06-05 11:13:20 -0700[diff] [blame]4620Analog ports.</td>
4621 </tr>
4622 <tr>
4623 <td>7.8.1. Microphone</td>
4624 <td>Added Android Automotive requirements.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4625 </tr>
4626 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4627 <td>8. Performance Compatibility</td>
4628 <td>Added requirements for user interface consistency.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4629 </tr>
4630 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4631 <td>9.5. Multi-User Support</td>
4632 <td>Multi-user support feature is optional for all device types. Detailed
4633requirements by device type in section.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4634 </tr>
4635 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4636 <td>9.7. Kernel Security Features</td>
4637 <td>MAY have a visible user interface when an unblocked security violation occurs
4638resulting in a successful exploit. No permissive mode domains allowed.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4639 </tr>
4640 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4641 <td>9.9. Full-Disk Encryption</td>
4642 <td>Devices with a lock screen MUST support full-disk encryption. For new devices,
4643full-disk encryption must be enabled out of box. </td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4644 </tr>
4645 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4646 <td>9.10 Verified boot</td>
4647 <td>Added section to recommend that Device implementations support verified boot
4648for device integrity.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4649 </tr>
4650 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4651 <td>10.3. Reference Applications</td>
4652 <td>Removed section from CDD.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4653 </tr>
4654 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4655 <td>11. Updatable Software</td>
4656 <td>If a device supports 802.11 or Bluetooth PAN (Personal Area Network) profile,
Heidi von Markham560986b2015-06-05 12:43:25 -0700[diff] [blame]4657then it MUST support over-the-air (OTA) download with offline update via reboot. Clarified
4658the OTA download requirement is allowed but not mandatory for Android Automotive
4659implementations.</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4660 </tr>
4661 <tr>
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4662 <td>14. Resources</td>
4663 <td>Resources moved from section 2 to section 14</td>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4664 </tr>
4665</table>
4666
4667
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4668<h1 id="13_contact_us">13. Contact Us</h1>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4669
4670
4671<p>You can join the android-compatibility forum <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/android-compatibility">[Resources, 109</a>] and ask for clarifications or bring up any issues that you think the document
4672does not cover.</p>
4673
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4674<h1 id="14_resources">14. Resources</h1>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4675
4676
4677<p>1. IETF RFC2119 Requirement Levels: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt</a></p>
4678
4679<p>2. Android Open Source Project: <a href="http://source.android.com/">http://source.android.com/</a></p>
4680
4681<p>3. Android Television features: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageManager.html#FEATURE_LEANBACK">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageManager.html#FEATURE_LEANBACK</a> </p>
4682
4683<p>4. Android Watch feature: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/Configuration.html#UI_MODE_TYPE_WATCH">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/Configuration.html#UI_MODE_TYPE_WATCH</a></p>
4684
4685<p>5. API definitions and documentation: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/packages.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/packages.html</a></p>
4686
4687<p>6. Android Permissions reference: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html</a></p>
4688
4689<p>7. android.os.Build reference: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.html</a></p>
4690
Unsuk Jungd1ac9fe2015-04-01 08:18:41 -0700[diff] [blame]4691<p>8. Android 5.1 allowed version strings: <a href="http://source.android.com/compatibility/5.1/versions.html">http://source.android.com/compatibility/5.1/versions.html</a></p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4692
4693<p>9. Telephony Provider: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/Telephony.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/Telephony.html</a></p>
4694
4695<p>10. Host-based Card Emulation: <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/nfc/hce.html">http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/nfc/hce.html</a></p>
4696
4697<p>11. Android Extension Pack: <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/opengl.html#aep">http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/opengl.html#aep</a> </p>
4698
4699<p>12. android.webkit.WebView class: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.html</a></p>
4700
4701<p>13. WebView compatibility: <a href="http://www.chromium.org/">http://www.chromium.org/</a></p>
4702
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4703<p>14. HTML5: <a href="http://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/">http://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/</a></p>
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4705<p>15. HTML5 offline capabilities:<a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#offline"> http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#offline</a></p>
4706
4707<p>16. HTML5 video tag: <a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#video">http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#video</a></p>
4708
4709<p>17. HTML5/W3C geolocation API: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/geolocation-API/">http://www.w3.org/TR/geolocation-API/</a></p>
4710
4711<p>18. HTML5/W3C webstorage API: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/webstorage/">http://www.w3.org/TR/webstorage/</a></p>
4712
4713<p>19. HTML5/W3C IndexedDB API: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/IndexedDB/">http://www.w3.org/TR/IndexedDB/</a></p>
4714
4715<p>20. Dalvik Executable Format and bytecode specification: available in the
4716Android source code, at dalvik/docs</p>
4717
4718<p>21. AppWidgets: <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/widget_design.html">http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/widget_design.html</a></p>
4719
4720<p>22. Notifications: <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/notifiers/notifications.html">http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/notifiers/notifications.html</a></p>
4721
4722<p>23. Application Resources: <a href="https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/available-resources.html">https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/available-resources.html</a></p>
4723
4724<p>24. Status Bar icon style guide: <a href="http://developer.android.com/design/style/iconography.html">http://developer.android.com/design/style/iconography.html</a></p>
4725
4726<p>25. Notifications Resources: <a href="https://developer.android.com/design/patterns/notifications.html">https://developer.android.com/design/patterns/notifications.html</a> </p>
4727
4728<p>26. Search Manager: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/SearchManager.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/SearchManager.html</a> </p>
4729
4730<p>27. Toasts: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Toast.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Toast.html</a></p>
4731
4732<p>28. Themes: <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/themes.html">http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/themes.html</a></p>
4733
4734<p>29. R.style class: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.style.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.style.html</a></p>
4735
4736<p>30. Material design: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.style.html#Theme_Material">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.style.html#Theme_Material</a> </p>
4737
4738<p>31. Live Wallpapers: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/service/wallpaper/WallpaperService.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/service/wallpaper/WallpaperService.html</a></p>
4739
4740<p>32. Overview screen resources: <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/components/recents.html">http://developer.android.com/guide/components/recents.html</a> </p>
4741
4742<p>33. Screen pinning: <a href="https://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-5.0.html#ScreenPinning">https://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-5.0.html#ScreenPinning</a> </p>
4743
4744<p>34. Input methods: <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/text/creating-input-method.html">http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/text/creating-input-method.html</a> </p>
4745
4746<p>35. Media Notification: <a href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.MediaStyle.html">https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.MediaStyle.html</a></p>
4747
4748<p>36. Dreams: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/service/dreams/DreamService.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/service/dreams/DreamService.html</a></p>
4749
4750<p>37. Settings.Secure LOCATION_MODE:</p>
4751
4752<p><a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/Settings.Secure.html#LOCATION_MODE">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/Settings.Secure.html#LOCATION_MODE</a></p>
4753
4754<p>38. Unicode 6.1.0: <a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.1.0/">http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.1.0/</a></p>
4755
4756<p>39. Android Device Administration: <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/admin/device-admin.html">http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/admin/device-admin.html</a></p>
4757
4758<p>40. DevicePolicyManager reference: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/admin/DevicePolicyManager.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/admin/DevicePolicyManager.html</a></p>
4759
4760<p>41. Android Device Owner App:</p>
4761
4762<p><a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/admin/DevicePolicyManager.html#isDeviceOwnerApp(java.lang.String)">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/admin/DevicePolicyManager.html#isDeviceOwnerApp(java.lang.String)</a></p>
4763
4764<p>42. Android Accessibility Service APIs: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/accessibilityservice/AccessibilityService.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/accessibilityservice/AccessibilityService.html</a></p>
4765
4766<p>43. Android Accessibility APIs: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/accessibility/package-summary.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/accessibility/package-summary.html</a></p>
4767
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4768<p>44. Eyes Free project: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/eyes-free/">http://code.google.com/p/eyes-free</a></p>
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4770<p>45. Text-To-Speech APIs: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/speech/tts/package-summary.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/speech/tts/package-summary.html</a></p>
4771
4772<p>46. Television Input Framework: <a href="https://source.android.com/devices/tv/index.html">https://source.android.com/devices/tv/index.html</a></p>
4773
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4774<p>47. Reference tool documentation (for adb, aapt, ddms, systrace): <a href="http://developer.android.com/tools/help/index.html">http://developer.android.com/tools/help/index.html</a></p>
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4776<p>48. Android apk file description: <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/components/fundamentals.html">http://developer.android.com/guide/components/fundamentals.html </a></p>
4777
4778<p>49. Manifest files: <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/manifest-intro.html">http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/manifest-intro.html</a></p>
4779
4780<p>50. Android Media Formats: <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html">http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html</a></p>
4781
4782<p>51. RTC Hardware Coding Requirements: <a href="http://www.webmproject.org/hardware/rtc-coding-requirements/">http://www.webmproject.org/hardware/rtc-coding-requirements/</a></p>
4783
4784<p>52. AudioEffect API: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/audiofx/AudioEffect.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/audiofx/AudioEffect.html</a></p>
4785
4786<p>53. Android android.content.pm.PackageManager class and Hardware Features List:</p>
4787
4788<p><a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageManager.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageManager.html</a></p>
4789
4790<p>54. HTTP Live Streaming Draft Protocol: <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pantos-http-live-streaming-03">http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pantos-http-live-streaming-03</a></p>
4791
4792<p>55. ADB: <a href="http://developer.android.com/tools/help/adb.html">http://developer.android.com/tools/help/adb.html</a> </p>
4793
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4794<p>56. Dumpsys: <a href="https://source.android.com/devices/input/diagnostics.html">https://source.android.com/devices/input/diagnostics.html</a> </p>
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4796<p>57. DDMS: <a href="http://developer.android.com/tools/debugging/ddms.html">http://developer.android.com/tools/debugging/ddms.html</a> </p>
4797
4798<p>58. Monkey testing tool: <a href="http://developer.android.com/tools/help/monkey.html">http://developer.android.com/tools/help/monkey.html</a> </p>
4799
4800<p>59. SysyTrace tool: <a href="http://developer.android.com/tools/help/systrace.html">http://developer.android.com/tools/help/systrace.html</a></p>
4801
4802<p>60. Android Application Development-Related Settings:</p>
4803
4804<p><a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/Settings.html#ACTION_APPLICATION_DEVELOPMENT_SETTINGS">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/Settings.html#ACTION_APPLICATION_DEVELOPMENT_SETTINGS</a></p>
4805
4806<p>61. Supporting Multiple Screens: <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html">http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html</a></p>
4807
4808<p>62. android.util.DisplayMetrics: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/DisplayMetrics.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/DisplayMetrics.html</a></p>
4809
4810<p>63. RenderScript: <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/renderscript/">http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/renderscript/</a></p>
4811
4812<p>64. Android extension pack for OpenGL ES: <a href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/opengl/GLES31Ext.html">https://developer.android.com/reference/android/opengl/GLES31Ext.html</a> </p>
4813
4814<p>65. Hardware Acceleration: <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/hardware-accel.html">http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/hardware-accel.html</a></p>
4815
4816<p>66. EGL Extension-EGL_ANDROID_RECORDABLE:</p>
4817
4818<p><a href="http://www.khronos.org/registry/egl/extensions/ANDROID/EGL_ANDROID_recordable.txt">http://www.khronos.org/registry/egl/extensions/ANDROID/EGL_ANDROID_recordable.txt</a></p>
4819
4820<p>67. Display Manager: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/display/DisplayManager.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/display/DisplayManager.html</a></p>
4821
4822<p>68. android.content.res.Configuration: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/Configuration.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/Configuration.html</a></p>
4823
4824<p>69. Action Assist: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html#ACTION_ASSIST">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html#ACTION_ASSIST</a></p>
4825
4826<p>70. Touch Input Configuration: <a href="http://source.android.com/devices/tech/input/touch-devices.html">http://source.android.com/devices/tech/input/touch-devices.html</a></p>
4827
4828<p>71. Motion Event API: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/MotionEvent.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/MotionEvent.html</a></p>
4829
4830<p>72. Key Event API: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html</a> </p>
4831
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4832<p>73. Android Open Source sensors: <a href="http://source.android.com/devices/sensors/">http://source.android.com/devices/sensors</a></p>
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4833
4834<p>74. android.hardware.SensorEvent: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/SensorEvent.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/SensorEvent.html</a></p>
4835
4836<p>75. Timestamp sensor event: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/SensorEvent.html#timestamp">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/SensorEvent.html#timestamp</a></p>
4837
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4838<p>76. Android Open Source composite sensors: <a href="http://source.android.com/devices/sensors/sensor-types.html#composite_sensor_type_summary">https://source.android.com/devices/sensors/sensor-types.html#composite_sensor_type_summary</a></p>
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Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4840<p>77. Continuous trigger mode: <a href="http://source.android.com/devices/sensors/report-modes.html#continuous">https://source.android.com/devices/sensors/report-modes.html#continuous</a></p>
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4842<p>78. Accelerometer sensor: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/Sensor.html#TYPE_ACCELEROMETER">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/Sensor.html#TYPE_ACCELEROMETER</a></p>
4843
4844<p>79. Wi-Fi Multicast API: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/wifi/WifiManager.MulticastLock.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/wifi/WifiManager.MulticastLock.html</a></p>
4845
4846<p>80. Wi-Fi Direct (Wi-Fi P2P): <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/wifi/p2p/WifiP2pManager.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/wifi/p2p/WifiP2pManager.html</a></p>
4847
4848<p>81. WifiManager API: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/wifi/WifiManager.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/wifi/WifiManager.html</a></p>
4849
4850<p>82. Bluetooth API: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/bluetooth/package-summary.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/bluetooth/package-summary.html</a></p>
4851
4852<p>83. Bluetooth ScanFilter API: <a href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/bluetooth/le/ScanFilter.html">https://developer.android.com/reference/android/bluetooth/le/ScanFilter.html</a></p>
4853
4854<p>84. NDEF Push Protocol: <a href="http://source.android.com/compatibility/ndef-push-protocol.pdf">http://source.android.com/compatibility/ndef-push-protocol.pdf</a></p>
4855
4856<p>85. Android Beam: <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/nfc/nfc.html">http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/nfc/nfc.html</a> </p>
4857
4858<p>86. Android NFC Sharing Settings:</p>
4859
4860<p><a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/Settings.html#ACTION_NFCSHARING_SETTINGS">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/Settings.html#ACTION_NFCSHARING_SETTINGS</a></p>
4861
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4862<p>87. NFC Connection Handover: <a href="http://members.nfc-forum.org/specs/spec_list/#conn_handover">http://members.nfc-forum.org/specs/spec_list/#conn_handover</a></p>
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4864<p>88. Bluetooth Secure Simple Pairing Using NFC: <a href="http://members.nfc-forum.org/apps/group_public/download.php/18688/NFCForum-AD-BTSSP_1_1.pdf">http://members.nfc-forum.org/apps/group_public/download.php/18688/NFCForum-AD-BTSSP_1_1.pdf</a> </p>
4865
4866<p>89. Content Resolver: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/ContentResolver.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/ContentResolver.html</a></p>
4867
4868<p>90. Camera orientation API: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/Camera.html#setDisplayOrientation(int)">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/Camera.html#setDisplayOrientation(int)</a></p>
4869
4870<p>91. Camera: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/Camera.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/Camera.html</a></p>
4871
4872<p>92. Camera: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/Camera.Parameters.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/Camera.Parameters.html</a></p>
4873
4874<p>93. Camera hardware level: <a href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/camera2/CameraCharacteristics.html#INFO_SUPPORTED_HARDWARE_LEVEL">https://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/camera2/CameraCharacteristics.html#INFO_SUPPORTED_HARDWARE_LEVEL</a> </p>
4875
4876<p>94. Camera version support: <a href="http://source.android.com/devices/camera/versioning.html">http://source.android.com/devices/camera/versioning.html</a> </p>
4877
4878<p>95. Android DownloadManager: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/DownloadManager.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/DownloadManager.html</a></p>
4879
4880<p>96. Android File Transfer: <a href="http://www.android.com/filetransfer">http://www.android.com/filetransfer</a></p>
4881
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4882<p>97. Android Open Accessories: <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/usb/accessory.html">http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/usb/accessory.html</a></p>
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4884<p>98. Android USB Audio: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/usb/UsbConstants.html#USB_CLASS_AUDIO">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/usb/UsbConstants.html#USB_CLASS_AUDIO</a></p>
4885
4886<p>99. USB Charging Specification: <a href="http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/devclass_docs/USB_Battery_Charging_1.2.pdf">http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/devclass_docs/USB_Battery_Charging_1.2.pdf</a></p>
4887
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4888<p>100. USB Host API:<a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/usb/host.html"> http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/usb/host.html</a></p>
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4890<p>101. Wired audio headset: <a href="http://source.android.com/accessories/headset-spec.html">http://source.android.com/accessories/headset-spec.html</a> </p>
4891
4892<p>102. Android Security and Permissions reference: <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/security/permissions.html">http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/security/permissions.html</a></p>
4893
4894<p>103. UserManager reference: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/UserManager.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/UserManager.html</a></p>
4895
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4896<p>104. External Storage reference: <a href="http://source.android.com/devices/storage">http://source.android.com/devices/storage</a></p>
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4898<p>105. External Storage APIs: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Environment.html">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Environment.html</a></p>
4899
4900<p>106. SMS Short Code: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_code">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_code</a></p>
4901
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4902<p>107. Android Open Source Encryption: <a href="http://source.android.com/devices/tech/security/encryption/index.html">http://source.android.com/devices/tech/security/encryption/index.html</a></p>
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4904<p>108. Android Compatibility Program Overview: <a href="http://source.android.com/compatibility/index.html">http://source.android.com/compatibility/index.html</a></p>
4905
4906<p>109. Android Compatibility forum: <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/android-compatibility">https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/android-compatibility</a></p>
4907
4908<p>110. WebM project: <a href="http://www.webmproject.org/">http://www.webmproject.org/</a> </p>
4909
Heidi von Markham61607242015-04-02 12:59:09 -0700[diff] [blame]4910<p>111. Android Auto feature: <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/Configuration.html#UI_MODE_TYPE_CAR">http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/Configuration.html#UI_MODE_TYPE_CAR</a></p>
4911
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4912<p>Many of these resources are derived directly or indirectly from the Android
Heidi von Markhamf1b1d2e2015-04-21 17:05:06 -0700[diff] [blame]4913SDK, and will be functionally identical to the information in that SDK&rsquo;s
Unsuk Jungbca27492015-04-01 08:08:10 -0700[diff] [blame]4914documentation. In any cases where this Compatibility Definition or the
4915Compatibility Test Suite disagrees with the SDK documentation, the SDK
4916documentation is considered authoritative. Any technical details provided in
4917the references included above are considered by inclusion to be part of this
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