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Edge-to-edge layouts means that the window spans the entire width and height of the display by drawing behind the system bars including the status bar, caption bar, and navigation bar.

This means that your content may render behind operating system elements and you will need to account for this in the design and execution of your application. You will likely want to render certain content under the system UI, such as scrolling and non-UI elements however it is important that your interactive elements never get rendered in these areas.

For example in the following a button is obscured by the navigation bar:

Obscured	Correctly Rendered

Using the methods here you will be able to correctly implement these solutions in your application.

Android 15 (API v35) includes some changes that are intended to create a more consistent, intuitive user experience.

Startup time of an application is often key in retaining your users so it can be critical to make start time as short as possible.

One factor that can contribute to the startup time of an AIR application is loading the definitions for the functionality in native extensions. This is normally done by AIR automatically however with the latest AIR release you can now specify an option on an extension in your application to delay load the extension functionality.

If you are publishing games to the AppStore for iOS you may have recently received an notification along the following lines:

There are two important things you need to do to your application in order to meet this new requirement.

At some point in your application development when you start to store and share data you will need to handle user GDPR settings.

If you use personalised advertising or store user related data on your server then you will need to address GDPR concerns in your application.