Stay ConnectedAndroid Backstage, a podcast by and for Android developers. Hosted by developers from the Android engineering team, this show covers topics of interest to Android programmers, with in-depth discussions and interviews with engineers on the Android team at Google.
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Chet and Romain talk to Jeff Hamilton and Anton Hansson from the Mainline team about "modular system components", and the new SDK extension framework which lets developers access them.
Anton Hansson top right, and Jeff Hamilton bottom left, with Romain and Chet
Blog post: https://goo.gle/3S1c3g4
AndroidX convenience constants, e.g. T_EXTENSION_INT: https://goo.gle/3lEJwRx
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This time, Tor, Romain, and Chet were joined by Siyamed Sinir and Sean McQuillan from the Android Text team to talk about, well, text. Which, it turns out, is a very deep, complicated, and constantly evolving technology. The conversation covered everything from the fundamentals of the text stack on Android to the capabilities and implementation of text in Jetpack Compose to internationalization to fonts to emojis to performance to.... you get the idea. There was a lot of stuff to talk about. And so much subtext.
Romain, Chet, Sean, Tor, and Siyamed (using RTL support: Siyamed, Tor, Sean, Chet, and Romain)
Links:
Romain: @romainguy and romainguy@androiddev.social
Tor: @tornorbye and tornorbye@androiddev.social
Chet: @chethaase and chethaase@androiddev.social
Siyamed:@siyamed
Sean: tech.lgbt/@objcode
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In this episode, James Ward joins Chet, Tor, and Romain to talk about Kotlin. We talked about Kotlin Multiplatform (both KMP and KMM) and what's coming for Kotlin in 2023, especially the new K2 frontend.
James, Tor, Romain, and Chet.
Links:
Romain: @romainguy and romainguy@androiddev.social
Tor: @tornorbye and tornorbye@androiddev.social
Chet: @chethaase and chethaase@androiddev.social
James: @_jamesward
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This time, Romain and Chet ditched Tor so that they could geek out about graphics, talking about paths, Bézier curves, morphing, and more.
Romain and Chet alone in the recording Studio.
Links:
Chet: @chethaase Romain: @romainguy
We recorded episode 191 from the studio in the London office, where Rebecca Franks from the developer relations team joined Chet as a guest host. We talked with Andrei Shikov, Matvei Malkov, and Andrey Kulikov from the Jetpack Compose engineering team about layouts, especially the lazy ones, which are the Compose equivalent of RecyclerView.
Rebecca, Chet, Andrei, Andrey, and Matvei, in the London recording studio.
Links:
Chet: @chethaase
Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye
Rebecca Franks: @riggaroo
Andrei Shikov: @shikasd_
Matvei Malkov: @matvei_jj
Andrey Kulikov: @and_kulikov
In this episode, Tor and Chet learn some more about performance from Carmen. Carmen works on the Android Platform Performance team and is an expert on everything related to performance. This is the perfect episode for you if you ever wanted to learn more about R8, perfetto, baseline profiles, custom performance tracing, power metrics, etc.
Tor, Carmen, and Chet
Links:
Chet: @chethaase
Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye
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In this episode (the first in-studio-with-guests recording since early 2020!), Tor and Chet spoke with Marc Bächinger, Toni Heidenreich, and Andrew Lewis from the Android Media team, where they work on video technologies and APIs like ExoPlayer. We talked about the evolution of ExoPlayer and platform media capabilities as well as ongoing and near-future features.
Back: Chet and Tor, Front: Mark, Toni, and Andrew
Links:
Chet: @chethaase
Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye
It's our first episode back in the studio, and in a new, shiny studio too! In this episode, we talk about some of our favorite new features and changes of the new version of Android, both for users and developers. More importantly, the audio quality of this episode is much better thanks to the amazing work from the media production teams at Google.
Tor, Romain, and Chet happy to be back in a studio with proper audio equipment
Links
Chet: @chethaase
Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye
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"Our job isn't to remove complexity, but to manage it"- Glen Murphy (as remembered by Dan)
In this episode, we talk with Dan Sandler and Adam Cohen from the SystemUI team. We dip into a bit of history, talking about where things were at when they joined the team (2009-10), and how things have developed in the many years since, including how these projects and teams scaled from a single person working on it part-time to now having much larger teams doing many more things. Which kind of describes software development in general.
We also talk about how to expose (or not) gestures and features in a UI system. Related: there are some bonus pro-tips on using some hidden features of System UI, as a prize for careful listeners and podcast hosts.
Top: Tor & Adam, Bottom: Dan, Dan's book cover illustration, & Chet
Links:
Dan: @dsandler
Adam: adam-cohenChet: @chethaase
Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye
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In this episode, we talk with Alan and Esteban from Android Studio about the new "Live Edit" feature recently launched at Google I/O in the Electric Eel canary build. We dive into the technology -- how it works, what the technical challenges are, and its current state.
Chet with Esteban and Alan on the top row, Romain and Tor below
Links:
Alan: @acleung
Esteban: @estebandlc
Chet: @chethaase
Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye
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