Android Developers Backstage

Episode 187: System UI: A Retrospective

Jul 25, 2022

43:52

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Are You Creating Concrete Boundaries?

02:47

Is There a Task Ready?

01:37

What's the Difference Between System U and Setting U?

04:20

Introduction

2min

Launcher Is a Good Word, Right?

2min

What's the Difference Between System U and Setting U?

4min

Launcher 2 - The Move From Launcher to Launcher

2min

The Honeycomb U I Was the First Thing We Did for Android Tablets

3min

Ui Lock Screen

1min

Ambuum Display - How Does It Work?

5min

Is There a Way to Recover a Deleted Object?

3min

What's Your Favorite Feature?

3min

10.

The Problem Isn't to Remove Compliance, but to Manage It

3min

11.

Is There a Task Ready?

2min

12.

I Think We Should Be Doing More of That, I'm Sure, in the Future.

4min

13.

The Mythical Man Month

2min

14.

The Nature of the Brain Changes Into Softwords

2min

15.

Are You Creating Concrete Boundaries?

3min

16.

The Pandemic - The End of Our Hour

2min

“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

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