Android Developers Backstage

Tor, Yigit, Sean, Romain and Chet doing their (co)routine. Coroutines are Kotlin's approach to asynchronous programming and they are making their way into various Jetpack libraries. In this episode Tor, Chet and Romain have a chat with Sean McQuillan from DevRel and Yigit Boyar from the Jetpack team to discuss what coroutines are, what problems do they solve and how to use them. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Coroutines overview Sean's series of articles about coroutines on Android Coroutines for Android apps Jetpack Sean: @objcode Yigit: @yigitboyar Chet: @chethaase Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Chet, James, Vinit, and Tor, in reverse-polish notation. Tor and Chet talked with Vinit Modi and James Fung from the CameraX team. CameraX is a Jetpack support library that released in alpha form at Google I/O 2019. It offers developers an easier way to embed camera functionality while performing more consistently across Android versions (back to Lollipop) and across various devices. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: CameraX Overview CameraX presentation at I/O 2019 CameraX Architecture Getting Started with CameraX code lab CameraX discussion group (the team is encouraging developers to reach out to this group with questions for the team) Jetpack Chet: @chethaase Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Tor, Chuck, Leland and Romain Jetpack Compose is an unbundled UI toolkit written in Kotlin and based on the reactive programming model that was recently introduced at Google I/O. Compose is not ready for production yet but is now being developed in the open on AOSP. In this episode Tor and Romain have a chat with Chuck and Leland to discuss how Jetpack Compose works and some of the goals and ideas behind its design. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Jetpack Compose Google I/O talk about Jetpack Compose Compose from first principles by Leland How to get the source code Browse the source online Chet: @chethaase Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Romain, Philip, Ben, Tor, and Chet (listed in alphabetical order) In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor talk to Philip Simpson and Ben Trengrove from the cast of Pocket Casts. We talk about their app, coincidentally called "Pocket Casts," and how they implemented various features like Material, audio, and even how the company made a complicated weather app for a country where it's always sunny. Oh, and we talked about some of the stuff happening at Google I/O 2019, because that's when we recorded this conversation. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Pocket Casts on Google Play Philip: @geekygecko Ben: @bentrengrove Chet: @chethaase Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Tor, Romain and Chet In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor discuss the Android-related announcements at Google I/O this year -- Android Q, Jetpack Compose, Project Marble, etc. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Jetpack Compose Chet: @chethaase Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Tor, Mel, Chet, and Romain (shown in alphabetical order) In this episode, Chet, Tor, and Romain chat with Mel Goetz, an engineer on the Material team, about Material Design Components, the set of components for Android that implement Material Design. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Material spec Material Design Components Mel: @melaniemgoetz Romain: @romainguy Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Romain, Frank and Tor in the Studio In this episode, Romain and Tor chat with Frank from the Android Studio team. Frank works on the Android emulator and in this episode he explains the differences between a simulator and an emulator, how snapshots work, how does GPU support is implemented and much more. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Emulator release notes Source code of the emulator for the curious Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Chet, Iliyan and Tor in the Studio In this episode, Chet and Tor chat with Iliyan Malchev from Project Treble. We already covered this a year and a half ago back in episode 75, but this time we dig deeper and also cover the progress made since then. Tune in to learn about acronyms like HAL, HIDL, GSI, VTS, and more! Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: An Update on Project Treble - Iliyan's blog entry from November Episode 75: Project Treble - For the HAL of it Android Architecture overview Iliyan: @imalchev Romain: @romainguy Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Michael, Tor (not pictured), Romain (not pictured), and Chet (not even present). Some podcasts are conversations. Some are more like interrogations in a café. In this episode, Tor and Chet Romain talked with Michael Wright from the Android Framework team. Michael works on input, display, power manager, and haptics, which are, by amazing coincidence, exactly what they talked about. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Romain: @romainguy Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Esteban, Romain, Chet, and Tor in the Android Studio. Our guest-scheduling failed once again but we managed to find a guest at the very last minute! In this episode Esteban de la Canal tells us everything about Apply Changes, a new feature in Android Studio 3.5 Canary destined to replace Instant Run. Why are we doing this and why is it better than Instant Run? Listen to this episode and come find out with us. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Android Studio 3.5 Canary Romain: @romainguy Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.