Android Developers Backstage

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: https://goo.gle/3QmMVPV    Alan: @acleung Esteban: @estebandlc Chet: @chethaase Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye

Jon and Andrew from the Play team discuss the major refactoring of the Play Store app, including the adoption of Jetpack Compose. They highlight the improvements made to architecture, network fetching, UI rendering, and data storage. The podcast also covers tech debt issues, adoption of Kotlin and MVVM architecture, handling accessibility challenges, app performance improvements, and considerations in migrating code.

In this episode we chat with Derek and Brian from the Skia team about Skia, pixel shaders, and the new “AGSL” API that lets you provide pixel shaders for advanced graphics effects, which was recently added to the preview release of Android T. If you’re interested in graphics technology, this is the episode for you.  If you’re not interested in graphics... you should be.   Brian, Romain DerekChet, Tor   Links: Skia's SkSL/AGSL playground & debugger → https://goo.gle/3DHFJYm  Skia's SkSL documentation → https://goo.gle/3uZK0CA    Brian: @BrianOsman Chet: @chethaase Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye

In this episode we chat with Rahul and Leland from the Android toolkit team about "baseline profiles", a new mechanism which lets applications ship with profiling metadata used at application install time to make it start faster. We discuss how this is used in Jetpack Compose, cloud profiles in general, and more. Chet, Romain, Rahul, Leland and Tor   Links: Baseline Profile DAC Documentation  Android Developers Blog Post on baseline profiles Jetpack Macrobenchmarking Library   Rahul: @tikurahul Leland: @intelligibabble Chet: @chethaase Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye

In this episode, Clara (Android Toolkit), Florina (Android Developer Relations), and Daniel (Android Product Management) join your usual hosts to talk about large screens, what they are and what they mean for app developers. You will also learn about the resources at your disposal to build high quality experiences on large screen devices: from samples and guidance to canonical layouts and new APIs such as window size classes Romain, Clara, Florina, Daniel, Chet, and Tor   Links: Large screens documentation Material adaptive design docs ADS talk: Build Android UIs for any screen size Codelab: Support foldable and dual-screen devices with Jetpack WindowManager Samples Jetnews: Responsive UI implementation with Compose Jetcaster: Tabletop support implementation with Compose Google I/O Android App: Responsive UI implementation with Views Trackr: Responsive UI implementation with Views Clara: @clarabayarri Daniel: @pmatgoog Florina: @FMuntenescu Chet: @chethaase Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye

In this episode, we chat with Yigit Boyar (again!) from the Android Toolkit Team and Manuel Vivo from the Developer Relations team about application architecture. The team has released new architecture guidance, and we talk about that guidance here, as well as how our architecture recommendations apply in the new Jetpack Compose world. Yigit, Tor, Manuel, and Chet. Romain was AWOL. Check out the revamped and enhanced Guide to app architecture. Yigit: @yigitboyar Manuel: @manuelvicnt Romain: @romainguy Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye

In this episode, we chat with Yigit Boyar from the Android Toolkit Team about Kotlin multi platform, while Romain provides light background music on his piano.Yigit: @yigitboyar Romain: @romainguy Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye     Subscribe to Android Developers → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs

In this episode, Chet and Romain talked with Nicole McWilliams and Petr Čermák from the London engineering office about their work on App Widgets and Digital Wellbeing.   Romain: @romainguy Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Nicole: ​​@nicolelaure     Subscribe to Android Developers → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs

In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor sit down to chat about the Android DevSummit, and in particular all the new features arriving in Android Studio, along with a few other topics like Chet's new jank stats library, the Android 12L release, and more. Top row: Chet and Tor. Bottom row: Romain.   The Android Studio talk discussed is https://goo.gle/3caaFDT     

In this episode, Bart Wronski takes Tor, Romain, and Chet through the camera pipeline that powers the Pixel phones. We talked about how cameras capture images, and how the algorithms responsible for Pixel’s beautiful images work. If you’ve ever wondered how HDR+ or Night Sight works, this episode if for you! Top row: Tor and Bart. Bottom row: Chet and Romain.   Links: Bart’s blog on graphics and image processing SIGGRAPH paper and presentation on handheld multi-frame super resolution Night Sight Astrophotography with Night Sight HDR+ with bracketing on Pixel Live HDR+ on Pixel 4 (HDRnet)   Bart: @bartwronsk Romain: @romainguy Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye