Android Developers Backstage

Top row: Chet, Joshua and Romain. Bottom row: Renaud and Tor In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor talk with Renaud Paquay and Joshua Duong from the Android Studio and Android Emulator teams. We cover the new ADB over WiFi feature in Android 11, and the Android Studio support for pairing and connecting. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/adb#connect-to-a-device-over-wi-fi-android-11+ Renaud: /u/adt_renaud Joshua: /u/joshuaduong Chet: @chethaase Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.

Sean McQuillan and I talked with Nicolas Roard and John Hoford about MotionEditor, which went stable recently in Android Studio 4.0. But as long as we were talking about that tool, we also talked extensively about MotionLayout in general as well as ConstraintLayout, new features like Flow, the difficulties of animating text properties, and  more. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links MotionTags screencast series MotionEditor guide MotionEditor release article ConstraintLayout guide ConstraintLayout 2.0 article John: @johnhoford Nicolas: @camaelon Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.

The real star of the show: Jetpack Compose This week, after a long series of developer previews, we are celebrating the release of Jetpack Compose alpha. In this episode, Clara Bayarri, Matvei Malkov, and Anna-Chiara Bellini are joining Chet and Romain to talk about this milestone. You will learn more about what does the alpha mean to the team, where did Compose come from, how the team approaches API design, some of the challenges behind building a new UI toolkit, and much more. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Jetpack Compose Tutorials and codelabs Android Studio Setup Samples on GitHub Thinking in Compose (video) Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.

Dan (played by an icon), Greg, and a tiny Romain in the upper right This time, Romain was hosting all on his own for this conversation about game technology with Greg Hartrell, product manager for games on Play/Android, and Dan Galpin, developer advocate for games on Android. They talked about recent developments and offerings for game developers, including the Android development plugin for Visual Studio, other specialized tools for game developers, and new offerings from the team like Android Asset Delivery and Android App Bundle for distribution. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Build Games for Android Android Game Dev Show Greg: @ghartrell Dan: @dagalpin Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.

Eric, Dany, and Romain. Chet not represented to hide the confused look he had on his face during the entire recording. We're injecting dependencies! In this episode, Chet and Romain are joined by Daniel Santiago from Jetpack, and Eric Chang from Dagger to talk about Hilt. Hilt builds on Dagger for form Android's new recommended way to perform dependency injection. And it's also a great opportunity for Chet and Romain to display their lack of knowledge in that space. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Dagger.dev Hilt on dagger.dev Introduction to Hilt by Dany Dependency injection on Android Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.

Mads, Chet and Tor In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Mads Ager from the Android Studio compilers team. We cover a number of subjects, from r8 and d8 optimizations and resource shrinking to work on the Kotlin compiler front- and back-end, as well as the new Kotlin symbol processor. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links R8/D8: https://r8.googlesource.com/r8 KSP: https://github.com/android/kotlin/tree/ksp/libraries/tools/kotlin-symbol-processing-api Kotlin: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/ Mads: @madsager Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.

Tor, Romain, Sara, Philip, and a little tiny Chet top-right In this episode, Tor, Chet, and Romain talk with Sara N-Marandi and Philip Moltmann from the Android framework team about some of the new permissions changes in Android 11. We talk about why these changes were made, how to use them correctly in your code, and how things actually work on the inside. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Developer Guide: Request App Permissions Video: Developing with the latest privacy changes in Android 11 Video: All things privacy in Android 11 Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.

Hoi and Matej in the top row, Chet and Tor below In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Hoi Lam and Matej Pfajfar about machine learning on Android. Tune in to learn about ML Kit, TensorFlow Lite, transfer learning, federated learning, ML model binding, the Android Neural Networks API, and more! Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links ML Kit: g.co/mlkit  TensorFlow Lite Model Maker: https://www.tensorflow.org/lite/tutorials/model_maker_image_classification Android Studio 4.1 with ML Binding - https://developer.android.com/studio/preview/features#tensor-flow-lite-models  People + AI Guidebook, suitable for SWE, Designers and PMs https://pair.withgoogle.com/guidebook/  Material Design Showcase Sample https://github.com/googlesamples/mlkit/tree/master/android/material-showcase  Hoi: @hoitab Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.

Romain, Tor's large head and bad framing, Chet's little tiny picture top-right, Julia, and Stefan It's all about people! In this episode, Tor, Chet and Romain are joined by Julia  Reynolds and Stefan Franks from the System UI team to have a discussion about conversations. We also converse about things unrelated to conversations. Starting with Android 11, conversation notifications now appear in a dedicated space at the top of the notifications shade. These notifications come with specific actions like opening a bubble or setting a reminder. Tune in to learn more about this new people-forward design. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Android 11 Beta Notifications Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.

Artur, Chet, Mady, Romain and Tor In this episode, Romain, Chet and Tor talked with Mady Melor  and Artur Tsurkan from the System UI team about... Bubbles! Bubbles let users easily multi-task from anywhere on their device, and facilitates real-time communication using a chat application. Tune in to learn more about this new API in Android 11! Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/bubbles Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.