Android Developers Backstage

Tor, Jerome, Chris and Xavier in the recording studio. In this episode, Tor chats with Jerome Dochez, Chris Warrington and Xavier Ducrohet from the Android Studio build system team. We discuss a lot of topics -- the new speed attribution feature in 4.0, the effort to create new APIs for plugin authors, and a lot more. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Jerome: @dochez Xav: @droidxav Tor: @tornorbye Chet: @chethaase Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Allen, Chris, Adam, part of Tor, Dan (taking the photo), and Chet. All of them are also in the monitor, but backwards. Oh, and note the gym sock being used to dampen noise on the mic. High tech stuff, ADB. In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Chris Banes, Adam Cohen, Dan Sandler, and Allen Huang about Gesture Navigation. Gesture Nav is an important UI behavior change in the Android 10 release that developers should handle and test. Chris has written Gesture Nav articles recently. This conversation goes further into the background and reasons for the change, as well as techniques for dealing with it. Note: The audio in this episode, is not up to the usual quality bar. We had the choice between recording the conversation with a non-ideal setup or not doing it at all. We chose content over quality. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Gesture Navigation: Going edge-to-edge (I) Gesture Navigation: Handling visual overlaps (II) Gesture Navigation: Handling gesture conflicts (III) Gesture Navigation: Immersive Modes (IV) Chris: @chrisbanes Dan: @dsandler Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Chet, Tor, Romain, Cyril and Zarah, laughing at something stupid funny that Chet said. Amongst the many talks and announcements at the Android Dev Summit 2019 was a hidden gem: the first ever live episode of this podcast! Chet, Romain and Tor took this opportunity to have a chat with Zarah Dominguez and Cyril Mottier. Both Zarah and Cyril work as Android app developers and are known for their presentations at various Android conferences. We talked about modernizing large codebases, Kotlin, data binding, themes & styles, and many other things. Let's not spoil the podcast here. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: ADB Live on YouTube Zarah: @zarahjutz (blog) Cyril: @cyrilmottier (blog) Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Chet, Glen, Rod, and Tor. Il n'y a pas de Romain.  In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Rod Graves and Glen Murphy from the Android UX team. We talked about various UX changes in Android over the years, as well as UI design in general. For example, Glen compared UX design to API design; trying to provide an interface for the users of your product that helps them build a mental model to better understand how everything fits and works together. Favorite acronym: "WTFY" Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Rod: @rgraves Glen: @gmurphy Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Best Practices for Unique Identifers Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Chet and Romain, featuring a complete lack of Tor. In this episode, Chet and Romain talk about talking, speak about speaking, monologue monologuing. We have a conversation about various aspects of giving presentations. Everyone has their own style and techniques, and there are no right answers for giving talks that audiences enjoy. But we all have opinions and techniques that work for us; here are some of ours. We talk about making presentations more engaging, having co-speakers, picking topics, getting practice and experience, choosing events, and all kinds of other random stuff that came up in the conversation. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Presenting Presenting (article) Top Tips for Terrible Tech Talks (video/presentation) Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Chet, Dustin and Chris In this episode, we chat with Chris Craik and Dustin Lam from the AndroidX team about benchmarking. We cover the new AndroidX benchmarking library, how to use it, and what problems it solves. If you're wondering why Chet totally took over the interview towards the end, it's not that he wouldn't share the stage; Romain and Tor had to leave early and snuck out quietly. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Benchmarking library documentation Google I/O 2019 Benchmarking talk Blurry action shot from the recording session Chris: @chris_craik Dustin: @itsdustinlam Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Romain, Anna, and (unfortunately) Chet Chet and Romain spoke with Anna Goldie from the Google Brain team about machine learning. If you ever wondered what the difference is between AI and machine learning or what deep neural networks are, then this episode is for you. To be clear, this show has nothing to do with Android, we just thought it would be an interesting topic. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Google Brain Tensor Flow TensorFlow tutorials Machine Learning on Android ML Kit Chris Olah's blog on ML models Anna: @annadgoldie Chet: @chethaase Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Tor, Andrey, Romain, and Chet (not pictured) Tor and Romain spoke with Andrey Breslav, the lead language designer at Jetbrains for Kotlin. They talked about coroutines, flow, performance, islands near St. Petersburg, evolution of the language, and many other Kotlin-y things. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: kotlinlang.org Develop Android Apps with Kotlin Andrey: @abreslav Chet: @chethaase Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Sandra, Carlos, Chet and Romain [authenticated] In this episode, Chet and Romain chat with Carlos Valdivia and Sandra Kwan from the Android Identity and Authentication team, covering related topics like authentication, ID, autofill, backup and restore, and more. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Chet: @chethaase Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.