Android Developers Backstage

In this episode we chat with Jon and Andrew from the Play team about the Play Store app. The Play Store recently went through a major refactoring of their app, and Jon and Andrew will guide you through the reasons why they did it, the impact on their architecture, what problems they ran into, and why they decided to adopt Jetpack Compose for the UI layer.

Jon, Romain, Andrew, Tor, and Chet

Links:

• On Play Store adopting Jetpack Compose
• Guide to app architecture
• Jetpack libraries to help you build your app

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

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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

In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor have a chat with Selim, Vadim and Lucas from the Android system UI team, discussing many of the new features in Android 12's user interface.

Top row: Vadim, Selim and Romain. Bottom row: Lucas, Tor and Chet.

Some relevant links for the Splash screen discussion:

https://goo.gle/3APByre

https://goo.gle/3zGDVeB

Selim: @selimcinek

Vadim: @vadimcaen

Chet: @chethaase

Romain: @romainguy

Tor: @tornorbye