Android Developers Backstage

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

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

In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor have a chat with Gabriel Peal from Tonal, well known for his contributions to the Android community on projects such as Mavericks and Lottie. We talked about Lottie and how it helps designers and developers deliver more delightful user experiences by taking complex animations designed in specialized authoring tools such as After Effects, and rendering them efficiently on mobile devices. We also explored the challenges of designing and implementing a rendering engine such as Lottie. Romain, Gabriel, Tor, and Chet Related info: Lottie LottieFiles Mavericks Gabriel: @gpeal8 Chet: @chethaase Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye

In this episode, Tor and Nick are joined by Chris Sinco, Diego Perez and Nicolas Roard to discuss the features added to Android Studio for Jetpack Compose. They discuss the Compose preview, interactive preview, animation inspector and additions to the Layout inspector and their approach to create tooling to support the Compose's code-centric approach. Diego, Tor, Chris, Nicolas and Nick tooling around. Tooling guide