Android Developers Backstage

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.

Romain, Chet, Alan, Nick, and a little tiny Tor in the upper-right corner In this episode, Romain, Chet and Tor talked with Nick Anthony and Alan Viverette from the AndroidX team about... AndroidX. And Jetpack. And androidx. (Spoiler alert: androidx is the set of libraries. Jetpack is that... plus opinionated guidance. AndroidX is the name of the team that ships this stuff). We also talked about the release cadence (currently every two weeks, up from every-several-months a couple of years ago), the standards for release naming/versioning, API standards, and everything else in the world of AndroidX infrastructure and release. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links AndroidX releases Alan: /u/alanviverette Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.

Chet, Romain, Jorim, Adrian and Taran. Oh and Tor hiding the upper right. In this episode, Tor, Chet and Romain are joined by Jorim, Adrian and Taran from the Window Manager team. We discussed newly announced capabilities of the IME (Input Method Editor) in Android 11. These new APIs allow applications to react in real-time to IME animations and thus provide a more polished and seamless user experience. It also happens to be the answer to one of your most requested features: knowing when the on-screen keyboard is showing. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.

Chet, Qasid, Romain, Sally, Tor, and a very mysterious guest in a very dark room in the lower-right. In this episode, Romain, Chet and Tor talked (remotely!) with Sally Yuen and Qasid Sadiq from the Accessibility team. We discussed the kinds of tools and facilities that their team provides, and how developers can (and should!) make their applications more accessible. We talked about Accessibility Services, Talkback, Accessibility Scanner, organizational complexities of accessibility efforts, and more. Pro tip: Avoid creating custom widgets by using the built-in widgets in the platform to inherit accessibility functionality for free. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Build more accessible apps: Guide with videos and links to more resources. Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.

Tor, Chet, and Romain, remembering the way things used to be, back when there was a recording studio instead of closets at home. In this episode, Romain, Chet and Tor chat with zero guests about the current work-from-home reality, and about adjustments we've all made as we change the way we work. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.

Tor, Don, Chet, and Phil, on a video conference on Tor's machine. VCs are critical to mitigating (but not actually solving) latency issues with remote podcasts. In this first ever full-remote episode, Tor and Chet discuss audio programming with Don Turner from the Android DevRel team, and Phil Burk from the Android Audio Framework team. They chat about Oboe, low-latency audio, audio performance in general, etc. And because Don and Phil know everything about audio, more time was spent before the recording discussing how to properly record the episode than was spent actually recording the episode. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. If you enjoyed this episode you might also be interested in episode 39, about MIDI audio with Phil Burk. Phil: @philburk Don: @donturner Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.

Rahul (Work), Sumir (Manager), and Chet In this episode, Chet talks with Sumir Kataria and Rahul Ravikumar from the Android Toolkit team about Work Manager! Tune in to learn about work manager, an AndroidX library for deferrable background work, and recent changes such as on demand initialization, new lint checks, and more! Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Talks: Working with WorkManager, from the 2018 Android Dev Summit WorkManager: Beyond the basics, from the 2019 Android Dev Summit Releases & Bugs: Recent releases Link for filing issues: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/new?component=409906&template=1094197 Sumir: @SumirKodes Rahul: @tikurahul Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.