It can be a draw when setting up a new device. Some info transfers, while some don’t. Learn how developers can ensure the best user experience when people backup and restore an Android device. Hosts Tor and Chet are joined by Graham and Piyush on the Android Consumer Experience team  and Alon on the Android Studio team to discuss Android backup and restore.

 

Chapters:

0:00 - Introduction & the user pain point

1:38 - Why backup fails: Developer challenges

4:00 - Evolution of backup testing: From scripts to Android Studio

7:15 - Beyond testing: Backup for developer workflow

8:50 - Cross-device backup & GMS core integration

10:55 - Understanding backup types: Devices vs. Cloud

14:55 - Data categories & developer control

16:05 - System-level backup: Permissions & credentials

18:35 - Default backup pitfalls & key-value agents

28:15 - Database migrations & backup stress testing

32:04 - Automated testing framework

41:02 - Recap & feedback channels

Join Tor and Siva Velusamy and Sandhya Mohan from the Android Studio team to learn about the latest updates to Studio Bot (Gemini in Android Studio) that dropped at Google I/O 2025 including Agent Mode. Building on their conversation from two years ago about the Studio Bot, they explore Gemini’s role in every stage of development, from design to building, testing, and maintenance, the future of coding companions, and more.

Studio Bot podcast episode → https://goo.gle/3ZM0Wwx 

 

 

In this episode we talk with Kathy Korevec from the AIDA team at Google about AI assisted developer tools, such as Android Studio -- which is using Gemini AI models provided by AIDA.

Romain, Kathy, and Tor

Kathy:  twitter.com/simpsoka

Romain: @romainguy, threads.net/@romainguy, romainguy@androiddev.social

Tor: threads.net/@tor.norbye and tornorbye@androiddev.social

 

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Links:

• Coroutines overview
• Sean's series of articles about coroutines on Android
• Coroutines for Android apps
• Jetpack

Sean: @objcode
Yigit: @yigitboyar
Chet: @chethaase
Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye


Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Links:

• CameraX Overview
• CameraX presentation at I/O 2019
• CameraX Architecture
• Getting Started with CameraX code lab
• CameraX discussion group (the team is encouraging developers to reach out to this group with questions for the team)
• Jetpack

Chet: @chethaase
Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye


Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Links:

• Jetpack Compose
• Google I/O talk about Jetpack Compose
• Compose from first principles by Leland
• How to get the source code
• Browse the source online

Chet: @chethaase
Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye


Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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(listed in alphabetical order) In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor talk to Philip Simpson and Ben Trengrove from the cast of Pocket Casts. We talk about their app, coincidentally called "Pocket Casts," and how they implemented various features like Material, audio, and even how the company made a complicated weather app for a country where it's always sunny.
Oh, and we talked about some of the stuff happening at Google I/O 2019, because that's when we recorded this conversation.

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Links:

• Pocket Casts on Google Play

Philip: @geekygecko
Ben: @bentrengrove
Chet: @chethaase
Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye


Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Links:

• Jetpack Compose

Chet: @chethaase
Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye


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(shown in alphabetical order) In this episode, Chet, Tor, and Romain chat with Mel Goetz, an engineer on the Material team, about Material Design Components, the set of components for Android that implement Material Design.

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Links:

• Material spec
• Material Design Components

Mel: @melaniemgoetz
Romain: @romainguy
Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye
Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Links:

• Emulator release notes
• Source code of the emulator for the curious

Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye
Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Links:

• An Update on Project Treble - Iliyan's blog entry from November
• Episode 75: Project Treble - For the HAL of it
• Android Architecture overview

Iliyan: @imalchev
Romain: @romainguy
Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye
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Chet (not even present). Some podcasts are conversations.
Some are more like interrogations in a café. In this episode, Tor and Chet Romain talked with Michael Wright from the Android Framework team. Michael works on input, display, power manager, and haptics, which are, by amazing coincidence, exactly what they talked about.

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Links:

Romain: @romainguy
Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye




Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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In this episode Esteban de la Canal tells us everything about Apply Changes, a new feature in Android Studio 3.5 Canary destined to replace Instant Run. Why are we doing this and why is it better than Instant Run? Listen to this episode and come find out with us.

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Links:

Android Studio 3.5 Canary
Romain: @romainguy
Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye
Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

In this episode we cover ADB -- not "Android Developers Backstage", but "Android Debug Bridge", the technology powering device connections. Romain and Tor talk with Fabien Sanglard from the Android Studio team on his work to improve the debug stack -- including the new USB speed detection feature recently unveiled at Google I/O.

Chapters:

Intro (00:00)

You may know Fabien from… (00:50)

Applying relevant knowledge to Android Studio (3:28)

Communicating with remote devices and debugging (12:18)

Accommodating a debugger (13:55)

Fixed protocols and how to work around (16:10)

What other versions of ADB do you use to get the suite faster? (19:27)

Other ways to make the debugger faster  (20:38)

The differences between USB cables (21:51)

How to find the right cable (30:17)

ADB over wifi (32:41)

How to detect which usb port is faster on your laptop? (34:46)

Complexity of new cables (36:57)

Install time of APK’s (37:41)

New ways of helping full stack devs (45:44)

Final thoughts (49:19)

Viewer questions (57:54)

Romain: @romainguy, threads.net/@romainguy, romainguy@androiddev.social

Tor: threads.net/@tor.norbye and tornorbye@androiddev.social

Fabien: @fabynou, 

 

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Links:

Dave: @davey_burke
Romain: @romainguy
Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye
Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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far from the recording studio, when they finally realized 
they'd forgotten to take a picture in the studio earlier.
You'd think they'd have this process nailed by now, 
wouldn't you? I mean, 106 episodes; it's not like
it's new and all. Honestly, what level of professionalism
are we paying for here with this free service? Romain and Chet talk with Sumir Kataria and Ian Lake about the latest developments in the new WorkManager and Navigation architecture components. WorkManager is now in beta and Navigation should be in beta Real Soon Now.

Alpha? Beta? Are these all Greek to you? We try to de-mystify this naming convention and talk about how we see development and release of architecture components in general.

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Links:
WorkManager
Navigation

Sumir: @SumirKodes
Ian: @ianhlake
Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye
Chet: @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Note the winter coat; the temperatures in California had
plummeted that week all the way down into the lower 60s (F).
Brrrr! Tor, Romain, and Chet talk with Robert Greenwalt from the Android Telephony team about how the phone actually works. And text. And data. And SIM cards. And carrier networks.

It turns out that communication is kind of a important feature for phones

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Links:

Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye
Chet: @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Chet enjoyed the scenery in Monterey Our guest-scheduling failed a second time in a row, but on the heels of the Android Dev Summit we had a lot to talk about!

Chet was traveling, so it's just Romain and Tor this time. We sincerely apologize for the lack of puns in this episode!

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Links:

• Android Dev Summit - All Sessions

Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye
Chet: @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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candid and unexpected photo while working
hard in the recording studio. Tor and Romain and Chet completely failed to get a guest for this show. But fortunately, there was a bunch of stuff happening that they talked about instead. KotlinConf, GDG DevFest Ukraine, Droidcon UK, garbage collection,  tech talks, comedy talks, Android Studio releases, new Pixel phones, photography, selfies, and more. We should have a guest-fail more often!

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Links:

• Android Studio
• KotlinConf 2018 talks
• Romain's KotlinConf talk Graphics Programming with Kotlin
• Kotlin 1.3
• DevFest Ukraine 2018 Talks
• Chet's comedy talk at DevFest Ukraine
• Chet's Trash Talk (Evolution of ART GC) at DevFest Ukraine
• Droidcon UK
• Chet and Romain's Trash Talk at Droidcon UK
• Pixel 3

Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye Chet: @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

In this episode, Chet and Tor Romain Guy talk with Ben Murdoch and Matej Pfajfar from the Android ML team to talk about... ML! We talk about ML Kit, Adaptive Battery in Android 9 Pie, TensorFlow Lite, building and using ML models, and machine learning in general.

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Links:

• ML Kit
• TensorFlow Lite

Ben: @ksasq
Matej: Matej's profile
Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye Chet: @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

In this episode, Chet and Tor Yigit Boyar talk again with Chris Craik from the Android Toolkit team about RecyclerView prefetch and the new Paging library.

This is Part 2 of a much longer conversation that started in Episode 100, in which Chris talked about Android's UI hardware renderer. We created this second episode from that single, larger conversation because the topics are very different and because we just talked too darned long to stuff it all into a single episode.

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Links:

• Paging library
• RecyclerView Prefetch blogpost 
• Text Prefetch blogpost
• Database loading and paging blogpost
• Paging talk at Google I/O
• Android UI Performance talk at Google I/O

Chris: @chris_craik Yigit: @yigitboyar
Tor: @tornorbye
Chet: @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

In this episode, Chet and Tor Yigit Boyar talk with Chris Craik from the Android Toolkit team about graphics and the evolution of the UI renderer on Android.

By the way, THIS IS EPISODE 100, PEOPLE! WE MADE IT! AND THEY HAVEN'T EVEN CANCELED US YET! Sure, it's because the people that could and would cancel us don't know we exist, but I still think it's an important milestone to still be here, still recording, still posting, and still talking about random Android development stuff.

In the studio, we had a massive celebration for this amazing achievement, which consisted of recording the conversation and then returning to the office.

(This is actually part 1 of a 2-part episode; we talked so much about rendering that we made the first part into its own episode. We will carry on into non-rendering topics in the next Chris-filled episode.)

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Links:

• Paging library
• RecyclerView Prefetch blogpost 
• Text Prefetch blogpost
• Database loading and paging blogpost
• Paging talk at Google I/O
• Android UI Performance talk at Google I/O

Chris: @chris_craik Yigit: @yigitboyar
Tor: @tornorbye
Chet: @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Phil's topical t-shirt In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Phil Weaver about accessibility on Android. We talk about accessibility services, TalkBack, Switch Access, testing, and general approaches for developers to make applications that are accessible.
Oh, and we talk about "onClick bait" too.

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Links:

• Android accessibility
• Accessibility Service code lab
• Accessibility Scanner

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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giant poster rendered with Filament In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Romain about Filament, a real-time physically based rendering engine for Android (and Windows, Linux and macOS.)

We talk about graphics, graphics, and then some more graphics.

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Links:

• Filament source code: https://github.com/google/filament
• Filament documentation, the document we talk about in the podcast
• Materials documentation

Romain: google.com/+RomainGuy, @romainguy
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

In this episode, Tor, Romain, and Chet talk with Aurash Mahbod from the Play Games team at Google -- covering trends in mobile games, challenges for Android games developers, console games, and more!

 

Chapters:

Intro (00:00)

What’s Aurash working on currently? (02:40)

How much is Play store providing users with content based on previous interests? (05:29)

Longstanding games vs new games (08:34)

Mobile gaming vs console (10:07)

Are there stats on what type of games people are playing? (18:07)

Difficulties and solutions for transitioning games from various devices (21:14)

Movie corner - War Games (25:15)

How does Play console help devs optimize engagement? (26:23)

What is the breakdown of tools that devs actually use for games? (27:53)

Reducing the backend costs for devs (30:18)

Where does loyalty content surface? (34:28)

Balancing add load (35:16)

Cloud saves (38:18)

Aurash’s history with Play store (42:18)

Wrap up (42:58)

Romain: @romainguy, threads.net/@romainguy, romainguy@androiddev.social

Tor: threads.net/@tor.norbye and tornorbye@androiddev.social

Chet: @chethaase, threads.net/@chet.haase, and chethaase@androiddev.social

Aurash: https://twitter.com/aurash - @aurash

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Links:

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk talks with Patrick Robertson from the Location team about... location! We wax poetic about fine-grained location using Wifi routers (among other mechanisms), the Fused Location Provider API for apps that need location information, battery impact of location (and what we're doing to improve that), how GPS works (apparently it uses pieces of string!), and detecting 3D locations for finding where you are in a tall building.


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Links:
Fused Location Provider basics
Migrating to Fused Location Provider 
BG location limits
Wifi RTT
Raw GNSS Measurements
GNSS Raw Measurements API
Sensors

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk talks with Kyle Lampert from the Google News team about... News. Kyle is the lead of the Android app for News and discusses how the team created a rich, smooth UI experience for the reincarnation of this new News thing.

(Apologies for the audio quality: this episode was recorded while Chet was on a trip out to the Cambridge office, and the quality is not up to our usual standards. But it should suffice.)

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Links:
Google News

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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because it's so totally artistic, and not because the
studio lighting made us look like human-shaped
blue jello.  In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Isaac Katzenelson and Virgil Dobjanschi from the Android TV team. We chat about UI, existing devices, IR-vs-BLE, new devices, feature requests from Tor, and digital channel surfing. Oh, and about telivision.

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Links:
Android TV

Isaac: @lechefisaac
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Go get WorkManager and try it out - we'd love to get feedback on it as we iterate toward 1.0.

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Links:
I/O Video: Easy background processing with WorkManager
Article: Schedule tasks with WorkManager
Reference docs
Codelab

Sumir: @SumirKodes
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Links:
I/O Video: Manage UI Navigation with Navigation Controller
I/O Video: How to Smartly Use Fragments in Your UI 
Article(s): The Navigation Architecture Component

Ian: google.com/+IanLake, @ianhlake
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Links:
GitHub repository for android-ktx
Jake's talk at Google I/O




Jake: google.com/+JakeWharton, @JakeWharton
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase
Romain: google.com/+RomainGuy, @romainguy
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye


Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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(Chet is the one sporting the highly-collectible and terribly
elegant Android Toolkitty team swag jacket) In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Florina Muntenescu from Android developer relations and Clara Bayarri from the Android Toolkit team about text. The conversation spans spanning, spannables, spans, and of course spans, but also dives into some of the new text features in the P preview release, like pre-computed text measurement, magnifer, smarter Linkify, and baseline-alignment attributes.

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Links:
Spantastic text styling
Underspanding spans
Android P Developer Preview
Best practices for text on Android

Florina: @FMuntenescu
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

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Links:
Restrictions on non-SDK Interfaces

Brian: https://carlstrom.com/
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Autofill, a framework in Android 8.0 and later which provides assistance with completing forms such as passwords and credit card numbers.

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Links:
Main page: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/text/autofill.html
Sample project: https://github.com/googlesamples/android-AutofillFramework
IO presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZxwTiMH0FM
Droidcon presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hork6AsaLAc

Felipe: google.com/+FelipeLeme, @felipeal
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

In this episode, Tor, Romain, and Chet talk about one of Tor’s favorite topics: Lint! Specifically, we talk about Lint checks and the annotations that use them to enable better, more robust, and more self-documenting APIs.
Lint: It’s not just for pockets anymore.

Chapters:

Intro (00:00)

Lint checks for annotations (01:50)

Lint checks in Android (05:38)

Logic checks (07:34)

Color representations (10:01)

How does lint know the type of integer? (14:40)

Kotlin annotations (17:19)

Unsigned (20:10)

HalfFloat (22:25)

Thread annotations (25:12)

@CallSuper (28:18)

LayoutOpt (30:26)

Lint checks in AndroidX (32:00)

Restrict to annotation (36:45)

Writing your own custom Lint checks (39:51)

Lint testing framework (43:26)

Kotlin buildList Lint check example (45:25)

@Discouraged (48:15)

Wrap up (50:08)

@Deprecated Chet (50:50)

 

Romain: @romainguy, threads.net/@romainguy, romainguy@androiddev.social

Tor: threads.net/@tor.norbye and tornorbye@androiddev.social

Chet: @chethaase, threads.net/@chet.haase, and chethaase@androiddev.social

 

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position themselves in correct
order for the caption to make sense In this episode, Romain, Chet, and Tor talk with Dushan Leska from the Daydream team, which works on immersive computing. His team is currently focused on AR Core, which makes Augmented Reality happen for Android. We talk about AR, VR, probably other Rs, and lots about graphics and performance.

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Links:
Daydream developer site

Romain: google.com/+RomainGuy, @romainguy
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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pristine beauty of the recording studio In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Jeffrey van Gogh from the Tools team. Jeffrey works on R8 and D8. D8 (available in Android Studio 3.0, but off by default) is the replacement for DX, which converts your java byte code to dalvik byte code. R8 (not available yet) is an optimizing compiler, which does the same as D8, but with lots of optimizations along the way. We talk about performance, faster builds, new language features on older releases, kotlin, compiler stuff, and video games.

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Links:
D8 Preview article
R8 project on googlesource.com

Jeffrey: @jvgogh
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Chet is in the distant background (~2,500 miles west of the studio.) In this episode, Romain and Tor talk with Jean-Michel Trivi from the Android audio team. Tune in to learn about hardware speaker design, ducking and attenuation, stream types, audio tagging, audio focus, and more!

Links:

• If your activity is playing any audio, don't forget to declare what stream type the hardware volume keys should control with Activity.setVolumeControlStream(int stream)
  https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media-apps/volume-and-earphones.html
• Since Android L, use AudioAttributes to describe your use case and content for your audio playback:
  https://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/AudioAttributes.html
• Use AudioAttributes.getVolumeControlStream() to derive the stream type for volume control in your Activity
  https://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/AudioAttributes.html#getVolumeControlStream()
• A summary of what audio focus is, when and how to request and abandon audio focus, and code snippet for your focus listener:
  https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media-apps/audio-focus.html
• And finally, when Jean-Michel isn't working on Android, he's paddling
  https://youtu.be/tZC2rmUdEVk

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Jean-Michel: google.com/+JeanMichelTrivi
Romain: google.com/+RomainGuy, @romainguy
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Links:

• AIA docs: http://g.co/instantapps
• Developer stories: https://developer.android.com/stories/instant-apps.html

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Patrick: @PatrickBaumann
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

In which Chet and Tor Romain Guy talk with Nicolas Geoffray from the ART team about runtime performance, including various optimizations in the Oreo release.

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Links

• Performance and Memory Improvements in ART (Google I/O video on YouTube)

Romain: google.com/+RomainGuy, @romainguy
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor discuss the recently released Android Studio 3.0, the upcoming 3.1 preview release, KotlinConf, and whatever else happened to be on their mind last week.

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Links
Android Studio 3.0 Release Announcement
Android Studio 3.1 Preview

Romain: google.com/+RomainGuy, @romainguy
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Alex: google.com/+AlexRuiz, @alexRuiz
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
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In which Chet and Tor Dan Sandler talk with Andrea Falcone and Matt Willis from the Crashlytics team about (wait for it...) Crashlytics!

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Links

Crashlytics for Android

Andrea: @asfalcone
Matt: @mattwillis
Dan: google.com/+DanSandler, @dsandler
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
The audio this time was recorded on sub-standard portable mics and mixed by Dan and Chet. Sorry.

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Links

• Performance and Memory Improvements in ART (Google I/O video on YouTube)

Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

In this episode, Chet and Tor Dan Sandler talk with Julia Reynolds from the Android System UI team about Notifications: channels, Do-Not-Disturb, Dots, ... it's all here.

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Links

• Notification Channels
• Notification Dots

Dan: google.com/+DanSandler, @dsandler
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
The audio this time was recorded on sub-standard portable mics and mixed by Dan and Chet. Sorry.

In this episode, Tor, Romain, and Chet talk about some of the many things that happened this year in the world of Android development, including new devices and form factors, tool improvements, AndroidX features and libraries, and Jetpack Compose releases. And any tech podcast would be remiss without mentioning AI/ML, so we talk about that too.

Tor, Romain and Chet

Chapters:

Intro (00:00)

Google engineers vs Android (00:57)

Big changes of 2023 intro (3:03)

AI (3:38)

Programming with AI (5:08)

Writing with AI (8:52)

New devices from Android - Pixel fold (12:31)

Pixel watch (18:50)

Bard (19:37)

Changes in device release times (20:23)

Major changes in devices vs incremental updates (21:42)

Camera (22:40)

Platform developments - mainline modules (24:03)

More testing for Android (25:12)

Flaky tests (26:55)

Jetpack compose features (32:32)

RTO (38:00)

Shapes library and KMP (42:42)

Final thoughts on big events of 2023 (45:03)

Studio build improvements (46:43)

Baseline profiles (49:21)

Listener mail (50:45)

Where has Chet been? (52:46)

Metalava question (55:46)

Wrap up wrap up (57:00)

 

Romain: @romainguy, threads.net/@romainguy, romainguy@androiddev.social

Tor: threads.net/@tor.norbye and tornorbye@androiddev.social

Chet: @chethaase, threads.net/@chet.haase, and chethaase@androiddev.social

 

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Links

• Android in Tanenbaum's Operating Systems book
• Effie's Android Internals talk at 360|AnDev

Effie: @CodingChick
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Links

• Parcelable proposal
• Kotlin extension functions
• OkHttp
• Okio
• Retrofit
• Wire
• Moshi

Jake: google.com/+JakeWharton, @JakeWharton
Romain: google.com/+RomainGuy, @romainguy
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Links:
Here Comes Treble blog post
Shut the HAL Up blog post
Hot Shots! movie

Iliyan: @imalchev
Romain: google.com/+RomainGuy, @romainguy
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.