Android Developers Backstage
Episodes
Episode 121: Benchmarking
14 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chet, Dustin and Chris In this episode, we chat with Chris Craik and Dustin Lam from the AndroidX team about benchmarking. We cover the ...
Episode 120: Machine Learning
21 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Romain, Anna, and (unfortunately) Chet Chet and Romain spoke with Anna Goldie from the Google Brain team about machine learning. If you ev...
Episode 119: Kotlin with Andrey Breslav
09 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tor, Andrey, Romain, and Chet (not pictured) Tor and Romain spoke with Andrey Breslav, the lead language designer at Jetbrains for Kotlin....
Episode 118: Authentic Podcast
02 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sandra, Carlos, Chet and Romain [authenticated] In this episode, Chet and Romain chat with Carlos Valdivia and Sandra Kwan from the Androi...
Episode 117: Kotlin Coroutines
24 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tor, Yigit, Sean, Romain and Chet doing their (co)routine. Coroutines are Kotlin's approach to asynchronous programming and they are makin...
Episode 116: CameraX
27 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chet, James, Vinit, and Tor, in reverse-polish notation. Tor and Chet talked with Vinit Modi and James Fung from the CameraX team. CameraX...
Episode 115: Jetpack Compose
12 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tor, Chuck, Leland and Romain Jetpack Compose is an unbundled UI toolkit written in Kotlin and based on the reactive programming model th...
Episode 114: Pocket Casts Cast
30 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Romain, Philip, Ben, Tor, and Chet (listed in alphabetical order) In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor talk to Philip Simpson and Ben Tre...
Episode 113: IO19
28 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tor, Romain and Chet In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor discuss the Android-related announcements at Google I/O this year -- Android Q...
Episode 112: Cutting Corners with MDC
03 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tor, Mel, Chet, and Romain (shown in alphabetical order) In this episode, Chet, Tor, and Romain chat with Mel Goetz, an engineer on the...
Episode 111: Emulator Snapshot
20 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Romain, Frank and Tor in the Studio In this episode, Romain and Tor chat with Frank from the Android Studio team. Frank works on the Androi...
Episode 110: It's all about the Treble
08 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chet, Iliyan and Tor in the Studio In this episode, Chet and Tor chat with Iliyan Malchev from Project Treble. We already covered this a...
Episode 109: Jazz Hands
22 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Michael, Tor (not pictured), Romain (not pictured), and Chet (not even present). Some podcasts are conversations. Some are more like interro...
Episode 108: Instant Re-run
06 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Esteban, Romain, Chet, and Tor in the Android Studio. Our guest-scheduling failed once again but we managed to find a guest at the very las...
Episode 107: Dave Burke
25 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Romain, Chet, Dave and Tor in the Android Studio. In this episode, we talk to Dave Burke, VP of Engineering for Android. How are features ...
Episode 106: WorkManager & Navigation
08 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tor, Romain, Sumir, Ian, and Chet pose for a candid picture far from the recording studio, when they finally realized they'd forgotten t...
Episode 105: Telephony
13 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tor, Romain, Robert, and Chet. Note the winter coat; the temperatures in California had plummeted that week all the way down into the lower 6...
Episode 104: Android Dev Summit
29 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tor and Romain working hard in the studio while Chet enjoyed the scenery in Monterey Our guest-scheduling failed a second time in a row, b...
Episode 103: Tor, Romain, and Chet Talk about Stuff
21 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tor, Romain, and Chet, caught in a totally candid and unexpected photo while working hard in the recording studio. Tor and Romain and Chet...
Episode 102: ML All the Things!
15 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ki...
Episode 101: Prefetch and Paging
01 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 100: Android Rendering
22 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
Episode 99: Accessibility Time
03 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chet, Phil, Tor, and Phil's topical t-shirt In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Phil Weaver about accessibility on Android. We talk abo...
Episode 98: Filament
19 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Romain, Chet and Tor posing behind a giant poster rendered with Filament In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Romain about Filament, a r...
Episode 97: Bluetooth
29 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tor, Andre and Chet in the studio In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Andre Eisenbach from the Device Connectivity Team about Bluetooth...
Episode 96: Location: It's Where It's At
08 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chet and Tor talk talks with Patrick Robertson from the Location team about... location! We wax poetic about fine-grained location u...
Episode 95: The New News Thing
02 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 94: TV Time
20 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chet, Isaac, Virgil, and Tor, in stark black & white, because it's so totally artistic, and not because the studio lighting made us look like...
Episode 93: WorkManager
01 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tor, Sumir, Tor, Chet, a spiral notebook (blank), and Tor In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Sumir Kataria about the new WorkManager...
Episode 92: Navigation Controller
18 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tor, Chet, Joe, and Ian (in reverse order) In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Ian Lake and Joe Baker-Malone about the new Navigation...
Episode 91: KTX
11 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chet, Romain, Jake, and Tor In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor talk with Jake Wharton about Android KTX, a set of Kotlin extensions for...
Episode 90: Spanspanspanspan
04 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Florina, Chet, and Clara (Chet is the one sporting the highly-collectible and terribly elegant Android Toolkitty team swag jacket) In this ...
Episode 89: Upon Reflection
14 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chet, Brian and Tor issuing a green screen challenge In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Brian Carlstrom from the ART team about the ne...
Episode 88: Autofill
15 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chet, Felipe and Tor In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Felipe Leme from the Android Framework team about Autofill, a framework in And...
Episode 87: ARrrrrrrr
22 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dushan, Romain, Chet, and Tor position themselves in correct order for the caption to make sense In this episode, Romain, Chet, and Tor t...
Episode 86: It's gr8!
26 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tor, Chet, and Jeffrey admire the pristine beauty of the recording studio In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Jeffrey van Gogh from ...
Episode 85: Focus on Audio
21 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Romain, Jean-Michel, and Tor. Chet is in the distant background (~2,500 miles west of the studio.) In this episode, Romain and Tor talk ...
Episode 84: Instant Apps
30 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Tor, Chet, and Patrick In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Patrick Baumann from the Instant Apps team. We cover everything from Instan...
Episode 83: The Deal of the ART
15 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In which Chet and Tor Romain Guy talk with Nicolas Geoffray from the ART team about runtime performance, including various optimizations in the Ore...
Episode 82: Tooling Around
08 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Tor, Chet and Romain discussing studios In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor discuss the recently released Android Studio 3.0, the upco...
Episode 81: Gradle Sync
06 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Tor, Alex, and Chet in the Android-related Studio In this episode, Chet and Tor sync with Alex Ruiz on Gradle, and in particular, the IDE ...
Episode 80: Crash Talk
31 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In which Chet and Tor Dan Sandler talk with Andrea Falcone and Matt Willis from the Crashlytics team about (wait for it...) Crashlytics! Subscribe...
Episode 79: Picking Up Garbage
18 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
David, Mathieu, and Chet In this episode, Chet talks with David Sehr and Mathieu Chartier from the Android Runtime (ART) team, primarily ab...
Episode 78: Notification Explication
28 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chet and Tor Dan Sandler talk with Julia Reynolds from the Android System UI team about Notifications: channels, Do-Not-Disturb, D...
Episode 77: Android Internals with Effie Barak
11 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Tor, Effie, Chet In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Effie Barak from Pinterest about Android internals and about measuring and improv...
Episode 76: Kotlin-n-stuff
01 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Romain, Chet, Jake!, and Tor In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor talk with Jake Wharton about his new role as an engineer on the Android...
Episode 75: Project Treble - for the HAL of it
17 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Iliyan, Romain, Chet, and a complete lack of Tor. In this episode, Chet and Romain (no Tor in sight. Anyone seen Tor? He was on the calenda...
Episode 74: Graphics
04 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chet, Romain, Mathias, and Tor (not pictured) in the very fancy and highly-decorated recording studio In this episode, Chet and Tor Romain ...
Episode 73: Architecture Components 2 - Persistence
18 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sergei, 3D Chet, Tor, 2D Chet, and Yigit. In this episode, Chet and Tor talk [more] with Yigit Boyar and Sergei Vasilinetc about the new ...
Episode 72: Architecture Components 1 - Lifecycle
30 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Yigit, 2D Chet, Tor, 3D Chet, and Sergei. In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Yigit Boyar and Sergei Vasilinetc about the new Architect...
Episode 71: Things
23 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chet, Lee, Ari, and Tor, in repose. In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Lee Campbell and Ari Hausman-Cohen from the Android Things team ...
Episode 70: Color
19 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chet, Romain, and Tor in the totally professional recording studio In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Romain Guy about color, spannin...
Episode 69: IO IO
05 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Dan, Chet, Chiu-Ki, Chris, Huyen, Mark, Corey, and Kaushik In this episode, Chet and !Tor talked with a veritable mob of Android app deve...
Episode 68: Profiler
02 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Tor, Esteban and Chet in the Studio. In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Esteban de la Canal about the new profiling tools in Android ...
Episode 67: Fontastic
24 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chet and Tor talk talks with Clara Bayarri and Alan Viverette about downloadable fonts, fonts in XML, EmojiCompat, and other new f...
Episode 66: Kotlin!
18 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Tor, Yigit, Chet, and Romain, in our very fancy ADB recording studio In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Romain Guy and Yigit Boyar ab...
Episode 65: Emulator
04 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chet, Huan, Jamal and Tor In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Jamal Eason and Huan Ren from the Android tools team about the emulator. ...
Episode 64: Gradleweiss
17 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chet, Jerome, Xav, Tor, and Gradle (not pictured). In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Xavier Ducrohet and Jerome Dochez from the Andr...
Episode 63: Dagger
22 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chet, Gregory and Tor in the dark In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Gregory Kick from the Java Core Libraries team at Google about D...
Episode 62: It Depends
07 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Alan Viverette and Chris Banes about random things about the Support Library: releases, AppCompat, drawable...
Episode 61: Kernel Panic
14 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chet speaks with Rom Lemarchand from the Android Systems team. Tune in to hear about the new A/B system updates, kernel patches a...
Episode 60: Huyen Tue Dao
17 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chet goes Tor-less and speaks with Huyen Tue Dao, an Android developer at Trello, about conferences, learning new things in Androi...
Episode 59: Buncha New Stuff
01 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Chet and Tor. Just Chet and Tor. Nobody else. In this episode, Chet and Tor find themselves without a guest so they spend the episode tal...
Episode 58: Quick Settings
10 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Chet, Jason, and Tor, not necessarily in that order. You can see, in the background, the beautifully appointed high-tech recording studio ...
Episode 57: Espresso Test Recorder
21 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Stas Negara from the Firebase team about the Espresso Test Recorder, a feature in Android Studio which lets...
Episode 56: In The Beginning
05 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Ficus Kirkpatrick about the early days of Android. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio fil...
Episode 55: Glide
31 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Chet, Sam and Romain In this episode, Chet and Romain talk with Sam Judd from the Google Photos team about Glide, an image loading and cac...
Episode 54: AAPT
10 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Adam Lesinski from the Android framework team. Adam works on aapt (Android Asset Packaging Tool), which comp...
Episode 53: ADB on ADB
20 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Elliott Hughes from the native tools and libraries team. He and his team work on ADB, the NDK, and a host of...
Episode 52: Multi Window of Opportunity
06 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Rob, Chet, and Tor in our totally professional recording studio with sophisticated sound baffling equipment. In this episode, Chet and T...
Episode 51: Swisstem UI
24 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Chet, Tor, Jorim, Selim and Adrian In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Jorim Jaggi, Selim Cinek and Adrian Roos from the System UI t...
Episode 50: Constraint Layout
02 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Chet, Tor, Romain, Nicolas and John (mysteriously shadowed) In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Romain Guy, Nicolas Roard and John H...
Episode 49: What's New in N
21 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Chet, Romain, and Tor (mysteriously shadowed) In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Romain Guy about some of the new features in the And...
Episode 48: ExoPlayer
10 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Oliver and Chet In this episode, Chet visits the Google's Android office in London and chats with Oliver Woodman about ExoPlayer, an applic...
Episode 47: That Syncing Feeling
21 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chet and Tor talk to Chris Tate from the Android framework team about cloud sync and backup, alarms and scheduling jobs. Subscribe ...
Episode 46: Softwear
30 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Tor and Chet* talk with Zak Cohen from the Android Wear team in London about his work on watch faces, graphics, and many other Andro...
Episode 45: State of the ART
17 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Tor, Brian, Anwar and Chet In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Brian Carlstrom and Anwar Ghuloum about Android N preview, and in parti...
Episode 44: Power On
07 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Chet, Ashish, Meghan, and Tor wait uncomfortably for the photograph to be taken In this episode, Tor and Chet talk with Ashish Sharma and ...
Episode 43: Keyboard Input
12 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Tor and I talk with Shumin Zhai of Google Research. Shumin has worked for years in the area of language processing, specifically arou...
Episode 42: Tool Time
28 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The fancy ADB recording studio, with our featured guest. In this episode, Tor and I talk with... each other. This episode is all about Andr...
Episode 41: RecyclerView
19 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we recycle our guest list to bring back a former guest, Yigit Boyar, this time to talk about the RecyclerView widget. Subscribe to t...
Episode 40: Material World
11 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This time, Tor and Chet talk with Nicholas Jitkoff from the Material group about... Material Design. And design in general. And engineering. And spl...
Episode 39: MIDI
19 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Chet, Phil, and Tor. And a lot of totally professional sound baffles This time, Tor and Chet get all musical with Phil Burk from the Andro...
Episode 38: Fingerprint
11 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this, er, impressive episode, Tor and Chet talk with Jim Miller from the Android System UI team. We mostly chat about the new fingerprint feature...
Episode 37: Webview
04 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Richard, Chet, Ben, and not Tor in the spacious London studio In this Tor-less episode, Chet talks with Ben Murdoch and Richard Coles from ...
Episode 36: UX Rules
15 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Rachel Garb from the Android User Experience team. Tune in to hear about interaction design and about how the Androi...
Episode 35: Data Bound
15 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we chat with George Mount and Yigit Boyar from the Android UI Toolkit team. Yigit and George worked on the new Data Binding feature a...
Episode 34: Really Nearby
09 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we chat with Andrew Bunner and Akshay Kannan from the Nearby team. Nearby is a technology that allows devices that are, er, nearby to...
Episode 33: Permission Mission
21 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we chat with Ben Poiesz, a product manager on the Android framework about the exciting new Permissions model in Android M. Subscribe...
Episode 32: Leak Canary
31 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we chat with Pierre-Yves Ricau (aka @Piwai, for his initials P and Y and for the benefit of non-French-speakers that find "Pierre-Yve...
Episode 31: Graphics Performance
20 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This time, Tor and Chet are joined by Chris Craik from the Android UI Toolkit team. Chris took time out of his busy schedule of writing performance-te...
Episode 30: Android Design Library
01 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This time, Tor and Chet are joined by Chris Banes (again!) to talk about the new Android Design Library, which was released at Google I/O 2015. Listen...
Episode 29: Tor vs. Chet
10 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This time, Tor and Chet are joined by Chet and Tor when they are once again unexpectedly blown off by a special guest. Fortunately, there was plenty t...
Episode 28: Chiu-Ki Chat
06 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This time, Tor and Chet are joined by Chiu-Ki Chan, an external developer and frequent presenter about Android developer. Hear us talk about custom vi...
Episode 27: A Couple of Tools
20 May 2015
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This time, Tor and Chet are joined by... nobody. Instead, we just talk among ourselves about tools. From Android Studio to performance debugging tools...
Episode 26: Fit
08 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Tor and Chet are joined by Gustavo Moura from the Google Fit team. We talk about the Google Fit app, but also about the GMS Core and REST APIs that en...
Episode 25: Espresso
23 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Tor and Chet are joined by Thomas Knych and Valera Zakharov from the Espresso team at Google. This episode is all about testing. We talk about how Esp...
Episode 24: Roman Holiday
10 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Tor and Chet are joined by Roman Nurik from the Android Developer Relations team. We talk about Asset Studio to the Muzei wallpaper to Material Design...
Episode 23: Re: In Car Nation
20 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Tor and Chet are joined by Gabriel Peal from the Android Auto team. We talk about... cars! And dashboard entertainment systems, and notifications, and...
Episode 22: Wear Wolves
25 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Tor and Chet are joined by Justin Koh and Griff Hazen from the Android Wear team. We talk about watches, notifications, watch faces, data, apps, servi...