Fireside Chat with the Android Team
summary
A wide-ranging team chat answers concrete questions: Android rewrites binder to match Java needs rather than reuse older C++ designs, Volley stores the original image on disk and resized versions in memory, and the Bluetooth stack moves from BlueDroid to support Bluetooth LE. Media work adds low-level APIs like MediaCodec and extractors for DASH/HLS and closed captions. Performance work from Project Butter remains active with a 16.66 ms frame budget, Google Play services ships new APIs (GCM, Google+ Sign‑In), and development tooling expands to support IntelliJ alongside Eclipse and Nexus‑style updates on devices like the Galaxy S4.
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chapters (27)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:40Velocity and quality
- 5:46Past Android IPC
- 7:09Update fragmentation
- 9:39Multicore parallelism NDK
- 10:42Navigation drawer design
- 12:08Design tools inspiration
- 13:32SDK JDK roadmap
- 14:34App permissions privacy
- 15:36New hardware challenges
- 17:45Future hardware innovation
- 19:09iOS apps healthcare
- 21:19Volley disk caching
- 22:04Content provider changes
- 23:31Play services API expansion
- 24:55Android global reach
- 25:38Java 7 8 compliance
- 26:39Bluetooth stack evolution
- 28:02Service discovery profile
- 28:44Up navigation patterns
- 31:18Video streaming protocols
- 33:08Project Butter jank
- 34:37Framework projects
- 36:02Audience appreciation
- 37:09Eclipse to IntelliJ
- 38:37Play console multi-user
- 40:00Secondary display support
