Episode 116: CameraX

Chet, James, Vinit, and Tor, in reverse-polish notation.

Tor and Chet talked with Vinit Modi and James Fung from the CameraX team. CameraX is a Jetpack support library that released in alpha form at Google I/O 2019. It offers developers an easier way to embed camera functionality while performing more consistently across Android versions (back to Lollipop) and across various devices.

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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.

Episode 115: Jetpack Compose

Tor, Chuck, Leland and Romain

Jetpack Compose is an unbundled UI toolkit written in Kotlin and based on the reactive programming model that was recently introduced at Google I/O. Compose is not ready for production yet but is now being developed in the open on AOSP. In this episode Tor and Romain have a chat with Chuck and Leland to discuss how Jetpack Compose works and some of the goals and ideas behind its design.

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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.