Best Androiddevelopment Podcasts (2025)

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115 - Gemini in Android Studio, Enhancing Safety and Security, and more! 10:18

22h ago10:18

10:18

Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what's new and notable in the world of Android development. In this episode, we’ll cover Android 16 beta 3, Gemini in Android Studio for Business and Multimodal, Android XR, Media and Camera updates, and much more. Resources: Samsung's One UI 7 → https://goo.gle/42Ubuvv Quality Tiers → https://goo.gl…

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73: Mobile GraphQL at Meta in 2025 42:43

30d ago42:43

42:43

Join Pascal and Sabrina on the latest Meta Tech Podcast episode as they discuss the evolution and future of GraphQL. From client-side consistency to innovative APIs, learn how GraphQL is making developers' lives easier and enhancing user experiences. Discover surprising insights into the challenges of building a mobile GraphQL platform and how it's…

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114 - Google I/O 2025, Android Studio at 10, Android 16 Betas, and more! 6:27

1M ago6:27

6:27

Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what's new and notable in the world of Android development. In this episode, we’ll cover the return of Google I/O, Android Studio Turning 10, the Android 16 Betas, Imagen in Firebase, the latest in AndroidX, and more! For links to these items, check out Now in Android #114 on Medium → https://goo.gle…

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72: Multimodal AI for Ray-Ban Meta glasses 39:34

2M ago39:34

39:34

In this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, host Pascal sits down with Shane, a research scientist at Meta, to explore the cutting-edge research behind Ray-Ban Meta glasses. Shane shares insights from his seven-year journey at Meta, where he focuses on computer vision and multimodal AI within the Wearables AI organization. Tune in to learn how Shane'…

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71: Translating Java to Kotlin at Scale 38:09

3M ago38:09

38:09

How do you translate roughly ten million lines of Java code to Kotlin? Clicking in your the IDE gets pretty repetitive after a while and doesn’t work if you have custom APIs and requirements for null safety. Eve and Jocelyn, two software engineers on the Mobile Infra Codebases Team have taken on this challenge and talk host Pascal through the unexp…

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113 - Android 16 Developer Preview 2, Android XR, Android Studio Ladybug, and more! 7:04

3M ago7:04

7:04

Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what's new and notable in the world of Android development. In this episode, we’ll cover updates on the Second Developer Preview of Android 16, Android XR, Spotlight Week on Android Camera and Media, Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop and more! For links to these items, check out Now in Android #113…

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70: Jetpack Compose at Meta 44:30

4M ago44:30

44:30

Introducing a new Android UI Framework like Jetpack Compose into an existing app is easy right? Import some AARs and code away. But what if your app has specific performance goals to meet, has existing design components, integrations with navigation and logging frameworks? That is where Summer and her team come in who handle large-scale migrations …

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112 - Android 16 Developer Preview 1, Passkeys Spotlight Week, and more! 9:19

4M ago9:19

9:19

Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what's new and notable in the world of Android development. In this episode, we’ll cover the First Developer Preview of Android 16, our Spotlight Week on Passkeys, Stability and Performance Improvements to the Android Emulator and more! For links to these items, check out Now in Android #112 on Mediu…

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69: To type or not to type — measuring productivity impact with DAT 40:21

5M ago40:21

40:21

Do types actually make you more productive or is it just more typing for you to do on the keyboard? That's just one of the questions we managed to answer at least on a small scale with Diff Authoring Time or DAT, here at Meta. Want to know how we leverage metrics to run experiments on productivity in our internal codebase? Tune in to episode 69. Go…

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111 - Android API level and schedule updates, Gemini in Android Studio, Google Play 8:27

6M ago8:27

8:27

Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what's new and notable in the world of Android development. In this episode, we’ll cover Android API level and schedule updates, Gemini in Android Studio, Google Play, Spotlight weeks on Adaptive Android Apps and Android AI, and more! For links to these items, check out Now in Android #111 on Medium …

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68: How to Build a Mixed Reality Headset 34:52

6M ago34:52

34:52

How do you build your own mixed reality headset from sketch to scale? That's exactly what Alfred Jones, VP of hardware engineering at Meta Reality Labs, discussed with host Pascal. From choosing the right display technology, battery, thermal budget and of course hitting the right price point. How he manages to not fall victim to choice paralysis an…

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110 - Android 15, Credential Manager, Android Studio Koala, Compose for TV, & more 9:29

7M ago9:29

9:29

Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what's new and notable in the world of Android development. In this episode, we’ll cover key features and improvements in Android 15, the latest Pixel updates, new tools in Android Studio, inspiring developer journeys, and much more. For links to these items, check out Now in Android #110 on Medium W…

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67: Measuring Developer Productivity with Diff Authoring Time 37:01

7M ago37:01

37:01

At Meta, engineers are our biggest asset which is why we have an entire org tasked with making them as productive as possible. But how do you know if your projects for improving developer experience are actually successful? For any other product, you would run an A/B test but that requires metrics and how do you measure developer productivity? Sari…

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66: Inside Bento - Serverless Jupyter Notebooks at Meta 44:21

8M ago44:21

44:21

Bento is Meta’s internal distribution of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web-based computing platform. Host Pascal is joined by Steve who worked with his team on building many features on top of Jupyter, including scheduled notebooks, sharing with colleagues and running notebooks without a remote server component by leveraging Webassembly in the …

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109 - Android 15 Beta 4, Samsung Galaxy Unpacked, Google Play's new feature, and more! 5:42

8M ago5:42

5:42

Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what's new and notable in the world of Android development. In this episode, Android 15 Beta 4, Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event, Google Play’s new collection feature, lots of stable AndroidX release, and much more! For links to these items, check out Now in Android #109 on Medium → https://goo.gle/3M…

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65: Getting Ready for Post-Quantum Cryptography 35:49

9M ago35:49

35:49

We don’t know when but at some point in the future we will face what researchers call a "Quantum Apocalypse". This is when quantum computers will be able to break many of our existing encryption algorithms. To keep Meta’a users safe even from attacks that don’t even exist today, Sheran and Rafael are working on post-quantum-ready encryption. Tune i…

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64: Caddy - Building the next generation of CAD software for Mixed Reality 1:04:19

10M ago1:04:19

1:04:19

After sitting in one too many Zoom meetings looking at flat images of 3D models, mechanical engineers Ed, Jason, Fan, and Raghavan decided that they could do better, taught themselves how to code and started to build Caddy - a CAD app for mixed reality. Tune in to episode 64 to hear their story. Got feedback? Send it to us on Threads (https://threa…

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108 - Android 15 Beta 3, Google AI Studio, Gemini in Android Studio, and more! 4:34

10M ago4:34

4:34

Welcome to episode 108 of Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what's new and notable in the world of Android development. Today, we’ll cover Android 15 Beta 3, two Compose case studies, Google AI Studio, Gemini in Android Studio, and lots of stable AndroidX releases. Now in Android podcast → https://goo.gle/podcast-nia Now in Android articles → h…

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107 - KotlinConf, Android Studio updates, I/O recaps, AndroidX updates, and more! 4:06

11M ago4:06

4:06

Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what's new and notable in the world of Android development. In this episode we’ll cover Google @ KotlinConf, Android Studio updates, I/O recaps, AndroidX updates, and more! For links to these items, check out Now in Android #107 on Medium → https://goo.gle/3KI8qZO Now in Android podcast → https://goo…

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106 - I/O ‘24, Android 15, KMP, Compose, AndroidX, and more! 6:18

11M ago6:18

6:18

Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. In this episode we’ll cover I/O’24, Android 15, KMP, Compose, AndroidX, and more! For links to these items, check out Now in Android #106 on Medium → https://goo.gle/3R5SYua Now in Android podcast → https://goo.gle/podcast-nia Now in Android…

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63: The key to a happy Rust/C++ relationship 45:00

11M ago45:00

45:00

Aida was part of one of the first Rust teams here at Meta. One of the biggest challenges was interacting with the large amount of existing C++. With the release of cxx, safe interop between C++ and even async Rust has become a lot easier. Got feedback? Send it to us on Threads (https://threads.net/@metatechpod), Twitter (https://twitter.com/metatec…

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104 - Android Studio Jellyfish, A/B testing power consumption, AndroidX, and more! 4:02

12M ago4:02

4:02

Welcome to Now in Android your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. In this final episode before Google I/O 2024, we’ll cover Android Studio Jellyfish, A/B testing power consumption with the new Power Profiler, and the new AndroidX releases! For links to these items, check out Now in Android #104 on Medium → …

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62: Building Threads for Web 40:07

1y ago40:07

40:07

The basic version of Threads for web was built in just under three months by two engineers, mirroring the nimble engineering practices we talked about on this podcast before when it came to launching Threads for Android and iOS. In this episode, Pascal is joined by Ally and Kevin, two engineers on the Threads Web team. They talk about how shared in…

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103 - Android 15 Beta, Gemini in Android Studio, Google Drive improvements, & more! 3:44

1y ago3:44

3:44

Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. Today, we’re covering the Android 15 Beta release, how Android Studio uses Gemini Pro to make Android development faster and easier, a story about how Google Drive cut code and development time in half, and how to use Dependency Injection in…

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102 - Google I/O 2024, Women's History Month, Vulkan on Android, and more! 4:45

1y ago4:45

4:45

Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. Today, we’re covering updates on Google I/O 2024, Women's History Month, Vulkan on Android, and much more! For links to these items, check out Now in Android #102 on Medium → https://goo.gle/4aL0ORj Now in Android podcast → https://goo.gle/p…

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101 - Android 15 Developer Preview 2, #TheAndroidShow, the Google I/O date, & more! 5:24

1y ago5:24

5:24

Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. Today, we’re covering updates on Android 15 Developer Preview 2, a recap from #TheAndroidShow, the Google I/O date for this year, and much more! For links to these items, check out Now in Android #101 on Medium → https://goo.gle/4aeO2tY Now …

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61: Image Quality Improvements at Scale 37:29

1y ago37:29

37:29

Every day, trillions of image download requests are made from Meta’s family of apps. Zuzanna works on the Media Platform Team that owns the entire flow from serving images from the CDN to displaying the pixels on your phone. One of the project she and her team recently worked on was rolling out HDR images to Instagram and Threads and in this episod…

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100 - Android 15 DP 1, Stable Studio Iguana, Cloud Photo Picker, and more! 6:20

1y ago6:20

6:20

Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. Today, we’re covering the first developer preview of Android 15, the stable release of Android Studio Iguana, ML Kit Document Scanning, the Wear OS Hybrid Interface, Nested Scrolling, Strong Skipping, and Shape Morphing in Compose, and more!…

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60: Simplified Executable Deployment with DotSlash 40:40

1y ago40:40

40:40

Distributing binaries and toolchains to developers is a pain but DotSlash makes it a breeze. Instead of committing large, platform-specific executables to your repository, DotSlash combines a fast Rust program with a JSON manifest prefixed with a #! to transparently fetch and execute the binary you need. Tune in to our interview with Andres and Mic…

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99 - Jetpack Compose update, Google AI on Samsung Galaxy, Play recovery tools, and more! 4:31

1y ago4:31

4:31

Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what's new and notable in the world of Android development. In this episode, we’ll cover updates in Jetpack Compose and other Jetpack libraries, Gemini on Samsung Galaxy, Play recovery tools, and more! For links to these items, check out Now in Android #99 on Medium → https://goo.gle/42w8Pq6 Now in A…

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59: Meta ❤️ Python 3.12 38:13

1y ago38:13

38:13

For the second time in just a few months, we are talking Python on the Meta Tech Podcast. Python 3.12 features a whole range of new features, many of which were contributed by Meta. Carl and Itamar join Pascal to talk about their contributions to the latest release, including new hooks that allow for custom JITs like Cinder, Immortal Objects, impro…

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98 - Gemini Pro, Google AI SDK, Google AI Studio, Cast, Rust, and more! 6:00

1+ y ago6:00

6:00

Welcome to Now in Android, the first installment for 2024 of your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. In this article we’ll cover Gemini Pro, Google AI SDK, Google AI Studio, Cast, Rust, and more! For links to these items, check out Now in Android #98 on Medium → https://goo.gle/4b9s4cT Now in Android podcas…

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58: Advancing GenAI at Meta 30:10

1+ y ago30:10

30:10

For this last episode of 2024, Pascal talks with Devi, an AI research director at Meta. They talk about the history of AI at Meta, some of the basic terms, how Meta's approach to developing and using AI differs notably from other companies and what the future has in store. Got feedback? Send it to us on Threads (https://threads.net/@metatechpod), T…

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97 - Gemini, AICore, ML Kit, Android Studio Hedgehog, and more! 4:43

1+ y ago4:43

4:43

Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. Today, we’re covering updates on the most capable AI model yet Gemini, ML Kit Subject Segmentation API, Android Studio Hedgehog, articles, videos, and more! For links to these items, check out Now in Android #97 on Medium → https://goo.gle/3…

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