Interview with Romain Guy

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A retrospective on Android’s first ten years explains how hardware improvements (memory/CPU) allowed richer UIs and animations and how early limits shaped Android’s architecture. Covers running the low-level graphics layer with day-to-day C++ work, a short robotics detour, hiring Jack Warden to accelerate Kotlin adoption, experiments in AR and new projects, and growth from ~50–60 engineers to a much larger team enabling features and tooling across Wear, TV, Auto and Pixel hardware.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:00Role at Google
3. 2:30Kotlin projects
4. 3:40Android evolution
5. 5:00Team size
6. 5:40Project limits
7. 6:00France vs US
8. 7:30Careers and recognition
9. 8:00Daily life at Google
10. 10:00Internal mobility
11. 11:20Devoxx 2023

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