title	conference	date
Practical Optimizations	AndroidMakers by droidcon 2024	2024-04-25
Shows concrete wins: profiling with the Jetpack Benchmark Library and inspecting bytecode/assembly with Cutl Explorer finds fixes that actually matter. Example… Talk on
Android Graphics: the Path to [UI] Riches	Android Makers by droidcon 2023	2023-04-27
Overview of concrete changes and demos: history from Skia (2005) explains why canvas and Paint are stateful and awkward—Paint accumulates 27 constants and… Talk on
Defensive Programming: The Best Software Development Methodology Ever Invented	Android Makers by droidcon 2023	2023-04-27
Slide claim that defensive programming is the best never becomes a methodology; instead the session demos ChatGPT and large language model behavior. Live… Talk on
The Keynote!	Android Dev Summit 2022	2022-10-24
Keynote summarizes concrete releases and wins: Jetpack Compose reaches 160 of the top 1,000 apps (a 50% increase), introduces the Compose October '22 BOM with… Talk on
Why Projects Succeed: Lessons Learned from the Android OS	DroidKaigi 2022	2022-10-05
Project begins as a camera OS, pivots to phones after a July 2005 acquisition of eight people and a JavaScript demo, then rebuilds: adds a Linux kernel with a… Talk on
Graphics for Android Developers, Part Deux	droidcon San Francisco 2022	2022-06-02
Covers concrete Android graphics APIs and tricks: constructing and chaining paths as linear/quadratic/cubic Béziers, using PathMeasure to read length and… Talk on
Why Projects Succeed: Lessons learned from the Android OS	droidcon San Francisco 2022	2022-06-02
Starts as a camera OS, gets bought by Google in 2005 with basically 3,000 lines of JavaScript, and the tiny team builds drivers, a Linux-based stack, and… Talk on
Why Projects Succeed: Lessons Learned from the Android OS	Android Makers 2022	2022-04-25
Begins as a camera OS in 2003 then pivots to phones, gets acquired in 2005 and ships Android 1.0 in 2008 after a tiny team (few dozen engineers, only three… Talk on
Creating a UI Toolkit From Scratch	Android Makers 2022	2022-04-25
A small UI toolkit called apex toolkit is built from scratch for Android and runs on a demo that draws an image and two buttons and responds to clicks… Talk on
Comedy talk	Android Makers 2022	2022-04-25
A satirical tour of architecture jargon turns acronyms into punchlines and offers testable claims: follow add widgets forever for a UI toolkit, adopt model… Talk on
Developer Keynote	Google I/O 2021	2021-05-18
A rapid tour of concrete changes and numbers that matter: Android 12 adds approximate location and new Bluetooth permissions, a restricted standby bucket and… Talk on
What's new in Android	Google I/O 2021	2021-05-18
Android 12 delivers concrete changes: a system-wide, wallpaper-driven color palette and Material NEXT theming; a new splash screen with… Talk on
Keynote: Modern Android Development	droidcon APAC 2020	2020-12-14
Summary gives concrete takeaways: Android moves Kotlin-first with 60% of pro devs using it and 70% of top apps containing Kotlin, and the team declares… Talk on
Modern Android Development	droidcon Italy 2020	2020-11-27
Claims that Android is Kotlin-first and that coroutines preferred for async work in 2020 are backed by adoption numbers: about 60% developers using Kotlin and… Talk on
Keynote: Modern Android Development	droidcon EMEA 2020	2020-10-08
Recommendation: adopt Kotlin as the primary language with coroutines for structured concurrency and the Kotlin-specific tooling (KSP, R8 optimizations); use… Talk on
Modern Android Development	Chicago Roboto 2020	2020-09-28
Concrete claims and measurable takeaways: Kotlin recommended with coroutines for async and a new KSP processor, adoption at roughly 60% of pro Android devs and… Talk on
Kotlin Uncovered	KotlinConf 2019	2019-12-04
Kotlin 1.3.61 behavior gets inspected end to end: use IntelliJ Show Kotlin Bytecode, JavaP and Procyon to decompile, and build with D8/R8 to see real output… Talk on
Opening Keynote: Android Then & Now	droidcon SF 2019	2019-11-18
A concise timeline: Android shifts from Dalvik to ART (faster runtime, shorter GC pauses), adds Treble to separate vendor drivers, and builds Jetpack libraries… Talk on
Leveling Up: Panel Discussion	droidcon SF 2019	2019-11-18
A candid panel on Android leadership lays out concrete practices and tradeoffs: orgs run Android teams of eight to seventy engineers; platform teams prioritize… Panel on
Kotlin Under the Hood	Devoxx Belgium 2019	2019-11-04
Shows concrete tools — bytecode and decompiled Java, Memory Profiler — and exact compiler behavior: enum when compiles to a generated switch mapping array… Talk on
Toward Software Quality Perfektion	Devoxx Belgium 2019	2019-11-04
Satirical claim: eliminating code eliminates bugs, so the path to “quality” is to shrink or remove engineers and re-release the same binaries under new version… Talk on
Comedy Talk	droidcon London 2019	2019-10-24
Material asserts that bugs scale with code and even offers a mock formula (lines × files × statements × conditions summed to infinity) that only yields zero… Talk
Keynote - Android: For Users and Developers	droidcon London 2019	2019-10-24
Android 10 adds resizable activities and multiple resumed activities for foldables and large screens, and adoption tools like Project Treble drive faster… Talk on
Declarative UI patterns	Google I/O 2019	2019-05-07
Jetpack Compose presents a Kotlin-based declarative UI toolkit built as a Kotlin compiler plugin that turns composable functions into widgets, interoperates… Talk on
What's new in Android	Google I/O 2019	2019-05-07
Android Q adds a developer preview of Bubbles API that ties floating chat bubbles to notifications and launches activities in resizable windows, a system-level… Talk on
Kotlin under the hood: Understand the internals	Google I/O 2019	2019-05-07
Kotlin compiles down to JVM bytecode you can inspect with Android Studio’s Bytecode/Decompile view, and the Memory Profiler reveals real allocations — a loop… Talk on
Android fireside chat	Google I/O 2019	2019-05-07
A live Q&A walks through concrete platform work: compatibility testing with CTS/VTS, shipping Android Mainline modules (media codecs), CameraX to hide OEM… Panel on
Kotlin Under the Covers	Android Makers 2019	2019-04-23
Kotlin features hide real work: the bytecode and javap and Studio bytecode viewer show boxing, generated helpers and default-parameter bitmasks; the Android… Talk on
Closing conference	Android Makers 2019	2019-04-23
A satire of corporate engineering describes a built PM IDE called Minions Studio (JetBrains collaboration) that can refactor orgs, generate visions and code… Talk on
Trash Talk	DroidKaigi 2019	2019-02-07
Examines concrete ART vs Dalvik changes: thread‑local bump allocator regions (≈256KB), finer locks, and a large object heap (>12KB) allocated with malloc to… Talk on
The Art of Photography	droidcon San Francisco 2018	2018-11-19
Ten years of work condensed into practical rules and exact settings: exposure is ISO, shutter speed, aperture — use aperture priority + auto ISO for control… Talk on
A Comedy Talk	droidcon San Francisco 2018	2018-11-19
A satirical playbook lists concrete policies: keystroke interceptors that log every typed character into a manager folder, webcams that file two‑minute clips… Talk on
Keynote	Android Dev Summit 2018	2018-11-07
Overview of platform changes and concrete wins: Android adds first-class support for foldable devices with screen continuity and resizable flags, Kotlin… Talk on
Trash talk	Android Dev Summit 2018	2018-11-07
Shows concrete ART changes and measured effects: replacement allocator RosAlloc gives ~4–5× (later ~10–18×) faster raw malloc-style allocation; a large object… Talk on
Android fireside chat	Android Dev Summit 2018	2018-11-07
Live Q&A covers concrete guidance: use WorkManager over JobScheduler for short background work, expect an Project Marble Instant Run rewrite (EAP recruiting)… Panel on
Graphics Programming with Kotlin	KotlinConf 2018	2018-10-03
Kotlin code shows concrete recipes: Android KTX provides extension properties to pack/unpack 32-bit color ints, plus destructuring operators and operator… Talk on
What's new in Android	Google I/O 2018	2018-05-08
Overview of concrete changes: Jetpack renames support library to AndroidX and ships Paging 1.0 plus WorkManager and Navigation previews; Kotlin gets D8/R8 and… Talk on
Drawn out: How Android renders	Google I/O 2018	2018-05-08
Choreographer fires at ~60Hz and the UI thread handles input, animations, measure/layout and draw, producing a DisplayList which is synced to a native render… Talk on
Modern Android development: Android Jetpack, Kotlin, and more	Google I/O 2018	2018-05-08
Current recommendations: use Android Studio’s Layout Inspector and the realtime Android Studio Profiler (CPU/memory/network/energy; native profiling on Oreo+)… Talk on
Building AR apps with the Sceneform SDK	Google I/O 2018	2018-05-08
Sceneform is an Android 3D framework that combines ARCore with a PBR renderer and an Android Studio plugin that converts models into SFA/SFB assets, supports… Talk on
Android fireside chat	Google I/O 2018	2018-05-08
Panel answers are concrete: Google endorses architecture components as the recommended, supported app pattern; Kotlin support is official since May 17, 2017… Panel on
Keynote: Modern Android Development	Android Makers 2018	2018-04-23
Keynote lists concrete recommendations: use Android Studio’s live CPU and memory profilers and the layout inspector (system trace lands in Studio 3.2 canary)… Talk on
How Android Rendering Works ...	DroidKaigi 2018	2018-02-08
Explains the full Android rendering pipeline from VSYNC (60Hz, 16.66ms) through display lists to the render thread and GPU, showing how property-only updates… Talk on
Android History, from the Inside	droidcon San Francisco 2017	2017-11-05
Insider chronology from pre-1.0 through Oreo names concrete milestones: the M3 emulator running on the internal “Sooner” device, the T‑Mobile G1 launch, live… Talk on
An Android Retrospective	DevFest Nantes 2017	2017-10-19
Chronicles Android from the 2007 prototype Sooner to Oreo, showing concrete pivots: early UI shipped with multitasking and intents; hardware acceleration… Talk on
Interview with Romain Guy	DevFest Nantes 2017	2017-10-19
A retrospective on Android’s first ten years explains how hardware improvements (memory/CPU) allowed richer UIs and animations and how early limits shaped… Interview in French on
Finding and Fixing Performance Problems	360\|AnDev 2017	2017-07-13
Uses real Play Store profiling and shows concrete wins not vague theory: finds UI thread pauses up to ~300 ms caused by heavy inflation and many views, reports… Talk on
Keynote: An Android Retrospective	Android Makers 2017	2017-04-10
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Graphics Something Android Something Performance	Devoxx US 2017	2017-03-21
Shows concrete tools and changes: FrameMetrics API (Android N) lets a Window callback deliver per-frame durations for input, animation, draw and GPU submit so… Talk on
U and I	360\|AnDev 2016	2016-07-28
Practical rules and code: use shared-element transitions and PathInterpolator and ArcMotion for curved motions, prefer drawables for window backgrounds, and… Talk on
Developing for Android: the Naughty Bits	Android Dev Summit 2015	2015-11-23
Devices often have 512 MB–3+ GB RAM, CPUs and GPUs that are throttled, and storage whose fullness slows writes, so expect pauses, fragmentation and thermal… Talk on
Android Graphics Performance	Google I/O 2013	2013-05-15
Shows concrete rendering changes: the framework now reorder and merge display list commands to cut GPU draw calls (demo drops 88 draw commands to 39) and adds… Talk on
Writing Custom Views for Android	Google I/O 2013	2013-05-15
Covers concrete practices for custom Android views: use onAttachedToWindow and onDetachedFromWindow to allocate and release resources, prefer the animation… Talk on
Fireside Chat with the Android Team	Google I/O 2013	2013-05-15
A wide-ranging team chat answers concrete questions: Android rewrites binder to match Java needs rather than reuse older C++ designs, Volley stores the… Panel on
A Moving Experience	Google I/O 2013	2013-05-15
Shows concrete Android techniques: use ViewPropertyAnimator (default ~300ms) for short, smooth effects; remove a ListView item by using stable IDs, cache child… Talk on
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