Episode 139: AndroidX. Jetpack. AndroidX. Jetpack. Whatever.

Android Developers Backstage

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Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 21:25:05 +0000

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VjULlAKxu5Q/XsLzm_e-mDI/AAAAAAAAO7k/jlmBfXcfomMyG3yqmygxEfasfsSuizIXQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-04-29%2Bat%2B2.17.51%2BPM.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"> <img border="0" height="183" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VjULlAKxu5Q/XsLzm_e-mDI/AAAAAAAAO7k/jlmBfXcfomMyG3yqmygxEfasfsSuizIXQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-04-29%2Bat%2B2.17.51%2BPM.png" width="320" /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Romain, Chet, Alan, Nick, and a little tiny Tor<br /> in the upper-right corner</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> In this episode, Romain, Chet and Tor talked with Nick Anthony and Alan Viverette from the AndroidX team about... AndroidX. And Jetpack. And <span>androidx</span>. (Spoiler alert: <span>androidx</span> is the set of libraries. Jetpack is that... plus opinionated guidance. AndroidX is the name of the team that ships this stuff).<br /> <br /> We also talked about the release cadence (currently every two weeks, up from every-several-<i>months</i> a couple of years ago), the standards for release naming/versioning, API standards, and everything else in the world of AndroidX infrastructure and release.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Subscribe to the <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/AndroidDevelopersBackstage" target="_blank">podcast feed</a> or download the <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/androiddevelopers/android_developers_backstage/ADB%20139%20AndroidX.mp3" target="_blank">audio file</a> directly.<br /> <br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;">Links</h3> <a href="https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/versions">AndroidX releases</a><br /> <br /> <b>Alan</b>: <a href="http://reddit.com/u/alanviverette">/u/alanviverette</a><br /> <b>Chet</b>: <a href="http://twitter.com/chethaase" target="_blank">@chethaase</a><br /> <b>Tor</b>: <a href="http://twitter.com/tornorbye" target="_blank">@tornorbye</a><br /> <b>Romain</b>: <a href="http://twitter.com/romainguy" target="_blank">@romainguy</a><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><br /></i><i><br /></i><i>Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.</i></div> </div> <img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/AndroidDevelopersBackstage/~4/yGUZblzFdA0" width="1" />