All About Android 609

• Interview with Chet Haase, Google engineer and author of "Androids: The team that built the Android Operating System"
• At what point do you realize you have a story to be told?
• What kind of clearance did you have to get to do the book?
• What is about Android that keeps some of its most senior engineering folks around?
• If the Nexus One had launched prior to the Droid, do you think it would have been a bigger hit?
• What's more important: Platform or Product within Google?
• Talk about the vision needed when building platforms.
• Is Android culture within Google still as silo'd as it was in the early days?
• Can you describe how the process of shipping a new Android feature has changed over time?
• How does the team work to keep the platform functioning and future-proof?
• How do you define Android's success in today's landscape?
• Android 13 is released.
• Android 12L is official as “Android 12.1,” rolling out now to Pixel phonesGoogle exec says Apple is ‘holding back’ customers who text.
• Google pesters Apple to support RCS in iMessage by explaining Drake's 'Texts Go Green'.
• Tim Cook dashes hopes for RCS support to arrive on iPhones.
• Google Messages has started letting some users react with any emoji.
• Google I/O 2022 takes place May 11–12 as virtual event with live keynotes.
• Android Dev Summit.
• Google Play to pilot third-party billing option, starting with Spotify.
• Google launches third-party Play Store billing pilot—but only cuts fees by 4%.
• Spotify is the first to launch non-Google Android billing in the US.
• Game Devs And Stadia Employees Alike Were Blindsided By The Sudden Shutdown.
• Android Auto is now ‘only for car screens,’ as phone version shuts down for good.
• Android Auto's Makeover Prioritizes the Map and Focuses on a Split-Screen Experience.
• Google giving app developers more time to fill the Play Store’s Data safety section.
• The Play Store's new Data Safety section is finally here to show the apps that may be invading your privacy.
• Google Play hides app permissions in favor of developer-written descriptions.
• Google Play restores the app permissions list.
• Google officially deploys app archiving through the Play Store.
• Google Infringed on Sonos Audio Patents, Trade Court Rules.
• OnePlus to offer 4 OS updates and 5 years of ‘regular’ patches for all flagships from 2023.
• Google gives us our first glimpse of the Pixel 7.
• Google unveils the Pixel Buds Pro with a custom audio chip, future Spatial Audio, and ANC.
• Google's Pixel Watch is Real, and It's Coming Later This Year.
• The Pixel Tablet is coming in 2023.
• Google Glass’s successor teased at I/O.
• Google Pixel 6a Coming This Summer, 7/7 Pro Likely to Follow This Fall.
• Pixel 6a released.
• Framework's Chromebook Is Bringing Modularity to ChromeOS.
• Samsung’s Galaxy S22 Ultra Is the Galaxy Note Reboot We've Been Waiting For.
• Everything Samsung Announced at Galaxy Unpacked.
• Galaxy S23 reportedly ditching Exynos chips, going for Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 worldwide.
• Geekbench just banned the last four years of Samsung flagships over throttling debacle.
• Carl Pei’s Nothing is working on a smartphone.
• Nothing Has Officially Launched its Phone, and It's Too Bad It's Not Coming to The U.S.
• Nothing Ear Stick Event.
• The OnePlus 10 Pro is launching globally next month with OxygenOS 12.1, not Unified OS [Update].
• The OnePlus 10T won’t have a mute switch — here’s why.
• New ‘Motorola MA1’ adapter brings wireless Android Auto to more cars for $90.
• JR's tip of the week: Walpy.
• Jetpack Compose debuts new Material Design 3 controls and expands to Android TV.
• Compose for Wear OS is now 1.0: time to build wearable apps with Compose!
• Google celebrates 5 years of Kotlin on Android.
• Google Hangouts shuts down for good today, as web app closes up shop.
• Google is combining Meet and Duo into a single app for voice and video calls.
• What's old is new again as old G Pay app becomes Google Wallet, arriving now.
• Introducing passkeys in Chrome.
• Android readying support for password-replacing ‘passkeys’ that sync to your Google Account.
• Google Play Games beta opens outside the US.
• Amazon Appstore on Windows 11.

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Links

• Androids: The Book