Join this unconference-style session designed for interactive group discussion. Whether you want to share your insights or simply learn from others, everyone is welcome in this community-driven learning experience. Open-source frameworks are increasingly shaping the Android ecosystem, offering alternative solutions to Google’s standard libraries. This session will examine the practical benefits and trade-offs of adopting open-source frameworks at scale, addressing key gaps they fill and how they influence architectural decisions in mobile teams. What is the current industry balance between open-source frameworks and standard Android libraries? What challenges do state-machine architectures like Circuit, Workflow, and Appyx solve for mobile orgs? How do open-source frameworks impact long-term maintainability, scalability, and team onboarding? What are the key architectural bottlenecks in Android development today, and how do these frameworks address them? What organizational investment is required to adopt, maintain, or contribute to open-source frameworks?

Extend your reality with my talk. 🤯 Google announced a new initiative called Android XR. It will be a collection of software and hardware around extended reality hardware. This talk will be about the hardware involved, its capabilities, and quick overview on how to program it using Kotlin. But the main focus will lie on the journey of transferring a social media feed app into an XR App that uses the new extended screen estate and features available only in Android XR. After this talk you’ll be able to understand basic new functionalities of Android XR and start investigating on how to adapt your app for the new extended reality of Android App building.