Julien Salvi

Lead Android Engineer @ Aircall

Into the Android world for more than 10 years, I experienced California the startup way of life before coming back to France. I am currently Lead Android Engineer at Aircall where we are building the best phone system for modern businesses. Alongside Android, I have a great interest in backend development with Kotlin and AR/VR technology. In 2021, I became an Android GDE to continue my journey to always share and learn with the Android community. In my spare time, I am a world traveler and a beer lover always looking for the best IPAs!

Let's talk Android XR 🕶️

With Android XR making a comeback, many developers are curious about what it really takes to bring existing apps into immersive environments. From experimenting with the new XR SDKs and Compose XR to revisiting lessons from Cardboard and Daydream, early adopters are uncovering both exciting opportunities and unexpected hurdles. In this roundtable, we’ll dive into the realities of porting apps to XR on Android—exploring APIs, design challenges, performance trade-offs, and common pitfalls—while asking whether XR on Android is ready for prime time. Kick-off questions: >What excites you most about XR on Android, and what worries you the most? >What kinds of apps or experiences make sense to port to XR, and which don’t? >How do existing Android design and UI patterns translate—or fail to translate—into immersive environments? >What technical or usability hurdles have you run into with the new XR SDKs and Compose XR? >Do you see Android XR as a niche experiment, or something that could become a mainstream developer platform?

So I tried to port my app to Android XR 🕶️

XR technology is back on Android! After playing a long time ago with the Cardboard VR SDK or Daydream (RIP), I wanted to experiment with the brand new XR SDKs for Android. This session will unveil the successes and failures I encountered while porting an existing application to Android XR with Compose XR during an internal hackathon. We'll go through the most important APIs, the best design practices, what you must know before jumping into the code or the common pitfalls. Was it a success? Let's find out all together!