Breana Tate

Developer Relations Engineer, Android

Developer Relations Engineer at Google focused on Background Work. Based in New York City.

"Ask Android" Office Hours

Get answers to all your pressing questions in Q&A sessions with Google's Android DevRel team.

"Ask Android" Office Hours

Get answers to all your pressing questions in Q&A sessions with Google's Android DevRel team.

"Ask Android" Office Hours

Get answers to all your pressing questions in Q&A sessions with Google's Android DevRel team.

Modern best practices for background task execution using WorkManager and JobScheduler

How do you make sure finished work is actually a job well done? Not just with Result.Success( )! This talk will cover how to reliably execute tasks in the background using modern Android APIs. Learn what situations are better suited for WorkManager vs JobScheduler and the fundamentals of scheduling and debugging a worker. We’ll also explore how to examine the reliability of your jobs and workers using specific metrics, and what data you can start collecting today to glean insights into your app’s overall background task efficiency.