In this episode of Android Back Stage, Hosts Tor, and Chet are joined by Melba and Ralston, Software Engineers on the Compose Team, to talk about Autofill in Compose. Learn about Autofill services, best practices, and more!

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:40 - What is Autofill?
1:21 - Autofill team journey and semantics
2:15 - Defining semantics in Compose
3:29 - Bridging views and Compose for Autofill
4:23 - Developer Experience: Early autofill in Compose
7:02 - Autofill services and communication flow
7:59 - User authentication and multiple autofill services
12:53 - The Autofill flow: From tap to fill
21:56 - Handling list types and saving credentials (commit)
30:11 - The “Asteriks” bug and semantics refractor
31:09 - Performance improvements in Autofill
37:48 - Compose’s architectural advantages (composition over inheritance)
40:30 - Best practices and future improvements