>> Narrator: From San Francisco, it's theCUBE. Covering Samsung Developer Conference 2017. Brought to you by Samsung. (cheerful music) >> Welcome back everyone, live here from San Fransisco, Moscone West, at the Samsung Developer Conference, 2017 #SDC2017. I'm John Furrier, cohost of theCUBE, co-founder of Silicon Angle Media. My next guest, Hilary Karls, Senior Software Engineer at Uber. Great to have you on, welcome to theCUBE. >> Thank you for having me. >> Great to have a female engineer for Uber, pun intended. In all seriousness, thanks for coming out, appreciate it. >> Oh, my pleasure. >> Love talking tech here; Samsung obviously is huge with Android, that's what you do. What do you do with Uber? Let's get that out on the table. What's your role at Uber as an engineer? >> I'm an Android engineer, I work on UberEATS, which is our food delivery product. I've been at Uber for about three years now. So I've gotten to see UberEATS grow from just a tiny operations experiment, in LA, all the way up to being in over 120 cities and having its own app. >> Uber's got that great culture; trying new things. Love the iteration and our family uses the competitor, DoorDash, and I can't wait for UberEATS to come to Palo Alto. Is it in Palo Alto yet? >> Yeah, it is. >> I better try it out. Bring me a discount, can you send me a little discount code? >> Yeah, I can definitely send you a discount code. >> Okay good, got that out of the way. Got my free phone here from Samsung, as well. Thank you Samsung for the free phone. So let's talk about Samsung, obviously this is a developer's conference, you're on the front line, building the app on the Android side. >> Yeah >> Google was on stage yesterday so there it is, it's all out there, Samsung innovating with the handset. Great reviews on the new 8, great screen. This is an Apple-esque going on here. They're there, they got an iOT strategy, so they're bringing together lifestyle. >> Yeah. >> Okay, this is the new user experience. Okay, so has Android gone up? They got Bixby. >> They got Bixby, yeah. >> What's your experience with Android and developing in the environment? >> Well I've been developing on Android for about four or five years now, and it's wonderful. It's open, it enables you to actually go and build. Using more of the APIs and having more ability to connect into the phone itself. To be honest, I love it. It's one of those where you actually get to take your ideas and ship it out to a much broader range of people. >> Build things that are still very very beautiful and very usable to people. >> I was talking with Sam Ramji, who's heading up Cloud product management at Google, as well as, developer programs across Google. We were talking at VM World, and I know their conference is more Cloud oriented. >> Hmm Hmm >> Talking about the user experience and Google is hyper-focused on building open-sourced libraries. >> Hmm Hmm >> So Google is going to be contributing all this goodness, you got the tensor flow, you got all this innovations going on at Google, that's translating to the edge of the network, we're seeing that with Samsung. House devices are great, you got TVs that are known for that, but connecting the smart things is really their strategy. As a developer, how do you look at that landscape, because you're looking at now tons of open source goodness coming in, from Google and then the communities, Android leveling up on capability. >> Hmm hmm >> And with the open APIs, where do you try to navigate, how do you extract the signal from the noise in the community? >> Well basically, you look for whatever libraries are actually used very heavily by people that have latest commands. If it comes from something like from Google, or from other really strong reputed open source players, like Square, you'll end up seeing adoption of that a lot more. When you then go into internet of things, it becomes also like how you see community - the chicken and egg thing. Is this the best opportunity to go for right now? Is the community there, can I monetize this? How do you integrate it? >> Yeah, that's the big question, what's the integration? So let me ask you a question on the Android. In your opinion, Android, Apple IOS, leveled up, in terms of capability? >> Pretty much, yeah. >> What's the difference between IOS and the Android, if you could explain to someone that's knocking on the door of both developer communities. >> Well basically, I would go for who you were trying to go for first. Are you trying to target the U.S, and trying to target that higher end of consumer? Or are you trying to have a mass appeal? For a lot of small start-ups, I'd actually say go IOS first, it makes sense. But when you want to bring it to the global market that's when you really, really, really need Android. When you want to bring it to places around the world where there are more Androids than IOS, that's definitely something that just needs that core experience. >> Is there anything that Android has, because it seems to me that Android has a lot more unique opportunities to customize. >> Yes. >> I think that seems to appeal to developers. When I look at our data, we look at our audience, I'll see the general purpose, I call general purpose Apple because Apple is like fine jewelry. Everyone wants to have the high-end suits, and the high-end code, whatever. But, you don't have the flexibility because it's kind of a walled garden from Java's standpoint. You have the open garden with the Android, that community, their playing more in open source, you're seeing block chain, you're seeing all these kinds of cool communities. What are some of the things that Android offers in this open approach that you like? Is there things that jump out at you? >> Well a lot of it's the ability to get customized, to have better security controls, to have widgets on your home screen. From a developer's standpoint, to have more flexibility about when you ask for permissions vs. when you don't. Also, the richness of the notifications, we've had that for a while on Android. It's like you can do actions and have things animate and keep things like progress bars on there for quite some time and IOS is finally catching up to that. >> And you're happy with Android? >> Oh, very much so. >> Alright, so what's your take on this show at Samsung? What's your vibe on the show, feeling, they got some good stuff? When do they need to work on things? >> Ummm. >> Give me the positive review and then give me the critical what they can do better? >> Yeah, I think actually bringing everything together in a connected cloud makes a lot of sense. Developers don't really like fragmented APIs. If you have to actually go talk to five or six different services to get something done, that's a lot more effort and a lot more overhead of understanding of how to connect to each one. So bringing it all together in one place, especially if that can have the overhead of, handle the overhead, making it secure, and doing data storage, and all that stuff, makes a lot of sense. >> Awesome. Hilary, final question for ya, personal question, put you on the spot here. What's the coolest thing you've built this past couple of years? That you coded, could be anything. >> Ohhh. >> What's the coolest thing that you feel >> Personally? >> Yeah. >> Alright, so I guess it was a year and a half now, there was a team of four of us that build the new Android Eats app. Built it from scratch in about three and a half months It was a team that was magical and never happens in Silicon Valley. It was three women and a latino dude, and we shipped it. >> No way. >> Yeah. >> Three months? >> Yeah, three and a half months. Starting in September, shipping early. >> We're talking, on the drawing board, on the design, >> Yeah. Literally, start to end. First line of code in early September, end of code writing, like wrapping and shipping it up right before Christmas. >> That's the new format, three women and a latino dude. (laughing) Congratulations, anything you'd like to share with the audience about the development scene here, what you're thinking about, what you're passionate about? >> I really really loved the piece of using technology to build more human connection, better humanity. I thought that was amazing; that piece was really inspiring to me. >> This is the new lifestyle tech is coming. The consumerization, blending analog, and digital together. This is the new normal from fashion tech, to UberEats. Congratulations, thanks for coming on theCUBE, Hilary Karls, Senior Software Engineer at Uber. This is theCUBE's live coverage of Samsung Developer Conference 2017, in San Francisco. I'm John Furrier, we'll be back with more after this short break. (cheerful music)