From San Francisco, it's the CUBE covering Samsung Developer Conference 2017 brought to you by Samsung. Okay welcome back everyone. Live here in San Francisco at Moscone West is the CUBE's exclusive coverage of Samsung Developer Conference. I'm John Furrier, the co-founder of Silicon Angle as well as the co-host of the CUBE. Our next guest is from PostMates, Prerak Trivedi, who is the senior Android developer at PostMates. So, mobile apps, got to have the food, you guys do the food delivery in any city; you're all over the place. How many cities are you guys in? >> I think it's more than 50 markets now. >> Really big time. Welcome to the CUBE. >> Thank you. >> So Android obviously, IOS versus Android, it's been the was since day one, I remember when Google had the first phone, had the first prototype. I saw this coming, and everyone saw it. Apple was owning it, Android has moved so fast. >> Prerak: Oh, definitely. >> What are the hot, cool things about Android right now that you're excited about, and that people should know about? >> Prerak: Oh yeah, sure. So Android, with the recent release, I think the all-year release, they have a lot of good technologies built in, especially if you see three years back, when the KitKat rolled out, it completely transformed Android, right? So today, if you'll see like ... In my opinion, it's surpassed Apple's IOS platform-- >> John: Why's that? What does it have? >> So, it has a lot of cool innovations, especially as an advanced phone user, if you want to multitask on your phone, right? So the split screen tabs, basically, so you can split your apps. So while writing an email, you want to reference the original content, something like that, or you want to listen to YouTube while navigating, right? So I don't know if you guys know, YouTube goes off if you put it in the background. With this new functionality, you can do both things at the same time, so that's why-- >> Yeah, well YouTube's got a lot of problems, certainly on Safari as well, I mean we've had big problems with that, so this is an interesting point. So how about multi-threading apps, I mean, what's some of the innovations, what is Android doing that you like, and what are the things that they need to do differently? 'Cause Samsung's going to give me more goodness with the bigger phone. So-- >> I mean, you have all the real estate in the bigger phones, and as you see, like earlier, three years back, it was like a 5 inch phone, now you have 6 to 6.5 inch phones, and then you have so much real estate, you can do so many things that are on it, like you have a good in-app gaming experience, like you know-- >> So what do you do on the app for PostMates? What are you responsible for? >> I work on the merchant facing Android applications. We provide them tablets, and they give them a platform for other management. >> They're the merchants. Those are the people who make the food. >> Exactly, the restaurants, basically. We partner with them, and we give them a platform to do order management. >> What do they care about that that might be different from the consumer, they care more about who the driver is, do they care about work flow? Is there any design considerations, you think, differently about the merchant versus, say, the end user, or is it the same? >> Oh, yeah, sure. So, when it goes to a merchant, we have to focus on their part, right, like, they don't care about the buyer, or the-- >> John: Or other restaurants. (laughs) >> I mean, basically, when they're preparing food, so we have to focus, and make them focus on the order, right, so we give them the tablet as a kiosk application, where they are focused on only one thing, doing the order management. Then once they are market ready to get it out of there too. >> And they want to make sure their menu >> Exactly. >> is in the right place, >> so there's not a lot of bad orders. 'Cause the worst thing that could happen is, I didn't order that. >> Exactly, yeah. We give them the platform for that as well, everything in one tablet, so yeah. >> Alright, so what's the coolest thing you're working on right now? >> Right now, the coolest thing I would say is providing ... Actually, I can't say much about that-- >> John: Come on, say it! >> (laughs) Yeah, nah. I mean, yeah, so one of the cool-- >> What's the coolest code you pushed? >> So, yeah...actually it's coming out... >> Notifications? >> Okay, so you... >> Notifications is all like... >> Come on! Share something! >> Maybe I can share at the end... >> Okay, share a best practice. >> A best practice? >> Yeah, best practice in the Android, for the Android developers watching. >> Android developers, yeah. If you want to build a scalable Android application, I would say, architecture is very important. Just follow Google IO's architecture components. Getting architecture, is very important because if you want to reuse your UI or if you want to build on top of your existing code it would be very helpful to give a good platform, build on a good platform. Then adding features to it would be extremely... >> John: Alright, so what's your take of this conference here? I mean this is kind of like an awesome conference. They're bringing that Apple Worldwide Developer conference to Samsung. It's their 4th year. It'd kind of clean. I like the messaging, clean in a way, not like being cleaned, like spotless clean, but clean messaging. I love the big screens. They're tying the smart TV. They've given developers what looks like a seamless fabric into the world. Now if I'm a developer, I'm going to raise my hand and say "Okay. I want real APIs that are documented. I don't want to have to go dig around in all the APIs." >> Prerak: Right, right, right. >> I mean, what's your take on Samsung? What are they doing good? What are they doing bad? >> I think I was really blown away with the whole connected SmartThings platform. They focused a lot on the connecting of people and I think feel like in the coming years, connected home, like home automation would be one very important aspect of everyone's life. Let's say if I'm traveling, I want to control my home from somewhere. I was excited about the whole connected home, the SmartThings platform. And with Bixby coming in as well, you know you can control home with your voice. Which excites me the most. >> It would be interesting too, I can see, almost putting my developer hat on... your business would be amazing if >> Prerak: Well yeah! >> the restaurants could learn about my orders. He's a repeat customer, that they send orders back, I'm gluten free, or whatever I do... >> Exactly. >> And that's kind of the AI you want. >> Yeah! >> You want Bixy to learn. >> Yep. >> Bixby to learn. >> Exactly. Learn from the past orders and... >> You guys working on that? >> Somewhat. Something like that. >> (laughs) Cagey! He won't give me any secrets. Okay! Bottom line: Android looking good right now? >> Very good right now, yeah. Android and Samsung doing good things. >> Alright, so what do you say to your IOS Apple friends? When you're arm wrestling over IOS and Android? >> I think IOS is also in very good shape. I mean, IOS gives a very good platform for everyone as well. Like basically it goes hand in hand. The competition is always... >> John: Global is key, right? Global has a big reach. >> Exactly. Global is key. Competition is good in terms of healthy innovation. So I feel like IOS does some innovation, Android does something else. >> Do you guys sit in the same lunch room, or different parts of the building than your IOS team? Do you guys co-mingle? >> We sit next to each other. >> You do? Do you throw stuff at each other? Is there peace? >> We always have healthy competition. Healthy jokes. >> That's always good. It's always fun. It's a religion. Apple versus Android. It's interesting. We look at all of our analytics and our web properties and it's source information. You can almost see the interests. More open source folks love Android. More global, more API-centric thinking, web services, micro services, docker containers, people who are thinking about kubernetes and cloud native. They love Android! Do you agree? >> Prerak: I agree, yeah. >> I won't say the lazy guys do IOS, but there's big money in Apple, too. Some nuances are there. >> Yep. Which one do you think is having better market share for you guys? >> I think IOS is better than Android, personally. In terms of I use both. But I think there is a lot more work Android has got to do. But what attracts me to Android, certainly Samsung and others, is that there are other platforms out there that need to be open and everything will be in API. >> Prerak: Exactly. >> Micro services trend in the cloud with kubernetes and containers, specifically kubernetes. The orchestration of work loads are going to be instrumental and that's going to win the game. So I think Android is tipped for the future to be open and better than Apple. Apple's closed. But Apple's the fine jewelry of the ave. It's for push button, get what I need. Less sophisticated user. >> Sure, makes sense. >> I guess I'm over-simplifying, over-generalizing. That's how I see it. I think, most people, that's the way that they see it. How about you? What do you think? Obviously, you're biased. You're Android. >> Nah! As I told you earlier, I'm all for innovation so as long as it's done by IOS or Android, we need to keep moving forward and that's... >> John: Alright, so message to your friends at home, other Android developers that didn't make this event, what are they missing? What should they know? >> Everyone should definitely check out SmartThings. I think that's the really cool thing because the whole ecosystem, like having your light bulb and those things controlled by you remotely. Definitely check out SmartThings. I'm excited about AR Core, Samsung and Google partnership as well. That could be one interesting thing coming out as well. >> John: AR kits out there too, what do you think about that? >> Oh yeah. >> Security. >> The AR kit? >> Yeah. >> I haven't really... >> It's got more security, stuff's more IOT based IR Core, AR Core certainly the other big key. Alright, Preket, thank you so much for coming on the CUBE. Android developer here shared his take on the CUBE. Talking a little smack with IOS, of course Samsung's got the bigger phone here. In the show here, love the Note 8. Going to give it a good run against my iPhone. It's the CUBE coverage here at Samsung Developer Conference. More after this short break. (music)