# Interview with Square Android Engineer Jake Wharton

DevFeed: [Interview with Square Android Engineer Jake Wharton](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/meet-jake-15765.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.squareup.com/blog/meet-jake>)

Author: Square Engineering

Published: 2014-01-24T17:05:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Square Corner Blog RSS Feed](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/square-corner-blog-rss-feed.md>)

Topics: [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [engineering-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/engineering-culture.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Java](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/java.md>), [Library](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/library.md>), [code productivity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code-productivity.md>), [C++](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/c-plus-plus.md>), [Python](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/python.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [android-apps](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android-apps.md>), [c-plus-plus](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/c-plus-plus.md>), [developer-productivity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-productivity.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [engineering-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering-culture.md>), [java](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/java.md>), [library](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/library.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>)

## AI overview

An interview with Square Android engineer Jake Wharton covering his work on Android clients, Square's engineering culture, improvements to shared Android libraries, the importance of open source, and his preferences for Java and Python.

## Source excerpt

An Android engineer working on a super-secret project.