Android Developers Backstage

Android Developers
Android Developers Backstage

Android Backstage, a podcast by and for Android developers. Hosted by developers from the Android engineering team, this show covers topics of interest to Android programmers, with in-depth discussions and interviews with engineers on the Android team at Google. Subscribe to Android Developers YouTube → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs

  1. 24 JAN

    Happy birthday, Android Studio!

    In this episode Chet, Romain and Tor chat with Xav and Jamal from the Android Studio team to talk about the history of Android’s IDE.   Chapters: Intro (00:00) Topic of the day - Android Studio releases (00:59) What was before Android studio? (2:33) Eclipse (7:22) Jamal joins Android (13:56) Android studio 1.0 (16:40) Android studio 1.0 - launch (21:56) Android studio 3.0 (25:17) Differences after the Kotlin announcement (28:02) Studio 2.1 big complaints (31:32) Code names in Android (33:23) Favorite versions of Android Studio (38:01) Team growth 2010 - 2017 (41:22) Android Studio 4.0 - motion editor (43:26) Gradle (45:27) Profilers (53:06) Regrets? (54:04) Favorite features? (56:37) Wrap up (59:53) Links: Android Studio → https://goo.gle/36F8fcS  Android Studio 1.0 → https://goo.gle/4h4X68z  Announcing Android Studio → https://goo.gle/3EapKGH    Jamal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamaleason Xavier: ducrohet.bsky.social  Romain: @romainguy, @romainguy.dev, romainguy@androiddev.social Tor: threads.net/@tor.norbye and tornorbye@androiddev.social Chet: @chethaase, threads.net/@chet.haase, and chethaase@androiddev.social   Catch videos on YouTube → https://goo.gle/adb-podcast   Subscribe to Android Developers  → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs    #Featured #Android #AndroidDevelopersBackstage

    1h 1m

  2. 26/11/2024

    Rules about performance tools

    In this episode Chet, Romain and Tor chat with Shai Barack about how the Android platform team studies performance and understands system health - and what is system health anyway? We talk about measuring performance, deciding trade-offs, and our favorite tools such as Perfetto, Compiler Explorer, and Android Studio's Memory Profiler.   Chapters: Intro (00:00) System health (0:27) Efforts to make apps more efficient (3:35) Telemetry data (5:59) Trade offs between long battery life and good performance (8:21) Scheduling groups (10:38) Static drain (13:32) Collaborating with App developers vs operating system (19:10) High refresh rates (23:26) Reach vs engagement (32:02) What tools does your team use to optimize performance? (34:10) Godbolt.org (37:09) Demystifying (39:39) The best tools are multi-player (43:52) R8 or R-Not? (45:42) Optimizing for feature sets (48:05) Tools, not Rules (50:08) What are the tools I should be aware of as an app developer looking to upscale performance? (54:36) Allocation tracker (55:37) Open source tools (57:08) Useful resources for devs to understand various tools (59:04) Final thoughts (1:06:19) Links: Compiler Explorer → https://goo.gle/3Zbq6DV  Perfetto → https://goo.gle/3OtD3UK and https://goo.gle/3B3S3p5  Tools, not Rules  → https://goo.gle/416CyY7    Shai:  Romain: @romainguy, threads.net/@romainguy, romainguy@androiddev.social Tor: threads.net/@tor.norbye and tornorbye@androiddev.social Chet: @chethaase, threads.net/@chet.haase, and chethaase@androiddev.social   Catch videos on YouTube → https://goo.gle/adb-podcast   Subscribe to Android Developers  → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs

    1h 10m

  3. 24/10/2024

    Studio Jewelry

    In this episode Chet, Romain and Tor chat with Sebastiano about how the Android Studio team builds UIs. We talk about how Compose for Desktop is used in parts of Android Studio and how the Compose Markdown renderer available in the Jewel library makes Studio Bot tick.   Chapters: Intro (00:00) Android Dev UX team (00:39) What kind of libraries and languages are used to build Android studio? (1:52) Swing (2:53) Reactive and declarative programming models (8:25) SKIA for Kotlin (10:01) Jetpack Compose widgets (11:54) Jewel (13:07) Text rendering across platforms (15:51) Differences in behaviors (17:40) Support for markdown files (20:26) What is markdown? (21:25) Swing and html (25:45) Selection handling in StudioBot (28:46) Boosting productivity with Compose (30:40) Standalone vs plugin artifacts (34:29) The difference between Jewel & Swing (35:30) HTML vs Markdown (39:31) Markdeep (41:53) Jewel's Markdown API (43:46) Where to find Jewel? (46:54) Sebastiano’s podcast - Code with the Italians (47:34) Final thoughts (49:13)   Links: Jetpack Compose Compose Multiplatform, for Desktop  Jewel Jewel Markdown Renderer   Sebastiano: ​​https://github.com/rock3r, https://codewiththeitalians.it/ Romain: @romainguy, threads.net/@romainguy, romainguy@androiddev.social Tor: threads.net/@tor.norbye and tornorbye@androiddev.social Chet: @chethaase, threads.net/@chet.haase, and chethaase@androiddev.social   Catch videos on YouTube → https://goo.gle/adb-podcast   Subscribe to Android Developers  → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs

    51 min

  4. 12/09/2024

    Compose animations

    In this episode Chet, Romain and Tor chat with Doris Liu from the Compose team about animations in Compose -- covering everything from the basic primitives up to the recently added Shared Element Transitions.   Chapters: Intro (00:00) Animation capabilities of Compose (1:06) Different types of animation specs (3:43) Layers of functionality, transitions (7:49) TargetBasedAnimation (9:48) Vectors & velocity of color change (12:43) Second layer parallel to animation spec (16:39) Animation interruptions (18:48) Motion layout problem-solving (20:19) Both scale and move in question (25:45) Different mental models for layout animation in Compose vs. View (26:20) Shared element (31:05) Are there things you wish more people were aware of? (34:19) What's the tooling story for this? (41:57) What is Look Ahead? (43:16) All software is regret (48:49) New API: Modifier.animateBounds (51:52) How to reach Doris – leave a comment (55:57) Motion Frame of Reference Placement (57:29) Wrap up (59:10) Links: Shared element tutorial → https://goo.gle/3XrGYp5  Shared element talk → https://goo.gle/47tm3qm  A quick guide to compose animations → https://goo.gle/3Tm853p  The API layers except the highest level APIs we chatted about in the podcast → https://goo.gle/3MGsiNE Doris: @doris4lt Romain: @romainguy, threads.net/@romainguy, romainguy@androiddev.social Tor: threads.net/@tor.norbye and tornorbye@androiddev.social Chet: @chethaase, threads.net/@chet.haase, and chethaase@androiddev.social   Catch more Android Developers Backstage on YouTube → https://goo.gle/adb-podcast    Subscribe to Android Developers YouTube → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs

    1 hr

  5. 18/07/2024

    Micro optimizations

    In this episode Tor and Romain find themselves without a guest and decide to chat about micro optimizations and writing custom tools. Tor and Romain Chapters: Intro (00:00) Micro optimizations (00:32) Kotlin explorer (3:25) Avoiding object allocations (6:49) Code Inefficiencies (8:10) Compilers (12:13) Understand assembly with AI (18:39) Layout opt (21:20) Programmers writing tools (21:52) char.isBlank (25:35) Lint checks (27:59) Companion objects (29:40) Java assertion mechanism (32:00) Hash maps (35:13) When to micro optimize and when not to (43:46) Benchmarking (47:26) New optimizations (48:46) Wrap up (50:46)   Romain: @romainguy, threads.net/@romainguy, romainguy@androiddev.social Tor: threads.net/@tor.norbye and tornorbye@androiddev.social   Catch videos on YouTube → https://goo.gle/adb-podcast   Subscribe to Android Developers  → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs

    51 min

  6. 20/06/2024

    AI development assistance

    In this episode we talk with Kathy Korevec from the AIDA team at Google about AI assisted developer tools, such as Android Studio -- which is using Gemini AI models provided by AIDA. Romain, Kathy, and Tor Kathy:  twitter.com/simpsoka Romain: @romainguy, threads.net/@romainguy, romainguy@androiddev.social Tor: threads.net/@tor.norbye and tornorbye@androiddev.social   Check out → https://goo.gle/3wK4EM4    Catch videos on YouTube → https://goo.gle/adb-podcast   Subscribe to Android Developers  → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs

    52 min

  7. 22/05/2024

    Make it faster

    In this episode we cover ADB -- not "Android Developers Backstage", but "Android Debug Bridge", the technology powering device connections. Romain and Tor talk with Fabien Sanglard from the Android Studio team on his work to improve the debug stack -- including the new USB speed detection feature recently unveiled at Google I/O. Chapters: Intro (00:00) You may know Fabien from… (00:50) Applying relevant knowledge to Android Studio (3:28) Communicating with remote devices and debugging (12:18) Accommodating a debugger (13:55) Fixed protocols and how to work around (16:10) What other versions of ADB do you use to get the suite faster? (19:27) Other ways to make the debugger faster  (20:38) The differences between USB cables (21:51) How to find the right cable (30:17) ADB over wifi (32:41) How to detect which usb port is faster on your laptop? (34:46) Complexity of new cables (36:57) Install time of APK’s (37:41) New ways of helping full stack devs (45:44) Final thoughts (49:19) Viewer questions (57:54) Romain: @romainguy, threads.net/@romainguy, romainguy@androiddev.social Tor: threads.net/@tor.norbye and tornorbye@androiddev.social Fabien: @fabynou,    Check out → https://goo.gle/3wK4EM4    Catch videos on YouTube → https://goo.gle/adb-podcast   Subscribe to Android Developers  → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs

    1h 1m

  8. 26/03/2024

    Time for Playtime

    In this episode, Tor, Romain, and Chet talk with Aurash Mahbod from the Play Games team at Google -- covering trends in mobile games, challenges for Android games developers, console games, and more!   Chapters: Intro (00:00) What’s Aurash working on currently? (02:40) How much is Play store providing users with content based on previous interests? (05:29) Longstanding games vs new games (08:34) Mobile gaming vs console (10:07) Are there stats on what type of games people are playing? (18:07) Difficulties and solutions for transitioning games from various devices (21:14) Movie corner - War Games (25:15) How does Play console help devs optimize engagement? (26:23) What is the breakdown of tools that devs actually use for games? (27:53) Reducing the backend costs for devs (30:18) Where does loyalty content surface? (34:28) Balancing add load (35:16) Cloud saves (38:18) Aurash’s history with Play store (42:18) Wrap up (42:58) Romain: @romainguy, threads.net/@romainguy, romainguy@androiddev.social Tor: threads.net/@tor.norbye and tornorbye@androiddev.social Chet: @chethaase, threads.net/@chet.haase, and chethaase@androiddev.social Aurash: https://twitter.com/aurash - @aurash Catch videos on YouTube → https://goo.gle/adb-podcast

    47 min
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Android Backstage, a podcast by and for Android developers. Hosted by developers from the Android engineering team, this show covers topics of interest to Android programmers, with in-depth discussions and interviews with engineers on the Android team at Google. Subscribe to Android Developers YouTube → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs

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  • Creator
    Android Developers
  • Years Active
    2013 - 2025
  • Episodes
    212
  • Rating
    Clean
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    2021 © Android Developers
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