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Welcome to Android Developers Backstage, a podcast by and for Android developers. Hosted by developers from the Android platform team, this show covers topics of interest to Android programmers, with in-depth discussions and interviews with engineers on the Android team at Google.

Nov 26, 2024

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...


Oct 24, 2024

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...


Sep 12, 2024

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...


Jul 18, 2024

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...


Jun 20, 2024

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: @romainguythreads.net/@romainguy, romainguy@androiddev.social

Tor: