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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.

Jun 13, 2025

Join Tor and Siva Velusamy and Sandhya Mohan from the Android Studio team to learn about the latest updates to Studio Bot (Gemini in Android Studio) that dropped at Google I/O 2025 including Agent Mode. Building on their conversation from two years ago about the Studio Bot, they explore Gemini’s role in every stage of...


May 7, 2025

Software Engineers Dustin Lam and Yigit Boyar join host Tor Norbye to chat all about Kotlin Multiplatform. 


Resources:
Tor’s Bluesky → https://goo.gle/4iLXEAg 

Yigit’s Bluesky → https://goo.gle/4dmsYVj


Apr 10, 2025

What is app safety for Android? What is the Android team working on to ensure developers and users alike enjoy safe and reliable apps? Watch along as Tor Norbye, Chet Haase, Romain Guy, Theresa Khuu, Naheed Vora take a deep dive backstage and discuss what’s new in the Android safety space.

 

Resources:

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Mar 4, 2025

In this episode, Tor and Romain chat with Leland and Chuck from the Compose team about performance -- recent optimizations, upcoming optimizations, and challenges.


Leland: @intelligibabble.bsky.social

Chuck: @chuckjaz.bsky.social

Tor: @tornorbye.bsky.social

Romain: @romainguy@romainguy.dev,


Jan 24, 2025

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...