Android Developers Backstage

By: Android Developers
  • Summary

  • 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
    2021 © Android Developers
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Episodes
  • Episode 213: Compose runtime and performance
    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, romainguy@androiddev.social


    Catch videos on YouTube → https://goo.gle/adb-podcast

    Subscribe to Android Developers → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs


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    57 mins
  • Episode 212: Happy birthday, Android Studio!
    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 (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

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Episode 211: Rules about performance tools
    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 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

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    1 hr and 10 mins

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