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

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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

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#Featured #Android #AndroidDevelopersBackstage

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

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