Android Developers Backstage
by Android Developers
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About this podcast
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.
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Episodes
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- From Android to QuakeCon: What 90s Game Engines Teach Us About Extreme Optimization · 1 h 4 minHear how recent rewrites of the ADB stack and Android Studio debugger directly improve developer workflows. By updating the mDNS implementation and rebuilding Windows USB…
- Android AI Tools: Vibe coding, sub-agents, and the Android CLI · 1 h 16 minLearn how the latest Android Studio AI features can streamline your daily development tasks. While the original agent mode chat was helpful, we rebuilt it with a re-architected…
- The inside story of Jetpack Compose · 1 h 7 minDiscover the origin story of Jetpack Compose and how it changed the way Android developers build applications. We discuss the original challenges of unbundling the UI toolkit…
- What's so great about R8? · 1 h 6 minJoin hosts Tor and Romain as they sit down with Søren Gjesse, Chris Craik, and Shai Barack. This week, the team dives into R8, the whole-program optimizer that handles the "last…
- XR: Virtually here · 44 minJoin hosts Tor, Chet, and Romain as they sit down with Diego Perez (Android Studio) and Patrick Fuentes (Developer Relations) to explore the new frontiers of Android XR. This…
- Bring your own model - Android Developers Backstage · 58 minIn this episode Tor and Chet chat with Raluca Saucic and Eugene Yakavets about the new "Bring Your Own Model" feature in Android Studio which allows using other models than…
- From natural language to UI tests: A deep dive into Journeys for Android Studio · 45 minHosts Tor and Chet are joined by Adarsh Fernando, a Product Manager, and Ray Buse, a Software Engineer, to discuss Journeys for Android Studio. Powered by Gemini's vision and…
- Android developer verification · 45 minTo protect users from malware and scams, Android has announced a new layer of security: developer verification. While this is nothing new for Google Play Store apps, Android is…
- Autofill in Compose · 44 minIn this episode of Android Back Stage, Hosts Tor, and Chet are joined by Melba and Ralston, Software Engineers on the Compose Team, to talk about Autofill in Compose. Learn about…
- Back it up, bring it back: No data left behind · 49 minIt can be a draw when setting up a new device. Some info transfers, while some don't. Learn how developers can ensure the best user experience when people backup and restore an…
- Bot to the Future: Two Years Later · 46 minJoin 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…
- Kotlin Multiplatform: Have your code and eat it too · 58 minSoftware 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 →…
- Linting on the Side of Caution: Safety & Security · 51 minWhat 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…
- Episode 213: Compose runtime and performance · 57 minIn this episode, Tor and Romain chat with Leland and Chuck from the Compose team about performance -- recent optimizations, upcoming optimizations, and challenges. Leland…
- Episode 212: Happy birthday, Android Studio! · 1 h 0 minIn 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…
- Episode 211: Rules about performance tools · 1 h 10 minIn 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…
- Episode 210: Studio Jewelry · 51 minIn 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…
- Episode 209: Compose animations · 60 minIn 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…
- Episode 208: Micro optimizations · 51 minIn 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)…
- Episode 207: AI development assistance · 52 minIn 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…
