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...

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...