Android Developers Backstage
Episodes
The inside story of Jetpack Compose
Hosts Tor Norby, Romain Guy, Chad Haas, and Clara Vallari celebrate Compose’s fifth anniversary by recounting its origins from the "Great Widget Migration" project.
What's so great about R8?
This episode features Tor Norby, Romain Guy, Sean from the R8 team, Chris from DevX Performance, and Shai from Platform Performance discussing R8, Android’s whole-program optimizing compiler.
XR: Virtually here
Hosts Tor Norbye, Chad Haas, and Romain Guy welcome Diego Perret and Patrick Fuentes to discuss Android XR’s Developer Preview 3.
Bring your own model - Android Developers Backstage
Android Studio engineers discuss the new Bring Your Own Model feature, allowing developers to use local or remote AI models like Anthropic and OpenAI alongside Gemini.
From natural language to UI tests: A deep dive into Journeys for Android Studio
Hosts Tor Norby, Chet Haase, and guests Ray Buzzi and Adarsh Fernando introduce Journeys, an AI-powered automated testing tool in Android Studio Canary.
Android developer verification
This episode explains Android’s new Developer Verification program, designed to combat malware and impersonation by verifying developer identities across the entire ecosystem, not just the Play Store.