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
Episode 212: Happy birthday, Android Studio!
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:
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
#Featured #Android #AndroidDevelopersBackstage