Episode 111: Emulator Snapshot

Romain, Frank and Tor in the Studio

In this episode, Romain and Tor chat with Frank from the Android Studio team. Frank works on the Android emulator and in this episode he explains the differences between a simulator and an emulator, how snapshots work, how does GPU support is implemented and much more.

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Links:

• Emulator release notes
• Source code of the emulator for the curious

Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Episode 110: It's all about the Treble

Chet, Iliyan and Tor in the Studio

In this episode, Chet and Tor chat with Iliyan Malchev from Project Treble. We already covered this a year and a half ago back in episode 75, but this time we dig deeper and also cover the progress made since then. Tune in to learn about acronyms like HAL, HIDL, GSI, VTS, and more!

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Links:

• An Update on Project Treble - Iliyan's blog entry from November
• Episode 75: Project Treble - For the HAL of it
• Android Architecture overview

Iliyan: @imalchev
Romain: @romainguy
Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.