Episode 156: Android Runtime Classic (Dalvik)

It's history time! Or even [pre-]ART History time!

We didn't take a picture this time.
Please imagine what we looked like.

This time, Tor, Romain, and Chet were joined by Dan Bornstein, one of the early members of the Android team. Dan joined in 2005 to create a runtime for Android, which became Dalvik.

We talked about some of the early placeholder VMs used while Dalvik was coming online, some of the design decisions for Dalvik (like its register-based vs. stack-based implementation), and nice techy details about runtimes, garbage collectors, and optimizations.

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Chet: @chethaase

Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye

Dan: @danfuzz

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.

Episode 155: WindowManagerManagers

Top row: Chet, Romain, Rob.
Bottom row: Wale, Tor.

In this episode, we chat with Wale Ogunwale and Rob Carr from the Android Framework team about the Window Manager.

Tune in to learn about the evolution of the window manager, the distinction between System UI and the window manager, implementation challenges and recent architectural changes.

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file directly.

Chet: @chethaase

Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.