The ADB podcast has moved to Libsyn

 Hey ADB listeners!

After nearly 7.5 years and 158 episodes since that first one on KitKat, we've decided to relocate our show notes and feed to Libsyn.

This should give us great distribution (including landing on Spotify, which some of you have asked for), while not sacrificing anything we get from blogger (show notes, the feed, mp3 downloads, the sometimes-awkward pictures of hosts and guests... i
t'll all be there).

This change should have zero visible impact on you. You should not need to subscribe to a new feed to get ADB; it should update automatically and you'll get the new episodes from the new location.

So if you want the show notes for ADB 159, or any of our future episodes, head over to adbackstage.libsyn.com, the new address for your favorite (and only!) Android Developers Backstage podcast content.

And keep listening... because we'll keep talking.

Episode 158: Jetpack Compose... C'est bêta !

Chet, Nick, Clara, Leland, Tor, Adam, and Romain.
So many guests!

This time, Tor, Romain, and Chet chatted with a few people on the Jetpack Compose team, about... Jetpack Compose!

Compose hit Beta a couple of weeks ago (don't believe me? Check out the recent Android show on Compose Show!), so we took the opportunity to talk to some of the people that have helped build it. We talk about the current state of the library, but also about some of the design decisions that went into developing the APIs and functionality.

(Note on the audio quality for this episode - it turns out that mixing so many people, all of whom recorded themselves separately using very different hardware and setups was... tricky. It's listenable, but maybe a tad below the level we shoot for. Blame the pandemic. I do.)

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

#TheAndroidShow: Jetpack Compose

The Jetpack Compose site (overview, tutorial, docs, samples, and more)

Chet: @chethaase

Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye

Nick: @crafty

Clara: @clarabayarri

Leland: @intelligibabble

Adam: @adamwp

Thanks to our audio engineer, Dustin Elm, who has handled all of our audio mixing
for the last couple of years, including the tricky part of mixing all of our remote-
recorded episodes, like this one.
Dustin's moving on to (greener? softer? louder?) pastures, so we'll be using
a new, exciting process for mixing future episodes. Thanks, Dustin!

Episode 157: Audio feedback

What does a podcast look like? We don't know,
so here's a picture of the podcast's website

We want to hear from you! In this episode,

Tor, Romain, and Chet talk about what they could do — or not do —to improve Android Developers Backstage.

Please check our survey and let us know how you would like to see this podcast evolve. We recommend you first listen to the podcast to get the full context for some of the questions in the survey.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Chet: @chethaase

Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye

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

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.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

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.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio
file directly.

Chet: @chethaase

Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye

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