In this episode of Android Back Stage, Hosts Tor, and Chet are joined by Melba and Ralston, Software Engineers on the Compose Team, to talk about Autofill in Compose. Learn about Autofill services, best practices, and more!

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:40 - What is Autofill?
1:21 - Autofill team journey and semantics
2:15 - Defining semantics in Compose
3:29 - Bridging views and Compose for Autofill
4:23 - Developer Experience: Early autofill in Compose
7:02 - Autofill services and communication flow
7:59 - User authentication and multiple autofill services
12:53 - The Autofill flow: From tap to fill
21:56 - Handling list types and saving credentials (commit)
30:11 - The “Asteriks” bug and semantics refractor
31:09 - Performance improvements in Autofill
37:48 - Compose’s architectural advantages (composition over inheritance)
40:30 - Best practices and future improvements

It can be a draw when setting up a new device. Some info transfers, while some don’t. Learn how developers can ensure the best user experience when people backup and restore an Android device. Hosts Tor and Chet are joined by Graham and Piyush on the Android Consumer Experience team and Alon on the Android Studio team to discuss Android backup and restore.

Chapters:

0:00 - Introduction & the user pain point

1:38 - Why backup fails: Developer challenges

4:00 - Evolution of backup testing: From scripts to Android Studio

7:15 - Beyond testing: Backup for developer workflow

8:50 - Cross-device backup & GMS core integration

10:55 - Understanding backup types: Devices vs. Cloud

14:55 - Data categories & developer control

16:05 - System-level backup: Permissions & credentials

18:35 - Default backup pitfalls & key-value agents

28:15 - Database migrations & backup stress testing

32:04 - Automated testing framework

41:02 - Recap & feedback channels

Join Tor and Siva Velusamy and Sandhya Mohan from the Android Studio team to learn about the latest updates to Studio Bot (Gemini in Android Studio) that dropped at Google I/O 2025 including Agent Mode. Building on their conversation from two years ago about the Studio Bot, they explore Gemini’s role in every stage of development, from design to building, testing, and maintenance, the future of coding companions, and more.

Studio Bot podcast episode → https://goo.gle/3ZM0Wwx

Software Engineers Dustin Lam and Yigit Boyar join host Tor Norbye to chat all about Kotlin Multiplatform.

Resources:
Tor’s Bluesky → https://goo.gle/4iLXEAg

Yigit’s Bluesky → https://goo.gle/4dmsYVj

What is app safety for Android? What is the Android team working on to ensure developers and users alike enjoy safe and reliable apps? Watch along as Tor Norbye, Chet Haase, Romain Guy, Theresa Khuu, Naheed Vora take a deep dive backstage and discuss what’s new in the Android safety space.

Resources:

Enhanced Tools for Secure & Efficient Development → https://goo.gle/42lo3i8

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Speakers: Tor Norbye, Chet Haase, Romain Guy, Theresa Khuu, Naheed Vora

In this episode, Tor and Romain chat with Leland and Chuck from the Compose team about performance -- recent optimizations, upcoming optimizations, and challenges.

Leland: @intelligibabble.bsky.social

Chuck: @chuckjaz.bsky.social

Tor: @tornorbye.bsky.social

Romain: @romainguy, @romainguy.dev, romainguy@androiddev.social

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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:

• Android Studio → https://goo.gle/36F8fcS

• Android Studio 1.0 → https://goo.gle/4h4X68z

• Announcing Android Studio → https://goo.gle/3EapKGH

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

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In this episode Chet, Romain and Tor chat with Shai Barack about how the Android platform team studies performance and understands system health - and what is system health anyway? We talk about measuring performance, deciding trade-offs, and our favorite tools such as Perfetto, Compiler Explorer, and Android Studio's Memory Profiler.

Chapters:

Intro (00:00)

System health (0:27)

Efforts to make apps more efficient (3:35)

Telemetry data (5:59)

Trade offs between long battery life and good performance (8:21)

Scheduling groups (10:38)

Static drain (13:32)

Collaborating with App developers vs operating system (19:10)

High refresh rates (23:26)

Reach vs engagement (32:02)

What tools does your team use to optimize performance? (34:10)

Godbolt.org (37:09)

Demystifying (39:39)

The best tools are multi-player (43:52)

R8 or R-Not? (45:42)

Optimizing for feature sets (48:05)

Tools, not Rules (50:08)

What are the tools I should be aware of as an app developer looking to upscale performance? (54:36)

Allocation tracker (55:37)

Open source tools (57:08)

Useful resources for devs to understand various tools (59:04)

Final thoughts (1:06:19)

Links:

• Compiler Explorer → https://goo.gle/3Zbq6DV

• Perfetto → https://goo.gle/3OtD3UK and https://goo.gle/3B3S3p5

• Tools, not Rules → https://goo.gle/416CyY7

Shai:

Romain: @romainguy, threads.net/@romainguy, romainguy@androiddev.social

Tor: threads.net/@tor.norbye and tornorbye@androiddev.social

Chet: @chethaase, threads.net/@chet.haase, and chethaase@androiddev.social

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