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:

• 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, [e-mail]

Tor: threads.net/@tor.norbye and [e-mail]

Chet: @chethaase, threads.net/@chet.haase, and [e-mail]

 

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