Android Developers Backstage
Android Developers
Android Backstage, a podcast by and for Android developers. Hosted by developers from the Android engineering team, this show covers topics of interest to Android programmers, with in-depth discussions and interviews with engineers on the Android team at Google. Subscribe to Android Developers YouTube → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs
Categories: Technology
Listen to the last episode:
In this episode, Tor, Romain, and Chet talk with Aurash Mahbod from the Play Games team at Google -- covering trends in mobile games, challenges for Android games developers, console games, and more!
Chapters:
Intro (00:00)
What’s Aurash working on currently? (02:40)
How much is Play store providing users with content based on previous interests? (05:29)
Longstanding games vs new games (08:34)
Mobile gaming vs console (10:07)
Are there stats on what type of games people are playing? (18:07)
Difficulties and solutions for transitioning games from various devices (21:14)
Movie corner - War Games (25:15)
How does Play console help devs optimize engagement? (26:23)
What is the breakdown of tools that devs actually use for games? (27:53)
Reducing the backend costs for devs (30:18)
Where does loyalty content surface? (34:28)
Balancing add load (35:16)
Cloud saves (38:18)
Aurash’s history with Play store (42:18)
Wrap up (42:58)
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
Aurash: https://twitter.com/aurash - @aurash
Catch videos on YouTube → https://goo.gle/adb-podcast
Previous episodes
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212 - Episode 205: Time for Playtime Tue, 26 Mar 2024 - 0h
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211 - Episode 204: Fan’otations Wed, 21 Feb 2024 - 0h
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210 - Episode 203: (W)rap Thu, 21 Dec 2023 - 0h
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209 - Episode 202: AndroidX, Gradle and Metalava Wed, 01 Nov 2023 - 0h
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208 - Episode 201: Firebase in Android Studio Thu, 21 Sep 2023 - 0h
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207 - Episode 200: WebGPU Tue, 15 Aug 2023 - 0h
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206 - Episode 199: Compose performance Tue, 18 Jul 2023
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205 - Episode 198: Location location location, revisited Mon, 26 Jun 2023 - 0h
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204 - Episode 197: Studio Bot Wed, 17 May 2023 - 0h
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203 - Episode 196: Android Studio, behind the scenes Wed, 22 Mar 2023 - 0h
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202 - Episode 195: Mainlining Wed, 15 Feb 2023 - 0h
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201 - Episode 194: Subtext Tue, 17 Jan 2023 - 0h
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200 - Episode 193: Kotlin Thu, 22 Dec 2022 - 0h
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199 - Episode 192: The Path Forward Mon, 21 Nov 2022 - 0h
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198 - Episode 191: Compose Lazy Layouts Fri, 11 Nov 2022 - 0h
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197 - Episode 190: Performance Review Fri, 04 Nov 2022 - 0h
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196 - Episode 189: Video Conference Thu, 22 Sep 2022 - 0h
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195 - Episode 188: Android 13 Thu, 01 Sep 2022 - 0h
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194 - Episode 187: System UI: A Retrospective Mon, 25 Jul 2022 - 0h
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193 - Episode 186: Live Edit Wed, 08 Jun 2022 - 0h
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192 - Episode 185: Play Store Tue, 03 May 2022 - 0h
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191 - Episode 184: Skia and AGSL - Shaders of Things to Come Tue, 05 Apr 2022 - 0h
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190 - Episode 183: Baseline Profiles Fri, 25 Feb 2022 - 0h
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189 - Episode 182: Large screens are a big deal Tue, 01 Feb 2022 - 0h
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188 - Episode 181: Architecture → Fewer bugs at the end Tue, 11 Jan 2022 - 0h
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187 - Episode 180: Kotlin Magic Platform Thu, 16 Dec 2021 - 0h
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186 - Episode 179: Flibberty Widget Tue, 30 Nov 2021 - 0h
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185 - Episode 178: Hosts 3, Guests 0 Mon, 15 Nov 2021 - 0h
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184 - Episode 177: Honor every photon Mon, 18 Oct 2021 - 0h
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183 - Episode 176: Android 12 - S stands for System UI Mon, 27 Sep 2021 - 0h
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182 - Episode 175: Lottie Tue, 14 Sep 2021 - 0h
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181 - Episode 174: Compose tooling Thu, 09 Sep 2021 - 0h
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180 - Episode 173: More benchmarking Thu, 26 Aug 2021 - 0h
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179 - Episode 172: Privacy features in Android 12 Mon, 09 Aug 2021 - 0h
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178 - Episode 171: Compose Testing Mon, 02 Aug 2021 - 0h
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177 - Episode 170: Jetpack Compose Graphics & Animation Tue, 20 Jul 2021 - 0h
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176 - Episode 169: Testing Mon, 05 Jul 2021 - 0h
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175 - Episode 168: Material Composition Mon, 28 Jun 2021 - 0h
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174 - Episode 167: Jetpack Compose Layout Mon, 14 Jun 2021 - 0h
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173 - Episode 166: Security Deposit Tue, 08 Jun 2021 - 0h
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172 - Episode 165: Material Witnesses Wed, 02 Jun 2021 - 0h
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171 - Episode 164: Jetpack Compose Compilation Thu, 27 May 2021 - 0h
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170 - Episode 163: Novel Graphics Mon, 24 May 2021 - 0h
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169 - Episode 162: Kotlin Symbol Processing Wed, 28 Apr 2021 - 0h
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168 - Episode 161: DataStories Wed, 21 Apr 2021 - 0h
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167 - Episode 160: ART History Tue, 13 Apr 2021 - 0h
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166 - Episode 159: Interview with Chris Lacy Wed, 24 Mar 2021 - 0h
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165 - Android Developers Backstage - Episode 7: Making Apps That Work Everywhere Tue, 29 Jul 2014 - 0h
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164 - Android Developers Backstage - Episode 6: System UI Tue, 29 Jul 2014 - 0h
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163 - Android Developers Backstage- Episode 5: RenderScript Tue, 29 Jul 2014 - 0h