Episode 210: Studio Jewelry

In this episode Chet, Romain and Tor chat with Sebastiano about how the Android Studio team builds UIs. We talk about how Compose for Desktop is used in parts of Android Studio and how the Compose Markdown renderer available in the Jewel library makes Studio Bot tick. Chapters: Intro (00:00) Android Dev UX team (00:39) What kind of libraries and languages are used to build Android studio? (1:52) Swing (2:53) Reactive and declarative programming models (8:25) SKIA for Kotlin (10:01) Jetpack Compose widgets (11:54) Jewel (13:07) Text rendering across platforms (15:51) Differences in behaviors (17:40) Support for markdown files (20:26) What is markdown? (21:25) Swing and html (25:45) Selection handling in StudioBot (28:46) Boosting productivity with Compose (30:40) Standalone vs plugin artifacts (34:29) The difference between Jewel & Swing (35:30) HTML vs Markdown (39:31) Markdeep (41:53) Jewel's Markdown API (43:46) Where to find Jewel? (46:54) Sebastiano's podcast - Code with the Italians (47:34) Final thoughts (49:13) Links: Jetpack Compose Compose Multiplatform , for Desktop Jewel Jewel Markdown Renderer Sebastiano: ​​ , 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 Catch videos on YouTube →

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Episode 210: Studio Jewelry is an episode from Android Developers Backstage by Android Developers.

This episode is 50:38 long.

This episode was published on Oct 24, 2024.

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