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 → Android Studio 1.0 → Announcing Android Studio → Jamal: 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 Catch videos on YouTube →

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Episode 212: Happy birthday, Android Studio! is an episode from Android Developers Backstage by Android Developers.

This episode is 01:00:50 long.

This episode was published on Jan 24, 2025.

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