Episode 74: Graphics

Android Developers Backstage

Episode | Podcast

Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 18:21:15 +0000

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EyFP327vU5w/WYR1pwN3tDI/AAAAAAAAEb0/x1T6QlJb80cqo3iqvCFckDxZTQTjZWfoACLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_20170628_105402%2B%25281%2529.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"> <img border="0" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EyFP327vU5w/WYR1pwN3tDI/AAAAAAAAEb0/x1T6QlJb80cqo3iqvCFckDxZTQTjZWfoACLcBGAs/s320/IMG_20170628_105402%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chet, Romain, Mathias, and Tor (not pictured)<br /> <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">in the very fancy and highly-decorated recording studio</span></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> In this episode, Chet and <strike>Tor</strike> Romain talk with Mathias Agopian, who has worked on (or been the entirety of) the Android graphics team since before Android 1.0. We talk about SurfaceFlinger, PixelFlinger, tearing, buffering, optimizations, and other fun low-level graphics and performance details.<br /> <br /> Subscribe to the <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/AndroidDevelopersBackstage" target="_blank">podcast feed</a> or download the <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/androiddevelopers/android_developers_backstage/ADB%2074%20Graphics.mp3" target="_blank">audio file</a> directly.<br /> <br /> <b><br /></b><b><br /></b><b><br /></b><b><br /></b><br /> <b><br /></b><b><br /></b><b>Romain</b>: <a href="http://google.com/+RomainGuy">google.com/+RomainGuy</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/romainguy">@romainguy</a><br /> <b>Chet</b>: <a href="http://google.com/+ChetHaase">google.com/+ChetHaase</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/chethaase" target="_blank">@chethaase</a><br /> <div><b>Tor</b>: <a href="http://google.com/+TorNorbye">google.com/+TorNorbye</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/tornorbye" target="_blank">@tornorbye</a></div> <div><br /></div> <i>Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.</i><br /> <br /></div> <img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/AndroidDevelopersBackstage/~4/znasIKUetNc" width="1" />