Episode 111: Emulator Snapshot

Android Developers Backstage

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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:00:07 +0000

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: right;"></div> <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://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DajfF-JuTdI/XIrlBFQUaeI/AAAAAAAAHV8/QVI5E0WS98sF-t4u2D93-TODvwrsmokeACLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_20190306_144427_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DajfF-JuTdI/XIrlBFQUaeI/AAAAAAAAHV8/QVI5E0WS98sF-t4u2D93-TODvwrsmokeACLcBGAs/s320/IMG_20190306_144427_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Romain, Frank and Tor in the Studio</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> In this episode, Romain and Tor chat with Frank from the Android Studio team. Frank works on the Android emulator and in this episode he explains the differences between a simulator and an emulator, how snapshots work, how does GPU support is implemented and much more.<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%20111%20Emulator%20Snapshot.mp3" target="_blank">audio file</a> directly.<br /> <br /> <b>Links</b>:<br /> <div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li><a href="https://androidstudio.googleblog.com/2019/03/emulator-28110-canary.html"> Emulator release notes</a></li> <li><a href="https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/qemu/+log/emu-master-dev"> Source code of the emulator for the curious</a></li> </ul> <b>Romain</b>: <a href="http://twitter.com/romainguy" target="_blank">@romainguy</a><br /> <b>Tor</b>: <a href="https://twitter.com/tornorbye" target="_blank">@tornorbye</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i><i>Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.</i></div> </div> <img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/AndroidDevelopersBackstage/~4/r66DSasMXbI" width="1" />