Introduction

Mads, Chet and Tor In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Mads Ager from the Android Studio compilers team. We cover a number of subjects, from r8 and d8 optimizations and resource shrinking to work on the Kotlin compiler front- and back-end, as well as the new Kotlin symbol processor. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links

• R8/D8: https://r8.googlesource.com/r8
• KSP: https://github.com/android/kotlin/tree/ksp/libraries/tools/kotlin-symbol-processing-api
• Kotlin: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/

Mads: @madsager Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.