Android Developers Backstage: Episode 205: Time for Playtime

Mar 26, 2024

In this episode, Tor, Romain, and Chet talk with
Aurash Mahbod from the Play Games team at Google — covering trends
in mobile games, challenges for Android games developers, console
games, and more!

 

Chapters:

Intro (00:00)

What’s Aurash working on currently? (02:40)

How much is Play store providing users with content
based on previous interests? (05:29)

Longstanding games vs new games (08:34)

Mobile gaming vs console (10:07)

Are there stats on what type of games people are
playing? (18:07)

Difficulties and solutions for transitioning games
from various devices (21:14)

Movie corner – War Games (25:15)

How does Play console help devs optimize engagement?
(26:23)

What is the breakdown of tools that devs actually use
for games? (27:53)

Reducing the backend costs for devs (30:18)

Where does loyalty content surface? (34:28)

Balancing add load (35:16)

Cloud saves (38:18)

Aurash’s history with Play store (42:18)

Wrap up (42:58)

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

Aurash: https://twitter.com/aurash –
@aurash

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