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Episode 68: Profiler
Tor, Esteban and Chet in the Studio. In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Esteban de la Canal about the new profiling tools in Android Studio 3.0. Join us to hear about the CPU profiler, the memory profiler, the network profiler, allocation tracking, heap dump analysis, changes to Android O to support low overhead profiling and more. This episode was recorded three months ago, so some details around version numbers and release dates are off, but the information should still be useful and interesting. And in the time since the podcast was recorded, the profiler has added support for OkHttp. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Android Profiler in Android Studio 3.0 Esteban: google.com/+EstebandelaCanal, @estebandlc Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 67: Fontastic
In this episode, Chet and Tor talk talks with Clara Bayarri and Alan Viverette about downloadable fonts, fonts in XML, EmojiCompat, and other new features in the v26 beta 1 release of the Android Support Library. All of these features were revealed and demonstrated at Google I/O, so you might also want to check out the I/O talks linked below. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Google I/O Session: What's New in Android Support Library Google I/O Session: Best Practices to Slim Down your App Size Android O Features and APIs Android Support Library Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Alan: google.com/+AlanViverette, @alanviverette Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 66: Kotlin!
Tor, Yigit, Chet, and Romain, in our very fancy ADB recording studio In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Romain Guy and Yigit Boyar about Kotlin, Android's new officially supported language. Join us to hear a free-ranging discussion about various favorite features of the language. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Android Announces Support for Kotlin Kotlin Koans (online tutorial) Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Romain: google.com/+RomainGuy, @romainguy Yigit: plus.google.com/111851968937104436377, @yigitboyar Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 65: Emulator
Chet, Huan, Jamal and Tor In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Jamal Eason and Huan Ren from the Android tools team about the emulator. Tune in learn whether you should use the 32 bit or the 64 bit system images, and more. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Jamal: google.com/+JamalEason Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 64: Gradleweiss
Chet, Jerome, Xav, Tor, and Gradle (not pictured). In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Xavier Ducrohet and Jerome Dochez from the Android Studio team. We talk about gradle, gradle, and gradle. And then some more about gradle, rounding out the dicussion with a chat about gradle before ending on a brief discourse on gradle. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Xav: google.com/+XavierDucrohet, @droidxav Jerome: @dochez Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 63: Dagger
Chet, Gregory and Tor in the dark In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Gregory Kick from the Java Core Libraries team at Google about Dagger, as well as Auto, AutoValue and Guava. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Dagger 2: https://google.github.io/dagger/ Auto: https://github.com/google/auto/ AutoValue: https://github.com/google/auto/tree/master/value Guava: https://github.com/google/guava Gregory: google.com/+GregoryKick, @gk5885 Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 62: It Depends
In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Alan Viverette and Chris Banes about random things about the Support Library: releases, AppCompat, drawables, Night mode, gradle, support lib modularization, and more. Will it answer all of your Support Lib questions? It depends... Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Support Library Alan: +AlanViverette Chris: +ChrisBanes, @chrisbanes, blog Chet: +ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: +TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Episode 61: Kernel Panic
In this episode, Chet speaks with Rom Lemarchand from the Android Systems team. Tune in to hear about the new A/B system updates, kernel patches and much more. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links A/B system updates Chet: +ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: +TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Episode 60: Huyen Tue Dao
In this episode, Chet goes Tor-less and speaks with Huyen Tue Dao, an Android developer at Trello, about conferences, learning new things in Android, and Constraint Layout. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Loving Lean Layout Measure, Layout, Draw, Repeat: Custom Views and ViewGroups A New View: Layout Editor + Constraint Layout Huyen: +HuyenTueDao, @queencodemonkey, randomlytyping.com, youtube.com/androiddialogs Chet: +ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: +TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Episode 59: Buncha New Stuff
Chet and Tor. Just Chet and Tor. Nobody else. In this episode, Chet and Tor find themselves without a guest so they spend the episode talking about three new releases: Android N MR1, support library, and Android Studio 2.3 Canary. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Android 7.1 Preview: https://developer.android.com/preview/index.html Support Library: https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/support-library/revisions.html Transitions in Support Library: https://medium.com/google-developers/transitions-in-the-android-support-library-8bc86a1d688e What's New in Android (Droidcon London, Oct 28th): https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/8414-what-s-new-in-android Studio 2.3 Canary Announcement: http://tools.android.com/recent/androidstudio23canaryavailable Studio Canary Downloads: http://tools.android.com/download/studio/canary Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 58: Quick Settings
Chet, Jason, and Tor, not necessarily in that order. You can see, in the background, the beautifully appointed high-tech recording studio where the magic happens. In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Jason Monk from the System UI team about various things that he's worked on, including Quick Settings, Quick Settings tiles (and the API for creating them), and System UI Tuner. Oh, and QQS (Quick Quick Settings). Because if Quick is good, Quick Quick must be better. There's also an odd detour into color theory and pointillism. Sorry about that. Quotes of note: "My memory doesn't work that way." "Just because you have power doesn't mean you should use it." Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Quick Settings Tile API Quick Settings article on Medium Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 57: Espresso Test Recorder
In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Stas Negara from the Firebase team about the Espresso Test Recorder, a feature in Android Studio which lets you easily record Android UI tests. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Create UI Tests with Espresso Test Recorder Espresso Testing Framework Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 56: In The Beginning
In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Ficus Kirkpatrick about the early days of Android. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Ficus: google.com/+FicusKirkpatrick, @ficus Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 55: Glide
Chet, Sam and Romain In this episode, Chet and Romain talk with Sam Judd from the Google Photos team about Glide, an image loading and caching library, and its use in the Photos app. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Glide project: https://github.com/bumptech/glide Using Glide in your project: compile 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:3.7.0' Romain: google.com/+RomainGuy, @romainguy Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 54: AAPT
In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Adam Lesinski from the Android framework team. Adam works on aapt (Android Asset Packaging Tool), which compiles the resources used by the framework and for apps. Listen in to learn more about how it works, as well as some of the optional features that aapt provides that you could take advantage of. He also might talk about some of the future development going on for more robust and performant tools. Maybe. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.