Android Backstage, a podcast by and for Android developers. Hosted by developers from the Android engineering team, this show covers topics of interest to Android programmers, with in-depth discussions and interviews with engineers on the Android team at Google. Subscribe to Android Developers YouTube → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs
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Episode 51: Swisstem UI
Chet, Tor, Jorim, Selim and Adrian In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Jorim Jaggi, Selim Cinek and Adrian Roos from the System UI team about all the "math-gic" behind the animations in Lollipop, Marshmallow and N. Favorite quote: "Hopefully works correctly". Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Jorim Jaggi: google.com/+JorimJaggi Selim Cinek: google.com/+SelimCinek Adrian Roos: google.com/+AdrianRoos Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 50: Constraint Layout
Chet, Tor, Romain, Nicolas and John (mysteriously shadowed) In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Romain Guy, Nicolas Roard and John Hoford about the new ConstraintLayout library and layout editor. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/layout-editor Romain Guy: google.com/+RomainGuy, @romainguy Nicolas Roard: google.com/+NicolasRoard, @camaelon John Hoford: google.com/+JohnHoford, @johnhoford Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 49: What's New in N
Chet, Romain, and Tor (mysteriously shadowed) In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Romain Guy about some of the new features in the Android N preview release. Favorite feature: "San Jose French" Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links Android Preview Romain Guy: google.com/+RomainGuy, @romainguy Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 48: ExoPlayer
Oliver and Chet In this episode, Chet visits the Google's Android office in London and chats with Oliver Woodman about ExoPlayer, an application level media player for Android. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links ExoPlayer GitHub Project Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 47: That Syncing Feeling
In this episode, Chet and Tor talk to Chris Tate from the Android framework team about cloud sync and backup, alarms and scheduling jobs. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Chris: google.com/+ChristopherTate Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Episode 46: Softwear
In this episode, Tor and Chet* talk with Zak Cohen from the Android Wear team in London about his work on watch faces, graphics, and many other Android projects he's been involved with such as the movie editor, voice search and Goggles. *: Chet was not available for this episode, so his part was convincingly played by Nick Butcher from the Android developer relations group in London. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links Together Watchface Zak: google.com/+ZakCohen Fake Chet: google.com/+NickButcher, @crafty Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Episode 45: State of the ART
Tor, Brian, Anwar and Chet In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Brian Carlstrom and Anwar Ghuloum about Android N preview, and in particular the new features in ART, the Android Runtime. Listen in to find out about the changes to the JIT and AOT compiler, the new language features, and a lot more. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links Android N Preview Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase
Episode 44: Power On
Chet, Ashish, Meghan, and Tor wait uncomfortably for the photograph to be taken In this episode, Tor and Chet talk with Ashish Sharma and Meghan Desai from Project Volta, an initiative starting in the Android Lollipop release to improve Android battery life. Listen in to find out what kinds of things cause high battery usage and how you can make your apps better about conserving device power. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links Battery Historian Job Scheduler Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase
Episode 43: Keyboard Input
In this episode, Tor and I talk with Shumin Zhai of Google Research. Shumin has worked for years in the area of language processing, specifically around user input on keyboards. Some of his work ended up in the Gesture Typing feature of the Google keyboard, which is all about translating user input into specific word suggestions. We talked about this work, language processing, research, and about the field of interpreting user interface input in general. Favorite word: Corpus: A dead body of text. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links Google keyboard Shumin: research.google.com/pubs/author9128.html, www.shuminzhai.com Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase
Episode 42: Tool Time
The fancy ADB recording studio, with our featured guest. In this episode, Tor and I talk with... each other. This episode is all about Android Studio. In particular, we talk about the latest features and massive performance improvements in the Android Studio preview that was detailed at the Android Dev Summit and which has been in development and under improvement since then. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links Android Studio tips & tricks video All of the Android Dev Summit Talks Android Studio Android Studio Recent Changes Instant Run Proguard Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase
Episode 41: RecyclerView
In this episode, we recycle our guest list to bring back a former guest, Yigit Boyar, this time to talk about the RecyclerView widget. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links RecyclerView Animation talk from the Android Dev Summit Android Application Architecture talk from the Android Dev Summit Source code for the Android Architecture talk sample app The new lint check for RecyclerView suggested by Yigit, shipped in 2.0 Preview 5 Yigit Boyar: https://plus.google.com/111851968937104436377, @yigitboyar Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase
Episode 40: Material World
This time, Tor and Chet talk with Nicholas Jitkoff from the Material group about... Material Design. And design in general. And engineering. And splash screens. And other stuff. Favorite words: Materiality. Skiamorphic. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links Material Design Zombo Nicholas: google.com/+NicholasJitkoffJ, @alcor Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 39: MIDI
Chet, Phil, and Tor. And a lot of totally professional sound baffles This time, Tor and Chet get all musical with Phil Burk from the Android Audio team. Phil worked on the new MIDI feature in the Android 6.0 Marshmallow release, and joins the podcast to talk about MIDI (history as well as Android implementation), electronic music, and other audio-related topics. Bryan said it was his favorite episode so far. But then Bryan's an audio engineer, so he might be slightly biased. Android MIDI: It's music to our ears. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links Android MIDI MidiSynth Example More Examples HMSL Larry Polansky Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 38: Fingerprint
In this, er, impressive episode, Tor and Chet talk with Jim Miller from the Android System UI team. We mostly chat about the new fingerprint feature in Android 6 Marshmallow (aka, "Nexus Imprint"). But we also talk about other things like Keyguard, Setup Wizard, widgets, notifications, and greasy chicken parts. "UIs, like fingerprints, are all unique." Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links Fingerprint Authentication FingerprintManager Fingerprint Dialog Example Fingerprint and Payments APIs (Video) Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 37: Webview
Richard, Chet, Ben, and not Tor in the spacious London studio In this Tor-less episode, Chet talks with Ben Murdoch and Richard Coles from the Android WebView team. We talk about WebView's ability to update outside of platform releases, the transition from the original WebView to the new Chromium WebView widget, about some of the new features and APIs in recent releases, and about cute kitten bitmaps. Tor didn't have much to say, about kittens or anything else. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links Beta Channel for Android WebView Google+ Beta Channel Community Bug Tracker Chrome Dev Tools WebView API Ben Murdoch: google.com/+BenMurdoch, @ksasq Richard Coles: google.com/+RichardColesGoogle Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Also, thanks to continued support by Bryan Gordon, our audio engineer who puts this stuff together every time.