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Episode 124: UX
Chet, Glen, Rod, and Tor. Il n'y a pas de Romain. In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Rod Graves and Glen Murphy from the Android UX team. We talked about various UX changes in Android over the years, as well as UI design in general. For example, Glen compared UX design to API design; trying to provide an interface for the users of your product that helps them build a mental model to better understand how everything fits and works together. Favorite acronym: "WTFY" Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Rod: @rgraves Glen: @gmurphy Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 123: Redacted
Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Best Practices for Unique Identifers Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 122: Talk Talk
Chet and Romain, featuring a complete lack of Tor. In this episode, Chet and Romain talk about talking, speak about speaking, monologue monologuing. We have a conversation about various aspects of giving presentations. Everyone has their own style and techniques, and there are no right answers for giving talks that audiences enjoy. But we all have opinions and techniques that work for us; here are some of ours. We talk about making presentations more engaging, having co-speakers, picking topics, getting practice and experience, choosing events, and all kinds of other random stuff that came up in the conversation. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Presenting Presenting (article) Top Tips for Terrible Tech Talks (video/presentation) Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 121: Benchmarking
Chet, Dustin and Chris In this episode, we chat with Chris Craik and Dustin Lam from the AndroidX team about benchmarking. We cover the new AndroidX benchmarking library, how to use it, and what problems it solves. If you're wondering why Chet totally took over the interview towards the end, it's not that he wouldn't share the stage; Romain and Tor had to leave early and snuck out quietly. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Benchmarking library documentation Google I/O 2019 Benchmarking talk Blurry action shot from the recording session Chris: @chris_craik Dustin: @itsdustinlam Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 120: Machine Learning
Romain, Anna, and (unfortunately) Chet Chet and Romain spoke with Anna Goldie from the Google Brain team about machine learning. If you ever wondered what the difference is between AI and machine learning or what deep neural networks are, then this episode is for you. To be clear, this show has nothing to do with Android, we just thought it would be an interesting topic. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Google Brain Tensor Flow TensorFlow tutorials Machine Learning on Android ML Kit Chris Olah's blog on ML models Anna: @annadgoldie Chet: @chethaase Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 119: Kotlin with Andrey Breslav
Tor, Andrey, Romain, and Chet (not pictured) Tor and Romain spoke with Andrey Breslav, the lead language designer at Jetbrains for Kotlin. They talked about coroutines, flow, performance, islands near St. Petersburg, evolution of the language, and many other Kotlin-y things. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: kotlinlang.org Develop Android Apps with Kotlin Andrey: @abreslav Chet: @chethaase Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 118: Authentic Podcast
Sandra, Carlos, Chet and Romain [authenticated] In this episode, Chet and Romain chat with Carlos Valdivia and Sandra Kwan from the Android Identity and Authentication team, covering related topics like authentication, ID, autofill, backup and restore, and more. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Chet: @chethaase Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 117: Kotlin Coroutines
Tor, Yigit, Sean, Romain and Chet doing their (co)routine. Coroutines are Kotlin's approach to asynchronous programming and they are making their way into various Jetpack libraries. In this episode Tor, Chet and Romain have a chat with Sean McQuillan from DevRel and Yigit Boyar from the Jetpack team to discuss what coroutines are, what problems do they solve and how to use them. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Coroutines overview Sean's series of articles about coroutines on Android Coroutines for Android apps Jetpack Sean: @objcode Yigit: @yigitboyar Chet: @chethaase Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 116: CameraX
Chet, James, Vinit, and Tor, in reverse-polish notation. Tor and Chet talked with Vinit Modi and James Fung from the CameraX team. CameraX is a Jetpack support library that released in alpha form at Google I/O 2019. It offers developers an easier way to embed camera functionality while performing more consistently across Android versions (back to Lollipop) and across various devices. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: CameraX Overview CameraX presentation at I/O 2019 CameraX Architecture Getting Started with CameraX code lab CameraX discussion group (the team is encouraging developers to reach out to this group with questions for the team) Jetpack Chet: @chethaase Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 115: Jetpack Compose
Tor, Chuck, Leland and Romain Jetpack Compose is an unbundled UI toolkit written in Kotlin and based on the reactive programming model that was recently introduced at Google I/O. Compose is not ready for production yet but is now being developed in the open on AOSP. In this episode Tor and Romain have a chat with Chuck and Leland to discuss how Jetpack Compose works and some of the goals and ideas behind its design. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Jetpack Compose Google I/O talk about Jetpack Compose Compose from first principles by Leland How to get the source code Browse the source online Chet: @chethaase Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 114: Pocket Casts Cast
Romain, Philip, Ben, Tor, and Chet (listed in alphabetical order) In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor talk to Philip Simpson and Ben Trengrove from the cast of Pocket Casts. We talk about their app, coincidentally called "Pocket Casts," and how they implemented various features like Material, audio, and even how the company made a complicated weather app for a country where it's always sunny. Oh, and we talked about some of the stuff happening at Google I/O 2019, because that's when we recorded this conversation. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Pocket Casts on Google Play Philip: @geekygecko Ben: @bentrengrove Chet: @chethaase Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 113: IO19
Tor, Romain and Chet In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor discuss the Android-related announcements at Google I/O this year -- Android Q, Jetpack Compose, Project Marble, etc. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Jetpack Compose Chet: @chethaase Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 112: Cutting Corners with MDC
Tor, Mel, Chet, and Romain (shown in alphabetical order) In this episode, Chet, Tor, and Romain chat with Mel Goetz, an engineer on the Material team, about Material Design Components, the set of components for Android that implement Material Design. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Material spec Material Design Components Mel: @melaniemgoetz Romain: @romainguy Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 111: Emulator Snapshot
Romain, Frank and Tor in the Studio 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. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Emulator release notes Source code of the emulator for the curious Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 110: It's all about the Treble
Chet, Iliyan and Tor in the Studio In this episode, Chet and Tor chat with Iliyan Malchev from Project Treble. We already covered this a year and a half ago back in episode 75, but this time we dig deeper and also cover the progress made since then. Tune in to learn about acronyms like HAL, HIDL, GSI, VTS, and more! Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: An Update on Project Treble - Iliyan's blog entry from November Episode 75: Project Treble - For the HAL of it Android Architecture overview Iliyan: @imalchev Romain: @romainguy Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.