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Episode 109: Jazz Hands
Michael, Tor (not pictured), Romain (not pictured), and Chet (not even present). Some podcasts are conversations. Some are more like interrogations in a café. In this episode, Tor and Chet Romain talked with Michael Wright from the Android Framework team. Michael works on input, display, power manager, and haptics, which are, by amazing coincidence, exactly what they talked about. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Romain: @romainguy Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 108: Instant Re-run
Esteban, Romain, Chet, and Tor in the Android Studio. Our guest-scheduling failed once again but we managed to find a guest at the very last minute! In this episode Esteban de la Canal tells us everything about Apply Changes, a new feature in Android Studio 3.5 Canary destined to replace Instant Run. Why are we doing this and why is it better than Instant Run? Listen to this episode and come find out with us. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Android Studio 3.5 Canary Romain: @romainguy Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 107: Dave Burke
Romain, Chet, Dave and Tor in the Android Studio. In this episode, we talk to Dave Burke, VP of Engineering for Android. How are features chosen for the next version of the operating system? And what is Dave's favorite feature in Android P? Tune in to find out. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Dave: @davey_burke Romain: @romainguy Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 106: WorkManager & Navigation
Tor, Romain, Sumir, Ian, and Chet pose for a candid picture far from the recording studio, when they finally realized they'd forgotten to take a picture in the studio earlier. You'd think they'd have this process nailed by now, wouldn't you? I mean, 106 episodes; it's not like it's new and all. Honestly, what level of professionalism are we paying for here with this free service? Romain and Chet talk with Sumir Kataria and Ian Lake about the latest developments in the new WorkManager and Navigation architecture components. WorkManager is now in beta and Navigation should be in beta Real Soon Now. Alpha? Beta? Are these all Greek to you? We try to de-mystify this naming convention and talk about how we see development and release of architecture components in general. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: WorkManager Navigation Sumir: @SumirKodes Ian: @ianhlake Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye Chet: @chethaase Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 105: Telephony
Tor, Romain, Robert, and Chet. Note the winter coat; the temperatures in California had plummeted that week all the way down into the lower 60s (F). Brrrr! Tor, Romain, and Chet talk with Robert Greenwalt from the Android Telephony team about how the phone actually works. And text. And data. And SIM cards. And carrier networks. It turns out that communication is kind of a important feature for phones Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye Chet: @chethaase Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 104: Android Dev Summit
Tor and Romain working hard in the studio while Chet enjoyed the scenery in Monterey Our guest-scheduling failed a second time in a row, but on the heels of the Android Dev Summit we had a lot to talk about! Chet was traveling, so it's just Romain and Tor this time. We sincerely apologize for the lack of puns in this episode! Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Android Dev Summit - All Sessions Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye Chet: @chethaase Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 103: Tor, Romain, and Chet Talk about Stuff
Tor, Romain, and Chet, caught in a totally candid and unexpected photo while working hard in the recording studio. Tor and Romain and Chet completely failed to get a guest for this show. But fortunately, there was a bunch of stuff happening that they talked about instead. KotlinConf, GDG DevFest Ukraine, Droidcon UK, garbage collection, tech talks, comedy talks, Android Studio releases, new Pixel phones, photography, selfies, and more. We should have a guest-fail more often! Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Android Studio KotlinConf 2018 talks Romain's KotlinConf talk Graphics Programming with Kotlin Kotlin 1.3 DevFest Ukraine 2018 Talks Chet's comedy talk at DevFest Ukraine Chet's Trash Talk (Evolution of ART GC) at DevFest Ukraine Droidcon UK Chet and Romain's Trash Talk at Droidcon UK Pixel 3 Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye Chet: @chethaase Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 102: ML All the Things!
In this episode, Chet and Tor Romain Guy talk with Ben Murdoch and Matej Pfajfar from the Android ML team to talk about... ML! We talk about ML Kit, Adaptive Battery in Android 9 Pie, TensorFlow Lite, building and using ML models, and machine learning in general. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: ML Kit TensorFlow Lite Ben: @ksasq Matej: Matej's profile Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye Chet: @chethaase Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 101: Prefetch and Paging
In this episode, Chet and Tor Yigit Boyar talk again with Chris Craik from the Android Toolkit team about RecyclerView prefetch and the new Paging library. This is Part 2 of a much longer conversation that started in Episode 100, in which Chris talked about Android's UI hardware renderer. We created this second episode from that single, larger conversation because the topics are very different and because we just talked too darned long to stuff it all into a single episode. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Paging library RecyclerView Prefetch blogpost Text Prefetch blogpost Database loading and paging blogpost Paging talk at Google I/O Android UI Performance talk at Google I/O Chris: @chris_craik Yigit: @yigitboyar Tor: @tornorbye Chet: @chethaase Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 100: Android Rendering
In this episode, Chet and Tor Yigit Boyar talk with Chris Craik from the Android Toolkit team about graphics and the evolution of the UI renderer on Android. By the way, THIS IS EPISODE 100, PEOPLE! WE MADE IT! AND THEY HAVEN'T EVEN CANCELED US YET! Sure, it's because the people that could and would cancel us don't know we exist, but I still think it's an important milestone to still be here, still recording, still posting, and still talking about random Android development stuff. In the studio, we had a massive celebration for this amazing achievement, which consisted of recording the conversation and then returning to the office. (This is actually part 1 of a 2-part episode; we talked so much about rendering that we made the first part into its own episode. We will carry on into non-rendering topics in the next Chris-filled episode.) Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Paging library RecyclerView Prefetch blogpost Text Prefetch blogpost Database loading and paging blogpost Paging talk at Google I/O Android UI Performance talk at Google I/O Chris: @chris_craik Yigit: @yigitboyar Tor: @tornorbye Chet: @chethaase Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 99: Accessibility Time
Chet, Phil, Tor, and Phil's topical t-shirt In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Phil Weaver about accessibility on Android. We talk about accessibility services, TalkBack, Switch Access, testing, and general approaches for developers to make applications that are accessible. Oh, and we talk about "onClick bait" too. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Android accessibility Accessibility Service code lab Accessibility Scanner Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 98: Filament
Romain, Chet and Tor posing behind a giant poster rendered with Filament In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Romain about Filament, a real-time physically based rendering engine for Android (and Windows, Linux and macOS.) We talk about graphics, graphics, and then some more graphics. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Filament source code: https://github.com/google/filament Filament documentation, the document we talk about in the podcast Materials documentation Romain: 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 97: Bluetooth
Tor, Andre and Chet in the studio In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Andre Eisenbach from the Device Connectivity Team about Bluetooth -- Bluetooth Classic, Bluetooth BLE, profiles, compatibility challenges and more. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 96: Location: It's Where It's At
In this episode, Chet and Tor talk talks with Patrick Robertson from the Location team about... location! We wax poetic about fine-grained location using Wifi routers (among other mechanisms), the Fused Location Provider API for apps that need location information, battery impact of location (and what we're doing to improve that), how GPS works (apparently it uses pieces of string!), and detecting 3D locations for finding where you are in a tall building. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Fused Location Provider basics Migrating to Fused Location Provider BG location limits Wifi RTT Raw GNSS Measurements GNSS Raw Measurements API Sensors Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Episode 95: The New News Thing
In this episode, Chet and Tor talk talks with Kyle Lampert from the Google News team about... News. Kyle is the lead of the Android app for News and discusses how the team created a rich, smooth UI experience for the reincarnation of this new News thing. (Apologies for the audio quality: this episode was recorded while Chet was on a trip out to the Cambridge office, and the quality is not up to our usual standards. But it should suffice.) Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Google News Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.