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Episode 99: Accessibility Time

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Chet, Phil, Tor, and Phil's topical t-shirtIn 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 ...…

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10d ago

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Romain, Chet and Tor posing behind a giant poster rendered with FilamentIn 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 d ...…

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Episode 97: Bluetooth

1M ago

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Tor, Andre and Chet in the studioIn 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 ...…

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Episode 96: Location: It's Where It's At

2M ago

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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 ...…

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Episode 95: The New News Thing

3M ago

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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 ...…

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3M ago

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Chet, Isaac, Virgil, and Tor, in stark black & white, because it's so totally artistic, and not because the studio lighting made us look like human-shaped blue jello. In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Isaac Katzenelson and Virgil Dobjanschi from the Android TV team. We chat about UI, existing devices, IR-vs-BLE, new devices, feature reque ...…

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Episode 93: WorkManager

4M ago

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Tor, Sumir, Tor, Chet, a spiral notebook (blank), and Tor In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Sumir Kataria about the new WorkManager library that was announced at Google I/O (and released in early form). WorkManager makes it easier to schedule asynchronous work at a more appropriate time using a fluent, chainable API. Think of it as JobSch ...…

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Episode 92: Navigation Controller

4M ago

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Tor, Chet, Joe, and Ian (in reverse order)In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Ian Lake and Joe Baker-Malone about the new Navigation Architecture Component and Navigation Editor, which were recently released in alpha form. This new architecture component makes it easier for developers to control and implement the flow through their applicat ...…

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5M ago

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Chet, Romain, Jake, and TorIn this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor talk with Jake Wharton about Android KTX, a set of Kotlin extensions for Android development. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: GitHub repository for android-ktx Jake's talk at Google I/O Jake: google.com/+JakeWharton, @JakeWharton Chet: goo ...…

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Episode 90: Spanspanspanspan

5M ago

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Florina, Chet, and Clara (Chet is the one sporting the highly-collectible and terribly elegant Android Toolkitty team swag jacket)In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Florina Muntenescu from Android developer relations and Clara Bayarri from the Android Toolkit team about text. The conversation spans spanning, spannables, spans, and of cours ...…

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Episode 89: Upon Reflection

6M ago

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Chet, Brian and Tor issuing a green screen challengeIn this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Brian Carlstrom from the ART team about the new restrictions on non-SDK interfaces in Android P. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Restrictions on non-SDK Interfaces Brian: https://carlstrom.com/ Tor: google.com/+T ...…

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7M ago

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Chet, Felipe and TorIn this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Felipe Leme from the Android Framework team about Autofill, a framework in Android 8.0 and later which provides assistance with completing forms such as passwords and credit card numbers. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Main page: https://devel ...…

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Episode 87: ARrrrrrrr

7M ago

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Dushan, Romain, Chet, and Tor position themselves in correct order for the caption to make senseIn this episode, Romain, Chet, and Tor talk with Dushan Leska from the Daydream team, which works on immersive computing. His team is currently focused on AR Core, which makes Augmented Reality happen for Android. We talk about AR, VR, probably other ...…

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Episode 86: It's gr8!

8M ago

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Tor, Chet, and Jeffrey admire the pristine beauty of the recording studioIn this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Jeffrey van Gogh from the Tools team. Jeffrey works on R8 and D8. D8 (available in Android Studio 3.0, but off by default) is the replacement for DX, which converts your java byte code to dalvik byte code. R8 (not available yet) is a ...…

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Episode 85: Focus on Audio

9M ago

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Romain, Jean-Michel, and Tor. Chet is in the distant background (~2,500 miles west of the studio.)In this episode, Romain and Tor talk with Jean-Michel Trivi from the Android audio team. Tune in to learn about hardware speaker design, ducking and attenuation, stream types, audio tagging, audio focus, and more! Links: If your activity is playing ...…

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Episode 84: Instant Apps

10M ago

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Tor, Chet, and PatrickIn this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Patrick Baumann from the Instant Apps team. We cover everything from Instant to Apps. Links: AIA docs: http://g.co/instantapps Developer stories: https://developer.android.com/stories/instant-apps.html Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Patrick: @Patri ...…

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Episode 83: The Deal of the ART

11M ago

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In which Chet and Tor Romain Guy talk with Nicolas Geoffray from the ART team about runtime performance, including various optimizations in the Oreo release. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Performance and Memory Improvements in ART (Google I/O video on YouTube) Romain: google.com/+RomainGuy, @romainguy ...…

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Episode 82: Tooling Around

11M ago

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Tor, Chet and Romain discussing studios In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor discuss the recently released Android Studio 3.0, the upcoming 3.1 preview release, KotlinConf, and whatever else happened to be on their mind last week. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Android Studio 3.0 Release Announcement A ...…

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Episode 81: Gradle Sync

11M ago

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Tor, Alex, and Chet in the Android-related StudioIn this episode, Chet and Tor sync with Alex Ruiz on Gradle, and in particular, the IDE integration of Gradle into Android Studio, past and upcoming performance work, the project structure dialog, APK Debugging, and more. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Alex: go ...…

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Episode 80: Crash Talk

11M ago

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In which Chet and Tor Dan Sandler talk with Andrea Falcone and Matt Willis from the Crashlytics team about (wait for it...) Crashlytics! Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Crashlytics for Android Andrea: @asfalcone Matt: @mattwillis Dan: google.com/+DanSandler, @dsandler Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chetha ...…

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Episode 79: Picking Up Garbage

12M ago

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David, Mathieu, and ChetIn this episode, Chet talks with David Sehr and Mathieu Chartier from the Android Runtime (ART) team, primarily about garbage collection as well as other recent ART improvements in O. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Performance and Memory Improvements in ART (Google I/O video on Y ...…

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Episode 78: Notification Explication

1y ago

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In this episode, Chet and Tor Dan Sandler talk with Julia Reynolds from the Android System UI team about Notifications: channels, Do-Not-Disturb, Dots, ... it's all here. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Notification Channels Notification Dots Dan: google.com/+DanSandler, @dsandler Chet: google.com/+ChetH ...…

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Episode 77: Android Internals with Effie Barak

1y ago

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Tor, Effie, ChetIn this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Effie Barak from Pinterest about Android internals and about measuring and improving app performance. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Android in Tanenbaum's Operating Systems book Effie's Android Internals talk at 360|AnDev Effie: @CodingChick Chet: ...…

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Episode 76: Kotlin-n-stuff

1y ago

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Romain, Chet, Jake!, and TorIn this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor talk with Jake Wharton about his new role as an engineer on the Android team at Google, and about Kotlin in particular. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Parcelable proposal Kotlin extension functions OkHttp Okio Retrofit Wire Moshi Jake: go ...…

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Episode 75: Project Treble - for the HAL of it

1y ago

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Iliyan, Romain, Chet, and a complete lack of Tor.In this episode, Chet and Romain (no Tor in sight. Anyone seen Tor? He was on the calendar appointment, totally expected him to show) talked with Iliyan Malchev from the Treble project. Treble was introduced in May of this year as an important step toward faster and more frequent release updates ...…

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1y ago

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Chet, Romain, Mathias, and Tor (not pictured) in the very fancy and highly-decorated recording studioIn this episode, Chet and Tor Romain talk with Mathias Agopian, who has worked on (or been the entirety of) the Android graphics team since before Android 1.0. We talk about SurfaceFlinger, PixelFlinger, tearing, buffering, optimizations, and ot ...…

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Episode 73: Architecture Components 2 - Persistence

1y ago

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Sergei, 3D Chet, Tor, 2D Chet, and Yigit.In this episode, Chet and Tor talk [more] with Yigit Boyar and Sergei Vasilinetc about the new Architecture Components project that was announced at Google I/O. In particular, we talk about Persistence. This is a continuation of the conversation we started in Episode 72, which was about Lifecycle. But th ...…

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Episode 72: Architecture Components 1 - Lifecycle

1y ago

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Yigit, 2D Chet, Tor, 3D Chet, and Sergei.In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Yigit Boyar and Sergei Vasilinetc about the new Architecture Components project that was announced at Google I/O. In particular, we talk about the Lifecycle part of Architecture Components. Stay tuned for a future episode about the Persistence API. Subscribe to the ...…

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1+ y ago

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Chet, Lee, Ari, and Tor, in repose.In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Lee Campbell and Ari Hausman-Cohen from the Android Things team about that project and IoT in general. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Android Things Android Things sessions at Google I/O Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase To ...…

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1+ y ago

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Chet, Romain, and Tor in the totally professional recording studioIn this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Romain Guy about color, spanning topics from how color works (on devices and in our eyes) to specific color technologies/specifications like sRGB and wide-gamut displays to specific features that are now available in the Android O Preview r ...…

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1+ y ago

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Dan, Chet, Chiu-Ki, Chris, Huyen, Mark, Corey, and KaushikIn this episode, Chet and !Tor talked with a veritable mob of Android app developers about interesting stuff from Google I/O 17 and in the Android O preview release. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Android O Developer Preview Android@Google I/O Se ...…

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1+ y ago

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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 epi ...…

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Episode 67: Fontastic

1+ y ago

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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. S ...…

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1+ y ago

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Tor, Yigit, Chet, and Romain, in our very fancy ADB recording studioIn 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 dire ...…

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1+ y ago

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Chet, Huan, Jamal and TorIn 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/+ ...…

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Episode 64: Gradleweiss

1+ y ago

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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 po ...…

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1+ y ago

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Chet, Gregory and Tor in the darkIn 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: ...…

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Episode 62: It Depends

1+ y ago

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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 S ...…

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Episode 61: Kernel Panic

1+ y ago

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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…

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Episode 60: Huyen Tue Dao

2y ago

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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 Edi ...…

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Episode 59: Buncha New Stuff

2y ago

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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.andr ...…

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Episode 58: Quick Settings

2y ago

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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 cre ...…

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Episode 57: Espresso Test Recorder

2y ago

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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/+ ...…

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Episode 56: In The Beginning

2y ago

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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, ...…

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2y ago

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Chet, Sam and RomainIn 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 ...…

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2y ago

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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 al ...…

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Episode 53: ADB on ADB

2y ago

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In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Elliott Hughes from the native tools and libraries team. He and his team work on ADB, the NDK, and a host of other important low-level Android tools. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Android Developers Blog: Improving Stability with Private C/C++ Symbol Restriction ...…

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Episode 52: Multi Window of Opportunity

2y ago

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Rob, Chet, and Tor in our totally professional recording studio with sophisticated sound baffling equipment.In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Rob Carr from the window manager team about... Multi-Window! We also talk about application lifecycle, synchronous SurfaceView, and other window-manager-activity-managery stuff. Subscribe to the pod ...…

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Episode 51: Swisstem UI

2+ y ago

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Chet, Tor, Jorim, Selim and AdrianIn 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: goo ...…

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Episode 50: Constraint Layout

2+ y ago

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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: goog ...…

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