Android Developers Backstage: Episode 12: The Jake Show

In a startling and electrifying break with ancient tradition (born of laziness rather than policy), Tor and Chet are joined in this podcast by external developer (i.e., non-Googler) Jake Wharton. Jake has worked on and with many important Android open source libraries. We talk with Jake about these projects and various other aspects of Android development in general.

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Relevant Links:

Retrofit: http://square.github.io/retrofit/

Picasso: http://square.github.io/picasso/

Dagger: http://square.github.io/dagger/

OkHttp: http://square.github.io/okhttp/

Butter Knife: http://jakewharton.github.io/butterknife

Robolectric: http://robolectric.org/

Espresso: https://code.google.com/p/android-test-kit/

AssertJ Android: http://square.github.io/assertj-android

Jake: google.com/+JakeWharton

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye

Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

Android Developers Backstage: Episode 11: ART, pART 2 (Trash Talk)

In this continuation of the previous gripping and suspenseful episode known as Episode 10, Tor and Chet hear more from Anwar Ghuloum from the Android Runtime team. This time is all trash-talk. Tune in to hear more about garbage collection and how allocation and collection performance is much faster with ART (and, more interestingly, why it's faster).

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ARTicles:
Introducing ART: http://source.android.com/devices/tech/dalvik/art.html
Verifying App Behavior: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/verifying-apps-art.html

Video:
The ART Runtime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBlTzQsUoOw

Other Resources:
Systrace: http://developer.android.com/tools/help/systrace.html

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase