Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Episode 17: AppCompat

Chet and Fake Tor* are joined in this podcast episode by Chris Banes, an engineer in the Android Developer Relations group. Chris works on the AppCompat library, and other elements of the Android support library such as the new Palette utility, and talks about those things. And other things.

Oh, and we talk about "Shimming around a widget," which is a great phrase if nothing else.

* Tor was not available for this recording. He was probably elsewhere, writing code. The part of Tor will be played in this evening's performance by Richard Hyndman (not pronounced "Hindman," of course. Everyone knows that), also from the Android Developer Relations group.

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Relevant Links:
Chris’s blog: https://chris.banes.me/
AppCompat v21: https://chris.banes.me/2014/10/17/appcompat-v21/
Palette: https://chris.banes.me/2014/10/20/palette-v21/
Theme vs Style: https://chris.banes.me/2014/11/12/theme-vs-style/
Material (and other Lollipop) samples: http://developer.android.com/samples/new/index.html

Android Fundamentals Udacity course: https://www.udacity.com/course/ud853

Chris: google.com/+ChrisBanes