Friday, May 18, 2018

Episode 92: Navigation Controller

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 application's screens.

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Links:
I/O Video: Manage UI Navigation with Navigation Controller
I/O Video: How to Smartly Use Fragments in Your UI 
Article(s): The Navigation Architecture Component

Ian: google.com/+IanLake@ianhlake
Torgoogle.com/+TorNorbye@tornorbye
Chetgoogle.com/+ChetHaase@chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Friday, May 11, 2018

Episode 91: KTX

Chet, Romain, Jake, and Tor
In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor talk with Jake Wharton about Android KTX, a set of Kotlin extensions for Android development.

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Links:
GitHub repository for android-ktx
Jake's talk at Google I/O




Jakegoogle.com/+JakeWharton@JakeWharton
Chetgoogle.com/+ChetHaase@chethaase
Romaingoogle.com/+RomainGuy@romainguy

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Friday, May 4, 2018

Episode 90: Spanspanspanspan

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 course spans, but also dives into some of the new text features in the P preview release, like pre-computed text measurement, magnifer, smarter Linkify, and baseline-alignment attributes.

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Links:
Spantastic text styling
Underspanding spans
Android P Developer Preview
Best practices for text on Android

Florina: @FMuntenescu
Torgoogle.com/+TorNorbye@tornorbye
Chetgoogle.com/+ChetHaase@chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.