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.

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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.

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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.