Episode 138: Animated IME — Oh, my!

Chet, Romain, Jorim, Adrian and Taran. Oh and Tor hiding the upper  right.

In this episode, Tor, Chet and Romain are joined by Jorim, Adrian and Taran from the Window Manager team. We discussed newly announced capabilities of the IME (Input Method Editor) in Android  11. These new APIs allow applications to react in real-time to IME animations and thus provide a more polished and seamless user experience. It also happens to be the answer to one of your most requested features: knowing when the on-screen keyboard is showing.

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Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye
Romain: @romainguy

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.

Episode 137: Accessibility

Chet, Qasid, Romain, Sally, Tor, and a very mysterious
guest in a very dark room in the lower-right.

In this episode, Romain, Chet and Tor talked (remotely!) with Sally Yuen and Qasid Sadiq from the Accessibility team. We discussed the kinds of tools and facilities that their team provides, and how developers can (and should!) make their applications more accessible. We talked about Accessibility Services, Talkback, Accessibility Scanner, organizational complexities of accessibility efforts, and more.

Pro tip: Avoid creating custom widgets by using the built-in widgets in the platform to inherit accessibility functionality for free.

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Links

Build more accessible apps: Guide with videos and links to more resources.

Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye
Romain: @romainguy

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.

Episode 136: Remoting

Tor, Chet, and Romain, remembering the way things used
to be, back when there was a recording studio instead of
closets at home.

In this episode, Romain, Chet and Tor chat with zero guests about the current work-from-home reality, and about adjustments we've all made as we change the way we work.

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Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye
Romain: @romainguy

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.

Episode 135: Audio Podcast

Tor, Don, Chet, and Phil, on a video conference on Tor's
machine. VCs are critical to mitigating (but not actually
solving) latency issues with remote podcasts.

In this first ever full-remote episode, Tor and Chet discuss audio programming with Don Turner from the Android DevRel team, and Phil Burk from the Android Audio Framework team. They chat about Oboe, low-latency audio, audio performance in general, etc. And because Don and Phil know everything about audio, more time was spent before the recording discussing how to properly record the episode than was spent actually recording the episode.

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If you enjoyed this episode you might also be interested in episode 39, about MIDI audio with Phil Burk.

Phil: @philburk
Don: @donturner
Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye
Romain: @romainguy

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.