Episode 14: Accessibility

Tor and Chet are joined in this podcast episode by Alan Viverette from the UI Toolkit team. Alan is passionate about accessibility. He also works on themes, attributes, styles, widgets and, well, lots of UI stuff. So we talk for a while, as we tend to do.

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Relevant Links:

TalkBack: https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/6007100
AccessibilityNodeInfo: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/accessibility/AccessibilityNodeInfo.html
WebVTT: http://dev.w3.org/html5/webvtt/
Adding Captions on YouTube: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734796?hl=en

Alan: google.com/+AlanViverette

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye

Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

Android Developers Backstage: Episode 13: Support Library

In this superstitiously numbered episode 13, Tor and Chet talk with Adam Powell of the UI Toolkit team about the Android support library, AppCompat, ListView, RecyclerView, and all sorts of other toolkit-related niceties.

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Relevant Links:

Android Support Library: http://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/index.html

ActionBarSherlock: http://actionbarsherlock.com/

Adam: google.com/+AdamWPowell

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye

Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

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

Android Developers Backstage: Episode 10: ART, pART 1

Tor and Chet may not know ART, but they know what they like. In this episode, the first in a two-pART series, they talk with Anwar Ghuloum from the ART, or Android Runtime team. ART is the new runtime for Android, which came online in the KitKat release as an alternative to Dalvik. Now ART is not only enabled by default: it’s the only runtime. We’ll talk about what it is, how it works, why it’s better, and the future and very meaning of ART in modern society.

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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

Google I/O 2014 Session:
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

Android Developers Backstage - Episode 9: Design

Tor and Chet make a startling break with ancient tradition and talk to a real, live designer in this episode: Christian Robertson from the Android User Experience team. Tune in to hear about the Roboto font that Christian created and about font design in general, plus design tips for layout, visual rhythm, and other Android designities.

Design: It's the new Develop.

Relevant links:

Android Design: https://developer.android.com/design/index.html
Android Style Guide: http://developer.android.com/design/style/index.html
Android Asset Studio: http://romannurik.github.io/AndroidAssetStudio/
Roboto: http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Roboto

Christian: https://plus.google.com/110879635926653430880/posts
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

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Android Developers Backstage - Episode 8: Volley

In this episode, the second in a bizarrely and completely unplanned series on Play Store technology, Tor Norbye and Chet Haase are joined by Ficus Kirkpatrick from the Play Store team (and from many other Android projects from the early days). Listen in to hear what Volley is for and how you can use it to simplify your network requests and bitmap download/caching code.

Relevant links:
Volley: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/volley/
Volley email list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/volley-users
Gson adapter for Volley: https://gist.github.com/ficusk/5474673

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