Episode 64: Gradleweiss

Chet, Jerome, Xav, Tor, and Gradle (not pictured).

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Xavier Ducrohet and Jerome Dochez from the Android Studio team. We talk about gradle, gradle, and gradle. And then some more about gradle, rounding out the dicussion with a chat about gradle before ending on a brief discourse on gradle.

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Links

Xav: google.com/+XavierDucrohet, @droidxav
Jerome: @dochez

Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye

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

Episode 63: Dagger

Chet, Gregory and Tor in the dark

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Gregory Kick from the Java Core Libraries team at Google about Dagger, as well as Auto, AutoValue and Guava.

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Links

• Dagger 2: https://google.github.io/dagger/
• Auto: https://github.com/google/auto/
• AutoValue: https://github.com/google/auto/tree/master/value
• Guava: https://github.com/google/guava 

Gregory: google.com/+GregoryKick, @gk5885

Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye

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

Episode 62: It Depends

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Alan Viverette and Chris Banes about random things about the Support Library: releases, AppCompat, drawables, Night mode, gradle, support lib modularization, and more.

Will it answer all of your Support Lib questions? It depends...

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Links
Support Library

Alan: +AlanViverette
Chris: +ChrisBanes, @chrisbanes, blog
Chet: +ChetHaase, @chethaase
Tor: +TorNorbye, @tornorbye

Episode 61: Kernel Panic

In this episode, Chet speaks with Rom Lemarchand from the Android Systems team.

Tune in to hear about the new A/B system updates, kernel patches and much more.

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Links
A/B system updates

Chet: +ChetHaase, @chethaase
Tor: +TorNorbye, @tornorbye

Episode 60: Huyen Tue Dao

In this episode, Chet goes Tor-less and speaks with Huyen Tue Dao, an Android developer at Trello, about conferences, learning new things in Android, and Constraint Layout.

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Links
Loving Lean Layout
Measure, Layout, Draw, Repeat: Custom Views and ViewGroups
A New View: Layout Editor + Constraint Layout

Huyen: +HuyenTueDao, @queencodemonkey, randomlytyping.com, youtube.com/androiddialogs
Chet: +ChetHaase, @chethaase
Tor: +TorNorbye, @tornorbye

Episode 59: Buncha New Stuff

Chet and Tor. Just Chet and Tor. Nobody else.

In this episode, Chet and Tor find themselves without a guest so they spend the episode talking about three new releases: Android N MR1, support library, and Android Studio 2.3 Canary.

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Links

• Android 7.1 Preview: https://developer.android.com/preview/index.html
• Support Library: https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/support-library/revisions.html
• Transitions in Support Library: https://medium.com/google-developers/transitions-in-the-android-support-library-8bc86a1d688e
• What's New in Android (Droidcon London, Oct 28th): https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/8414-what-s-new-in-android
• Studio 2.3 Canary Announcement: http://tools.android.com/recent/androidstudio23canaryavailable
• Studio Canary Downloads: http://tools.android.com/download/studio/canary

Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye

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

Episode 58: Quick Settings

Chet, Jason, and Tor, not necessarily in that order.
You can see, in the background, the beautifully appointed
 high-tech recording studio where the magic happens.

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Jason Monk from the System UI team about various things that he's worked on, including Quick Settings, Quick Settings tiles (and the API for creating them), and System UI Tuner.
Oh, and QQS (Quick Quick Settings). Because if Quick is good, Quick Quick must be better.

There's also an odd detour into color theory and pointillism. Sorry about that.

Quotes of note:
"My memory doesn't work that way."
"Just because you have power doesn't mean you should use it."


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Links

• Quick Settings Tile API
• Quick Settings article on Medium

Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye

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