Episode 20: Fonts and Audio

Tor and Chet talk with Raph Levien from the Android UI Toolkit team, who works on font technology for Android. The conversation wanders freely into areas such as Raph's creation of the Inconsolata font, his work on Ghostscript, and tinkering he's done with audio latency and Android synthesizer apps. Oh, and we also talk about fonts, including some big improvements to font support in the Android 5.0 Lollipop release.

We also learned some new terminology along the way: glitch (the audio equivalent of jank in the graphics and UI world) and pangram (a sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet). So, bonus points for educational content.

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Relevant Links:

Inconsolata: http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
Ghostscript: http://www.ghostscript.com/
Roboto: http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Roboto
Noto fonts: https://www.google.com/get/noto/
Synthesizer App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.levien.synthesizer
Synthesizer Source: https://github.com/raphlinus/music-synthesizer-for-android
High Performance Audio on Android (Google I/O 2013): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3kfEeMZ65c

Raph: google.com/+RaphLevien
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

Episode 19: Android TV

Tor and Chet talk with Tim Kilbourn from the Android TV team. Learn about developing apps for this new platform and hear about exciting things in the TV world like "overscan" and "D-pads".

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Relevant Links:

TV Leanback API: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v17/leanback/package-summary.html
Android Style Guide: http://developer.android.com/design/style/index.html
Nexus Player: https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_player
Gamepad for Nexus Player: https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_player_gamepad

Tim: google.com/+TimKilbourn

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye

Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

Episode 18: Holidaze

In another exciting departure from ancient ADB tradition, Daniel Sandler takes over the podcast in a [mostly] bloodless coup and interviews Chet and Tor. This results in a very varied conversation about tech presentations, Tools (yay Android Studio 1.0!) and easter eggs.

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Oh, and this is the picture that Dan proposed for Android Studio auto-fix hints. Imagine that popping up when you're trying to get some code written.













Relevant Links:

Big Android BBQ: http://www.bigandroidbbq.com/
Droidcon London: http://uk.droidcon.com/2014/
Devoxx: http://www.devoxx.be/ (recorded talks: https://parleys.com/channel/5459089ce4b030b13206d2ea/presentations)
Speechless: http://speechlesslive.com/
Android Studio: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Flappy Droid bug: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=79650

Dan: google.com/+DanSandler

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye

Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

Episode 17: AppCompat

Chet and Fake Tor* are joined in this podcast episode by Chris Banes, an engineer in the Android Developer Relations group. Chris works on the AppCompat library, and other elements of the Android support library such as the new Palette utility, and talks about those things. And other things.

Oh, and we talk about "Shimming around a widget," which is a great phrase if nothing else.

* Tor was not available for this recording. He was probably elsewhere, writing code. The part of Tor will be played in this evening's performance by Richard Hyndman (not pronounced "Hindman," of course. Everyone knows that), also from the Android Developer Relations group.

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Relevant Links:
Chris’s blog: https://chris.banes.me/
AppCompat v21: https://chris.banes.me/2014/10/17/appcompat-v21/
Palette: https://chris.banes.me/2014/10/20/palette-v21/
Theme vs Style: https://chris.banes.me/2014/11/12/theme-vs-style/
Material (and other Lollipop) samples: http://developer.android.com/samples/new/index.html

Android Fundamentals Udacity course: https://www.udacity.com/course/ud853

Chris: google.com/+ChrisBanes

Fake Tor: google.com/+RichardHyndman

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye

Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

Episode 16: Notifications

Tor and Chet are joined in this podcast episode by Chris Wren, from the Android System UI team. Chris works on (among other things) notifications and talks about some of the latest notification capabilities in the Android 5.0 Lollipop release (among other things).

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Relevant Links:
Notifications overview: http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/notifications.html
What's New in Android (Google I/O 2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TtVsy98ces (Notifications overview starting at 21:52)
ADB Episode 6 (System UI, with Dan Sandler): http://androidbackstage.blogspot.com/2014/03/android-developers-backstage-episode-6.html

Chris: google.com/+ChrisWren

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye

Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

Episode 15: Location, Location, Location

Tor and Chet are joined in this podcast episode by Marc Stogaitis, the lead of the Android location client team. Join us to hear the exciting and mysterious term "urban canyon" and also about the three most important things in location services: location, location, location.

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Relevant Links:
Fused Location Provider API: https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/gms/location/FusedLocationProviderApi.html
Geofencing API: https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/gms/location/GeofencingApi.html
Activity Recognition API: https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/gms/location/ActivityRecognitionApi.html
Beyond the Blue Dot (Google I/O 2013): https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/325337477

Location History dashboard: https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/

Marc: https://plus.google.com/107675566661349240635/posts

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye

Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

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