Episode 34: Really Nearby

In this episode, we chat with Andrew Bunner and Akshay Kannan from the Nearby team. Nearby is a technology that allows devices that are, er, nearby to communicate in one of several ways (including ultrasonic frequencies, which is just kind of awesome).

Favorite bits: "beeps and boops" (a technical term), "acoustical chamber" (sounds a lot cooler than it probably is), and the three most important things about Nearby: proximity, proximity, proximity.

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Nearby Product Overview

Andrew: google.com/+AndrewBunner
Akshay: google.com/+AkshayKannan
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

Episode 33: Permission Mission

In this episode, we chat with Ben Poiesz, a product manager on the Android framework about the exciting new Permissions model in Android M.

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Relevant links

Android M Permissions (Google I/O 2015)
M Preview Permissions Overview

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

Episode 32: Leak Canary

In this episode, we chat with Pierre-Yves Ricau (aka @Piwai, for his initials P and Y and for the benefit of non-French-speakers that find "Pierre-Yves" entirely too complicated to pronounce) from Square about his excellent Leak Canary tool, as well as other topics he's interested in -- presenting, dependency injection, and crash reporting.

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Relevant links

Leak Canary blog post
Leak Canary Github project
MAT (Memory Analyzer Tool)
Dagger2

Pierre-Yves Ricau: twitter.com/Piwai
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

Episode 31: Graphics Performance

This time, Tor and Chet are joined by Chris Craik from the Android UI Toolkit team. Chris took time out of his busy schedule of writing performance-testing tools and fixing graphics performance issues to talk on the podcast about, well, performance-testing tools and graphics performance issues.

Listen in to learn about graphics performance tips, tricks, and tools.

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Relevant Links:
Systrace
Framestats
Android Performance Patterns
Glide

Chris:
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

Episode 30: Android Design Library

This time, Tor and Chet are joined by Chris Banes (again!) to talk about the new Android Design Library, which was released at Google I/O 2015. Listen in to find out all about CoordinatorLayout, FAB, Snackbar, and more, more, more!

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Relevant Links:
Chris's blog
Android Design Library Demo
Android Design Support Library (Android Developers Blog)

Chris: google.com/+ChrisBanes
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

Episode 29: Tor vs. Chet

This time, Tor and Chet are joined by Chet and Tor when they are once again unexpectedly blown off by a special guest. Fortunately, there was plenty to talk about, including Google I/O, Android Studio 1.3, M Developer Preview, and the new Developing for Android series of articles.

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Relevant Links:
What's New in Android (I/O talk)
What's New in Android Development Tools (I/O talk)
Android M Permissions (I/O talk)
Android M Developer Preview
M Developer Preview Bug Feedback
Android Studio (latest)
Developing for Android (Introduction + Contents)

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

Episode 28: Chiu-Ki Chat

This time, Tor and Chet are joined by Chiu-Ki Chan, an external developer and frequent presenter about Android developer. Hear us talk about custom views, watch faces, TextView, learning Chinese, libraries, and other random stuff.

Favorite quotes:
"To get room temperature water, mix cold water and hot water."
"Bust out that paper."

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Relevant Links:
Fit Cat
Technically Speaking newsletter
Android Custom Components
Advanced Android TextView
Monkey Write
Key promoter (Intellij plugin)
Watch face samples
https://github.com/googlesamples/android-WatchFace
https://watchface-codelab.appspot.com

Chiu-Ki: https://twitter.com/chiuki
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase