Episode 39: MIDI

Chet, Phil, and Tor. And a lot of totally professional sound baffles

This time, Tor and Chet get all musical with Phil Burk from the Android Audio team. Phil worked on the new MIDI feature in the Android 6.0 Marshmallow release, and joins the podcast to talk about MIDI (history as well as Android implementation), electronic music, and other audio-related topics.

Bryan said it was his favorite episode so far. But then Bryan's an audio engineer, so he might be slightly biased.

Android MIDI: It's music to our ears.

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Relevant Links

Android MIDI
MidiSynth Example
More Examples
HMSL
Larry Polansky

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

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

Episode 38: Fingerprint

In this, er, impressive episode, Tor and Chet talk with Jim Miller from the Android System UI team. We mostly chat about the new fingerprint feature in Android 6 Marshmallow (aka, "Nexus Imprint"). But we also talk about other things like Keyguard, Setup Wizard, widgets, notifications, and greasy chicken parts.

"UIs, like fingerprints, are all unique."

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Relevant Links

Fingerprint Authentication
FingerprintManager
Fingerprint Dialog Example
Fingerprint and Payments APIs (Video)

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

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

Episode 37: Webview

Richard, Chet, Ben, and not Tor in the spacious London studio

In this Tor-less episode, Chet talks with Ben Murdoch and Richard Coles from the Android WebView team. We talk about WebView's ability to update outside of platform releases, the transition from the original WebView to the new Chromium WebView widget, about some of the new features and APIs in recent releases, and about cute kitten bitmaps.

Tor didn't have much to say, about kittens or anything else.

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Relevant Links

Beta Channel for Android WebView
Google+ Beta Channel Community
Bug Tracker
Chrome Dev Tools
WebView API


Ben Murdoch: google.com/+BenMurdoch, @ksasq
Richard Coles: google.com/+RichardColesGoogle
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Also, thanks to continued support by Bryan Gordon, our audio engineer who puts this stuff together every time.

Episode 36: UX Rules

In this episode, we talk with Rachel Garb from the Android User Experience team. Tune in to hear about interaction design and about how the Android system UI (including the new volume slider UI in Android M) is designed and user-tested.

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Relevant Links

Material Design Spec
Android Design for Success (Google I/O 2012)
Don't Make Me Think (Steve Krug)
The Inmates are Running the Asylum (Alan Cooper)

Rachel: google.com/+RachelGarb, medium.com/@rachelgarb, @rachelgarb
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Episode 35: Data Bound

In this episode, we chat with George Mount and Yigit Boyar from the Android UI Toolkit team. Yigit and George worked on the new Data Binding feature announced at Google I/O and which is available in the preview release and in recent versions of Android Studio.

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Relevant Links

Data Binding Guide

George Mount: https://plus.google.com/+GeorgeMount007
Yigit Boyar: https://plus.google.com/111851968937104436377, @yigitboyar
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

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