Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Episode 46: Softwear

In this episode, Tor and Chet* talk with Zak Cohen from the Android Wear team in London about his work on watch faces, graphics, and many other Android projects he's been involved with such as the movie editor, voice search and Goggles.

*: Chet was not available for this episode, so his part was convincingly played by Nick Butcher from the Android developer relations group in London.


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Relevant Links

Together Watchface

Zak: google.com/+ZakCohen
Fake Chet: google.com/+NickButcher@crafty
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase@chethaase
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye@tornorbye

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Episode 45: State of the ART

Tor, Brian, Anwar and Chet
In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Brian Carlstrom and Anwar Ghuloum about Android N preview, and in particular the new features in ART, the Android Runtime.

Listen in to find out about the changes to the JIT and AOT compiler, the new language features, and a lot more.



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Relevant Links

Android N Preview

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

Monday, March 7, 2016

Episode 44: Power On

Chet, Ashish, Meghan, and Tor wait uncomfortably
for the photograph to be taken
In this episode, Tor and Chet talk with Ashish Sharma and Meghan Desai from Project Volta, an initiative starting in the Android Lollipop release to improve Android battery life.

Listen in to find out what kinds of things cause high battery usage and how you can make your apps better about conserving device power.




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Relevant Links

Battery Historian
Job Scheduler

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