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

Android Developers Backstage: Episode 13: Support Library

In this superstitiously numbered episode 13, Tor and Chet talk with Adam Powell of the UI Toolkit team about the Android support library, AppCompat, ListView, RecyclerView, and all sorts of other toolkit-related niceties.

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Relevant Links:

Android Support Library: http://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/index.html

ActionBarSherlock: http://actionbarsherlock.com/

Adam: google.com/+AdamWPowell

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye

Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

Android Developers Backstage: Episode 12: The Jake Show

In a startling and electrifying break with ancient tradition (born of laziness rather than policy), Tor and Chet are joined in this podcast by external developer (i.e., non-Googler) Jake Wharton. Jake has worked on and with many important Android open source libraries. We talk with Jake about these projects and various other aspects of Android development in general.

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Relevant Links:

Retrofit: http://square.github.io/retrofit/

Picasso: http://square.github.io/picasso/

Dagger: http://square.github.io/dagger/

OkHttp: http://square.github.io/okhttp/

Butter Knife: http://jakewharton.github.io/butterknife

Robolectric: http://robolectric.org/

Espresso: https://code.google.com/p/android-test-kit/

AssertJ Android: http://square.github.io/assertj-android

Jake: google.com/+JakeWharton

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye

Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

Android Developers Backstage: Episode 11: ART, pART 2 (Trash Talk)

In this continuation of the previous gripping and suspenseful episode known as Episode 10, Tor and Chet hear more from Anwar Ghuloum from the Android Runtime team. This time is all trash-talk. Tune in to hear more about garbage collection and how allocation and collection performance is much faster with ART (and, more interestingly, why it's faster).

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ARTicles:
Introducing ART: http://source.android.com/devices/tech/dalvik/art.html
Verifying App Behavior: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/verifying-apps-art.html

Video:
The ART Runtime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBlTzQsUoOw

Other Resources:
Systrace: http://developer.android.com/tools/help/systrace.html

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