Episode 25: Espresso

Tor and Chet are joined by Thomas Knych and Valera Zakharov from the Espresso team at Google. This episode is all about testing. We talk about how Espresso works, how Espresso came to be, how to use Espresso, and lots of other information about Espresso. And UI testing in general.

Favorite quote:
"What does failure look like?"

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Relevant Links:

Automating UI Tests: https://developer.android.com/training/testing/ui-testing/index.html
Espresso Setup: https://developer.android.com/training/testing/ui-testing/espresso-testing.html#setup
Espresso source: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/testing/+/android-support-test/espresso
Presentation on Espresso from GTAC 2013: https://youtu.be/T7ugmCuNxDU
Presentation on UI Testing from GTAC 2014: https://youtu.be/aHcmsK9jfGU
Info on contributing: https://plus.google.com/wm/1/+StephanLinzner/posts/K32UgdSRYwe
Espresso Cheat Sheet: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googlesamples/android-testing/master/downloads/espresso-cheat-sheet-2.1.0.png
Espresso Samples: https://github.com/googlesamples/android-testing/tree/master/espresso
Roboelectric: http://robolectric.org/
Unit Testing: http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/unit-testing-support
Hamcrest: http://hamcrest.org/
UIAutomator: https://developer.android.com/tools/testing-support-library/index.html#UIAutomator
Robotium: https://github.com/RobotiumTech/robotium

Thomas: plus.google.com/115763363280582609147
Valera: plus.google.com/+ValeraZakharov
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

Episode 24: Roman Holiday

Tor and Chet are joined by Roman Nurik from the Android Developer Relations team. We talk about Asset Studio to the Muzei wallpaper to Material Design to Android Studio application templates to watchfaces to icons to the Google I/O scheduling app to Android application design to the FORM conference. I guess he's been busy.

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Relevant Links:

Dashclock: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nurik.roman.dashclock
DashClock Code: https://code.google.com/p/dashclock/
Muzei: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nurik.roman.muzei
Muzei Code: https://github.com/romannurik/muzei
Android Asset Studio: http://romannurik.github.io/AndroidAssetStudio/
Android Design Preview: https://github.com/romannurik/AndroidDesignPreview
Android Wear Watchfaces: https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/watch-faces/index.html
FORM: http://www.google.com/design/form/
Google I/O App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.samples.apps.iosched
Google I/O App Code: https://github.com/google/iosched
Material Design: http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.html

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

Episode 23: Re: In Car Nation

Tor and Chet are joined by Gabriel Peal from the Android Auto team. We talk about... cars! And dashboard entertainment systems, and notifications, and navigation, and the Android Auto capabilities available today.

Favorite phrase:
"Duck the audio"

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Relevant Links:

Android Auto Developer Site: http://developer.android.com/auto/index.html
Consumer Site: http://www.android.com/auto/

Gabriel: google.com/+GabrielPeal8 or on Twitter: @gpeal8
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

Episode 22: Wear Wolves

Tor and Chet are joined by Justin Koh and Griff Hazen from the Android Wear team. We talk about watches, notifications, watch faces, data, apps, services, and All Things Wear. You could say that we wear out the topic. You probably wouldn't, but you could.

Favorite word:
"Transflective"

Favorite phrase:
"Eventually consistent"

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Relevant Links:

Overview of Wear Development: http://developer.android.com/wear
Creating a Wearable App: https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/apps/creating.html
Android Wear UI: https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/apps/layouts.html
Android Wear Suppor Lib Reference: http://developer.android.com/reference/packages-wearable-support.html
Watchfaces API: https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/watch-faces/index.html
Data APIs: https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/data-layer/index.html

Griff: google.com/+GriffHazen
Justin: google.com/+JustinKoh
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

Episode 21: Material Designification

Tor and Chet are joined by Kirill Grouchnikov from the Play Store team (What, again? Don't these guys know more than twenty developers?) about various aspects of implementing Material Design in applications, including handling releases prior to Android 5.0 Lollipop.

Favorite quote:
"It's like redesigning the whole pig"

Least favorite quote:
"Boooongggggg!"
(I really need to learn where the edge of the metal table is when I'm moving a bottle of water. At least after I hit it the first time.)

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Relevant Links:

Material Design: http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.html
Creating Apps with Material Design: http://developer.android.com/training/material/index.html
Roboto: http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Roboto

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

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