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 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 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 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

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 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 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