Android Developers Backstage

Chet, Sam and Romain In this episode, Chet and Romain talk with Sam Judd from the Google Photos team about Glide, an image loading and caching library, and its use in the Photos app. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Glide project: https://github.com/bumptech/glide Using Glide in your project: compile 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:3.7.0' Romain: google.com/+RomainGuy, @romainguy Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Adam Lesinski from the Android framework team. Adam works on aapt (Android Asset Packaging Tool), which compiles the resources used by the framework and for apps. Listen in to learn more about how it works, as well as some of the optional features that aapt provides that you could take advantage of. He also might talk about some of the future development going on for more robust and performant tools. Maybe. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Elliott Hughes from the native tools and libraries team. He and his team work on ADB, the NDK, and a host of other important low-level Android tools. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Android Developers Blog: Improving Stability with Private C/C++ Symbol Restrictions in Android N Android Developers Blog: Android changes for NDK developers NDK preview releases Toybox Elliott: google.com/+ElliottHughes Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Rob, Chet, and Tor in our totally professional recording studio with sophisticated sound baffling equipment. In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Rob Carr from the window manager team about... Multi-Window! We also talk about application lifecycle, synchronous SurfaceView, and other window-manager-activity-managery stuff. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Google I/O 2016 Sessions: Multi-Window Mode Android Fireside Chat Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Chet, Tor, Jorim, Selim and Adrian In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Jorim Jaggi, Selim Cinek and Adrian Roos from the System UI team about all the "math-gic" behind the animations in Lollipop, Marshmallow and N. Favorite quote: "Hopefully works correctly". Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Jorim Jaggi: google.com/+JorimJaggi Selim Cinek: google.com/+SelimCinek Adrian Roos: google.com/+AdrianRoos Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Chet, Tor, Romain, Nicolas and John (mysteriously shadowed) In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Romain Guy, Nicolas Roard and John Hoford about the new ConstraintLayout library and layout editor. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/layout-editor Romain Guy: google.com/+RomainGuy, @romainguy Nicolas Roard: google.com/+NicolasRoard, @camaelon John Hoford: google.com/+JohnHoford, @johnhoford Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Chet, Romain, and Tor (mysteriously shadowed) In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Romain Guy about some of the new features in the Android N preview release. Favorite feature: "San Jose French" Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links Android Preview Romain Guy: google.com/+RomainGuy, @romainguy Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Oliver and Chet In this episode, Chet visits the Google's Android office in London and chats with Oliver Woodman about ExoPlayer, an application level media player for Android. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links ExoPlayer GitHub Project Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk to Chris Tate from the Android framework team about cloud sync and backup, alarms and scheduling jobs. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Chris: google.com/+ChristopherTate Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye

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. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links Together Watchface Zak: google.com/+ZakCohen Fake Chet: google.com/+NickButcher, @crafty Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye