Android Developers Backstage

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. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. 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

In this episode, we chat with Andrew Bunner and Akshay Kannan from the Nearby team. Nearby is a technology that allows devices that are, er, nearby to communicate in one of several ways (including ultrasonic frequencies, which is just kind of awesome). Favorite bits: "beeps and boops" (a technical term), "acoustical chamber" (sounds a lot cooler than it probably is), and the three most important things about Nearby: proximity, proximity, proximity. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Nearby Product Overview Andrew: google.com/+AndrewBunner Akshay: google.com/+AkshayKannan Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

In this episode, we chat with Ben Poiesz, a product manager on the Android framework about the exciting new Permissions model in Android M. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant links Android M Permissions (Google I/O 2015) M Preview Permissions Overview Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

In this episode, we chat with Pierre-Yves Ricau (aka @Piwai, for his initials P and Y and for the benefit of non-French-speakers that find "Pierre-Yves" entirely too complicated to pronounce) from Square about his excellent Leak Canary tool, as well as other topics he's interested in -- presenting, dependency injection, and crash reporting. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant links Leak Canary blog post Leak Canary Github project MAT (Memory Analyzer Tool) Dagger2 Pierre-Yves Ricau: twitter.com/Piwai Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

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. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links: Systrace Framestats Android Performance Patterns Glide Chris: Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

This time, Tor and Chet are joined by Chris Banes (again!) to talk about the new Android Design Library, which was released at Google I/O 2015. Listen in to find out all about CoordinatorLayout, FAB, Snackbar, and more, more, more! Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links: Chris's blog Android Design Library Demo Android Design Support Library (Android Developers Blog) Chris: google.com/+ChrisBanes Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

This time, Tor and Chet are joined by Chet and Tor when they are once again unexpectedly blown off by a special guest. Fortunately, there was plenty to talk about, including Google I/O, Android Studio 1.3, M Developer Preview, and the new Developing for Android series of articles. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links: What's New in Android (I/O talk) What's New in Android Development Tools (I/O talk) Android M Permissions (I/O talk) Android M Developer Preview M Developer Preview Bug Feedback Android Studio (latest) Developing for Android (Introduction + Contents) Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

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." Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. 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

This time, Tor and Chet are joined by... nobody. Instead, we just talk among ourselves about tools. From Android Studio to performance debugging tools to IDE shortcuts to memory analysis tools to Lint rules to animation debugging tools and back to Android Studio, we talk about lots of tools and then some. Favorite quotes: "How do you learn IntelliJ power commands?" "You just have to read the source code." "We have a Lint rule for that." (This should be Tor's superhero catch phrase if it's not already) IDE shortcuts: Killing the joy of programming one keystroke at a time. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links: (Not many links this time; the best way to learn about the various tools is to use them) Android Studio Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

Tor and Chet are joined by Gustavo Moura from the Google Fit team. We talk about the Google Fit app, but also about the GMS Core and REST APIs that enable that application and any other application that wants to take advantage of the sensor data that those APIs provide. Getting Fit, one step at a time. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links: Google Fit Developer Documentation Recording Fitness Data Working with the Fitness History Google Fit Developers G+ Community Google Fit Developer Challenge Gustavo: google.com/+GustavoMouraGoogle Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase