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Listen to That Android Show Episode 25: The Silver Episode
February maybe one of the shortest months of the year, however, it doesn’t seem to be a quiet month for Android fans. Google’s buying, selling and updating like crazy and we try to encapsulate the month’s recent news in this episode. Plus, Ana provides an interview with another Android Developer, a discussion on recent critical articles on Android’s accessibility and of course your feedback in the overflowing Mailbag.
In The News:
Google’s $3.2 billion Nest deal is official
Q&A: Lenovo CEO On How To Turn Around Motorola
Nokea launches a trio of Android based phones
Strange bedfellows: Microsoft could bring Android apps to Windows
New Android OEM licensing terms leak; “Open” comes with a lot of restrictions
CamFind is Tap Tap See for Android says Steve
A walk with Project Tango
ideal Group has released GuideDroid Beta
Steve notes that you have to suspend TalkBack first, try Crazy Bat
Why you shouldn’t propose with Google Glass
Google i/o June 25th - 26th
Developer Interview: PDF To Speech Pro
Ana sits down to discuss the parels of development with PDF, alternative formats and the challenges of keeping up with so many changes to it all over so many years. don’t miss this inside look at one of the veteran apps for TalkBack users. Also, not listed here, this app is also available for Amazon kindle users via the Amazon App Market.
App Demo: PDF To Speech
Ana calls this PDF To Speech “a media player for books”. And she may just be right. With options for so many formats, voices and gestures, you will see why this app is one of the best options for those who use TalkBack to read various text formats.
Discussion topic: Android Development Accessibility
The team sits down to discuss recent articles from Marco and Chris about their views on Android Development and how accessible these development tools are. To follow along with the discussion, check out these articles: From Chris: Testing Android Accessibility: I Give Up
He also wrote a post on programming
Marco, previously interviewed on our show, has some info up about the challenges encounterd with firefox for Android
And… Accessibility in Firefox for Android – Some more technical details
Plus… Accessibility in Firefox for Android: Some more technical background, Part II
Be sure to send in your thoughts on these articles, or on our discussion of these articles, in an iReport or email. We’d like to hear what our audience has to say about all this. Who knows, your comments could be featured in an upcoming show!
Mailbag
Our first email is from Kelsey:
“Hi Guys, I just want to start off with a big thank you for all the great work you include in your Android podcasts and wish you all the best for 2014... bring it on podcast 25! My main topic is about Android - specifically, the Nexus 7.I'm a dedicated iOS user; I started off with an iPod Touch 4, merged to the iPhone 4 when my Owasys 22c blind phone broke down and now have an iPhone 4S. However, I took a risk just before the new year and dived into Android with the Google Nexus 7. This was after reading many articles with blind people moaning about how awful Android was compared to iOS and how it should be killed or destroyed or beaten up but I decided that I would decide for myself thank you very much. After un-boxing the Nexus 7 (which happened to fly across the room when I finally persuaded it to rather violently pop out of the box), I managed to set it up with TalkBack with no sighted assistance - one aspect I was very impressed with. I checked out the TalkBack tutorial and got my head around the basics. Next, I updated it to 4,4,2 KitKat and then set to work. The first thing I did was go to the Play Store, go to my iPhone and see which of the applications on my phone were available on the Nexus 7. I found a few and then went with the ones I knew.Plume for Twitter just didn't do it for me so I soon uninstalled that.
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Listen to That Android Show Episode 25: The Silver Episode
February maybe one of the shortest months of the year, however, it doesn’t seem to be a quiet month for Android fans. Google’s buying, selling and updating like crazy and we try to encapsulate the month’s recent news in this episode. Plus, Ana provides an interview with another Android Developer, a discussion on recent critical articles on Android’s accessibility and of course your feedback in the overflowing Mailbag.
In The News:
Google’s $3.2 billion Nest deal is official
Q&A: Lenovo CEO On How To Turn Around Motorola
Nokea launches a trio of Android based phones
Strange bedfellows: Microsoft could bring Android apps to Windows
New Android OEM licensing terms leak; “Open” comes with a lot of restrictions
CamFind is Tap Tap See for Android says Steve
A walk with Project Tango
ideal Group has released GuideDroid Beta
Steve notes that you have to suspend TalkBack first, try Crazy Bat
Why you shouldn’t propose with Google Glass
Google i/o June 25th - 26th
Developer Interview: PDF To Speech Pro
Ana sits down to discuss the parels of development with PDF, alternative formats and the challenges of keeping up with so many changes to it all over so many years. don’t miss this inside look at one of the veteran apps for TalkBack users. Also, not listed here, this app is also available for Amazon kindle users via the Amazon App Market.
App Demo: PDF To Speech
Ana calls this PDF To Speech “a media player for books”. And she may just be right. With options for so many formats, voices and gestures, you will see why this app is one of the best options for those who use TalkBack to read various text formats.
Discussion topic: Android Development Accessibility
The team sits down to discuss recent articles from Marco and Chris about their views on Android Development and how accessible these development tools are. To follow along with the discussion, check out these articles: From Chris: Testing Android Accessibility: I Give Up
He also wrote a post on programming
Marco, previously interviewed on our show, has some info up about the challenges encounterd with firefox for Android
And… Accessibility in Firefox for Android – Some more technical details
Plus… Accessibility in Firefox for Android: Some more technical background, Part II
Be sure to send in your thoughts on these articles, or on our discussion of these articles, in an iReport or email. We’d like to hear what our audience has to say about all this. Who knows, your comments could be featured in an upcoming show!
Mailbag
Our first email is from Kelsey:
“Hi Guys, I just want to start off with a big thank you for all the great work you include in your Android podcasts and wish you all the best for 2014... bring it on podcast 25! My main topic is about Android - specifically, the Nexus 7.I'm a dedicated iOS user; I started off with an iPod Touch 4, merged to the iPhone 4 when my Owasys 22c blind phone broke down and now have an iPhone 4S. However, I took a risk just before the new year and dived into Android with the Google Nexus 7. This was after reading many articles with blind people moaning about how awful Android was compared to iOS and how it should be killed or destroyed or beaten up but I decided that I would decide for myself thank you very much. After un-boxing the Nexus 7 (which happened to fly across the room when I finally persuaded it to rather violently pop out of the box), I managed to set it up with TalkBack with no sighted assistance - one aspect I was very impressed with. I checked out the TalkBack tutorial and got my head around the basics. Next, I updated it to 4,4,2 KitKat and then set to work. The first thing I did was go to the Play Store, go to my iPhone and see which of the applications on my phone were available on the Nexus 7. I found a few and then went with the ones I knew.Plume for Twitter just didn't do it for me so I soon uninstalled that.