Episode 37: Webview

Richard, Chet, Ben, and not Tor in the spacious London studioIn 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...

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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.Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.Relevant LinksData Binding GuideGeorge Mount: https://plus.google.com/+GeorgeMount007Yigit Boyar: https://plus.google.com/111851968937104436377, @yigitboyarTor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbyeChet:...

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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.Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.Relevant Links:SystraceFramestatsAndroid Performance PatternsGlideChris:Tor: google.com/+Tor...

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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."Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.Relevant Links:Fit CatTechnically Speaking newsletterAndroid Custom ComponentsAdvanced Android TextViewMonkey WriteKey promoter (Intellij...

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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...

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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...

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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.Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.Relevant Links:TalkBack: https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/6007100AccessibilityNodeInfo: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/accessibility/AccessibilityNodeInfo.htmlWebVTT: http://dev.w3.org/html5/webvtt/Adding...

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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.Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.Relevant Links:Android Support Library: http://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/index.htmlActionBarSherlock: http://actionbarsherlock.com/Adam: google.com/+AdamWPowellTor: google.com/+TorNorbyeChet: google.com/+ChetHaa...

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