Episode 46: Softwear

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.


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Relevant Links

Together Watchface

Zak: google.com/+ZakCohen
Fake Chet: google.com/+NickButcher, @crafty
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye

Episode 45: State of the ART

Tor, Brian, Anwar and Chet

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Brian Carlstrom and Anwar Ghuloum about Android N preview, and in particular the new features in ART, the Android Runtime.

Listen in to find out about the changes to the JIT and AOT compiler, the new language features, and a lot more.



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Relevant Links

Android N Preview

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Episode 44: Power On

Chet, Ashish, Meghan, and Tor wait uncomfortably
for the photograph to be taken

In this episode, Tor and Chet talk with Ashish Sharma and Meghan Desai from Project Volta, an initiative starting in the Android Lollipop release to improve Android battery life.

Listen in to find out what kinds of things cause high battery usage and how you can make your apps better about conserving device power.




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Relevant Links

Battery Historian
Job Scheduler

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Episode 43: Keyboard Input

In this episode, Tor and I talk with Shumin Zhai of Google Research. Shumin has worked for years in the area of language processing, specifically around user input on keyboards. Some of his work ended up in the Gesture Typing feature of the Google keyboard, which is all about translating user input into specific word suggestions. We talked about this work, language processing, research, and about the field of interpreting user interface input in general.

Favorite word:
Corpus: A dead body of text.

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Relevant Links

Google keyboard

Shumin: research.google.com/pubs/author9128.html, www.shuminzhai.com
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Episode 42: Tool Time

The fancy ADB recording studio, with our featured guest.

In this episode, Tor and I talk with... each other. This episode is all about Android Studio. In particular, we talk about the latest features and massive performance improvements in the Android Studio preview that was detailed at the Android Dev Summit and which has
been in development and under improvement since then.

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Relevant Links

Android Studio tips & tricks video
All of the Android Dev Summit Talks
Android Studio
Android Studio Recent Changes
Instant Run
Proguard

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Episode 41: RecyclerView

In this episode, we recycle our guest list to bring back a former guest, Yigit Boyar, this time to talk about the RecyclerView widget.

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Relevant Links

RecyclerView Animation talk from the Android Dev Summit
Android Application Architecture talk from the Android Dev Summit
Source code for the Android Architecture talk sample app
The new lint check for RecyclerView suggested by Yigit, shipped in 2.0 Preview 5

Yigit Boyar: https://plus.google.com/111851968937104436377, @yigitboyar
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Episode 40: Material World

This time, Tor and Chet talk with Nicholas Jitkoff from the Material group about... Material Design. And design in general. And engineering. And splash screens. And other stuff.

Favorite words: Materiality. Skiamorphic.

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Relevant Links

Material Design
Zombo

Nicholas: google.com/+NicholasJitkoffJ, @alcor
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.