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Jul 18, 2017 • 52min

Episode 73: Architecture Components 2 - Persistence

Sergei, 3D Chet, Tor, 2D Chet, and Yigit. In this episode, Chet and Tor talk [more] with Yigit Boyar and Sergei Vasilinetc about the new Architecture Components project that was announced at Google I/O. In particular, we talk about Persistence. This is a continuation of the conversation we started in Episode 72, which was about Lifecycle. But this one is all about ROOM, the persistence APIs in the Architecture Components project. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Android Architecture Components Google I/O 2017: Architecture Components - Introduction Google I/O 2017: Architecture Components - Lifecycle Google I/O 2017: Architecture Components - Persistence and Offline Github Samples Yigit: @yigitboyar Sergei: @ZelenetS Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
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Jun 30, 2017 • 44min

Episode 72: Architecture Components 1 - Lifecycle

Yigit, 2D Chet, Tor, 3D Chet, and Sergei. In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Yigit Boyar and Sergei Vasilinetc about the new Architecture Components project that was announced at Google I/O. In particular, we talk about the Lifecycle part of Architecture Components. Stay tuned for a future episode about the Persistence API. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Android Architecture Components Google I/O 2017: Architecture Components - Introduction Google I/O 2017: Architecture Components - Lifecycle Github Samples Yigit: @yigitboyar Sergei: @ZelenetS Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
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Jun 23, 2017 • 44min

Episode 71: Things

Chet, Lee, Ari, and Tor, in repose. In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Lee Campbell and Ari Hausman-Cohen from the Android Things team about that project and IoT in general. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Android Things Android Things sessions at Google I/O Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
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Jun 19, 2017 • 48min

Episode 70: Color

Chet, Romain, and Tor in the totally professional recording studio In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Romain Guy about color, spanning topics from how color works (on devices and in our eyes) to specific color technologies/specifications like sRGB and wide-gamut displays to specific features that are now available in the Android O Preview release. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Android O Developer Preview Google I/O 2017: Understanding Color 360|AnDev: U and I Romain Guy: 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.
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Jun 5, 2017 • 1h 4min

Episode 69: IO IO

Dan, Chet, Chiu-Ki, Chris, Huyen, Mark, Corey, and Kaushik In this episode, Chet and !Tor talked with a veritable mob of Android app developers about interesting stuff from Google I/O 17 and in the Android O preview release. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Android O Developer Preview Android@Google I/O Sessions Dan Lew: @danlew42 Chiu-Ki Chan: @chiuki Chris Lacy: @chrismlacy Huyen Tue Dao: @queencodemonkey Mark Allison: @MarkIAllison Corey Latislaw: @corey_latislaw Kaushik Gopal: @kaushigopal Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
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Jun 2, 2017 • 48min

Episode 68: Profiler

Tor, Esteban and Chet in the Studio. In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Esteban de la Canal about the new profiling tools in Android Studio 3.0. Join us to hear about the CPU profiler, the memory profiler, the network profiler, allocation tracking, heap dump analysis, changes to Android O to support low overhead profiling and more. This episode was recorded three months ago, so some details around version numbers and release dates are off, but the information should still be useful and interesting. And in the time since the podcast was recorded, the profiler has added support for OkHttp. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Android Profiler in Android Studio 3.0 Esteban: google.com/+EstebandelaCanal, @estebandlc Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
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May 24, 2017 • 47min

Episode 67: Fontastic

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk talks with Clara Bayarri and Alan Viverette about downloadable fonts, fonts in XML, EmojiCompat, and other new features in the v26 beta 1 release of the Android Support Library. All of these features were revealed and demonstrated at Google I/O, so you might also want to check out the I/O talks linked below. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Google I/O Session: What's New in Android Support Library Google I/O Session: Best Practices to Slim Down your App Size Android O Features and APIs Android Support Library Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Alan: google.com/+AlanViverette, @alanviverette Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
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May 18, 2017 • 1h 6min

Episode 66: Kotlin!

Tor, Yigit, Chet, and Romain, in our very fancy ADB recording studio In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Romain Guy and Yigit Boyar about Kotlin, Android's new officially supported language. Join us to hear a free-ranging discussion about various favorite features of the language. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Android Announces Support for Kotlin Kotlin Koans (online tutorial) Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Romain: google.com/+RomainGuy, @romainguy Yigit: plus.google.com/111851968937104436377, @yigitboyar Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
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May 4, 2017 • 43min

Episode 65: Emulator

Chet, Huan, Jamal and Tor In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Jamal Eason and Huan Ren from the Android tools team about the emulator. Tune in learn whether you should use the 32 bit or the 64 bit system images, and more. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Jamal: google.com/+JamalEason Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
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Apr 17, 2017 • 59min

Episode 64: Gradleweiss

Chet, Jerome, Xav, Tor, and Gradle (not pictured). In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Xavier Ducrohet and Jerome Dochez from the Android Studio team. We talk about gradle, gradle, and gradle. And then some more about gradle, rounding out the dicussion with a chat about gradle before ending on a brief discourse on gradle. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Xav: google.com/+XavierDucrohet, @droidxav Jerome: @dochez Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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