Android Developers Backstage
Android Developers
Android Backstage, a podcast by and for Android developers. Hosted by developers from the Android engineering team, this show covers topics of interest to Android programmers, with in-depth discussions and interviews with engineers on the Android team at Google.
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Jul 20, 2016 • 58min
Episode 53: ADB on ADB
In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Elliott Hughes from the native tools and libraries team. He and his team work on ADB, the NDK, and a host of other important low-level Android tools. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Android Developers Blog: Improving Stability with Private C/C++ Symbol Restrictions in Android N Android Developers Blog: Android changes for NDK developers NDK preview releases Toybox Elliott: google.com/+ElliottHughes Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Jul 6, 2016 • 40min
Episode 52: Multi Window of Opportunity
Rob, Chet, and Tor in our totally professional recording studio with sophisticated sound baffling equipment. In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Rob Carr from the window manager team about... Multi-Window! We also talk about application lifecycle, synchronous SurfaceView, and other window-manager-activity-managery stuff. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Google I/O 2016 Sessions: Multi-Window Mode Android Fireside Chat Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Jun 24, 2016 • 49min
Episode 51: Swisstem UI
Chet, Tor, Jorim, Selim and Adrian In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Jorim Jaggi, Selim Cinek and Adrian Roos from the System UI team about all the "math-gic" behind the animations in Lollipop, Marshmallow and N. Favorite quote: "Hopefully works correctly". Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Jorim Jaggi: google.com/+JorimJaggi Selim Cinek: google.com/+SelimCinek Adrian Roos: google.com/+AdrianRoos Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Jun 2, 2016 • 48min
Episode 50: Constraint Layout
Chet, Tor, Romain, Nicolas and John (mysteriously shadowed) In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Romain Guy, Nicolas Roard and John Hoford about the new ConstraintLayout library and layout editor. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/layout-editor Romain Guy: google.com/+RomainGuy, @romainguy Nicolas Roard: google.com/+NicolasRoard, @camaelon John Hoford: google.com/+JohnHoford, @johnhoford Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

May 21, 2016 • 50min
Episode 49: What's New in N
Chet, Romain, and Tor (mysteriously shadowed) In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Romain Guy about some of the new features in the Android N preview release. Favorite feature: "San Jose French" Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links Android Preview Romain Guy: google.com/+RomainGuy, @romainguy Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

May 10, 2016 • 49min
Episode 48: ExoPlayer
Oliver and Chet In this episode, Chet visits the Google's Android office in London and chats with Oliver Woodman about ExoPlayer, an application level media player for Android. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links ExoPlayer GitHub Project Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
Apr 21, 2016 • 54min
Episode 47: That Syncing Feeling
In this episode, Chet and Tor talk to Chris Tate from the Android framework team about cloud sync and backup, alarms and scheduling jobs. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Chris: google.com/+ChristopherTate Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Mar 30, 2016 • 41min
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. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links Together Watchface Zak: google.com/+ZakCohen Fake Chet: google.com/+NickButcher, @crafty Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye

Mar 17, 2016 • 46min
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. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links Android N Preview Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Mar 7, 2016 • 52min
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. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links Battery Historian Job Scheduler Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase


