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Episode 85: Focus on Audio Dec 21, 2017

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Romain, Jean-Michel, and Tor. Chet is in the distant background (~2,500 miles west of the studio.) In this episode, Romain and Tor talk with Jean-Michel Trivi from the Android audio team. Tune in to learn about hardware speaker design, ducking and attenuation, stream types, audio tagging, audio focus, and more! Links:

If your activity is playing any audio, don't forget to declare what stream type the hardware volume keys should control with Activity.setVolumeControlStream(int stream) https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media-apps/volume-and-earphones.html
Since Android L, use AudioAttributes to describe your use case and content for your audio playback: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/AudioAttributes.html
Use AudioAttributes.getVolumeControlStream() to derive the stream type for volume control in your Activity https://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/AudioAttributes.html#getVolumeControlStream()
A summary of what audio focus is, when and how to request and abandon audio focus, and code snippet for your focus listener: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media-apps/audio-focus.html
And finally, when Jean-Michel isn't working on Android, he's paddling https://youtu.be/tZC2rmUdEVk

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Jean-Michel: google.com/+JeanMichelTrivi Romain: 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.

Episode 84: Instant Apps Nov 30, 2017

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Tor, Chet, and Patrick In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Patrick Baumann from the Instant Apps team. We cover everything from Instant to Apps. Links:

AIA docs: http://g.co/instantapps
Developer stories: https://developer.android.com/stories/instant-apps.html

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Patrick: @PatrickBaumann Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Episode 83: The Deal of the ART Nov 15, 2017

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In which Chet and Tor Romain Guy talk with Nicolas Geoffray from the ART team about runtime performance, including various optimizations in the Oreo release. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links

Performance and Memory Improvements in ART (Google I/O video on YouTube)

Romain: 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.

Episode 82: Tooling Around Nov 08, 2017

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Tor, Chet and Romain discussing studios In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor discuss the recently released Android Studio 3.0, the upcoming 3.1 preview release, KotlinConf, and whatever else happened to be on their mind last week. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Android Studio 3.0 Release Announcement Android Studio 3.1 Preview Romain: 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.

Episode 81: Gradle Sync Nov 06, 2017

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Tor, Alex, and Chet in the Android-related Studio In this episode, Chet and Tor sync with Alex Ruiz on Gradle, and in particular, the IDE integration of Gradle into Android Studio, past and upcoming performance work, the project structure dialog, APK Debugging, and more. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Alex: google.com/+AlexRuiz, @alexRuiz Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Episode 80: Crash Talk Oct 31, 2017

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In which Chet and Tor Dan Sandler talk with Andrea Falcone and Matt Willis from the Crashlytics team about (wait for it...) Crashlytics! Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Crashlytics for Android

Andrea: @asfalcone Matt: @mattwillis Dan: google.com/+DanSandler, @dsandler Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon. The audio this time was recorded on sub-standard portable mics and mixed by Dan and Chet. Sorry.

Episode 79: Picking Up Garbage Oct 18, 2017

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David, Mathieu, and Chet In this episode, Chet talks with David Sehr and Mathieu Chartier from the Android Runtime (ART) team, primarily about garbage collection as well as other recent ART improvements in O. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links

Performance and Memory Improvements in ART (Google I/O video on YouTube)

Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Episode 78: Notification Explication Sep 28, 2017

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In this episode, Chet and Tor Dan Sandler talk with Julia Reynolds from the Android System UI team about Notifications: channels, Do-Not-Disturb, Dots, ... it's all here. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links

Dan: google.com/+DanSandler, @dsandler Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon. The audio this time was recorded on sub-standard portable mics and mixed by Dan and Chet. Sorry.

Episode 77: Android Internals with Effie Barak Sep 11, 2017

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Tor, Effie, Chet In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Effie Barak from Pinterest about Android internals and about measuring and improving app performance. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links

Effie: @CodingChick Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Episode 76: Kotlin-n-stuff Sep 01, 2017

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Romain, Chet, Jake!, and Tor In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor talk with Jake Wharton about his new role as an engineer on the Android team at Google, and about Kotlin in particular. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links

Jake: google.com/+JakeWharton, @JakeWharton Romain: 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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