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Episode 75: Project Treble - for the HAL of it Aug 17, 2017

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Iliyan, Romain, Chet, and a complete lack of Tor. In this episode, Chet and Romain (no Tor in sight. Anyone seen Tor? He was on the calendar appointment, totally expected him to show) talked with Iliyan Malchev from the Treble project. Treble was introduced in May of this year as an important step toward faster and more frequent release updates on devices. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Here Comes Treble blog post Shut the HAL Up blog post Hot Shots! movie Iliyan: @imalchev 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 74: Graphics Aug 04, 2017

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Chet, Romain, Mathias, and Tor (not pictured) in the very fancy and highly-decorated recording studio In this episode, Chet and Tor Romain talk with Mathias Agopian, who has worked on (or been the entirety of) the Android graphics team since before Android 1.0. We talk about SurfaceFlinger, PixelFlinger, tearing, buffering, optimizations, and other fun low-level graphics and performance details. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. 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 73: Architecture Components 2 - Persistence Jul 18, 2017

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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.

Episode 72: Architecture Components 1 - Lifecycle Jun 30, 2017

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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.

Episode 71: Things Jun 23, 2017

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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.

Episode 70: Color Jun 19, 2017

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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.

Episode 69: IO IO Jun 05, 2017

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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.

Episode 68: Profiler Jun 02, 2017

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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.

Episode 67: Fontastic May 24, 2017

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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.

Episode 66: Kotlin! May 18, 2017

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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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