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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. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links Google keyboard Shumin: research.google.com/pubs/author9128.html, www.shuminzhai.com Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase
In this episode, we recycle our guest list to bring back a former guest, Yigit Boyar, this time to talk about the RecyclerView widget. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. 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
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. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. 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.
In this, er, impressive episode, Tor and Chet talk with Jim Miller from the Android System UI team. We mostly chat about the new fingerprint feature in Android 6 Marshmallow (aka, "Nexus Imprint"). But we also talk about other things like Keyguard, Setup Wizard, widgets, notifications, and greasy chicken parts. "UIs, like fingerprints, are all unique." Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links Fingerprint Authentication FingerprintManager Fingerprint Dialog Example Fingerprint and Payments APIs (Video) Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.
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