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Tor and Chet are joined by Thomas Knych and Valera Zakharov from the Espresso team at Google. This episode is all about testing. We talk about how Espresso works, how Espresso came to be, how to use Espresso, and lots of other information about Espresso. And UI testing in general. Favorite quote: "What does failure look like?" Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links: Automating UI Tests: https://developer.android.com/training/testing/ui-testing/index.html Espresso Setup: https://developer.android.com/training/testing/ui-testing/espresso-testing.html#setup Espresso source: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/testing/+/android-support-test/espresso Presentation on Espresso from GTAC 2013: https://youtu.be/T7ugmCuNxDU Presentation on UI Testing from GTAC 2014: https://youtu.be/aHcmsK9jfGU Info on contributing: https://plus.google.com/wm/1/+StephanLinzner/posts/K32UgdSRYwe Espresso Cheat Sheet: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googlesamples/android-testing/master/downloads/espresso-cheat-sheet-2.1.0.png Espresso Samples: https://github.com/googlesamples/android-testing/tree/master/espresso Roboelectric: http://robolectric.org/ Unit Testing: http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/unit-testing-support Hamcrest: http://hamcrest.org/ UIAutomator: https://developer.android.com/tools/testing-support-library/index.html#UIAutomator Robotium: https://github.com/RobotiumTech/robotium Thomas: plus.google.com/115763363280582609147 Valera: plus.google.com/+ValeraZakharov Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase
Tor and Chet are joined by Roman Nurik from the Android Developer Relations team. We talk about Asset Studio to the Muzei wallpaper to Material Design to Android Studio application templates to watchfaces to icons to the Google I/O scheduling app to Android application design to the FORM conference. I guess he's been busy. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links: Dashclock: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nurik.roman.dashclock DashClock Code: https://code.google.com/p/dashclock/ Muzei: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nurik.roman.muzei Muzei Code: https://github.com/romannurik/muzei Android Asset Studio: http://romannurik.github.io/AndroidAssetStudio/ Android Design Preview: https://github.com/romannurik/AndroidDesignPreview Android Wear Watchfaces: https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/watch-faces/index.html FORM: http://www.google.com/design/form/ Google I/O App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.samples.apps.iosched Google I/O App Code: https://github.com/google/iosched Material Design: http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.html Roman: google.com/+RomanNurik Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase
Tor and Chet are joined by Gabriel Peal from the Android Auto team. We talk about... cars! And dashboard entertainment systems, and notifications, and navigation, and the Android Auto capabilities available today. Favorite phrase: "Duck the audio" Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links: Android Auto Developer Site: http://developer.android.com/auto/index.html Consumer Site: http://www.android.com/auto/ Gabriel: google.com/+GabrielPeal8 or on Twitter: @gpeal8 Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase
Tor and Chet are joined by Justin Koh and Griff Hazen from the Android Wear team. We talk about watches, notifications, watch faces, data, apps, services, and All Things Wear. You could say that we wear out the topic. You probably wouldn't, but you could. Favorite word: "Transflective" Favorite phrase: "Eventually consistent" Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links: Overview of Wear Development: http://developer.android.com/wear Creating a Wearable App: https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/apps/creating.html Android Wear UI: https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/apps/layouts.html Android Wear Suppor Lib Reference: http://developer.android.com/reference/packages-wearable-support.html Watchfaces API: https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/watch-faces/index.html Data APIs: https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/data-layer/index.html Griff: google.com/+GriffHazen Justin: google.com/+JustinKoh Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase
Tor and Chet are joined by Kirill Grouchnikov from the Play Store team (What, again? Don't these guys know more than twenty developers?) about various aspects of implementing Material Design in applications, including handling releases prior to Android 5.0 Lollipop. Favorite quote: "It's like redesigning the whole pig" Least favorite quote: "Boooongggggg!" (I really need to learn where the edge of the metal table is when I'm moving a bottle of water. At least after I hit it the first time.) Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links: Material Design: http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.html Creating Apps with Material Design: http://developer.android.com/training/material/index.html Roboto: http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Roboto Kirill: google.com/+KirillGrouchnikov Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase
Tor and Chet talk with Raph Levien from the Android UI Toolkit team, who works on font technology for Android. The conversation wanders freely into areas such as Raph's creation of the Inconsolata font, his work on Ghostscript, and tinkering he's done with audio latency and Android synthesizer apps. Oh, and we also talk about fonts, including some big improvements to font support in the Android 5.0 Lollipop release. We also learned some new terminology along the way: glitch (the audio equivalent of jank in the graphics and UI world) and pangram (a sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet). So, bonus points for educational content. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links: Inconsolata: http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html Ghostscript: http://www.ghostscript.com/ Roboto: http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Roboto Noto fonts: https://www.google.com/get/noto/ Synthesizer App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.levien.synthesizer Synthesizer Source: https://github.com/raphlinus/music-synthesizer-for-android High Performance Audio on Android (Google I/O 2013): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3kfEeMZ65c Raph: google.com/+RaphLevien Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase
Tor and Chet talk with Tim Kilbourn from the Android TV team. Learn about developing apps for this new platform and hear about exciting things in the TV world like "overscan" and "D-pads". Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links: TV Leanback API: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v17/leanback/package-summary.html Android Style Guide: http://developer.android.com/design/style/index.html Nexus Player: https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_player Gamepad for Nexus Player: https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_player_gamepad Tim: google.com/+TimKilbourn Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase
In another exciting departure from ancient ADB tradition, Daniel Sandler takes over the podcast in a [mostly] bloodless coup and interviews Chet and Tor. This results in a very varied conversation about tech presentations, Tools (yay Android Studio 1.0!) and easter eggs. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Oh, and this is the picture that Dan proposed for Android Studio auto-fix hints. Imagine that popping up when you're trying to get some code written. Relevant Links: Big Android BBQ: http://www.bigandroidbbq.com/ Droidcon London: http://uk.droidcon.com/2014/ Devoxx: http://www.devoxx.be/ (recorded talks: https://parleys.com/channel/5459089ce4b030b13206d2ea/presentations) Speechless: http://speechlesslive.com/ Android Studio: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html Flappy Droid bug: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=79650 Dan: google.com/+DanSandler Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase
Chet and Fake Tor* are joined in this podcast episode by Chris Banes, an engineer in the Android Developer Relations group. Chris works on the AppCompat library, and other elements of the Android support library such as the new Palette utility, and talks about those things. And other things. Oh, and we talk about "Shimming around a widget," which is a great phrase if nothing else. * Tor was not available for this recording. He was probably elsewhere, writing code. The part of Tor will be played in this evening's performance by Richard Hyndman (not pronounced "Hindman," of course. Everyone knows that), also from the Android Developer Relations group. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links: Chris’s blog: https://chris.banes.me/ AppCompat v21: https://chris.banes.me/2014/10/17/appcompat-v21/ Palette: https://chris.banes.me/2014/10/20/palette-v21/ Theme vs Style: https://chris.banes.me/2014/11/12/theme-vs-style/ Material (and other Lollipop) samples: http://developer.android.com/samples/new/index.html Android Fundamentals Udacity course: https://www.udacity.com/course/ud853 Chris: google.com/+ChrisBanes Fake Tor: google.com/+RichardHyndman Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase
Tor and Chet are joined in this podcast episode by Chris Wren, from the Android System UI team. Chris works on (among other things) notifications and talks about some of the latest notification capabilities in the Android 5.0 Lollipop release (among other things). Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Relevant Links: Notifications overview: http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/notifications.html What's New in Android (Google I/O 2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TtVsy98ces (Notifications overview starting at 21:52) ADB Episode 6 (System UI, with Dan Sandler): http://androidbackstage.blogspot.com/2014/03/android-developers-backstage-episode-6.html Chris: google.com/+ChrisWren Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase
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