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Episode 150: Aaptly Named
Top row: Tor and Romain Bottom row: Ryan and Chet In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor talk with Ryan Mitchell from the Android Framework Team. We cover the Android resources in general and the aapt2 tool in particular. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Chet: @chethaase Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.
Episode 149: ADB over WiFi on ADB
Top row: Chet, Joshua and Romain. Bottom row: Renaud and Tor In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor talk with Renaud Paquay and Joshua Duong from the Android Studio and Android Emulator teams. We cover the new ADB over WiFi feature in Android 11, and the Android Studio support for pairing and connecting. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/adb#connect-to-a-device-over-wi-fi-android-11+ Renaud: /u/adt_renaud Joshua: /u/joshuaduong Chet: @chethaase Romain: @romainguy Tor: @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.
ADB 148: [Constraint|Motion][Layout|Editor]
Sean McQuillan and I talked with Nicolas Roard and John Hoford about MotionEditor, which went stable recently in Android Studio 4.0. But as long as we were talking about that tool, we also talked extensively about MotionLayout in general as well as ConstraintLayout, new features like Flow, the difficulties of animating text properties, and more. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links MotionTags screencast series MotionEditor guide MotionEditor release article ConstraintLayout guide ConstraintLayout 2.0 article John: @johnhoford Nicolas: @camaelon Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.
Episode 147: Jetpack Compose Alpha
The real star of the show: Jetpack Compose This week, after a long series of developer previews, we are celebrating the release of Jetpack Compose alpha. In this episode, Clara Bayarri, Matvei Malkov, and Anna-Chiara Bellini are joining Chet and Romain to talk about this milestone. You will learn more about what does the alpha mean to the team, where did Compose come from, how the team approaches API design, some of the challenges behind building a new UI toolkit, and much more. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Jetpack Compose Tutorials and codelabs Android Studio Setup Samples on GitHub Thinking in Compose (video) Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.
Episode 146: The Game Changer
Dan (played by an icon), Greg, and a tiny Romain in the upper right This time, Romain was hosting all on his own for this conversation about game technology with Greg Hartrell, product manager for games on Play/Android, and Dan Galpin, developer advocate for games on Android. They talked about recent developments and offerings for game developers, including the Android development plugin for Visual Studio, other specialized tools for game developers, and new offerings from the team like Android Asset Delivery and Android App Bundle for distribution. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Build Games for Android Android Game Dev Show Greg: @ghartrell Dan: @dagalpin Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.
Episode 145: Grab that Dagger by the Hilt
Eric, Dany, and Romain. Chet not represented to hide the confused look he had on his face during the entire recording. We're injecting dependencies! In this episode, Chet and Romain are joined by Daniel Santiago from Jetpack, and Eric Chang from Dagger to talk about Hilt. Hilt builds on Dagger for form Android's new recommended way to perform dependency injection. And it's also a great opportunity for Chet and Romain to display their lack of knowledge in that space. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Dagger.dev Hilt on dagger.dev Introduction to Hilt by Dany Dependency injection on Android Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.
Episode 144: Compilers
Mads, Chet and Tor In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Mads Ager from the Android Studio compilers team. We cover a number of subjects, from r8 and d8 optimizations and resource shrinking to work on the Kotlin compiler front- and back-end, as well as the new Kotlin symbol processor. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links R8/D8: https://r8.googlesource.com/r8 KSP: https://github.com/android/kotlin/tree/ksp/libraries/tools/kotlin-symbol-processing-api Kotlin: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/ Mads: @madsager Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.
Episode 143: Shhhh! Private!
Tor, Romain, Sara, Philip, and a little tiny Chet top-right In this episode, Tor, Chet, and Romain talk with Sara N-Marandi and Philip Moltmann from the Android framework team about some of the new permissions changes in Android 11. We talk about why these changes were made, how to use them correctly in your code, and how things actually work on the inside. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Developer Guide: Request App Permissions Video: Developing with the latest privacy changes in Android 11 Video: All things privacy in Android 11 Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.
Episode 142: Machine Learning Learning
Hoi and Matej in the top row, Chet and Tor below In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Hoi Lam and Matej Pfajfar about machine learning on Android. Tune in to learn about ML Kit, TensorFlow Lite, transfer learning, federated learning, ML model binding, the Android Neural Networks API, and more! Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links ML Kit: g.co/mlkit TensorFlow Lite Model Maker: https://www.tensorflow.org/lite/tutorials/model_maker_image_classification Android Studio 4.1 with ML Binding - https://developer.android.com/studio/preview/features#tensor-flow-lite-models People + AI Guidebook, suitable for SWE, Designers and PMs https://pair.withgoogle.com/guidebook/ Material Design Showcase Sample https://github.com/googlesamples/mlkit/tree/master/android/material-showcase Hoi: @hoitab Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.
Episode 141: Discussing Conversations
Romain, Tor's large head and bad framing, Chet's little tiny picture top-right, Julia, and Stefan It's all about people! In this episode, Tor, Chet and Romain are joined by Julia Reynolds and Stefan Franks from the System UI team to have a discussion about conversations. We also converse about things unrelated to conversations. Starting with Android 11, conversation notifications now appear in a dedicated space at the top of the notifications shade. These notifications come with specific actions like opening a bubble or setting a reminder. Tune in to learn more about this new people-forward design. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Android 11 Beta Notifications Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.
Episode 140: Bubbles!
Artur, Chet, Mady, Romain and Tor In this episode, Romain, Chet and Tor talked with Mady Melor and Artur Tsurkan from the System UI team about... Bubbles! Bubbles let users easily multi-task from anywhere on their device, and facilitates real-time communication using a chat application. Tune in to learn more about this new API in Android 11! Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/bubbles Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.
Episode 139: AndroidX. Jetpack. AndroidX. Jetpack. Whatever.
Romain, Chet, Alan, Nick, and a little tiny Tor in the upper-right corner In this episode, Romain, Chet and Tor talked with Nick Anthony and Alan Viverette from the AndroidX team about... AndroidX. And Jetpack. And androidx. (Spoiler alert: androidx is the set of libraries. Jetpack is that... plus opinionated guidance. AndroidX is the name of the team that ships this stuff). We also talked about the release cadence (currently every two weeks, up from every-several-months a couple of years ago), the standards for release naming/versioning, API standards, and everything else in the world of AndroidX infrastructure and release. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links AndroidX releases Alan: /u/alanviverette Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.
Episode 138: Animated IME — Oh, my!
Chet, Romain, Jorim, Adrian and Taran. Oh and Tor hiding the upper right. In this episode, Tor, Chet and Romain are joined by Jorim, Adrian and Taran from the Window Manager team. We discussed newly announced capabilities of the IME (Input Method Editor) in Android 11. These new APIs allow applications to react in real-time to IME animations and thus provide a more polished and seamless user experience. It also happens to be the answer to one of your most requested features: knowing when the on-screen keyboard is showing. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.
Episode 137: Accessibility
Chet, Qasid, Romain, Sally, Tor, and a very mysterious guest in a very dark room in the lower-right. In this episode, Romain, Chet and Tor talked (remotely!) with Sally Yuen and Qasid Sadiq from the Accessibility team. We discussed the kinds of tools and facilities that their team provides, and how developers can (and should!) make their applications more accessible. We talked about Accessibility Services, Talkback, Accessibility Scanner, organizational complexities of accessibility efforts, and more. Pro tip: Avoid creating custom widgets by using the built-in widgets in the platform to inherit accessibility functionality for free. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links Build more accessible apps: Guide with videos and links to more resources. Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.
Episode 136: Remoting
Tor, Chet, and Romain, remembering the way things used to be, back when there was a recording studio instead of closets at home. In this episode, Romain, Chet and Tor chat with zero guests about the current work-from-home reality, and about adjustments we've all made as we change the way we work. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Chet: @chethaase Tor: @tornorbye Romain: @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.