Aquileo | Android Developers Backstage

Tor: tor.norbye@threads and tornorbye@androiddev.social

Leland: @intelligibabble

George: @georgemount1

Chuck: @chuckjaz

Catch ADB on YouTube → https://goo.gle/adb-podcast

Subscribe to Android Developers → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs

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Aquileo | Episode 198: Location location location, revisited

Google — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 20:58:59 +0000

Since our original episode on location nearly nine years ago, a lot has happened in the location support for Android. In this episode, Wyatt Riley and Roy Want answer all of Tor's questions about how it works and cover recent developments like indoor location, elevation, and some tips for developers.

Wyatt, Roy and Tor.

Links:

Getting started guide
Precise indoor location

Google Play Store has three apps that demonstrate Wi-Fi RTT (IEEE 802.11mc) capabilities for devices with 11mc support.

WifitRttLocator (phone positioning in a building with 11mc capable Access Points)
WifiRttScan (Phone to Access Point ranging)

WifiNanScan (Phone to phone ranging)

Catch ADB on YouTube→ https://goo.gle/adb-podcast

Subscribe to Android Developers → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs

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Aquileo | Episode 197: Studio Bot

Google — Wed, 17 May 2023 20:30:48 +0000

You saw it at Google I/O - now you can hear about it in the comfort of your own headphones! Tor, Romain, and Chet talk with Siva Velusamy and Sandhya Mohan from the Android Studio team about the just-launched Studio Bot. This new AI-powered assistant enables conversational queries in the IDE to help with coding, commenting, confusion, or if you just need a friend.

Chet, Tor, Romain, Sandhy, and Siva in the Sunnyvale studio

Studio Bot: https://goo.gle/3BBEKZI

Subscribe to Android Developers YouTube → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs

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Aquileo | Episode 196: Android Studio, behind the scenes

Google — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:31:15 +0000

Raluca Sauciuc joins Tor and Romain to talk about what goes on behind the scenes in Android Studio. Raluca takes us through the tools and workflows used by the Android Studio team to improve performance and memory usage, and avoid future regressions. She also explains how the team adopts new versions of the IntelliJ IDE and platform, and how they can deal with massive code merges.

Raluca, Romain, and Tor

Tor: @tornorbye and tornorbye@androiddev.social

Subscribe to Android Developers YouTube → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs

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Aquileo | Episode 195: Mainlining

Google — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 20:14:25 +0000

Chet and Romain talk to Jeff Hamilton and Anton Hansson from the Mainline team about "modular system components", and the new SDK extension framework which lets developers access them.

Anton Hansson top right, and Jeff Hamilton bottom left, with Romain and Chet

Blog post: https://goo.gle/3S1c3g4
AndroidX convenience constants, e.g. T_EXTENSION_INT: https://goo.gle/3lEJwRx

Subscribe to Android Developers → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs

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Aquileo | Episode 194: Subtext

Google — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 18:03:55 +0000

This time, Tor, Romain, and Chet were joined by Siyamed Sinir and Sean McQuillan from the Android Text team to talk about, well, text. Which, it turns out, is a very deep, complicated, and constantly evolving technology. The conversation covered everything from the fundamentals of the text stack on Android to the capabilities and implementation of text in Jetpack Compose to internationalization to fonts to emojis to performance to.... you get the idea. There was a lot of stuff to talk about. And so much subtext.

Romain, Chet, Sean, Tor, and Siyamed (using RTL support: Siyamed, Tor, Sean, Chet, and Romain)

Links:

Tor: @tornorbye and tornorbye@androiddev.social

Siyamed:@siyamed

Sean: tech.lgbt/@objcode

Subscribe to Android Developers → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs

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Aquileo | Episode 193: Kotlin

Android Developers — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 19:31:14 +0000

In this episode, James Ward joins Chet, Tor, and Romain to talk about Kotlin. We talked about Kotlin Multiplatform (both KMP and KMM) and what's coming for Kotlin in 2023, especially the new K2 frontend.

James, Tor, Romain, and Chet.

Links:

Tor: @tornorbye and tornorbye@androiddev.social

Compose Testing Cheatsheet

James: @_jamesward

Subscribe to Android Developers YouTube → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs

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Aquileo | Episode 192: The Path Forward

Google — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:00:00 +0000

This time, Romain and Chet ditched Tor so that they could geek out about graphics, talking about paths, Bézier curves, morphing, and more.

Romain and Chet alone in the recording Studio.

Links:

Chet: @chethaase

Romain: @romainguy

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Aquileo | Episode 191: Compose Lazy Layouts

Google — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 21:58:19 +0000

We recorded episode 191 from the studio in the London office, where Rebecca Franks from the developer relations team joined Chet as a guest host. We talked with Andrei Shikov, Matvei Malkov, and Andrey Kulikov from the Jetpack Compose engineering team about layouts, especially the lazy ones, which are the Compose equivalent of RecyclerView.

Rebecca, Chet, Andrei, Andrey, and Matvei, in the London recording studio.

Links:

Chet: @chethaase

Romain: @romainguy

Tor: @tornorbye

Rebecca Franks: @riggaroo

Andrei Shikov: @shikasd_

Matvei Malkov: @matvei_jj

Andrey Kulikov: @and_kulikov

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Aquileo | Episode 190: Performance Review

Android Developers — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 16:55:44 +0000

In this episode, Tor and Chet learn some more about performance from Carmen. Carmen works on the Android Platform Performance team and is an expert on everything related to performance. This is the perfect episode for you if you ever wanted to learn more about R8, perfetto, baseline profiles, custom performance tracing, power metrics, etc.

Tor, Carmen, and Chet

Links:

Chet: @chethaase

Romain: @romainguy

Tor: @tornorbye

Subscribe to Android Developers YouTube → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs

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Aquileo | Episode 189: Video Conference

Android Developers — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 16:18:27 +0000

In this episode (the first in-studio-with-guests recording since early 2020!), Tor and Chet spoke with Marc Bächinger, Toni Heidenreich, and Andrew Lewis from the Android Media team, where they work on video technologies and APIs like ExoPlayer. We talked about the evolution of ExoPlayer and platform media capabilities as well as ongoing and near-future features.

Back: Chet and Tor, Front: Mark, Toni, and Andrew

Links:

Introduction to Media3
ExoPlayer on GitHub
Guide for migrating to Media3
Jetpack Media3 on GitHub
Subscribe to Android Developers → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs

Chet: @chethaase

Romain: @romainguy

Tor: @tornorbye

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Aquileo | Episode 188: Android 13

Android Developers — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 17:58:05 +0000

It's our first episode back in the studio, and in a new, shiny studio too! In this episode, we talk about some of our favorite new features and changes of the new version of Android, both for users and developers. More importantly, the audio quality of this episode is much better thanks to the amazing work from the media production teams at Google.

Tor, Romain, and Chet happy to be back in a studio with proper audio equipment

Links

Chet: @chethaase

Romain: @romainguy

Tor: @tornorbye

Subscribe to Android Developers YouTube → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs

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Aquileo | Episode 187: System UI: A Retrospective

Android Developers — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 22:59:48 +0000

"Our job isn't to remove complexity, but to manage it"
- Glen Murphy (as remembered by Dan)

In this episode, we talk with Dan Sandler and Adam Cohen from the SystemUI team. We dip into a bit of history, talking about where things were at when they joined the team (2009-10), and how things have developed in the many years since, including how these projects and teams scaled from a single person working on it part-time to now having much larger teams doing many more things. Which kind of describes software development in general.

We also talk about how to expose (or not) gestures and features in a UI system. Related: there are some bonus pro-tips on using some hidden features of System UI, as a prize for careful listeners and podcast hosts.

Top: Tor & Adam, Bottom: Dan, Dan's book cover illustration, & Chet

Links:

xkcd: Workflow

Dan: @dsandler

Adam: adam-cohen
Chet: @chethaase

Romain: @romainguy

Tor: @tornorbye

Subscribe to Android Developers YouTube → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs

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Aquileo | Episode 186: Live Edit

Android Developers — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 18:24:48 +0000

In this episode, we talk with Alan and Esteban from Android Studio about the new "Live Edit" feature recently launched at Google I/O in the Electric Eel canary build. We dive into the technology -- how it works, what the technical challenges are, and its current state.

Chet with Esteban and Alan on the top row, Romain and Tor below

Links:

https://goo.gle/3QmMVPV

Alan: @acleung

Esteban: @estebandlc

Chet: @chethaase

Romain: @romainguy

Tor: @tornorbye

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Aquileo | Episode 185: Play Store

Android Developers — Tue, 03 May 2022 20:26:30 +0000

In this episode we chat with Jon and Andrew from the Play team about the Play Store app. The Play Store recently went through a major refactoring of their app, and Jon and Andrew will guide you through the reasons why they did it, the impact on their architecture, what problems they ran into, and why they decided to adopt Jetpack Compose for the UI layer.

Jon, Romain, Andrew, Tor, and Chet

Links:

On Play Store adopting Jetpack Compose
Guide to app architecture
Jetpack libraries to help you build your app

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Aquileo | Episode 184: Skia and AGSL - Shaders of Things to Come

Android Developers — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 16:13:56 +0000

In this episode we chat with Derek and Brian from the Skia team about Skia, pixel shaders, and the new "AGSL" API that lets you provide pixel shaders for advanced graphics effects, which was recently added to the preview release of Android T.

If you're interested in graphics technology, this is the episode for you.

If you're not interested in graphics... you should be.

Brian, Romain Derek
Chet, Tor

Links:

Skia's SkSL/AGSL playground & debugger → https://goo.gle/3DHFJYm
Skia's SkSL documentation → https://goo.gle/3uZK0CA

Brian: @BrianOsman

Chet: @chethaase

Romain: @romainguy

Tor: @tornorbye

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Aquileo | Episode 183: Baseline Profiles

Android Developers — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 20:15:14 +0000

In this episode we chat with Rahul and Leland from the Android toolkit team about "baseline profiles", a new mechanism which lets applications ship with profiling metadata used at application install time to make it start faster. We discuss how this is used in Jetpack Compose, cloud profiles in general, and more.

Chet, Romain, Rahul, Leland and Tor

Links:

Rahul: @tikurahul

Leland: @intelligibabble

Chet: @chethaase

Romain: @romainguy

Tor: @tornorbye

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Aquileo | Episode 182: Large screens are a big deal

Google — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 17:34:01 +0000

In this episode, Clara (Android Toolkit), Florina (Android Developer Relations), and Daniel (Android Product Management) join your usual hosts to talk about large screens, what they are and what they mean for app developers. You will also learn about the resources at your disposal to build high quality experiences on large screen devices: from samples and guidance to canonical layouts and new APIs such as window size classes

Romain, Clara, Florina, Daniel, Chet, and Tor

Links:

Large screens documentation
Material adaptive design docs
ADS talk: Build Android UIs for any screen size
Codelab: Support foldable and dual-screen devices with Jetpack WindowManager
Samples
- Jetnews: Responsive UI implementation with Compose
- Jetcaster: Tabletop support implementation with Compose
- Google I/O Android App: Responsive UI implementation with Views
- Trackr: Responsive UI implementation with Views

Clara: @clarabayarri

Daniel: @pmatgoog

Florina: @FMuntenescu

Chet: @chethaase

Romain: @romainguy

Tor: @tornorbye

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Aquileo | Episode 181: Architecture → Fewer bugs at the end

Google — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 17:02:31 +0000

In this episode, we chat with Yigit Boyar (again!) from the Android Toolkit Team and Manuel Vivo from the Developer Relations team about application architecture. The team has released new architecture guidance, and we talk about that guidance here, as well as how our architecture recommendations apply in the new Jetpack Compose world.

Yigit, Tor, Manuel, and Chet. Romain was AWOL.

Check out the revamped and enhanced Guide to app architecture.

Yigit: @yigitboyar

Manuel: @manuelvicnt

Romain: @romainguy

Chet: @chethaase

Tor: @tornorbye

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Aquileo | Episode 180: Kotlin Magic Platform

Google — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 17:00:00 +0000

In this episode, we chat with Yigit Boyar from the Android Toolkit Team about Kotlin multi platform, while Romain provides light background music on his piano.

Yigit: @yigitboyar

Romain: @romainguy

Chet: @chethaase

Tor: @tornorbye

Subscribe to Android Developers → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs

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Aquileo | Episode 179: Flibberty Widget

Android Developers — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 17:09:00 +0000

In this episode, Chet and Romain talked with Nicole McWilliams and Petr Čermák from the London engineering office about their work on App Widgets and Digital Wellbeing.

Romain: @romainguy

Chet: @chethaase

Tor: @tornorbye

Nicole: @nicolelaure

Subscribe to Android Developers → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs

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Aquileo | Episode 178: Hosts 3, Guests 0

Android Developers — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 17:00:00 +0000

In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor sit down to chat about the Android DevSummit, and in particular all the new features arriving in Android Studio, along with a few other topics like Chet's new jank stats library, the Android 12L release, and more.

Top row: Chet and Tor. Bottom row: Romain.

The Android Studio talk discussed is https://goo.gle/3caaFDT

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Aquileo | Episode 177: Honor every photon

Android Developers — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 16:32:12 +0000

In this episode, Bart Wronski takes Tor, Romain, and Chet through the camera pipeline that powers the Pixel phones. We talked about how cameras capture images, and how the algorithms responsible for Pixel's beautiful images work. If you've ever wondered how HDR+ or Night Sight works, this episode if for you!

Top row: Tor and Bart. Bottom row: Chet and Romain.

Links:

Bart's blog on graphics and image processing
SIGGRAPH paper and presentation on handheld multi-frame super resolution
Night Sight
Astrophotography with Night Sight
HDR+ with bracketing on Pixel
Live HDR+ on Pixel 4 (HDRnet)

Bart: @bartwronsk

Romain: @romainguy

Chet: @chethaase

Tor: @tornorbye

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Aquileo | Episode 176: Android 12 - S stands for System UI

Android Developers — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 16:23:17 +0000

In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor have a chat with Selim, Vadim and Lucas from the Android system UI team, discussing many of the new features in Android 12's user interface.

Top row: Vadim, Selim and Romain. Bottom row: Lucas, Tor and Chet.

Some relevant links for the Splash screen discussion:

https://goo.gle/3APByre

https://goo.gle/3zGDVeB

Selim: @selimcinek

Vadim: @vadimcaen

Chet: @chethaase

Romain: @romainguy

Tor: @tornorbye

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Aquileo | Episode 175: Lottie

Android Developers — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 16:33:32 +0000

In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor have a chat with Gabriel Peal from Tonal, well known for his contributions to the Android community on projects such as Mavericks and Lottie. We talked about Lottie and how it helps designers and developers deliver more delightful user experiences by taking complex animations designed in specialized authoring tools such as After Effects, and rendering them efficiently on mobile devices. We also explored the challenges of designing and implementing a rendering engine such as Lottie.

Romain, Gabriel, Tor, and Chet

Related info:

Gabriel: @gpeal8

Chet: @chethaase

Romain: @romainguy

Tor: @tornorbye

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Aquileo | Episode 174: Compose tooling

Android Developers — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 17:42:25 +0000

In this episode, Tor and Nick are joined by Chris Sinco, Diego Perez and Nicolas Roard to discuss the features added to Android Studio for Jetpack Compose. They discuss the Compose preview, interactive preview, animation inspector and additions to the Layout inspector and their approach to create tooling to support the Compose's code-centric approach.

Diego, Tor, Chris, Nicolas and Nick tooling around.

Tooling guide

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Aquileo | Episode 173: More benchmarking

Android Developers — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 16:11:10 +0000

In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor talk with Chris Craik and Rahul Ravikumar from the toolkit performance team. We talk about the recently released the macrobenchmark tool+library, in addition to other interesting bits like how the benchmark libraries work, how to use them, how they relate to system tracing, how to do performance debugging in general, and even a teaser of future performance instrumentation functionality that the team is working on.

Chet, Chris, Rahul (top), Romain, and Tor (bottom), all looking unusually happy.

Related info:

The Profile your app performance page for an overview of the performance tools and practices we offer.
Performance samples
Running benchmarks in continuous integration

Chris: @chris_craik

Rahul: @tikurahul

Chet: @chethaase

Romain: @romainguy

Tor: @tornorbye

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Aquileo | Episode 172: Privacy features in Android 12

Android Developers — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 15:54:46 +0000

In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor talk with Sara N Marandi, Fred Chung and Erik Wolsheimer about the new privacy features in Android 12, such as the privacy dashboard, and the camera and microphone usage indicators.

Guests Eric, Sara and Fred on the top row, and hosts Romain, Tor and Chet on the bottom row.

Permission best practices → https://goo.gle/3oVdK02
Android 12 privacy changes → https://goo.gle/2VvmtMl

Sara: @snmarandi

Fred: @fredchung

Eric

Chet: @chethaase

Romain: @romainguy

Tor: @tornorbye

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Aquileo | Episode 171: Compose Testing

Android Developers — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 17:05:37 +0000

In this episode, Nick and Romain are joined by Filip Pavlis, Jelle Fresen & Jose Alcérreca to talk about Testing in Compose. They discuss how Compose's testing APIs were developed hand-in-hand with the UI toolkit, making them more deterministic and opening up new possibilities like manipulating time. They go on to discuss the semantics tree, interop testing, screenshot testing and the possibilities for host-side testing.

Big smiles from Filip, Jose, Romain, Jelle and Nick for the year of testing on Android.

Compose Testing guide

Compose Testing codelab

Sample Tests: Jetnews, Jetchat, Crane, Rally

Screenshot Testing

Compose Animation codelab

Romain: @romainguy

Filip Pavlis

Jelle Fresen

Jose: @ppvi

Nick: @crafty

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Aquileo | Episode 170: Jetpack Compose Graphics & Animation

Android Developers — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 17:45:35 +0000

In this episode Nick and Chet are joined by Dois Liu and Nader Jawad to discuss Compose's Animation and Graphics systems. They cover their goals to make both systems easier to understand, more consistent and simpler to work with. They explain how they adapted traditionally imperative systems to a declarative world and give an overview of both the high level composables the library offers as well as lower level building blocks you can drop down to for more control.

Hosts Chet & Nick speak to Doris and Nader.

Compose Graphics guide

Compose Animation guide

AnimatedContent composable

AdvanceTimeBy (testing animations)

Android Studio Bumblebee: Android Testing

Chet: @chethaase

Doris: @doris4lt

Nader: @nadewad

Nick: @crafty

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Aquileo | Episode 169: Testing

Android Developers — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 18:39:31 +0000

In this episode, Romain and Tor are joined by Adarsh Fernando, Arif Sukoco and Yahan Zhou from the Android Studio team, covering the recent improvements to support for testing. This includes automated test snapshots, where the emulator captures a snapshot for a failing test you can then load and analyze later, it includes the Test Matrix tool where the IDE shows a matrix of tests and the devices they're running on, as well as a unified Gradle test runner, and Gradle managed virtual devices, and more.

Adarsh Fernando

Arif Sukoco

Yahan Zhou

Romain: @romainguy

Tor: @tornorbye

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Aquileo | Episode 168: Material Composition

Android Developers — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 16:06:45 +0000

In our ongoing mini-series on Jetpack Compose, Nick and Romain talk to Clara Bayarri and Matvei Malkov about Compose's support for Material Design. They discuss how Compose supports Material Components and Material Theming out of the box, how you can customize these to your needs or how Compose makes it easier to build your own design system. They also share insights into building reusable components with slot APIs and when to use CompositionLocals and look to the future with Compose's planned support for Material You.

Hosts Romain and Nick with Clara and Matvei.

Material components reference docs

Compose Theming guide

Compose Theming codelab

Build beautiful Material Design apps with Jetpack Compose Google I/O talk

Clara: @clarabayarri

Matvei: @matvei_jj

Romain: @romainguy

Nick: @crafty

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Aquileo | Episode 167: Jetpack Compose Layout

Android Developers — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 16:08:46 +0000

In this second episode of our mini-series on Jetpack Compose (AD/BC) Nick and Romain are joined by Anastasia Soboleva, George Mount and Mihai Popa to talk about Compose's layout system. They explain how the Compose layout model works and its benefits, introduce common layout composables, discuss how writing your own layout is far simpler than Views and how you can even animate layout.

Hosts Romain and Nick are joined by Anastasia, George and Mihai and producers Daniel and Jessica 👋

Compose Layouts guide

Compose Layouts codelab

Layout composable

Layout modifier

Foundation Layouts & Modifiers (Row, Column, Box etc)

Intrinsic size example

App security best practices

Anastasia: @nastia_05

George: @georgemount1

Mihai: @mihaipopa12

Romain: @romainguy

Nick: @crafty

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Aquileo | Episode 166: Security Deposit

Android Developers — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 18:26:56 +0000

In this episode, Chad and Jeff from the Android Security team join Tor and Romain to talk about… security. Chad and Jeff explain what the platform does to help preserve user trust and device integrity, why it sometimes means restricting existing APIs, and touch on what apps can do or should worry about.

Security tips

Security with HTTPS and SSL

Chad: @chadbrubaker__

Jeff: @jeffvanderstoep

Romain: @romainguy

Tor: @tornorbye

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Aquileo | Episode 165: Material Witnesses

Android Developers — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 16:07:26 +0000

In this episode, Chet and Romain welcome Hunter and Nick from the Material Design team. Material Design was originally introduced when Android 5.0 came out and has come a long way since then. Our guests will give you an overview of some of the recent additions and improvements to the Material Design Component libraries: transitions, motion theming, Compose, large screens support and guidance, etc.

Material Design website

Material You

What's new with Material at I/O

Material Design Components for Android

Material Motion with MDC

Hunter: @hunter_stich

Nick: @ricknout

Chet: @chethaase

Romain: @romainguy

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Aquileo | Episode 164: Jetpack Compose Compilation

Android Developers — Thu, 27 May 2021 17:01:19 +0000

This episode is the first in the new mini-series "ADBC" on Jetpack Compose, hosted by Nick Butcher, in which we will dive deep into different topics in Android's future UI toolkit.

This time, Nick and Chet talked with Adam Powell and Leland Richardson about the Compose compiler, the runtime, data flow, and that nifty feature where Compose knows when to call your Composable based on changes in data state.

Also check out:

Thinking in Compose

Compose State Guide

Compose State Codelab

Lifecycle of composables

Side-effects in Compose

How to get started with KSP

Adam: @adamwp

Leland: @intelligibabble

Nick: @crafty

Chet: @chethaase

Romain: @romainguy

Tor: @tornorbye

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Aquileo | Episode 163: Novel Graphics

Android Developers — Mon, 24 May 2021 16:23:11 +0000

In this episode, we talk with Nat Duca and Sumir Kataria from the Android graphics team about the graphics stack -- covering shaders, GPUs, Vulkan, OpenGL, ANGLE, drivers, blur, pixels and of course Chet's favorite topic; colors.

Hosts Tor, Chet and Romain on the top row and guests Nat and Sumir on the bottom row

If you're ever wanted to know how to pronounce "hwui", tune in!

Sumir: @SumirKodes

Nat: Link

Chet: @chethaase

Romain: @romainguy

Tor: @tornorbye

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Aquileo | Episode 162: Kotlin Symbol Processing

Android Developers — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 17:56:21 +0000

Cowardly abandoned by Chet and Romain, Tor faces three guests alone. Jeffrey van Gogh, Ting-Yuan Huang, and Yigit Boyar join Tor to talk about Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP), a new, faster, and better tool to replace annotation processors. You will learn how KSP works, what it can do, why it was created, and how it is used in the Room Jetpack library.

Tor, Ting-Yuan, Jeffrey, and Yigit, all looking amazingly happy to discuss annotation and symbol processing

KSP announcement

KSP GitHub project

Libraries with KSP support

Jetpack Room

Jeffrey: @jvgogh

Yigit: @yigitboyar

Tor: @tornorbye

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Aquileo | Episode 161: DataStories

Android Developers — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 16:21:05 +0000

This time, Tor, Chet, and Romain talked with Rohit Sathyanarayana and Florina Muntenescu about the DataStore library. DataStore is the replacement for SharedPreferences, being better for many reasons (it's asynchronous and avoids blocking the UI thread, it is type-safe). It not only has a similar/simple key-value pair API like SharedPreferences, but also has more powerful API as well. It's currently in alpha, but look for it to be the recommended approach soon as it approaches stable.

Florina, Romain, Chet, Daniel (ADB
audio producer, in person!), Tor, and Rohi

Article: Using DataStore in Kotlin Serialization
Docs: Docs
Codelab: Preferences Datastore codelab
Codelab: Proto Datastore codelab

Florina: @FMuntenescu
Rohit: @rohitsat123
Chet: @chethaase
Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye

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Aquileo | Episode 160: ART History

Android Developers — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 14:36:09 +0000

In this episode, Romain, Chet and Tor sit down with Brian Carlstrom and Nicolas Geoffray to discuss their work on ART (the Android Runtime). Brian and Nicolas describe the early prototypes and bringup of ART, getting it production ready, as well as recent developments such as cloud profiles.

Chet, Brian and Romain on the top row, and Tor and Nicolas below

Brian: https://carlstrom.com
Chet: @chethaase
Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye

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Aquileo | Episode 159: Interview with Chris Lacy

Android Developers — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 16:16:05 +0000

Chet and Romain host Chris Lacy, a long time independent Android developer. In this episode, Chris explains how he decides what apps to build, how he used various platform APIs to create innovative applications like LinkBubble, and what challenges he faces.

Chet, Chris and Romain

Chris's apps include:
SwirlWalls, a live wallpaper
ActionLauncher, a replacement launcher

By the way, Chris is looking to hire an Android developer. If interested, you can reach him at youshouldhireme@actionlauncher.com.

Chris: @ch rismlacy
Chet: @c hethaase
Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye

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Aquileo | Episode 158: Jetpack Compose... C'est bêta !

Android Developers — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 22:02:58 +0000

Chet, Nick, Clara, Leland, Tor, Adam, and Romain.
So many guests!

This time, Tor, Romain, and Chet chatted with a few people on the Jetpack Compose team, about... Jetpack Compose!

Compose hit Beta a couple of weeks ago (don't believe me? Check out the recent Android show on Compose Show!), so we took the opportunity to talk to some of the people that have helped build it. We talk about the current state of the library, but also about some of the design decisions that went into developing the APIs and functionality.

(Note on the audio quality for this episode - it turns out that mixing so many people, all of whom recorded themselves separately using very different hardware and setups was... tricky. It's listenable, but maybe a tad below the level we shoot for. Blame the pandemic. I do.)

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

#TheAndroidShow: Jetpack Compose

The Jetpack Compose site (overview, tutorial, docs, samples, and more)

Chet: @chethaase

Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye

Nick: @crafty

Clara: @clarabayarri

Leland: @intelligibabble

Adam: @adamwp

Thanks to our audio engineer, Dustin Elm, who has handled all of our audio mixing
for the last couple of years, including the tricky part of mixing all of our remote-
recorded episodes, like this one.
Dustin's moving on to (greener? softer? louder?) pastures, so we'll be using
a new, exciting process for mixing future episodes. Thanks, Dustin!

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Aquileo | Episode 157: Audio feedback

Android Developers — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 14:30:03 +0000

What does a podcast look like? We don't know,
so here's a picture of the podcast's website

We want to hear from you! In this episode,

Tor, Romain, and Chet talk about what they could do â€" or not do â€"to improve Android Developers Backstage.

Please check our survey and let us know how you would like to see this podcast evolve. We recommend you first listen to the podcast to get the full context for some of the questions in the survey.

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.

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Aquileo | Episode 156: Android Runtime Classic (Dalvik)

Android Developers — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 00:32:41 +0000

It's history time! Or even [pre-]ART History time!

We didn't take a picture this time.
Please imagine what we looked like.

This time, Tor, Romain, and Chet were joined by Dan Bornstein, one of the early members of the Android team. Dan joined in 2005 to create a runtime for Android, which became Dalvik.

We talked about some of the early placeholder VMs used while Dalvik was coming online, some of the design decisions for Dalvik (like its register-based vs. stack-based implementation), and nice techy details about runtimes, garbage collectors, and optimizations.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Chet: @chethaase

Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye

Dan: @danfuzz

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.

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Aquileo | Episode 155: WindowManagerManagers

Android Developers — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 02:14:28 +0000

Top row: Chet, Romain, Rob.
Bottom row: Wale, Tor.

In this episode, we chat with Wale Ogunwale and Rob Carr from the Android Framework team about the Window Manager.

Tune in to learn about the evolution of the window manager, the distinction between System UI and the window manager, implementation challenges and recent architectural changes.

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.

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Aquileo | Episode 154: It's a Wrap!

Android Developers — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 14:30:07 +0000

This episode is dedicated to the memory of our dear friend and colleague, Carl Quinn.

Our last episode of the year arrives just in time for the holiday season. In this episode, Tor, Chet, and Romain go over everything that happened in 2020, both good and bad. We look back at how conferences have been impacted by the pandemic, why Android Studio changed its versioning scheme, the new tools and libraries that were released, etc.

We would like to thank all of our listeners for their continued support. We'll be back in early 2021 with more episodes and new guests!

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.

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Aquileo | Episode 153: Ok, Ok, Ok

Android Developers — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 23:27:25 +0000

Romain, Tor, and Chet talked with Jesse Wilson from Square. Jesse has worked on several popular open-source libraries, including OkHttp, Okio, and [Ok]Moshi. We talk about those libraries, and others, and about Android, library, framework and Kotlin development. And about that nasty habit some engineers have of turning a feature request or minor annoyance into a project of creating a new open-source library instead.

Favorite quote, from Jesse:

"I started with 2k. Someone told me 8k was faster."

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:

OkHttp

OkHttp Kotlin Release

Okio

Okio Buffer.kt internals

GraalVM

Jesse: @jessewilson

Chet: @chethaase
Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.

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Aquileo | Episode 152: Image Loading with Coil

Android Developers — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 16:54:38 +0000

Chet, Colin, Romain, and Tor

This week, Tor, Romain and Chet are joined by a special guest: Colin White from Instacart.

Colin is the author of Coil, a popular image loading library backed by Kotlin and Kotlin Coroutines. In this episode, Colin explains what Coil is, how and why it was created, etc.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:

Coil

Coil on GitHub

The feature request Romain filed

And the PR to implement that feature request

Colin: @colinwhi

Chet: @chethaase
Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.

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Aquileo | Episode 151: Paging3

Android Developers — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 17:00:05 +0000

Chet, Dustin, Chris, and Romain.
(Tor not pictured. Because he wasn't there)

Romain and Chet talked with Dustin Lam and Chris Craik from the Toolkit team about Paging3.

Paging3 (currently in alpha) is a complete rewrite of (wait for it...) Paging2, using Kotlin, coroutines, and Flow for optimal implementation and APIs. (But note that there are also APIs for developers using the Java programming language and/or RxJava, so take your pick). We talk about Paging, the asynchronous work that made coroutines an obvious choice for the implementation, recent and future features, and API design in general.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:

AndroidX Paging library

Bug bounty hotlist!

Dustin: @itsdustinlam

Chris: @chris_craik
Chet: @chethaase
Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.

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Aquileo | Episode 150: Aaptly Named

Android Developers — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:01:24 +0000

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.

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Aquileo | Episode 149: ADB over WiFi on ADB

Android Developers — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 23:54:19 +0000

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.

Aquileo | ADB 148: [Constraint|Motion][Layout|Editor]

Android Developers — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 19:36:44 +0000

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.

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Aquileo | Episode 147: Jetpack Compose Alpha

Android Developers — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 17:00:02 +0000

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.

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Aquileo | Episode 146: The Game Changer

Android Developers — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 17:55:56 +0000

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.

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Aquileo | Episode 145: Grab that Dagger by the Hilt

Android Developers — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 20:40:32 +0000

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.

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Aquileo | Episode 144: Compilers

Android Developers — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 18:01:11 +0000

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

Mads: @madsager
Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye
Romain: @romainguy

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.

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Aquileo | Episode 143: Shhhh! Private!

Android Developers — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 20:00:45 +0000

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.

Aquileo | Episode 142: Machine Learning Learning

Android Developers — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 19:38:53 +0000

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.

Aquileo | Episode 141: Discussing Conversations

Android Developers — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 16:32:22 +0000

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.

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Aquileo | Episode 140: Bubbles!

Android Developers — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 16:27:48 +0000

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.

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Aquileo | Episode 139: AndroidX. Jetpack. AndroidX. Jetpack. Whatever.

Android Developers — Mon, 18 May 2020 21:25:05 +0000

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.

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Aquileo | Episode 138: Animated IME — Oh, my!

Android Developers — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:30:44 +0000

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.

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Aquileo | Episode 137: Accessibility

Android Developers — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:04:57 +0000

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.

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Aquileo | Episode 136: Remoting

Android Developers — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 16:40:38 +0000

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.

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Aquileo | Episode 135: Audio Podcast

Android Developers — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 00:30:25 +0000

Tor, Don, Chet, and Phil, on a video conference on Tor's
machine. VCs are critical to mitigating (but not actually
solving) latency issues with remote podcasts.

In this first ever full-remote episode, Tor and Chet discuss audio programming with Don Turner from the Android DevRel team, and Phil Burk from the Android Audio Framework team. They chat about Oboe, low-latency audio, audio performance in general, etc. And because Don and Phil know everything about audio, more time was spent before the recording discussing how to properly record the episode than was spent actually recording the episode.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

If you enjoyed this episode you might also be interested in episode 39, about MIDI audio with Phil Burk.

Phil: @philburk
Don: @donturner
Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye
Romain: @romainguy

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Dustin Elm.

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Aquileo | Episode 134: All Work No Play

Android Developers — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 16:41:27 +0000

Rahul (Work), Sumir (Manager), and Chet

In this episode, Chet talks with Sumir Kataria and Rahul Ravikumar from the Android Toolkit team about Work Manager! Tune in to learn about work manager, an AndroidX library for deferrable background work, and recent changes such as on demand initialization, new lint checks, and more!

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Relevant Talks:

Working with WorkManager, from the 2018 Android Dev Summit
WorkManager: Beyond the basics, from the 2019 Android Dev Summit

Releases & Bugs:

Recent releases
Link for filing issues: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/new?component=409906&template=1094197

Sumir: @SumirKodes
Rahul: @tikurahul
Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye
Romain: @romainguy

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 133: Power Play

Android Developers — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 23:41:36 +0000

Kweku, Makoto, Amith, Chet~~, Romain, and Tor~~

In this episode, Chet talked with Amith Yamasani, Makoto Onuki, and Kweku Adams from the framework team about power management. We waxed poetic about the heuristics the system uses to kill tasks, doze mode and how the system tries to save battery, TrimMemory requests, JobScheduler (the underlying platform facility used by WorkManager), AppStandby buckets, and more.

Favorite word: OOMAdjust (Out of Memory Adjustment, but I far prefer the abbreviation)

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:

App Standby Buckets
Optimizing for Battery Life
Improve Battery Life with Restrictions (presentation at ADS 2018)

Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye
Romain: @romainguy

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 132: Storing data with Store

Android Developers — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:00:07 +0000

Mike, Romain, Yigit, and Chet

In this episode, Chet and Romain talk with Yigit Boyar, from the Jetpack team, and Mike Nakhimovich from Dropbox. Mike and Yigit have been working on an Open Source library called Store. Store helps with the fetching, caching, storing and sharing of data in your application. Both Yigit and Mike used this opportunity to teach Chet and Romain about the repository pattern, how Store works, what makes building a library like Store challenging and much more.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:

Mike: @friendlymikhail
Yigit: @ yigitboyar
Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye
Romain: @romainguy

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 131: Jetpack Compose and Declarative UIs

Android Developers — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 01:42:19 +0000

Adam, Romain, Tor, and Chet, on location
in the fancy and totally upscale ADB recording studio

In this episode, Tor, Romain, and Chet talk with Adam Powell from the UI Toolkit team about Jetpack Compose. The conversation meandered into declarative programming, reacting to state changes, data flowing through an application, and Kotlin domain-specific languages.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:

Adam: @adampwp
Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye
Romain: @romainguy

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 130: First Law of Motion...Layout

Android Developers — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 00:28:19 +0000

Tor, Nicolas, John, Romain and Chet in the Android Studio

In this episode, Tor, Romain and Chet chit chat with Nicolas Roard and John Hoford from the Android Studio team about Motion Layout -- and ConstraintLayout and visual editing in the IDE.

In the recording session they also promised to release ConstraintLayout 2.0 beta 4 before the podcast was released. And they achieved that: https://androidstudio.googleblog.com/2019/12/constraintlayout-200-beta-4.html.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:

Constraintlayout codelab: https://developer.android.com/training/constraint-layout
MotionLayout codelab: https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/motion-layout
MotionLayout workshop with John and Nicolas from DroidconSF: https://camaelon.github.io/
ConstraintLayout reference page: https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/constraintlayout/widget/ConstraintLayout
MotionLayout reference page: https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/constraintlayout/motion/widget/MotionLayout
MotionLayout page: https://developer.android.com/training/constraint-layout/motionlayout
MotionLayout examples: https://developer.android.com/training/constraint-layout/motionlayout/examples
ConstraintLayout and MotionLayout github samples: https://github.com/android/views-widgets-samples/tree/master/ConstraintLayoutExamples
Medium article on MotionLayout: https://medium.com/google-developers/introduction-to-motionlayout-part-i-29208674b10d

Nicolas: @camaelon
John: @johnhoford
Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye
Romain: @romainguy

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 129: Display, Input and Haptics

Android Developers — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 00:27:36 +0000

Michael, Chet and Romain in the cozy London recording studio.

In this episode, Chet and Romain travel all the way to London to have a chat with Michael Wright. This is not Michael's first time on the podcast and one again the discussion is about displays, input devices and haptics.

If you want to learn more about high refresh rate displays (90/120 Hz), HDR, audio-coupled haptics, how gamepads are supported and, curiously, about the Android API council, you found the right episode!

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, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 128: Play with App Bundles

Android Developers — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 20:58:28 +0000

We forgot to take a picture of ourselves
when we recorded this.
Please use your imagination.

In this episode, Chet and Florina Muntenescu (from the Android Developer Relations team) talk with Dom Elliott from the Google Play team about Android App Bundles and other Google Play features.

App bundles are the new packaging format for Android apps. They allow you to upload a single version of your app, then Google Play can distribute optimized versions of that app to users, depending on device-specific capabilities, like the selected locale(s) on the device.

We also talked about other recent Google Play features (related to bundles and not), such as on-demand delivery and in-app updates.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:
App bundles samples
On-Demand modules codelab
Plaid sample
Build a Modular Android App Architecture (Google I/O 2019)

Navigating Your Way Around Customizable Delivery (Android Dev Summit 2019)

Florina: @FMuntenescu
Dom: @iamdom
Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye
Romain: @romainguy

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 127: Gradle to Crave

Android Developers — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 22:31:53 +0000

Tor, Jerome, Chris and Xavier in the recording studio.

In this episode, Tor chats with Jerome Dochez, Chris Warrington and Xavier Ducrohet from the Android Studio build system team.

We discuss a lot of topics -- the new speed attribution feature in 4.0, the effort to create new APIs for plugin authors, and a lot more.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Jerome: @dochez
Xav: @droidxav
Tor: @tornorbye
Chet: @chethaase
Romain: @romainguy

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon. ]]>

Aquileo | Episode 126: Gesture Nav

Android Developers — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 20:35:05 +0000

Allen, Chris, Adam, part of Tor, Dan (taking the photo),
and Chet. All of them are also in the monitor, but backwards.
Oh, and note the gym sock being used to dampen noise
on the mic. High tech stuff, ADB.

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Chris Banes, Adam Cohen, Dan Sandler, and Allen Huang about Gesture Navigation.

Gesture Nav is an important UI behavior change in the Android 10 release that developers should handle and test. Chris has written Gesture Nav articles recently. This conversation goes further into the background and reasons for the change, as well as techniques for dealing with it.

Note: The audio in this episode, is not up to the usual quality bar. We had the choice between recording the conversation with a non-ideal setup or not doing it at all. We chose content over quality.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:

Gesture Navigation: Going edge-to-edge (I)
Gesture Navigation: Handling visual overlaps (II)
Gesture Navigation: Handling gesture conflicts (III)
Gesture Navigation: Immersive Modes (IV)

Chris: @chrisbanes
Dan: @dsandler
Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye
Romain: @romainguy

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon. ]]>

Aquileo | Episode 125: ADB Live at the Android Dev Summit

Android Developers — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 11:00:02 +0000

Chet, Tor, Romain, Cyril and Zarah, laughing at
something ~~stupid~~ funny that Chet said.

Amongst the many talks and announcements at the Android Dev Summit 2019 was a hidden gem: the first ever live episode of this podcast!

Chet, Romain and Tor took this opportunity to have a chat with Zarah Dominguez and Cyril Mottier. Both Zarah and Cyril work as Android app developers and are known for their presentations at various Android conferences.

We talked about modernizing large codebases, Kotlin, data binding, themes & styles, and many other things. Let's not spoil the podcast here.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:

ADB Live on YouTube
Zarah: @zarahjutz (blog)
Cyril: @cyrilmottier (blog)
Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye
Romain: @romainguy

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon. ]]>

Aquileo | Episode 124: UX

Android Developers — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 16:04:14 +0000

Chet, Glen, Rod, and Tor. Il n'y a pas de Romain.

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Rod Graves and Glen Murphy from the Android UX team.

We talked about various UX changes in Android over the years, as well as UI design in general. For example, Glen compared UX design to API design; trying to provide an interface for the users of your product that helps them build a mental model to better understand how everything fits and works together.

Favorite acronym: "WTFY"

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Links:

Rod: @rgraves
Glen: @gmurphy
Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye
Romain: @romainguy

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon. ]]>

Aquileo | Episode 123: Redacted

Android Developers — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 21:43:29 +0000

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Links:
Best Practices for Unique Identifers

Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye
Romain: @romainguy

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon. ]]>

Aquileo | Episode 122: Talk Talk

Android Developers — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 22:53:08 +0000

Chet and Romain,
featuring a complete lack of Tor.

In this episode, Chet and Romain talk about talking, speak about speaking, monologue monologuing. We have a conversation about various aspects of giving presentations.

Everyone has their own style and techniques, and there are no right answers for giving talks that audiences enjoy. But we all have opinions and techniques that work for us; here are some of ours.

We talk about making presentations more engaging, having co-speakers, picking topics, getting practice and experience, choosing events, and all kinds of other random stuff that came up in the conversation.

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Links:

Presenting Presenting (article)
Top Tips for Terrible Tech Talks (video/presentation)

Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye
Romain: @romainguy

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon. ]]>

Aquileo | Episode 121: Benchmarking

Android Developers — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 16:54:10 +0000

Chet, Dustin and Chris

In this episode, we chat with Chris Craik and Dustin Lam from the AndroidX team about benchmarking.

We cover the new AndroidX benchmarking library, how to use it, and what problems it solves.

If you're wondering why Chet totally took over the interview towards the end, it's not that he wouldn't share the stage; Romain and Tor had to leave early and snuck out quietly.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:

Blurry action shot from the recording session

Chris: @chris_craik
Dustin: @itsdustinlam
Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye
Romain: @romainguy

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon. ]]>

Aquileo | Episode 120: Machine Learning

Android Developers — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:26:00 +0000

Romain, Anna, and (unfortunately) Chet

Chet and Romain spoke with Anna Goldie from the Google Brain team about machine learning. If you ever wondered what the difference is between AI and machine learning or what deep neural networks are, then this episode is for you. To be clear, this show has nothing to do with Android, we just thought it would be an interesting topic.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:

Anna: @annadgoldie
Chet: @chethaase
Romain: @romainguy

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon. ]]>

Aquileo | Episode 119: Kotlin with Andrey Breslav

Android Developers — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 16:36:14 +0000

Tor, Andrey, Romain, and Chet (not pictured)

Tor and Romain spoke with Andrey Breslav, the lead language designer at Jetbrains for Kotlin. They talked about coroutines, flow, performance, islands near St. Petersburg, evolution of the language, and many other Kotlin-y things.

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Links:

Andrey: @abreslav
Chet: @chethaase
Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 118: Authentic Podcast

Android Developers — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 00:27:28 +0000

Sandra, Carlos, Chet and Romain [authenticated]

In this episode, Chet and Romain chat with Carlos Valdivia and Sandra Kwan from the Android Identity and Authentication team, covering related topics like authentication, ID, autofill, backup and restore, and more.

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Chet: @chethaase

Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 117: Kotlin Coroutines

Android Developers — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 18:33:16 +0000

Tor, Yigit, Sean, Romain and Chet doing their (co)routine.

Coroutines are Kotlin's approach to asynchronous programming and they are making their way into various Jetpack libraries. In this episode Tor, Chet and Romain have a chat with Sean McQuillan from DevRel and Yigit Boyar from the Jetpack team to discuss what coroutines are, what problems do they solve and how to use them.

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Links:

Sean: @objcode
Yigit: @yigitboyar
Chet: @chethaase
Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 116: CameraX

Android Developers — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 19:12:59 +0000

Chet, James, Vinit, and Tor, in reverse-polish notation.

Tor and Chet talked with Vinit Modi and James Fung from the CameraX team. CameraX is a Jetpack support library that released in alpha form at Google I/O 2019. It offers developers an easier way to embed camera functionality while performing more consistently across Android versions (back to Lollipop) and across various devices.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:

CameraX Overview
CameraX presentation at I/O 2019
CameraX Architecture
Getting Started with CameraX code lab
CameraX discussion group (the team is encouraging developers to reach out to this group with questions for the team)
Jetpack

Chet: @chethaase
Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 115: Jetpack Compose

Android Developers — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 13:00:05 +0000

Tor, Chuck, Leland and Romain

Jetpack Compose is an unbundled UI toolkit written in Kotlin and based on the reactive programming model that was recently introduced at Google I/O. Compose is not ready for production yet but is now being developed in the open on AOSP. In this episode Tor and Romain have a chat with Chuck and Leland to discuss how Jetpack Compose works and some of the goals and ideas behind its design.

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Links:

Chet: @chethaase
Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 114: Pocket Casts Cast

Android Developers — Thu, 30 May 2019 16:16:30 +0000

Romain, Philip, Ben, Tor, and Chet
(listed in alphabetical order)

In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor talk to Philip Simpson and Ben Trengrove from the cast of Pocket Casts. We talk about their app, coincidentally called "Pocket Casts," and how they implemented various features like Material, audio, and even how the company made a complicated weather app for a country where it's always sunny.
Oh, and we talked about some of the stuff happening at Google I/O 2019, because that's when we recorded this conversation.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:

Pocket Casts on Google Play

Philip: @geekygecko
Ben: @bentrengrove
Chet: @chethaase
Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 113: IO19

Android Developers — Tue, 28 May 2019 20:25:31 +0000

Tor, Romain and Chet

In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor discuss the Android-related announcements at Google I/O this year -- Android Q, Jetpack Compose, Project Marble, etc.

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Links:

Jetpack Compose

Chet: @chethaase
Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 112: Cutting Corners with MDC

Android Developers — Fri, 03 May 2019 23:03:19 +0000

Tor, Mel, Chet, and Romain
(shown in alphabetical order)

In this episode, Chet, Tor, and Romain chat with Mel Goetz, an engineer on the Material team, about Material Design Components, the set of components for Android that implement Material Design.

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Links:

Mel: @melaniemgoetz
Romain: @romainguy
Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 111: Emulator Snapshot

Android Developers — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:00:07 +0000

Romain, Frank and Tor in the Studio

In this episode, Romain and Tor chat with Frank from the Android Studio team. Frank works on the Android emulator and in this episode he explains the differences between a simulator and an emulator, how snapshots work, how does GPU support is implemented and much more.

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Links:

Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 110: It's all about the Treble

Android Developers — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 22:25:55 +0000

Chet, Iliyan and Tor in the Studio

In this episode, Chet and Tor chat with Iliyan Malchev from Project Treble. We already covered this a year and a half ago back in episode 75, but this time we dig deeper and also cover the progress made since then. Tune in to learn about acronyms like HAL, HIDL, GSI, VTS, and more!

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Links:

An Update on Project Treble - Iliyan's blog entry from November
Episode 75: Project Treble - For the HAL of it
Android Architecture overview

Iliyan: @imalchev
Romain: @romainguy
Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 109: Jazz Hands

Android Developers — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 21:35:25 +0000

Michael, Tor (not pictured), Romain (not pictured), and
Chet (not even present). Some podcasts are conversations.
Some are more like interrogations in a cafÃ©.

In this episode, Tor and ~~Chet~~ Romain talked with Michael Wright from the Android Framework team. Michael works on input, display, power manager, and haptics, which are, by amazing coincidence, exactly what they talked about.

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Links:

Romain: @romainguy
Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 108: Instant Re-run

Android Developers — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 14:00:12 +0000

Esteban, Romain, Chet, and Tor in the Android Studio.

Our guest-scheduling failed once again but we managed to find a guest at the very last minute!

In this episode Esteban de la Canal tells us everything about Apply Changes, a new feature in Android Studio 3.5 Canary destined to replace Instant Run. Why are we doing this and why is it better than Instant Run? Listen to this episode and come find out with us.

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Links:

Android Studio 3.5 Canary
Romain: @romainguy
Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon. ]]>

Aquileo | Episode 107: Dave Burke

Android Developers — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:51:59 +0000

Romain, Chet, Dave and Tor in the Android Studio.

In this episode, we talk to Dave Burke, VP of Engineering for Android. How are features chosen for the next version of the operating system? And what is Dave's favorite feature in Android P? Tune in to find out.

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Links:

Dave: @davey_burke
Romain: @romainguy
Chet: @chethaase
Tor: @tornorbye

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 106: WorkManager & Navigation

Android Developers — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 18:51:57 +0000

~~Tor,~~ Romain, Sumir, Ian, and Chet pose for a candid picture
far from the recording studio, when they finally realized
they'd forgotten to take a picture in the studio earlier.
You'd think they'd have this process nailed by now,
wouldn't you? I mean, 106 episodes; it's not like
it's new and all. Honestly, what level of professionalism
are we paying for here with this free service?

Romain and Chet talk with Sumir Kataria and Ian Lake about the latest developments in the new WorkManager and Navigation architecture components. WorkManager is now in beta and Navigation should be in beta Real Soon Now.

Alpha? Beta? Are these all Greek to you? We try to de-mystify this naming convention and talk about how we see development and release of architecture components in general.

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Links:

WorkManager
Navigation

Sumir: @SumirKodes
Ian: @ianhlake
Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye
Chet: @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 105: Telephony

Android Developers — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 23:56:49 +0000

Tor, Romain, Robert, and Chet.
Note the winter coat; the temperatures in California had
plummeted that week all the way down into the lower 60s (F).
Brrrr!

Tor, Romain, and Chet talk with Robert Greenwalt from the Android Telephony team about how the phone actually works. And text. And data. And SIM cards. And carrier networks.

It turns out that communication is kind of a important feature for phones

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:

Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye
Chet: @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 104: Android Dev Summit

Android Developers — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 16:21:02 +0000

Tor and Romain working hard in the studio while
Chet enjoyed the scenery in Monterey

Our guest-scheduling failed a second time in a row, but on the heels of the Android Dev Summit we had a lot to talk about!

Chet was traveling, so it's just Romain and Tor this time. We sincerely apologize for the lack of puns in this episode!

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:

Android Dev Summit - All Sessions

Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye
Chet: @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 103: Tor, Romain, and Chet Talk about Stuff

Android Developers — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 19:26:59 +0000

Tor, Romain, and Chet, caught in a totally
candid and unexpected photo while working
hard in the recording studio.

Tor and Romain and Chet completely failed to get a guest for this show. But fortunately, there was a bunch of stuff happening that they talked about instead. KotlinConf, GDG DevFest Ukraine, Droidcon UK, garbage collection, tech talks, comedy talks, Android Studio releases, new Pixel phones, photography, selfies, and more. We should have a guest-fail more often!

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Links:

Android Studio
KotlinConf 2018 talks
Romain's KotlinConf talk Graphics Programming with Kotlin
Kotlin 1.3
DevFest Ukraine 2018 Talks
Chet's comedy talk at DevFest Ukraine
Chet's Trash Talk (Evolution of ART GC) at DevFest Ukraine
Droidcon UK
Chet and Romain's Trash Talk at Droidcon UK
Pixel 3

Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye

Chet: @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 102: ML All the Things!

Android Developers — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:43:47 +0000

In this episode, Chet and ~~Tor~~ Romain Guy talk with Ben Murdoch and Matej Pfajfar from the Android ML team to talk about... ML! We talk about ML Kit, Adaptive Battery in Android 9 Pie, TensorFlow Lite, building and using ML models, and machine learning in general.

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Links:

Ben: @ksasq
Matej: Matej's profile
Romain: @romainguy
Tor: @tornorbye

Chet: @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 101: Prefetch and Paging

Android Developers — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 00:46:27 +0000

In this episode, Chet and ~~Tor~~ Yigit Boyar talk again with Chris Craik from the Android Toolkit team about RecyclerView prefetch and the new Paging library.

This is Part 2 of a much longer conversation that started in Episode 100, in which Chris talked about Android's UI hardware renderer. We created this second episode from that single, larger conversation because the topics are very different and because we just talked too darned long to stuff it all into a single episode.

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Links:

Chris: @chris_craik

Yigit: @yigitboyar
Tor: @tornorbye
Chet: @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 100: Android Rendering

Android Developers — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 18:43:06 +0000

In this episode, Chet and ~~Tor~~ Yigit Boyar talk with Chris Craik from the Android Toolkit team about graphics and the evolution of the UI renderer on Android.

By the way, THIS IS EPISODE 100, PEOPLE! WE MADE IT! AND THEY HAVEN'T EVEN CANCELED US YET! Sure, it's because the people that could and would cancel us don't know we exist, but I still think it's an important milestone to still be here, still recording, still posting, and still talking about random Android development stuff.

In the studio, we had a massive celebration for this amazing achievement, which consisted of recording the conversation and then returning to the office.

(This is actually part 1 of a 2-part episode; we talked so much about rendering that we made the first part into its own episode. We will carry on into non-rendering topics in the next Chris-filled episode.)

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:

Chris: @chris_craik

Yigit: @yigitboyar
Tor: @tornorbye
Chet: @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 99: Accessibility Time

Android Developers — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 21:38:56 +0000

Chet, Phil, Tor, and
Phil's topical t-shirt

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Phil Weaver about accessibility on Android. We talk about accessibility services, TalkBack, Switch Access, testing, and general approaches for developers to make applications that are accessible.
Oh, and we talk about "onClick bait" too.

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Links:

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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Aquileo | Episode 98: Filament

Android Developers — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 12:27:22 +0000

Romain, Chet and Tor posing behind a
giant poster rendered with Filament

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Romain about Filament, a real-time physically based rendering engine for Android (and Windows, Linux and macOS.)

We talk about graphics, graphics, and then some more graphics.

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Links:

Filament source code: https://github.com/google/filament
Filament documentation, the document we talk about in the podcast
Materials documentation

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.

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Aquileo | Episode 97: Bluetooth

Android Developers — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 19:53:20 +0000

Tor, Andre and Chet in the studio

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Andre Eisenbach from the Device Connectivity Team about Bluetooth -- Bluetooth Classic, Bluetooth BLE, profiles, compatibility challenges and more.

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Links:

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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Aquileo | Episode 96: Location: It's Where It's At

Android Developers — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 21:58:03 +0000

In this episode, Chet ~~and Tor~~ ~~talk~~ talks with Patrick Robertson from the Location team about... location! We wax poetic about fine-grained location using Wifi routers (among other mechanisms), the Fused Location Provider API for apps that need location information, battery impact of location (and what we're doing to improve that), how GPS works (apparently it uses pieces of string!), and detecting 3D locations for finding where you are in a tall building.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:
Fused Location Provider basics
Migrating to Fused Location Provider
BG location limits
Wifi RTT
Raw GNSS Measurements
GNSS Raw Measurements API
Sensors

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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Aquileo | Episode 95: The New News Thing

Android Developers — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 17:57:40 +0000

In this episode, Chet ~~and Tor~~ ~~talk~~ talks with Kyle Lampert from the Google News team about... News. Kyle is the lead of the Android app for News and discusses how the team created a rich, smooth UI experience for the reincarnation of this new News thing.

(Apologies for the audio quality: this episode was recorded while Chet was on a trip out to the Cambridge office, and the quality is not up to our usual standards. But it should suffice.)

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:
Google News

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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Aquileo | Episode 94: TV Time

Android Developers — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 22:23:46 +0000

Chet, Isaac, Virgil, and Tor, in stark black & white,
because it's so totally artistic, and not because the
studio lighting made us look like human-shaped
blue jello.

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Isaac Katzenelson and Virgil Dobjanschi from the Android TV team. We chat about UI, existing devices, IR-vs-BLE, new devices, feature requests from Tor, and digital channel surfing. Oh, and about telivision.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:
Android TV

Isaac: @lechefisaac
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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Aquileo | Episode 93: WorkManager

Android Developers — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 20:02:26 +0000

Tor, Sumir, Tor, Chet, a spiral notebook (blank), and Tor

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Sumir Kataria about the new WorkManager library that was announced at Google I/O (and released in early form). WorkManager makes it easier to schedule asynchronous work at a more appropriate time using a fluent, chainable API. Think of it as JobScheduler (in fact it uses JobScheduler internally when present), but handling situations and devices that don't have a recent enough version of the OS to have the JobScheduler API available.
Go get WorkManager and try it out - we'd love to get feedback on it as we iterate toward 1.0.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:
I/O Video: Easy background processing with WorkManager
Article: Schedule tasks with WorkManager
Reference docs
Codelab

Sumir: @SumirKodes
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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Aquileo | Episode 92: Navigation Controller

Android Developers — Fri, 18 May 2018 20:22:54 +0000

Tor, Chet, Joe, and Ian (in reverse order)

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Ian Lake and Joe Baker-Malone about the new Navigation Architecture Component and Navigation Editor, which were recently released in alpha form. This new architecture component makes it easier for developers to control and implement the flow through their application's screens.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:
I/O Video: Manage UI Navigation with Navigation Controller
I/O Video: How to Smartly Use Fragments in Your UI
Article(s): The Navigation Architecture Component

Ian: google.com/+IanLake, @ianhlake
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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Aquileo | Episode 91: KTX

Android Developers — Fri, 11 May 2018 21:58:11 +0000

Chet, Romain, Jake, and Tor

In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor talk with Jake Wharton about Android KTX, a set of Kotlin extensions for Android development.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:
GitHub repository for android-ktx
Jake's talk at Google I/O

Jake: google.com/+JakeWharton, @JakeWharton
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase
Romain: google.com/+RomainGuy, @romainguy

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 90: Spanspanspanspan

Android Developers — Fri, 04 May 2018 18:15:31 +0000

Florina, Chet, and Clara
(Chet is the one sporting the highly-collectible and terribly
elegant Android Toolkitty team swag jacket)

In this episode, Chet ~~and Tor~~ talk with Florina Muntenescu from Android developer relations and Clara Bayarri from the Android Toolkit team about text. The conversation spans spanning, spannables, spans, and of course spans, but also dives into some of the new text features in the P preview release, like pre-computed text measurement, magnifer, smarter Linkify, and baseline-alignment attributes.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:
Spantastic text styling
Underspanding spans
Android P Developer Preview
Best practices for text on Android

Florina: @FMuntenescu
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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Aquileo | Episode 89: Upon Reflection

Android Developers — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 00:00:16 +0000

Chet, Brian and Tor issuing a green screen challenge

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Brian Carlstrom from the ART team about the new restrictions on non-SDK interfaces in Android P.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:
Restrictions on non-SDK Interfaces

Brian: https://carlstrom.com/
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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Aquileo | Episode 88: Autofill

Android Developers — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 15:21:51 +0000

Chet, Felipe and Tor

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Felipe Leme from the Android Framework team about
Autofill, a framework in Android 8.0 and later which provides assistance with completing forms such as passwords and credit card numbers.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:
Main page: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/text/autofill.html
Sample project: https://github.com/googlesamples/android-AutofillFramework
IO presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZxwTiMH0FM
Droidcon presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hork6AsaLAc

Felipe: google.com/+FelipeLeme, @felipeal
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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Aquileo | Episode 87: ARrrrrrrr

Android Developers — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 18:13:46 +0000

Dushan, Romain, Chet, and Tor
position themselves in correct
order for the caption to make sense

In this episode, Romain, Chet, and Tor talk with Dushan Leska from the Daydream team, which works on immersive computing. His team is currently focused on AR Core, which makes Augmented Reality happen for Android. We talk about AR, VR, probably other Rs, and lots about graphics and performance.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:
Daydream developer site

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.

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Aquileo | Episode 86: It's gr8!

Android Developers — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 05:53:18 +0000

Tor, Chet, and Jeffrey admire the
pristine beauty of the recording studio

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Jeffrey van Gogh from the Tools team. Jeffrey works on R8 and D8. D8 (available in Android Studio 3.0, but off by default) is the replacement for DX, which converts your java byte code to dalvik byte code. R8 (not available yet) is an optimizing compiler, which does the same as D8, but with lots of optimizations along the way. We talk about performance, faster builds, new language features on older releases, kotlin, compiler stuff, and video games.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:
D8 Preview article
R8 project on googlesource.com

Jeffrey: @jvgogh
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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Aquileo | Episode 85: Focus on Audio

Android Developers — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 01:40:10 +0000

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.

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Aquileo | Episode 84: Instant Apps

Android Developers — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:14:59 +0000

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.

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Aquileo | Episode 83: The Deal of the ART

Android Developers — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 21:12:03 +0000

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.

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Aquileo | Episode 82: Tooling Around

Android Developers — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 22:33:04 +0000

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.

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Aquileo | Episode 81: Gradle Sync

Android Developers — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 16:53:42 +0000

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

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 80: Crash Talk

Android Developers — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 19:55:48 +0000

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

~~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.

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Aquileo | Episode 79: Picking Up Garbage

Android Developers — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 23:20:06 +0000

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

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 78: Notification Explication

Android Developers — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 17:52:43 +0000

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

~~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.

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Aquileo | Episode 77: Android Internals with Effie Barak

Android Developers — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 17:20:01 +0000

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

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 76: Kotlin-n-stuff

Android Developers — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 23:03:39 +0000

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

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 75: Project Treble - for the HAL of it

Android Developers — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 17:38:30 +0000

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

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 74: Graphics

Android Developers — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 18:21:15 +0000

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

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 73: Architecture Components 2 - Persistence

Android Developers — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 20:56:30 +0000

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

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 72: Architecture Components 1 - Lifecycle

Android Developers — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 21:13:30 +0000

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

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 71: Things

Android Developers — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 23:12:32 +0000

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

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 70: Color

Android Developers — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 17:57:00 +0000

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

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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Aquileo | Episode 69: IO IO

Android Developers — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 22:05:16 +0000

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.

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Aquileo | Episode 68: Profiler

Android Developers — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 23:50:48 +0000

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.

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Aquileo | Episode 67: Fontastic

Android Developers — Wed, 24 May 2017 22:55:15 +0000

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.

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Aquileo | Episode 66: Kotlin!

Android Developers — Thu, 18 May 2017 23:18:04 +0000

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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Aquileo | Episode 65: Emulator

Android Developers — Thu, 04 May 2017 04:28:00 +0000

Chet, Huan, Jamal and Tor

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Jamal Eason and Huan Ren from the Android tools team about the emulator. Tune in learn whether you should use the 32 bit or the 64 bit system images, and more.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links

Jamal: google.com/+JamalEason
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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Aquileo | Episode 64: Gradleweiss

Android Developers — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 23:26:53 +0000

Chet, Jerome, Xav, Tor, and Gradle (not pictured).

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Xavier Ducrohet and Jerome Dochez from the Android Studio team. We talk about gradle, gradle, and gradle. And then some more about gradle, rounding out the dicussion with a chat about gradle before ending on a brief discourse on gradle.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links

Xav: google.com/+XavierDucrohet, @droidxav
Jerome: @dochez

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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Aquileo | Episode 63: Dagger

Android Developers — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 22:28:49 +0000

Chet, Gregory and Tor in the dark

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Gregory Kick from the Java Core Libraries team at Google about Dagger, as well as Auto, AutoValue and Guava.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links

Dagger 2: https://google.github.io/dagger/
Auto: https://github.com/google/auto/
- AutoValue: https://github.com/google/auto/tree/master/value
Guava: https://github.com/google/guava

Gregory: google.com/+GregoryKick, @gk5885

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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Aquileo | Episode 62: It Depends

Android Developers — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 22:07:44 +0000

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Alan Viverette and Chris Banes about random things about the Support Library: releases, AppCompat, drawables, Night mode, gradle, support lib modularization, and more.

Will it answer all of your Support Lib questions? It depends...

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links
Support Library

Alan: +AlanViverette
Chris: +ChrisBanes, @chrisbanes, blog
Chet: +ChetHaase, @chethaase
Tor: +TorNorbye, @tornorbye

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Aquileo | Episode 61: Kernel Panic

Android Developers — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 00:27:32 +0000

In this episode, Chet speaks with Rom Lemarchand from the Android Systems team.

Tune in to hear about the new A/B system updates, kernel patches and much more.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links
A/B system updates

Chet: +ChetHaase, @chethaase
Tor: +TorNorbye, @tornorbye

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Aquileo | Episode 60: Huyen Tue Dao

Android Developers — Sat, 17 Dec 2016 01:14:03 +0000

In this episode, Chet goes Tor-less and speaks with Huyen Tue Dao, an Android developer at Trello, about conferences, learning new things in Android, and Constraint Layout.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links
Loving Lean Layout
Measure, Layout, Draw, Repeat: Custom Views and ViewGroups
A New View: Layout Editor + Constraint Layout

Huyen: +HuyenTueDao, @queencodemonkey, randomlytyping.com, youtube.com/androiddialogs
Chet: +ChetHaase, @chethaase
Tor: +TorNorbye, @tornorbye

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Aquileo | Episode 59: Buncha New Stuff

Android Developers — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 15:55:12 +0000

Chet and Tor. Just Chet and Tor. Nobody else.

In this episode, Chet and Tor find themselves without a guest so they spend the episode talking about three new releases: Android N MR1, support library, and Android Studio 2.3 Canary.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links

Android 7.1 Preview: https://developer.android.com/preview/index.html
Support Library: https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/support-library/revisions.html
Transitions in Support Library: https://medium.com/google-developers/transitions-in-the-android-support-library-8bc86a1d688e
What's New in Android (Droidcon London, Oct 28th): https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/8414-what-s-new-in-android
Studio 2.3 Canary Announcement: http://tools.android.com/recent/androidstudio23canaryavailable
Studio Canary Downloads: http://tools.android.com/download/studio/canary

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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Aquileo | Episode 58: Quick Settings

Android Developers — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 18:56:03 +0000

Chet, Jason, and Tor, not necessarily in that order.
You can see, in the background, the beautifully appointed
high-tech recording studio where the magic happens.

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Jason Monk from the System UI team about various things that he's worked on, including Quick Settings, Quick Settings tiles (and the API for creating them), and System UI Tuner.
Oh, and QQS (Quick Quick Settings). Because if Quick is good, Quick Quick must be better.

There's also an odd detour into color theory and pointillism. Sorry about that.

Quotes of note:
"My memory doesn't work that way."
"Just because you have power doesn't mean you should use it."

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links

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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Aquileo | Episode 57: Espresso Test Recorder

Android Developers — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 20:29:03 +0000

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Stas Negara from the Firebase team about the Espresso Test Recorder, a feature in Android Studio which lets you easily record Android UI tests.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links

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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Aquileo | Episode 56: In The Beginning

Android Developers — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 22:41:14 +0000

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Ficus Kirkpatrick about the early days of Android.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Ficus: google.com/+FicusKirkpatrick, @ficus
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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Aquileo | Episode 55: Glide

Android Developers — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 20:54:47 +0000

Chet, Sam and Romain

In this episode, Chet and Romain talk with Sam Judd from the Google Photos team about Glide, an image loading and caching library, and its use in the Photos app.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:
Glide project: https://github.com/bumptech/glide

Using Glide in your project: compile 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:3.7.0'

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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Aquileo | Episode 54: AAPT

Android Developers — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 23:42:16 +0000

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Adam Lesinski from the Android framework team. Adam works on aapt (Android Asset Packaging Tool), which compiles the resources used by the framework and for apps. Listen in to learn more about how it works, as well as some of the optional features that aapt provides that you could take advantage of. He also might talk about some of the future development going on for more robust and performant tools. Maybe.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

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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Aquileo | Episode 53: ADB on ADB

Android Developers — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 20:38:41 +0000

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Elliott Hughes from the native tools and libraries team. He and his team work on ADB, the NDK, and a host of other important low-level Android tools.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Links:
Android Developers Blog: Improving Stability with Private C/C++ Symbol Restrictions in Android N

Android Developers Blog: Android changes for NDK developers

NDK preview releases

Toybox

Elliott: google.com/+ElliottHughes
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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Aquileo | Episode 52: Multi Window of Opportunity

Android Developers — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 22:10:10 +0000

Rob, Chet, and Tor in our totally professional recording
studio with sophisticated sound baffling equipment.

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Rob Carr from the window manager team about... Multi-Window! We also talk about application lifecycle, synchronous SurfaceView, and other window-manager-activity-managery stuff.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Google I/O 2016 Sessions:
Multi-Window Mode
Android Fireside Chat

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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Aquileo | Episode 51: Swisstem UI

Android Developers — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 23:59:37 +0000

Chet, Tor, Jorim, Selim and Adrian

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Jorim Jaggi, Selim Cinek and Adrian Roos from the System UI team about all the "math-gic" behind the animations in Lollipop, Marshmallow and N. Favorite quote: "Hopefully works correctly".
Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Jorim Jaggi: google.com/+JorimJaggi
Selim Cinek: google.com/+SelimCinek
Adrian Roos: google.com/+AdrianRoos
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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Aquileo | Episode 50: Constraint Layout

Android Developers — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 19:56:41 +0000

Chet, Tor, Romain, Nicolas and John (mysteriously shadowed)

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Romain Guy, Nicolas Roard and John Hoford about the new ConstraintLayout library and layout editor.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Relevant Links

http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/layout-editor

Romain Guy: google.com/+RomainGuy, @romainguy
Nicolas Roard: google.com/+NicolasRoard, @camaelon
John Hoford: google.com/+JohnHoford, @johnhoford
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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Aquileo | Episode 49: What's New in N

Android Developers — Sat, 21 May 2016 00:30:05 +0000

Chet, Romain, and Tor (mysteriously shadowed)

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Romain Guy about some of the new features in the Android N preview release.

Favorite feature: "San Jose French"

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Relevant Links

Android Preview

Romain Guy: 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.

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Aquileo | Episode 48: ExoPlayer

Android Developers — Tue, 10 May 2016 13:33:20 +0000

Oliver and Chet

In this episode, Chet visits the Google's Android office in London and chats with Oliver Woodman about ExoPlayer, an application level media player for Android.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Relevant Links

ExoPlayer GitHub Project

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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Aquileo | Episode 47: That Syncing Feeling

Android Developers — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 18:29:08 +0000

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk to Chris Tate from the Android framework team about cloud sync and backup, alarms and scheduling jobs.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Chris: google.com/+ChristopherTate
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye ]]>

Aquileo | Episode 46: Softwear

Android Developers — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 15:12:58 +0000

In this episode, Tor and Chet* talk with Zak Cohen from the Android Wear team in London about his work on watch faces, graphics, and many other Android projects he's been involved with such as the movie editor, voice search and Goggles.

*: Chet was not available for this episode, so his part was convincingly played by Nick Butcher from the Android developer relations group in London.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Relevant Links

Together Watchface

Zak: google.com/+ZakCohen
Fake Chet: google.com/+NickButcher, @crafty
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye ]]>

Aquileo | Episode 45: State of the ART

Android Developers — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 15:59:47 +0000

Tor, Brian, Anwar and Chet

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Brian Carlstrom and Anwar Ghuloum about Android N preview, and in particular the new features in ART, the Android Runtime.

Listen in to find out about the changes to the JIT and AOT compiler, the new language features, and a lot more.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Relevant Links

Android N Preview

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase ]]>

Aquileo | Episode 44: Power On

Android Developers — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 21:26:31 +0000

Chet, Ashish, Meghan, and Tor wait uncomfortably
for the photograph to be taken

In this episode, Tor and Chet talk with Ashish Sharma and Meghan Desai from Project Volta, an initiative starting in the Android Lollipop release to improve Android battery life.

Listen in to find out what kinds of things cause high battery usage and how you can make your apps better about conserving device power.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Relevant Links

Battery Historian
Job Scheduler

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase ]]>

Aquileo | Episode 43: Keyboard Input

Android Developers — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 16:57:18 +0000

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 ]]>

Aquileo | Episode 42: Tool Time

Android Developers — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 20:32:59 +0000

The fancy ADB recording studio, with our featured guest.

In this episode, Tor and I talk with... each other. This episode is all about Android Studio. In particular, we talk about the latest features and massive performance improvements in the Android Studio preview that was detailed at the Android Dev Summit and which has
been in development and under improvement since then.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Relevant Links

Android Studio tips & tricks video
All of the Android Dev Summit Talks
Android Studio
Android Studio Recent Changes
Instant Run
Proguard

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase ]]>

Aquileo | Episode 41: RecyclerView

Android Developers — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 16:13:21 +0000

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 ]]>

Aquileo | Episode 40: Material World

Android Developers — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 17:34:20 +0000

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. ]]>

Aquileo | Episode 39: MIDI

Android Developers — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 19:20:34 +0000

Chet, Phil, and Tor. And a lot of totally professional sound baffles

This time, Tor and Chet get all musical with Phil Burk from the Android Audio team. Phil worked on the new MIDI feature in the Android 6.0 Marshmallow release, and joins the podcast to talk about MIDI (history as well as Android implementation), electronic music, and other audio-related topics.

Bryan said it was his favorite episode so far. But then Bryan's an audio engineer, so he might be slightly biased.

Android MIDI: It's music to our ears.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Relevant Links

Android MIDI
MidiSynth Example
More Examples
HMSL
Larry Polansky

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon. ]]>

Aquileo | Episode 38: Fingerprint

Android Developers — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 22:24:29 +0000

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. ]]>

Aquileo | Episode 37: Webview

Android Developers — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 20:03:19 +0000

Richard, Chet, Ben, and not Tor in the spacious London studio

In this Tor-less episode, Chet talks with Ben Murdoch and Richard Coles from the Android WebView team. We talk about WebView's ability to update outside of platform releases, the transition from the original WebView to the new Chromium WebView widget, about some of the new features and APIs in recent releases, and about cute kitten bitmaps.

Tor didn't have much to say, about kittens or anything else.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Relevant Links

Beta Channel for Android WebView
Google+ Beta Channel Community
Bug Tracker
Chrome Dev Tools
WebView API

Ben Murdoch: google.com/+BenMurdoch, @ksasq
Richard Coles: google.com/+RichardColesGoogle
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Also, thanks to continued support by Bryan Gordon, our audio engineer who puts this stuff together every time. ]]>

Aquileo | Episode 36: UX Rules

Android Developers — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 21:26:48 +0000

In this episode, we talk with Rachel Garb from the Android User Experience team. Tune in to hear about interaction design and about how the Android system UI (including the new volume slider UI in Android M) is designed and user-tested.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Relevant Links

Material Design Spec
Android Design for Success (Google I/O 2012)
Don't Make Me Think (Steve Krug)
The Inmates are Running the Asylum (Alan Cooper)

Rachel: google.com/+RachelGarb, medium.com/@rachelgarb, @rachelgarb
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase ]]>

Aquileo | Episode 35: Data Bound

Android Developers — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:45:06 +0000

In this episode, we chat with George Mount and Yigit Boyar from the Android UI Toolkit team. Yigit and George worked on the new Data Binding feature announced at Google I/O and which is available in the preview release and in recent versions of Android Studio.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Relevant Links

Data Binding Guide

George Mount: https://plus.google.com/+GeorgeMount007
Yigit Boyar: https://plus.google.com/111851968937104436377, @yigitboyar
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase ]]>

Aquileo | Episode 34: Really Nearby

Android Developers — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 19:17:03 +0000

In this episode, we chat with Andrew Bunner and Akshay Kannan from the Nearby team. Nearby is a technology that allows devices that are, er, nearby to communicate in one of several ways (including ultrasonic frequencies, which is just kind of awesome).

Favorite bits: "beeps and boops" (a technical term), "acoustical chamber" (sounds a lot cooler than it probably is), and the three most important things about Nearby: proximity, proximity, proximity.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Nearby Product Overview

Andrew: google.com/+AndrewBunner
Akshay: google.com/+AkshayKannan
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase ]]>

Aquileo | Episode 33: Permission Mission

Android Developers — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 00:18:10 +0000

In this episode, we chat with Ben Poiesz, a product manager on the Android framework about the exciting new Permissions model in Android M.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Relevant links

Android M Permissions (Google I/O 2015)
M Preview Permissions Overview

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase ]]>

Aquileo | Episode 32: Leak Canary

Android Developers — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 21:53:11 +0000

In this episode, we chat with Pierre-Yves Ricau (aka @Piwai, for his initials P and Y and for the benefit of non-French-speakers that find "Pierre-Yves" entirely too complicated to pronounce) from Square about his excellent Leak Canary tool, as well as other topics he's interested in -- presenting, dependency injection, and crash reporting.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Relevant links

Leak Canary blog post
Leak Canary Github project
MAT (Memory Analyzer Tool)
Dagger2

Pierre-Yves Ricau: twitter.com/Piwai
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase ]]>

Aquileo | Episode 31: Graphics Performance

Android Developers — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 17:00:08 +0000

This time, Tor and Chet are joined by Chris Craik from the Android UI Toolkit team. Chris took time out of his busy schedule of writing performance-testing tools and fixing graphics performance issues to talk on the podcast about, well, performance-testing tools and graphics performance issues.

Listen in to learn about graphics performance tips, tricks, and tools.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Relevant Links:
Systrace
Framestats
Android Performance Patterns
Glide

Chris:
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

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Aquileo | Episode 30: Android Design Library

Android Developers — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 16:47:55 +0000

This time, Tor and Chet are joined by Chris Banes (again!) to talk about the new Android Design Library, which was released at Google I/O 2015. Listen in to find out all about CoordinatorLayout, FAB, Snackbar, and more, more, more!

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Relevant Links:
Chris's blog
Android Design Library Demo
Android Design Support Library (Android Developers Blog)

Chris: google.com/+ChrisBanes
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

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Aquileo | Episode 29: Tor vs. Chet

Android Developers — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 14:59:08 +0000

This time, Tor and Chet are joined by Chet and Tor when they are once again unexpectedly blown off by a special guest. Fortunately, there was plenty to talk about, including Google I/O, Android Studio 1.3, M Developer Preview, and the new Developing for Android series of articles.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Relevant Links:
What's New in Android (I/O talk)
What's New in Android Development Tools (I/O talk)
Android M Permissions (I/O talk)
Android M Developer Preview
M Developer Preview Bug Feedback
Android Studio (latest)
Developing for Android (Introduction + Contents)

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

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Aquileo | Episode 28: Chiu-Ki Chat

Android Developers — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 00:41:34 +0000

This time, Tor and Chet are joined by Chiu-Ki Chan, an external developer and frequent presenter about Android developer. Hear us talk about custom views, watch faces, TextView, learning Chinese, libraries, and other random stuff.

Favorite quotes:
"To get room temperature water, mix cold water and hot water."
"Bust out that paper."

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Relevant Links:
Fit Cat
Technically Speaking newsletter
Android Custom Components
Advanced Android TextView
Monkey Write
Key promoter (Intellij plugin)
Watch face samples
https://github.com/googlesamples/android-WatchFace
https://watchface-codelab.appspot.com

Chiu-Ki: https://twitter.com/chiuki
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

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Aquileo | Episode 27: A Couple of Tools

Android Developers — Wed, 20 May 2015 17:10:42 +0000

This time, Tor and Chet are joined by... nobody. Instead, we just talk among ourselves about tools. From Android Studio to performance debugging tools to IDE shortcuts to memory analysis tools to Lint rules to animation debugging tools and back to Android Studio, we talk about lots of tools and then some.

Favorite quotes:
"How do you learn IntelliJ power commands?"
"You just have to read the source code."

"We have a Lint rule for that."
(This should be Tor's superhero catch phrase if it's not already)

IDE shortcuts: Killing the joy of programming one keystroke at a time.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Relevant Links:
(Not many links this time; the best way to learn about the various tools is to use them)
Android Studio

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

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Aquileo | Episode 26: Fit

Android Developers — Fri, 08 May 2015 00:02:55 +0000

Tor and Chet are joined by Gustavo Moura from the Google Fit team. We talk about the Google Fit app, but also about the GMS Core and REST APIs that enable that application and any other application that wants to take advantage of the sensor data that those APIs provide.

Getting Fit, one step at a time.

Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly.

Relevant Links:
Google Fit Developer Documentation
Recording Fitness Data
Working with the Fitness History
Google Fit Developers G+ Community
Google Fit Developer Challenge

Gustavo: google.com/+GustavoMouraGoogle
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

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Aquileo | Episode 25: Espresso

Android Developers — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 17:43:14 +0000

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

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Aquileo | Episode 24: Roman Holiday

Android Developers — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 16:58:28 +0000

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

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Aquileo | Episode 23: Re: In Car Nation

Android Developers — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 18:32:43 +0000

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

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Aquileo | Episode 22: Wear Wolves

Android Developers — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 19:13:39 +0000

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

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Aquileo | Episode 21: Material Designification

Android Developers — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 22:20:02 +0000

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

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Aquileo | Episode 20: Fonts and Audio

Android Developers — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 20:03:05 +0000

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

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Aquileo | Episode 19: Android TV

Android Developers — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 18:17:39 +0000

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

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Aquileo | Episode 18: Holidaze

Android Developers — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 21:37:02 +0000

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

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Aquileo | Episode 17: AppCompat

Android Developers — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 22:25:12 +0000

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:
Chrisâ€™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

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Aquileo | Episode 16: Notifications

Android Developers — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 20:32:18 +0000

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

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Aquileo | Episode 15: Location, Location, Location

Android Developers — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 11:14:03 +0000

Tor and Chet are joined in this podcast episode by Marc Stogaitis, the lead of the Android location client team. Join us to hear the exciting and mysterious term "urban canyon" and also about the three most important things in location services: location, location, location.

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Relevant Links:
Fused Location Provider API: https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/gms/location/FusedLocationProviderApi.html
Geofencing API: https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/gms/location/GeofencingApi.html
Activity Recognition API: https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/gms/location/ActivityRecognitionApi.html
Beyond the Blue Dot (Google I/O 2013): https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/325337477

Location History dashboard: https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/

Marc: https://plus.google.com/107675566661349240635/posts

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Aquileo | Episode 14: Accessibility

Android Developers — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 18:25:01 +0000

Tor and Chet are joined in this podcast episode by Alan Viverette from the UI Toolkit team. Alan is passionate about accessibility. He also works on themes, attributes, styles, widgets and, well, lots of UI stuff. So we talk for a while, as we tend to do.

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Relevant Links:

TalkBack: https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/6007100
AccessibilityNodeInfo: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/accessibility/AccessibilityNodeInfo.html
WebVTT: http://dev.w3.org/html5/webvtt/
Adding Captions on YouTube: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734796?hl=en

Alan: google.com/+AlanViverette

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Aquileo | Android Developers Backstage: Episode 13: Support Library

Android Developers — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 00:29:00 +0000

In this superstitiously numbered episode 13, Tor and Chet talk with Adam Powell of the UI Toolkit team about the Android support library, AppCompat, ListView, RecyclerView, and all sorts of other toolkit-related niceties.

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Relevant Links:

Android Support Library: http://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/index.html

ActionBarSherlock: http://actionbarsherlock.com/

Adam: google.com/+AdamWPowell

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Aquileo | Android Developers Backstage: Episode 12: The Jake Show

Android Developers — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 23:03:57 +0000

In a startling and electrifying break with ancient tradition (born of laziness rather than policy), Tor and Chet are joined in this podcast by external developer (i.e., non-Googler) Jake Wharton. Jake has worked on and with many important Android open source libraries. We talk with Jake about these projects and various other aspects of Android development in general.

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Relevant Links:

Retrofit: http://square.github.io/retrofit/

Picasso: http://square.github.io/picasso/

Dagger: http://square.github.io/dagger/

OkHttp: http://square.github.io/okhttp/

Butter Knife: http://jakewharton.github.io/butterknife

Robolectric: http://robolectric.org/

Espresso: https://code.google.com/p/android-test-kit/

AssertJ Android: http://square.github.io/assertj-android

Jake: google.com/+JakeWharton