Android Developers Backstage

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. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Android accessibility Accessibility Service code lab Accessibility Scanner Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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

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. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links: Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.