Android Developers Backstage

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.