Android Developers Backstage

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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