Android Developers Backstage

In this episode, the second in a bizarrely and completely unplanned series on Play Store technology, Tor Norbye and Chet Haase are joined by Ficus Kirkpatrick from the Play Store team (and from many other Android projects from the early days). Listen in to hear what Volley is for and how you can use it to simplify your network requests and bitmap download/caching code. Relevant links: Volley: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/volley/ Volley email list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/volley-users Gson adapter for Volley: https://gist.github.com/ficusk/5474673 Subscribe to the podcast at http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/AndroidDevelopersBackstage. Or download directly at http://storage.googleapis.com/androiddevelopers/android_developers_backstage/Android%20Developers%20Backstage%20Ep%208%20Volley.mp3

In this gripping episode, Tor Norbye and Chet Haase are joined by the pixel-pushing Kirill Grouchnikov from the Play Store team. Kirill works on UIs for this large data-driven app that runs on a wide variety of releases, devices, and form factors. We talk about what that actually entails... and talk about other stuff along the way. Relevant links: Android resources: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/providing-resources.html Activities: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html Alpha/Beta testing and staged rollouts: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/3131213 Kirill: google.com/+KirillGrouchnikov Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase Podcast feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/AndroidDevelopersBackstage Episode download: http://storage.googleapis.com/androiddevelopers/android_developers_backstage/Android%20Developers%20Backstage%20Ep7%20AppsWorkEverywhere.mp3

In this episode, we delve into the world of the Android System UI, including tangents on notifications new and old, status bar icons, implementing user experience designs, and Android logos. Click here to download the Podcast directly!

Chet Haase and Tor Norbye are joined by Tim Murray from the RenderScript team. In this episode, we dive into RenderScript and talk about compute, parallel processing, GPUs, and architecture-independent, high-performance pixel processing. It's intrinsically interesting. To download the podcast click here.

Tor Norbye and Chet Haase are joined by Jeff Hamilton from the Google Play services team. In this continuation of the mini-series with Tall Engineers Named Jeff (starting with episode #2 with Jeff Sharkey), this episode goes in-depth into the Google Play services library, which provides easier, Android-friendly access to various Google APIs, such as authentication and mapping. Download the podcast at this link.

Chet Haase, Tor Norbye, are joined by Adrian Ludwig on the third episode of Android Developers Backstage. Adrian is stalwart member of the Android team focusing on all aspects of security. Learn about the various ways that Adrian and his team help to make Android better for users. Click here to download the podcast

Chet Haase, Tor Norbye, are joined by Jeff Sharkey on the second episode of Android Developers Backstage. Jeff is a longtime engineer on the Android Framework team responsible in large part for one of the exciting new features in Android 4.4 KitKat, the Storage Access Framework. Learn about that new feature along with other random Android things that happened to come up in the conversation. Click here to download the podcast

Get an overview of the new features in Android 4.4 KitKat presented by members of the Android team. Chet Haase and Tor Norbye cover many of the new features including Transitions, Storage Access Framework, Immersive Mode, Printing API, and Closed Captioning. Click here to download the podcast