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Episode 14: Accessibility: 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. by Android Developers Backstage

43 min listen

Episode 17: AppCompat: 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 by Android Developers Backstage

35 min listen

Android Developers Backstage - Ep2: Storage: 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 S by Android Developers Backstage

45 min listen

Android Developers Backstage - Episode 7: Making Apps That Work Everywhere: 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 tal by Android Developers Backstage

45 min listen

Android Developers Backstage: Episode 10: ART, pART 1: Tor and Chet may not know ART, but they know what they like. In this episode, the first in a two-pART series, they talk with Anwar Ghuloum from the ART, or Android Runtime team. ART is the new runtime for Android, which came online in the KitKat release a by Android Developers Backstage

39 min listen

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Android Developers Backstage - Ep 3: Security: 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 by Android Developers Backstage

54 min listen

Episode 24: Roman Holiday by Android Developers Backstage

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Android Developers Backstage: Episode 12: The Jake Show: 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 sou by Android Developers Backstage

49 min listen

Android Developers Backstage - Episode 8: Volley by Android Developers Backstage

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Android Developers Backstage - Episode 1: KitKat: 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 Captioni by Android Developers Backstage

54 min listen

Android Developers Backstage: Episode 13: Support Library: 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. Subscribe to the podcast feed or by Android Developers Backstage

37 min listen

Android Developers Backstage- Episode 5: RenderScript: 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 by Android Developers Backstage

44 min listen

Episode 36: UX Rules: 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 by Android Developers Backstage

36 min listen

Episode 40: Material World: 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 do by Android Developers Backstage

46 min listen

Android Developers Backstage: Episode 11: ART, pART 2 (Trash Talk): In this continuation of the previous gripping and suspenseful episode known as Episode 10, Tor and Chet hear more from Anwar Ghuloum from the Android Runtime team. This time is all trash-talk. Tune in to hear more about garbage collection and how allocati by Android Developers Backstage

47 min listen

Episode 25: Espresso: 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. by Android Developers Backstage

52 min listen

Episode 46: Softwear: 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 av by Android Developers Backstage

41 min listen

Episode 20: Fonts and Audio: 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 wit by Android Developers Backstage

51 min listen

Android Developers Backstage- Episode 4: Google Play Services: 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 by Android Developers Backstage

42 min listen

Episode 15: Location, Location, Location by Android Developers Backstage

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Episode 32: Leak Canary by Android Developers Backstage

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Episode 34: Really Nearby: 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). Fa by Android Developers Backstage

39 min listen

Episode 37: Webview: Richard, Chet, Ben, and not Tor in the spacious London studioIn 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 by Android Developers Backstage

49 min listen

Episode 38: Fingerprint: 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 by Android Developers Backstage

39 min listen

Episode 22: Wear Wolves: 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. by Android Developers Backstage

41 min listen

Episode 57: Espresso Test Recorder: 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. Link by Android Developers Backstage

37 min listen

Episode 23: Re: In Car Nation: 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" Subscri by Android Developers Backstage

38 min listen

Episode 31: Graphics Performance: 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-testin by Android Developers Backstage

47 min listen

Episode 18: Holidaze: 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!) by Android Developers Backstage

48 min listen

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