Friday, April 11, 2014

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 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

Monday, March 24, 2014

Android Developers Backstage - Episode 6: System UI

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.

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Sunday, March 9, 2014

Druhá epizoda je přeložena


I přes několik komplikací ve zobrazování určitých textů se podařilo překlad druhé epizody zdárně dotáhnout do konce a jak je již zvykem, můžete jej stahovat ODTUD.  No a abyste neřekli, máme tu pro vás malou ochutnávku spolu s aktualizací překladu pro epizodu 1.


Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Druhá epizoda vyšla...

... a tím pádem započal její překlad. Nedokážeme však odhadnout, jak dlouho nám počeštění potrvá, protože času je oproti době strávené u první epizody o něco méně.

Thursday, February 27, 2014

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 processing. It's intrinsically interesting.

To download the podcast click here.

Thursday, February 6, 2014

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 services library, which provides easier, Android-friendly access to various Google APIs, such as authentication and mapping.

Download the podcast at this link

Thursday, January 16, 2014

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 Android better for users.

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