Episode 51: Swisstem UI

Chet, Tor, Jorim, Selim and Adrian

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Jorim Jaggi, Selim Cinek and Adrian Roos from the System UI team about all the "math-gic" behind the animations in Lollipop, Marshmallow and N. Favorite quote: "Hopefully works correctly".
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Jorim Jaggi: google.com/+JorimJaggi
Selim Cinek: google.com/+SelimCinek
Adrian Roos: google.com/+AdrianRoos
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Episode 50: Constraint Layout

Chet, Tor, Romain, Nicolas and John (mysteriously shadowed)

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Romain Guy, Nicolas Roard and John Hoford about the new ConstraintLayout library and layout editor.

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Relevant Links

http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/layout-editor

Romain Guy: google.com/+RomainGuy, @romainguy
Nicolas Roard: google.com/+NicolasRoard, @camaelon
John Hoford: google.com/+JohnHoford, @johnhoford
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Episode 49: What's New in N

Chet, Romain, and Tor (mysteriously shadowed)

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Romain Guy about some of the new features in the Android N preview release.

Favorite feature: "San Jose French"

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Relevant Links

Android Preview

Romain Guy: google.com/+RomainGuy, @romainguy
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Episode 48: ExoPlayer

Oliver and Chet

In this episode, Chet visits the Google's Android office in London and chats with Oliver Woodman about ExoPlayer, an application level media player for Android.



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Relevant Links

ExoPlayer GitHub Project

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Episode 47: That Syncing Feeling

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk to Chris Tate from the Android framework team about cloud sync and backup, alarms and scheduling jobs.


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Chris: google.com/+ChristopherTate
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye

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 available for this episode, so his part was convincingly played by Nick Butcher from the Android developer relations group in London.


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Relevant Links

Together Watchface

Zak: google.com/+ZakCohen
Fake Chet: google.com/+NickButcher, @crafty
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye

Episode 45: State of the ART

Tor, Brian, Anwar and Chet

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Brian Carlstrom and Anwar Ghuloum about Android N preview, and in particular the new features in ART, the Android Runtime.

Listen in to find out about the changes to the JIT and AOT compiler, the new language features, and a lot more.



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Relevant Links

Android N Preview

Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase