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Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links : Best Practices for Unique Identifers Chet :  @chethaase Tor :  @tornorbye Romain :  @romainguy Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Chet and Romain, featuring a complete lack of Tor. In this episode, Chet and Romain talk about talking, speak about speaking, monologue monologuing. We have a conversation about various aspects of giving presentations. Everyone has their own style and techniques, and there are no right answers for giving talks that audiences enjoy. But we all have opinions and techniques that work for us; here are...

Chet, Dustin and Chris In this episode, we chat with Chris Craik and Dustin Lam from the AndroidX team about benchmarking. We cover the new AndroidX benchmarking library, how to use it, and what problems it solves. If you're wondering why Chet totally took over the interview towards the end, it's not that he wouldn't share the stage; Romain and Tor had to leave early and snuck out quietly. Subscri...

Romain, Anna, and (unfortunately) Chet Chet and Romain spoke with Anna Goldie from the Google Brain team about machine learning. If you ever wondered what the difference is between AI and machine learning or what deep neural networks are, then this episode is for you. To be clear, this show has nothing to do with Android, we just thought it would be an interesting topic. Subscribe to the podcast f...

Tor, Andrey, Romain, and Chet (not pictured) Tor and Romain spoke with Andrey Breslav, the lead language designer at Jetbrains for Kotlin. They talked about coroutines, flow, performance, islands near St. Petersburg, evolution of the language, and many other Kotlin-y things. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links : kotlinlang.org Develop Android Apps with Kotlin A...

Sandra, Carlos, Chet and Romain [authenticated] In this episode, Chet and Romain chat with Carlos Valdivia and Sandra Kwan from the Android Identity and Authentication team, covering related topics like authentication, ID, autofill, backup and restore, and more. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Chet :  @chethaase Romain :  @romainguy Tor :  @tornorbye Thanks to co...

Tor, Yigit, Sean, Romain and Chet doing their (co)routine. Coroutines are Kotlin's approach to asynchronous programming and they are making their way into various Jetpack libraries. In this episode Tor, Chet and Romain have a chat with Sean McQuillan from DevRel and Yigit Boyar from the Jetpack team to discuss what coroutines are, what problems do they solve and how to use them. Subscribe to the p...

Chet, James, Vinit, and Tor, in reverse-polish notation. Tor and Chet talked with Vinit Modi and James Fung from the CameraX team. CameraX is a Jetpack support library that released in alpha form at Google I/O 2019. It offers developers an easier way to embed camera functionality while performing more consistently across Android versions (back to Lollipop) and across various devices. Subscribe to...

Tor, Chuck, Leland and Romain Jetpack Compose is an unbundled UI toolkit written in Kotlin and based on the reactive programming model that was recently introduced at Google I/O. Compose is not ready for production yet but is now being developed in the open on AOSP. In this episode Tor and Romain have a chat with Chuck and Leland to discuss how Jetpack Compose works and some of the goals and ideas...

Romain, Philip, Ben, Tor, and Chet (listed in alphabetical order) In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor talk to Philip Simpson and Ben Trengrove from the cast of Pocket Casts. We talk about their app, coincidentally called "Pocket Casts," and how they implemented various features like Material, audio, and even how the company made a complicated weather app for a country where it's always sunny. Oh...

Tor, Romain and Chet In this episode, Chet, Romain and Tor discuss the Android-related announcements at Google I/O this year -- Android Q, Jetpack Compose, Project Marble, etc. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links : Jetpack Compose Chet :  @chethaase Romain :  @romainguy Tor :  @tornorbye Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gor...

Tor, Mel, Chet, and Romain (shown in alphabetical order) In this episode, Chet, Tor, and Romain chat with Mel Goetz, an engineer on the Material team, about Material Design Components, the set of components for Android that implement Material Design. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links : Material spec Material Design Components Mel :  @melaniemgoetz Romain :  @...

Romain, Frank and Tor in the Studio In this episode, Romain and Tor chat with Frank from the Android Studio team. Frank works on the Android emulator and in this episode he explains the differences between a simulator and an emulator, how snapshots work, how does GPU support is implemented and much more. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links : Emulator release no...

Chet, Iliyan and Tor in the Studio In this episode, Chet and Tor chat with Iliyan Malchev from Project Treble. We already covered this a year and a half ago back in episode 75 , but this time we dig deeper and also cover the progress made since then. Tune in to learn about acronyms like HAL, HIDL, GSI, VTS, and more! Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links : An Upd...

Michael, Tor (not pictured), Romain (not pictured), and Chet (not even present). Some podcasts are conversations. Some are more like interrogations in a café. In this episode, Tor and Chet Romain talked with Michael Wright from the Android Framework team. Michael works on input, display, power manager, and haptics, which are, by amazing coincidence, exactly what they talked about. Subscribe to th...

Esteban, Romain, Chet, and Tor in the Android Studio. Our guest-scheduling failed once again but we managed to find a guest at the very last minute! In this episode Esteban de la Canal tells us everything about Apply Changes, a new feature in Android Studio 3.5 Canary destined to replace Instant Run. Why are we doing this and why is it better than Instant Run? Listen to this episode and come find...

Romain, Chet, Dave and Tor in the Android Studio. In this episode, we talk to Dave Burke, VP of Engineering for Android. How are features chosen for the next version of the operating system? And what is Dave's favorite feature in Android P? Tune in to find out. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links : Dave: @davey_burke Romain :  @romainguy Chet :  @chethaase Tor...

Tor, Romain, Sumir, Ian, and Chet pose for a candid picture far  from the recording studio, when they finally realized  they'd forgotten  to take a picture in the studio earlier. You'd think they'd  have this process nailed by now,  wouldn't you?  I mean, 106 episodes; it's not like it's new and all.  Honestly, what level of  professionalism are we  paying for here with this free service? Romain a...

Tor, Romain, Robert, and Chet. Note the winter coat; the temperatures in California had plummeted that week all the way down into the lower 60s (F). Brrrr! Tor, Romain, and Chet talk with Robert Greenwalt from the Android Telephony team about how the phone actually works. And text. And data. And SIM cards. And carrier networks. It turns out that communication is kind of a important feature for pho...

Tor and Romain working hard in the studio while Chet enjoyed the scenery in Monterey Our guest-scheduling failed a second time in a row, but on the heels of the Android Dev Summit we had a lot to talk about! Chet was traveling, so it's just Romain and Tor this time. We sincerely apologize for the lack of puns in this episode! Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links...

Tor, Romain, and Chet, caught in a totally candid and unexpected photo while working hard in the recording studio. Tor and Romain and Chet completely failed to get a guest for this show. But fortunately, there was a bunch of stuff happening that they talked about instead. KotlinConf, GDG DevFest Ukraine, Droidcon UK, garbage collection,  tech talks, comedy talks, Android Studio releases, new Pixel...

In this episode, Chet and Tor  Romain Guy talk with Ben Murdoch and Matej Pfajfar from the Android ML team to talk about... ML! We talk about ML Kit, Adaptive Battery in Android 9 Pie, TensorFlow Lite, building and using ML models, and machine learning in general. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links : ML Kit TensorFlow Lite Ben:   @ksasq Matej: Matej's profile...

In this episode, Chet and Tor  Yigit Boyar talk again with Chris Craik from the Android Toolkit team about RecyclerView prefetch and the new Paging library. This is Part 2 of a much longer conversation that started in Episode 100 , in which Chris talked about Android's UI hardware renderer. We created this second episode from that single, larger conversation because the topics are very different a...

In this episode, Chet and Tor  Yigit Boyar talk with Chris Craik from the Android Toolkit team about graphics and the evolution of the UI renderer on Android. By the way, THIS IS EPISODE 100, PEOPLE! WE MADE IT! AND THEY HAVEN'T EVEN CANCELED US YET! Sure, it's because the people that could and would cancel us don't know we exist, but I still think it's an important milestone to still be here, sti...

Chet, Phil, Tor, and Phil's topical t-shirt In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Phil Weaver about accessibility on Android. We talk about accessibility services, TalkBack, Switch Access, testing, and general approaches for developers to make applications that are accessible. Oh, and we talk about "onClick bait" too. Subscribe to the podcast feed or download the audio file directly. Links : And...