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1. Episode 26: Fit

   8 mei 2015 · 36 min

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   Tor and Chet are joined by Gustavo Moura from the Google Fit team. We talk about the Google Fit app, but also about the GMS Core and REST APIs that enable that application and any other application that wants to take advantage of the sensor data that those APIs provide. Lees meer

   Getting Fit, one step at a time.

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   Relevant Links:
   Google Fit Developer Documentation
   Recording Fitness Data
   Working with the Fitness History
   Google Fit Developers G+ Community
   Google Fit Developer Challenge

   Gustavo: google.com/+GustavoMouraGoogle
   Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
   Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

2. Episode 25: Espresso

   23 april 2015 · 52 min

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   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. And UI testing in general. Lees meer

   Favorite quote:
   "What does failure look like?"

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   Relevant Links:

   Automating UI Tests: https://developer.android.com/training/testing/ui-testing/index.html
   Espresso Setup: https://developer.android.com/training/testing/ui-testing/espresso-testing.html#setup
   Espresso source: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/testing/+/android-support-test/espresso
   Presentation on Espresso from GTAC 2013: https://youtu.be/T7ugmCuNxDU
   Presentation on UI Testing from GTAC 2014: https://youtu.be/aHcmsK9jfGU
   Info on contributing: https://plus.google.com/wm/1/+StephanLinzner/posts/K32UgdSRYwe
   Espresso Cheat Sheet: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googlesamples/android-testing/master/downloads/espresso-cheat-sheet-2.1.0.png
   Espresso Samples: https://github.com/googlesamples/android-testing/tree/master/espresso
   Roboelectric: http://robolectric.org/
   Unit Testing: http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/unit-testing-support
   Hamcrest: http://hamcrest.org/
   UIAutomator: https://developer.android.com/tools/testing-support-library/index.html#UIAutomator
   Robotium: https://github.com/RobotiumTech/robotium

   Thomas: plus.google.com/115763363280582609147
   Valera: plus.google.com/+ValeraZakharov
   Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
   Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

3. Episode 24: Roman Holiday

   10 april 2015 · 32 min

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   Tor and Chet are joined by Roman Nurik from the Android Developer Relations team. We talk about Asset Studio to the Muzei wallpaper to Material Design to Android Studio application templates to watchfaces to icons to the Google I/O scheduling app to Android application design to the FORM conference. I guess he's been busy. Lees meer

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   Relevant Links:

   Dashclock: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nurik.roman.dashclock
   DashClock Code: https://code.google.com/p/dashclock/
   Muzei: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nurik.roman.muzei
   Muzei Code: https://github.com/romannurik/muzei
   Android Asset Studio: http://romannurik.github.io/AndroidAssetStudio/
   Android Design Preview: https://github.com/romannurik/AndroidDesignPreview
   Android Wear Watchfaces: https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/watch-faces/index.html
   FORM: http://www.google.com/design/form/
   Google I/O App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.samples.apps.iosched
   Google I/O App Code: https://github.com/google/iosched
   Material Design: http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.html

   Roman: google.com/+RomanNurik
   Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
   Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

4. Episode 23: Re: In Car Nation

   20 maart 2015 · 38 min

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   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. Lees meer

   Favorite phrase:
   "Duck the audio"

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   Relevant Links:

   Android Auto Developer Site: http://developer.android.com/auto/index.html
   Consumer Site: http://www.android.com/auto/

   Gabriel: google.com/+GabrielPeal8 or on Twitter: @gpeal8
   Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
   Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

5. Episode 22: Wear Wolves

   25 februari 2015 · 41 min

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   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. Lees meer

   Favorite word:
   "Transflective"

   Favorite phrase:
   "Eventually consistent"

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   Relevant Links:

   Overview of Wear Development: http://developer.android.com/wear
   Creating a Wearable App: https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/apps/creating.html
   Android Wear UI: https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/apps/layouts.html
   Android Wear Suppor Lib Reference: http://developer.android.com/reference/packages-wearable-support.html
   Watchfaces API: https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/watch-faces/index.html
   Data APIs: https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/data-layer/index.html

   Griff: google.com/+GriffHazen
   Justin: google.com/+JustinKoh
   Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
   Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

6. Episode 21: Material Designification

   4 februari 2015 · 42 min

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   Tor and Chet are joined by Kirill Grouchnikov from the Play Store team (What, again? Don't these guys know more than twenty developers?) about various aspects of implementing Material Design in applications, including handling releases prior to Android 5.0 Lollipop. Lees meer

   Favorite quote:
   "It's like redesigning the whole pig"

   Least favorite quote:
   "Boooongggggg!"
   (I really need to learn where the edge of the metal table is when I'm moving a bottle of water. At least after I hit it the first time.)

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   Relevant Links:

   Material Design: http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.html
   Creating Apps with Material Design: http://developer.android.com/training/material/index.html
   Roboto: http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Roboto

   Kirill: google.com/+KirillGrouchnikov
   Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
   Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

7. Episode 20: Fonts and Audio

   14 januari 2015 · 51 min

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   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 with audio latency and Android synthesizer apps. Oh, and we also talk about fonts, including some big improvements to font support in the Android 5.0 Lollipop release. Lees meer

   We also learned some new terminology along the way: glitch (the audio equivalent of jank in the graphics and UI world) and pangram (a sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet). So, bonus points for educational content.

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   Relevant Links:

   Inconsolata: http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
   Ghostscript: http://www.ghostscript.com/
   Roboto: http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Roboto
   Noto fonts: https://www.google.com/get/noto/
   Synthesizer App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.levien.synthesizer
   Synthesizer Source: https://github.com/raphlinus/music-synthesizer-for-android
   High Performance Audio on Android (Google I/O 2013): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3kfEeMZ65c

   Raph: google.com/+RaphLevien
   Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
   Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

8. Episode 19: Android TV

   6 januari 2015 · 34 min

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   Tor and Chet talk with Tim Kilbourn from the Android TV team. Learn about developing apps for this new platform and hear about exciting things in the TV world like "overscan" and "D-pads". Lees meer

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   Relevant Links:

   TV Leanback API: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v17/leanback/package-summary.html
   Android Style Guide: http://developer.android.com/design/style/index.html
   Nexus Player: https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_player
   Gamepad for Nexus Player: https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_player_gamepad

   Tim: google.com/+TimKilbourn

   Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye

   Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

9. Episode 18: Holidaze

   17 december 2014 · 48 min

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   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!) and easter eggs. Lees meer

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   Oh, and this is the picture that Dan proposed for Android Studio auto-fix hints. Imagine that popping up when you're trying to get some code written.

   Relevant Links:

   Big Android BBQ: http://www.bigandroidbbq.com/
   Droidcon London: http://uk.droidcon.com/2014/
   Devoxx: http://www.devoxx.be/ (recorded talks: https://parleys.com/channel/5459089ce4b030b13206d2ea/presentations)
   Speechless: http://speechlesslive.com/
   Android Studio: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
   Flappy Droid bug: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=79650

   Dan: google.com/+DanSandler

   Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye

   Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

10. Episode 17: AppCompat

    10 december 2014 · 35 min

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    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 about those things. And other things. Lees meer

    Oh, and we talk about "Shimming around a widget," which is a great phrase if nothing else.

    * Tor was not available for this recording. He was probably elsewhere, writing code. The part of Tor will be played in this evening's performance by Richard Hyndman (not pronounced "Hindman," of course. Everyone knows that), also from the Android Developer Relations group.

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    Relevant Links:
    Chris’s blog: https://chris.banes.me/
    AppCompat v21: https://chris.banes.me/2014/10/17/appcompat-v21/
    Palette: https://chris.banes.me/2014/10/20/palette-v21/
    Theme vs Style: https://chris.banes.me/2014/11/12/theme-vs-style/
    Material (and other Lollipop) samples: http://developer.android.com/samples/new/index.html

    Android Fundamentals Udacity course: https://www.udacity.com/course/ud853

    Chris: google.com/+ChrisBanes

    Fake Tor: google.com/+RichardHyndman

    Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye

    Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

11. Episode 16: Notifications

    3 december 2014 · 42 min

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    Tor and Chet are joined in this podcast episode by Chris Wren, from the Android System UI team. Chris works on (among other things) notifications and talks about some of the latest notification capabilities in the Android 5.0 Lollipop release (among other things). Lees meer

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    Relevant Links:
    Notifications overview: http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/notifications.html
    What's New in Android (Google I/O 2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TtVsy98ces (Notifications overview starting at 21:52)
    ADB Episode 6 (System UI, with Dan Sandler): http://androidbackstage.blogspot.com/2014/03/android-developers-backstage-episode-6.html

    Chris: google.com/+ChrisWren

    Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye

    Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

12. Episode 15: Location, Location, Location

    5 november 2014 · 29 min

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    Tor and Chet are joined in this podcast episode by Marc Stogaitis, the lead of the Android location client team. Join us to hear the exciting and mysterious term "urban canyon" and also about the three most important things in location services: location, location, location. Lees meer

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    Relevant Links:
    Fused Location Provider API: https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/gms/location/FusedLocationProviderApi.html
    Geofencing API: https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/gms/location/GeofencingApi.html
    Activity Recognition API: https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/gms/location/ActivityRecognitionApi.html
    Beyond the Blue Dot (Google I/O 2013): https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/325337477

    Location History dashboard: https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/

    Marc: https://plus.google.com/107675566661349240635/posts

    Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye

    Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

13. Episode 14: Accessibility

    8 oktober 2014 · 43 min

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    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. Lees meer

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    Relevant Links:

    TalkBack: https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/6007100
    AccessibilityNodeInfo: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/accessibility/AccessibilityNodeInfo.html
    WebVTT: http://dev.w3.org/html5/webvtt/
    Adding Captions on YouTube: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734796?hl=en

    Alan: google.com/+AlanViverette

    Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye

    Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

14. Android Developers Backstage: Episode 13: Support Library

    25 september 2014 · 37 min

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    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. Lees meer

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    Relevant Links:

    Android Support Library: http://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/index.html

    ActionBarSherlock: http://actionbarsherlock.com/

    Adam: google.com/+AdamWPowell

    Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye

    Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

15. Android Developers Backstage: Episode 12: The Jake Show

    28 augustus 2014 · 49 min

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    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 source libraries. We talk with Jake about these projects and various other aspects of Android development in general. Lees meer

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    Relevant Links:

    Retrofit: http://square.github.io/retrofit/

    Picasso: http://square.github.io/picasso/

    Dagger: http://square.github.io/dagger/

    OkHttp: http://square.github.io/okhttp/

    Butter Knife: http://jakewharton.github.io/butterknife

    Robolectric: http://robolectric.org/

    Espresso: https://code.google.com/p/android-test-kit/

    AssertJ Android: http://square.github.io/assertj-android

    Jake: google.com/+JakeWharton

    Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye

    Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

16. Android Developers Backstage: Episode 11: ART, pART 2 (Trash Talk)

    7 augustus 2014 · 47 min

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    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 allocation and collection performance is much faster with ART (and, more interestingly, why it's faster). Lees meer

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    ARTicles:
    Introducing ART: http://source.android.com/devices/tech/dalvik/art.html
    Verifying App Behavior: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/verifying-apps-art.html

    Video:
    The ART Runtime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBlTzQsUoOw

    Other Resources:
    Systrace: http://developer.android.com/tools/help/systrace.html

    Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
    Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

17. Android Developers Backstage: Episode 10: ART, pART 1

    29 juli 2014 · 39 min

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    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 as an alternative to Dalvik. Now ART is not only enabled by default: it’s the only runtime. We’ll talk about what it is, how it works, why it’s better, and the future and very meaning of ART in modern society. Lees meer

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    ARTicles:
    Introducing ART: http://source.android.com/devices/tech/dalvik/art.html
    Verifying App Behavior: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/verifying-apps-art.html

    Google I/O 2014 Session:
    The ART Runtime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBlTzQsUoOw

    Other Resources:
    Systrace: http://developer.android.com/tools/help/systrace.html

    Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
    Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

18. Android Developers Backstage - Episode 9: Design

    29 juli 2014 · 39 min

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    Tor and Chet make a startling break with ancient tradition and talk to a real, live designer in this episode: Christian Robertson from the Android User Experience team. Tune in to hear about the Roboto font that Christian created and about font design in general, plus design tips for layout, visual rhythm, and other Android designities. Lees meer

    Design: It's the new Develop.

    Relevant links:

    Android Design: https://developer.android.com/design/index.html
    Android Style Guide: http://developer.android.com/design/style/index.html
    Android Asset Studio: http://romannurik.github.io/AndroidAssetStudio/
    Roboto: http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Roboto

    Christian: https://plus.google.com/110879635926653430880/posts
    Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
    Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

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19. Android Developers Backstage - Episode 8: Volley

    29 juli 2014 · 32 min

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    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. Lees meer

    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

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    Or download directly at http://storage.googleapis.com/androiddevelopers/android_developers_backstage/Android%20Developers%20Backstage%20Ep%208%20Volley.mp3

20. Android Developers Backstage - Episode 7: Making Apps That Work Everywhere

    29 juli 2014 · 45 min

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    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. Lees meer

    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

21. Android Developers Backstage - Episode 6: System UI

    29 juli 2014 · 55 min

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    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. Lees meer

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22. Android Developers Backstage- Episode 5: RenderScript

    29 juli 2014 · 44 min

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    Chet Haase and Tor Norbye are joined by Tim Murray from the RenderScript team. Lees meer

    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.

23. Android Developers Backstage- Episode 4: Google Play Services

    29 juli 2014 · 42 min

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    Tor Norbye and Chet Haase are joined by Jeff Hamilton from the Google Play services team. Lees meer

    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.

24. Android Developers Backstage - Ep 3: Security

    29 juli 2014 · 54 min

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    Chet Haase, Tor Norbye, are joined by Adrian Ludwig on the third episode of Android Developers Backstage. Lees meer

    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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25. Android Developers Backstage - Ep2: Storage

    29 juli 2014 · 45 min

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    Chet Haase, Tor Norbye, are joined by Jeff Sharkey on the second episode of Android Developers Backstage. Lees meer

    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.

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26. Android Developers Backstage - Episode 1: KitKat

    29 juli 2014 · 54 min

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    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. Lees meer

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