Wednesday, February 25, 2015

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.

Favorite word:
"Transflective"

Favorite phrase:
"Eventually consistent"

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Relevant Links:

Overview of Wear Developmenthttp://developer.android.com/wear
Creating a Wearable Apphttps://developer.android.com/training/wearables/apps/creating.html
Android Wear UIhttps://developer.android.com/training/wearables/apps/layouts.html
Android Wear Suppor Lib Referencehttp://developer.android.com/reference/packages-wearable-support.html
Watchfaces APIhttps://developer.android.com/training/wearables/watch-faces/index.html
Data APIshttps://developer.android.com/training/wearables/data-layer/index.html

Griff: google.com/+GriffHazen
Justingoogle.com/+JustinKoh
Torgoogle.com/+TorNorbye
Chetgoogle.com/+ChetHaase

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Episode 21: Material Designification

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.

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 Designhttp://developer.android.com/training/material/index.html
Robotohttp://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Roboto

Kirillgoogle.com/+KirillGrouchnikov
Torgoogle.com/+TorNorbye
Chetgoogle.com/+ChetHaase