Android Dialogs had a special episode this week with Chet Haase and Tor Norbye where we had a more-than-bite-sized conversation about public speaking.
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Chiu-Ki Chan and I just launched a YouTube channel called Android Dialogs where we have bite-sized conversations with people in the Android community: developers, designers, anyone that works in and cares about Android.
We actually recorded lots of interviews already and quite a few at Google I/O so stayed tuned for those. Please check it out and subscribe.
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Last week on June 10th, Chiu-Ki Chan hosted the Technically Speaking Droidcon hangout and spoke with the organizers of Droidcon NYC (Kevin Galligan), Droidcon Stockholm (Erik Hellman), and Droidcon London (Natasha Borsos and Shivam Gadhia). The topic was speaking at Droidcon (which you probably guessed already).
If you want to speak, you should watch/listen to this hangout, even if you are not thinking specifically about Droidcon.
Also for those out there with super short attention spans or just want to scan, I took notes on the different segments of the conversation.
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You may have seen an extra namespace, xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com.tools", in layout files generated by Android Studio. Adding this namespace to your layout provides you access to attributes, the Tools Attributes, that add metadata to resource files, that facilitate manipulating, rendering, and testing layouts in Design view, and (while I do not condone excess of this kind of behavior) that suppress certain Lint warnings (but only if you have a good reason for ignoring them, she nags).
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