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Are there any geeks out there interested in new podcasts? What about podcasts about Android development? Tor Norbye and I are proud to announce a new podcast we've started called Android Developers Backstage. It's a podcast by and for Android programmers, featuring engineers on the Android team at Google talking about features, APIs, and technologies that we think are important for developers to know about. Or which we find interesting. Or which randomly happened to come up on the show. If your podcast client still has room and you have an extra half-hour (ish) every month (ish), then subscribe and tune in. You can find the podcast on Feedburner . Just click on one of the various links on that page to add it to your podcast client of choice. The inaugural episode is about Android KitKat, with Tor and I talking about some of the new features in the latest release. In future episodes of the podcast, we'll interview other engineers on the team to deep-dive technologies they&#

Leonard is so lucky! He's just asked a very complicated question and he's not getting an over-confident and misleading answer. Granted, he was likely hoping for an easier one! But let's dive into it. "Does": that auxiliary verb packs a punch. How do we know whether something does or doesn't work?   It would be great if that were simple, but unfortunately it's not. I talk a lot here at Statistically Funny about the need for trials and systematic reviews of them to help us find the answers to these questions. But whether we're talking about trials or other forms of research, statistical techniques are needed to help make sense of what emerges from a study. Too often, this aspect of research is going to lead us down a garden path. It's common for people to take the approach of relying only, or largely, on testing for statistical significance . People then often assume this means that it's been shown whether or not the could occur by chance alone

We just released Android KitKat and posted lots of information about it: Developer highlights: http://developer.android.com/about/versions/kitkat.html Android Developers Blog: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2013/10/android-44-kitkat-and-updated-developer.html Videos (an overview one plus lots of others that dive deeper into specific features): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sONcojECWXs&list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc-2quE-o0enpILZF3nBZg_K&index=1 I'll specifically call out the video on Transitions, which is something I recorded last week after finally finishing the feature. I hope that the API is another step toward making animations easier and more automatic in Android applications.