Chris is an engineer working on the Android Support Libraries at Google, most notably AppCompat, Design lib and Palette. He has worked on Android things for over 6 years, from open source libraries to media apps, social networks and most stuff in between.
Talks I've Given
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Designing the Design Support Library
Featuring Chris Banes
The design library introduced CoordinatorLayout, AppBarLayout and CollapsingToolbarLayout last year. This talk will go through how it all works, from CoordinatorLayout Behaviors, to nested scrolling, to all of the crazy things in between to make it work back to API 9. You'll also discover...
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Support Library: Guts and Glory
Featuring Chris Banes
AppCompat and the Design library are two great libraries which help you jump-start your Android app. As with all things which are backwards compatible (back to API 7!) though, there are quite a few gotchas along the way.
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