SkillsCast Video Recordings of Droidcon London 2011

ANDROID & AUTOMOTIVE

Will be talking about what characteristics make android a compelling choice to use in automotive entertainment systems. As well as an overview of what Android offers in terms of an automotive entertainment platform, Challenges of using Android with other Linux-based stacks, eg. architectural issues, usability, division of functionality, etc.. and what Android lacks and what other platforms provide. more...

DEMOCAMP

: We have asked some of Europe's top Android developers to come and demo their new apps! We'll be announcing a list of participants in the coming days! Let us know if you're interested! more...

DEMOCAMP

Various Speakers: We have asked some of Europe's top Android developers to come and demo their new apps! We'll be announcing a list of participants in the coming days! Let us know if you're interested! more...

09:30-10:10    FROM PUBLISHER TO PLATFORM

Droidcon London 2011 Participants: Oscar Clark of Papaya Mobile gives a talk on the role of OpenSource in engaging with developers. more...

10:15-12:50    DEVELOPING APPLICATIONS

Edwin van der Voort of Sybase gives a talk for Droidcon 2011 Barcamp on Developing Applications for Android Smartphones. more...

12:50-13:50    APP SECURITY TIPS

Droidcon London 2011 Participants: Scott Brown gives a talk for Barcamp at Droidcon 2011 on Apps Security Tips more...

13:50-16:45    PRIVATE APP STORE

Droidcon London 2011 Participants: Jerome and Maxence give a presentation for Barcamp at Droidcon London on their Private App Store more...

CISCO WORKSHOP

Marcus O'Sullivan of Cisco leads a workshop at Barcamp for Droidcon UK more...

09:30 - 10:15    IMPLEMENTING ANALYTICS

Droidcon London 2011 Participants: Stefan gives a talk for Barcamp at Droidcon 2011 on Implementing Analytics more...

11:00    OPEN SL

Droidcon London 2011 Participants: Jose gives a talk on Open SL for Barcamp at Droidcon UK 2011 more...

SMOOTH UIS

Droidcon London 2011 Participants: In this talk, Cyril Mottier shows how to develop smooth applications for the Android platform, focusing on UI tips and tricks. more...

REMOTE PAIR PROGRAMMING

Droidcon London 2011 Participants: Joe Moore of Pivotal Labs gives a talk for Barcamp at Droicon UK on Remote pair Programming. more...

10:15-12:50    MULTIBRANDED APPLICATIONS

Droidcon London 2011 Participants: Joana Cruz e Costa provides an overview of the technological challenges involved in multibranded applications, and why certain tradeoffs are necessary to ensure a successful application deployment. more...

MEME APPS

Droidcon London 2011 Participants: Simon Monk introduces and demonstrates Meme IDE, a development platform that can create native application code for the Android and WIndows Mobile platforms from a single project. more...

MULTIPLE APKS

Droidcon London 2011 Participants: Chetan Padia gives a talk for Droidcon 2011's Barcamp on "Multiple Products One Source Code" more...

FUSING CREATIVITY AND TECHNOLOGY

Droidcon London 2011 Participants: Ben Scott-Robinson of We Love Mobile gives a talk for Barcamp at Droidcon UK on Fusing Creativity and Technology more...

10:15-12:50    MOBILE ADVERTISING REALITY

Droidcon London 2011 Participants: Terence Eden of Inmobi gives a talk for Droidcon UK on the Reality of Mobile Advertising. more...

AD FORMATS IN APPS

Droidcon London 2011 Participants: Ashley presents for barcamp on Ad formats/placement in Apps at Droidcon UK more...

GOLD ADK

Droidcon London 2011 Participants: Miki gives a talk for Barcamp at Droidcon 2011 on Gold ADK more...

ACTVITY LAUNCH MODES

Droidcon London 2011 Participants: Goncalo Silva gives a talk for DroidconUK 2011 on "Actvity Launch Modes" more...

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9:05-9.30    PREDICTIONS SURE TO GO WRONG

Mark Murphy opens day 2 of Droidcon 2011 with his keynote talk -- Predictions Sure To Go Wrong! more...

9:35    KEYNOTE - TIM STONE FROM CISCO

Keynote - Tim Stone from Cisco more...

10:15    HIDDEN APIS

Erik Hellman: In this talk from Erik Hellman of Sony Ericsson you will learn how to access and use these hidden and protected APIs, the limitations of their usage and some tips'n'trick on how to use them in a safe and control manner across multiple vendors devices and Android versions more...

10:55-11.25    CONCURRENCY, MULTI-CORE, HONEYCOMB

Al Sutton: Al Sutton will talk about Concurrency, Multi-core and Honeycomb. more...

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11:50-12.20    ANDROID APPS FOR BLACKBERRY

Sanyu Kiruluta: Learn how BlackBerry® App World™ can be used to deliver your applications to users and make you money. During the session Sanyu Kiruluta shows you how to leverage BlackBerry App World as a channel to reach BlackBerry PlayBook users. more...

12:.30-13.00    AUGMENTED REALITY

Various Speakers: Have you ever wondered what’s the difference between natural feature tracking and vision based augmented reality? In this panel session you’ll hear from AR platform providers about the tools they offer and from a developer who has built real life AR applications for some of the top UK brands. Come armed with questions because you’ll get the chance to learn about the AR opportunities and ask questions to the panel to help you chose the right augmented reality platform for your projects.. more...

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12:45    ANDROID'S MESSAGE-DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE

Carl-Gustaf Harroch of Novoda will explain Android's Message-driven Architecture. more...

USING DEVICE APIS TO EXPAND MARKET REACH

YOU are a developer. YOU want to expand your market reach. Learn what APIs and opportunities are available from HTC. Imagine the possibilities; be amongst the first to invent apps and games using the new Open Sense SDK APIs – including Stereoscopic 3D, Scribe/Pen, and more. HTCdev is the developer relations program build by developers for developers. more...

15:05    GOOGLE FRAGMENTS

Richard Hyndman: Richard Hyndman, one of Google's Android Developer Advocates, will talk about Google Fragments. more...

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ANDROID APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

Matthias Käppler: Matthias Kaeppler will talk about kick-starting Android Application Development. more...

17:05    ANDROID MOTION RECOGNITION

Gabor Paller: This presentation discusses the usage of accelerometer for detecting dynamic motion patterns. Gabor will examine the most frequently used motion detection methods. The effect on battery consumption will also be studied. more...

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OPERATOR API

James Parton: James Parton will talk about Operator API. more...

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10:15-10.45    STRATEGIC UX

Greg Taylor: Greg Taylor of Tigerspike gives the run down on his approach to strategic UX. more...

10:55-11.25    EXCELLENCE IN THE ANDROID USER EXPERIENC

Nick Butcher: Nick Butcher, one of Google's Developer Advocates for Android, will talk about UI for tablet & phone + TV. more...

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11:50-12.20    ANDROID GAMING

Mustafa Isik: Mustafa Isik, software engineer and all-around geek with particular interests in programming languages, concurrency research and electronic gaming, will talk about Android Gaming. more...

12:30-13.00    GAMING AND BLUEVIA

Yosi Taguri: Yosi Taguri, programmer with Fiddme who created the sensational game "Pah!", will talks about the game, and its development -- with some input from BlueVia. more...

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10:15-10.45     IN-APP BILLING

Hermes Pique: Android In-App Billing is not for the faint of heart! Hermes Pique will introduce the core concepts behind the Android Market's Billing Service, and get you up and running with a working example using his open-source Android Billing Library. more...

10:55.11-25    KICK START YOUR ANDROID APP REVENUES

Itay Gadot: Itay Gadot will talk about the rapid growth of free downloads on Android Market, and how developers look for easy integration and high performing monetization tools. more...

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11:50-12.20    EXTENDING YOUR APP'S LIFE

Caroline Lewko: Caroline Lewko will talk about how to find out the building blocks to creating great apps that make money by linking product development to marketing cycles and decisions needed for versioning versus feature creep more...

12:30-13.00    3D ADVERTISING

Terence Eden: Terence Eden of InMobi talks about the Reality of 3D Mobile Advertising. more...

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MOBILE ENTERPRISE SECURITY

Alan Goode: Alan Goode will talk about the use of mobile phones in the enterprise and share his experience of the Mobile Device Management market. Organisations are being challenged by employees bringing in their own mobile devices and expecting to access corporate networks and store corporate information. Alan will discuss some of the security challenges that this ‘Consumerisation’ trend is creating and how organisations are meeting this challenge. more...

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10:15-10.45    HISTORIFY & AGGREGATING APPLICATIONS

Friedger Müffke: Friedger Müffke will talk about Historify And Other Aggregating Applications. more...

10:55-11.25    IOS TO ANDROID MADE EASY

Kieran Gutteridge: Kieran Gutteridge will talk by reforming addicts or iOS to Android Made Easy. more...

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11:50-12.20    PRIVATE BETA FOR ANDROID MARKET

Thai Tran: Thai Tran will talk about How To Run A Private Beta On The Android Market. Have you ever launched an app and gotten 1 star ratings because it crashed or behaved badly on certain handsets? One way to avert this is to run a private beta test of the app with a large number of testers before launch. more...

12:30-13.00    TDD ANDROID APPS W. ROBOLECTRIC

Joseph Moore: Joseph Moore: "Running tests on an Android emulator or device is slow! Building, deploying, and launching the app often takes a minute or more. Robolectric is a unit test framework that de-fangs the Android SDK jar so you can test-drive the development of your Android app inside the JVM on your workstation in seconds." Joseph will talk about TDD Android Applications with Robolectric. more...

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15:05    STEPS TO BEST BETA RELEASES

Jon Vlachoyiannis: Jon Vlachoyiannis is the CTO of Sfalma.com, who created Bugsense, the free and real-time bug tracking service for Android and iOS. Jon will talk about testing, specifically Steps to Best Beta Releases. more...

15:40    SCALABLE C2DM WITH QOS & SLAS

Dylan Boyd: Dylan Boyd is the Vice-President of Growth for Urban Airship. He will talk about Push notifications, specifically massively scalable c2dm with QoS and SLAs. more...