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DROIDCON LONDON 2009 02-12-09
Skills Matter is pleased to organise droidcon London 2009 taking place in London on 2nd December - the UK's first community event aimed at grassroots Android developers!
The event moves to London, following the world's first droidcon, which took place in Berlin on 3-4th November.
The aim of droidcon is to bring together the Android development community in an informal environment where they can share ideas, demo new apps, talk to the experts and generally have lots of Android-related fun.
Registration
To event aims to provide a real opportunity to share ideas, learn and discuss, so we have limited the number of delegates to 125 only.
Kevin and Carl from Novoda have kindly agreed to work with Skills Matter on the programme for this conference. Kevin and Carl are also the leaders of the London Android User Group which meets at Skills Matter on every 3rd Thursday of the month.
Sponsorship
As with all events organised by Skills Matter, we are trying to provide the community with an exciting opportunity to learn and share ideas at the lowest possible ticket price. Any help is therefore greatly appreciated! There are a variety of sponsorship packages available for organisations that wish to reach this audience. For further details about sponsorship packages, please contact Skills Matter's Community Manager Natalie Gray
PROGRAMME
Wednesday 2nd December 2009
Track 1
09:30-10:00 WELCOME MESSAGE
10:15-11:00 ADVANCED AUDIO DEVELOPMENT IN ANDROID
  Andreas Reuterberg & Alex Shaw: Andreas and Alex will discuss the realities and possibilities for the world of mobile music and audio creation on Android. They will share their own practical experience with realtime DSP, interface design and embedded software to demonstrate the new opportunities given to musicians and programmers by the Android platform. View the podcast here...
11:05-11:50 ANDROID BEST PRACTICES AND SCALA
 Akshay Dashrath: This talk describes some “Best Practices” for android development to write code that is maintainable, readable and highly performant. We'll also explore the possibility of implementing Scala as the language of choice while programming for the platform by outlining the advantages and disadvantages of the language with respect to code efficiency, readability and maintainability. View the podcast here...
11:55-12:40 THE CHALLENGE OF ACCELERATING ANDROID ON THE ZIIEGG
Gary Smith: There will be a brief overview of the ZMS architecture thats inside the ZiiEgg device. This will be followed by a discussion on the challenges we faced getting the most out of the ZMS-05 platform, highlighting the areas where we have provided hardware acceleration. There will then be some information about how to get the best out of hardware accelerated OpenGL. View the podcast here...
12:40-13:40 LUNCH & REFRESHMENTS
Lunch & Refreshments
PARKBENCH PANEL DISCUSSION
: The audience gets to know the experts in a way that is only possible in person and the expert gets a little more exposure to the questions among the audience. View the podcast here...
14:30-15:15 UNDERSTANDING ANDROID BYTECODE WITH THE DEDEXER TOOL
 Gabor Paller: The core of the Android system is the Dalvik virtual machine. Even though the Android application programmer writes code in Java (in most cases), the Dalvik virtual machine executes this code using some innovative solutions. View the podcast here...
15:20-16:05 RJDJ - THE REACTIVE MUSIC PLAYER
 Martin Roth: RjDj, the reactive music player, has recently been ported to Android. This could not have been accomplished without extensive use of the Android Native Development Kit (NDK) originally released in June 2009 for Android 1.5 Cupcake. View the podcast here...
16:10-16:55 THE FUTURE OF MOBILE
Yan Minagawa: Yan moderated this talk like an interactive workshop, comprising of 3 to 5 minute sessions. Each session will start with a hypothesis and will complete with a collection of arguments and speculations. View the podcast here...
17:00-17:45 TESTING ON ANDROID
 Diego Torres Milano: Diego Torres Milano gives an introduction to Test Driven Development and Behaviour Driven Development on the Android platform, techniques that every serious development project should at least consider.
View the podcast here...
17:50-18:30 PARKBENCH PANEL DISCUSSION
: After a brief serving of Pizza & Drinks, we'll hold the second ParkBench Panel discussion of the conference, to discuss ideas, things we learned, things we would like to hear more about, things to take away after the conference. Ask your questions to the speakers of the afternoon's expert talks or join the panel to express your opinion or share your experience! View the podcast here...
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