Do the Loco-MotionLayout: Building animations with MotionLayout

Featuring Michael Scamell

You’ve heard, seen or witnessed the buzz around MotionLayout. But what does it look like in real life? What are some of its current limitations? How easy is it to use? Are the demos that you’ve seen actually possible? Or is it all a ruse? In this session, you’ll use MotionLayout to develop an...

Effective Reactive Architecture

Featuring Benoît Quenaudon

Your relationship with RxJava doesn't have to be complicated. You may have found many ways to use it wrong but it is powerful when used properly.In fact, RxJava can guide you in shaping a sound architecture for your app. To do this, you only have to follow a few but decisive principles.

The Android Chef

Featuring Anastasia López

This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!” - Julia Child.

The first lessons of an apprentice cook typically focus on identifying quality. Reinforced by repetitive acts, which helps understand the...

Inhibiting the impostor

Featuring Ana Baotić

Have you ever had an experience where a small voice in your head prevented you from acting on an idea, stopped you from sharing your knowledge or trying something new, or maybe even made you feel like your achievements were nothing special? That voice is more common than you think! In this talk...

A deep dive into Google Play Billing Library

Featuring Kai Koenig

Google's APIs and libraries used for in-app-billing users from inside of your app, are confusing at best. The new star on the horizon is Google Play Billing Library, centered around a BillingClient class. GPBL is supposed to make your life much easier - but does it really?

Measure What Matters with Jetpack Benchmark

Featuring JB Lorenzo

Benchmark is one of the new interesting libraries recently released by the Jetpack team at Google. This library allows you to measure the speed of certain parts of your application. This is helpful to validate certain parts of your app that are repeatedly accessed such as going into details of...

Lightning Talk: How Personal Retrospectives Helped Me Being Lazy

Featuring Jakob Durstberger

Personal retrospectives are a great tool to help you stay on track to achieve your goals. Funnily enough Jakob has also noticed a few more positive side effects, especially that they help him enjoy being lazy. Jakob will share with you how that makes sense and how you should try personal...

Lightning Talk: The Future of Android Location Services

Featuring Joshua Critchley-Marrows

Currently smartphone navigation can only achieve accuracies of 5 m at best – this won’t be the case for much longer. The FLAMINGO initiative, part sponsored by the European GNSS Agency, is introducing technology to Android developers to permit positioning accuracy of 1m or better, the baseline...

Lightning Talk: The Immense Benefits of Not Thinking In Screens

Featuring Zsolt Kocsi

Maintaining a large project and not going insane – in practice:

Lightning Talk: Cardiac

Featuring Jai Patel

In today’s world, calculating your heart rate is very easy due to wearable’s and applications available in the market. But the question is. Is it accurate? It is interesting however that the answer is no. We can argue about accuracy of a heart rate but it is definitely not interesting. The only...

Lightning Talk: Where the Heck Am I? Understanding Location in Your Application

Featuring Richard Süeselbeck

Using GPS to find out exactly where you are is one of the more awesome powers of your mobile devices. It also poses some of the toughest challenges to developers, who must prevent excessive battery drain and deal with insufficient accuracy. In this talk you will learn how to face these challenges...

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Comedy Talk by Chet Haase and Romain Guy

Featuring Romain Guy and Chet Haase

Flutter for the Discerning Android Developer

Featuring Simon Lightfoot

No doubt you have heard of Flutter... perhaps you have given it a go, and not found it quite as intuitive as you want. Simon will share his experience of Android and Flutter so that you could reach the next level in mobile development.

You'll learn what Flutter is and how it works under the...

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Extra! Extra! Thread all about it!

Featuring Andy Street and Pasquale Anatriello

Futures! Priority Inversion! big.LITTLE! MessageQueues! Choreographer! Obscure OEM Optimizations! All the things you never thought to ask about threading on Android. Pasquale and Andy REVEAL ALL in this exclusive expose.

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Make the Android Gradle Plugin Work For You

Featuring Maksim Lazeba, Amr Afifiy, Izabela Orlowska and Adarsh Fernando

Since Google I/O 2019, the Android Devtools team has been heads down to make the Android Gradle plugin faster, smarter, and more stable. In this talk, Izabela and Adarsh from the Android build team deep dive into the magic—such as the revamped resource compilation pipeline, incremental annotation...

The Light Way

Featuring Lisa Wray

What if an app could be performant by being simple? What if an app could work “at scale” for a billion users using only standard Android paradigms?

Facebook supports some of the biggest, most complex apps in the world. But supporting everyone also means support for developing countries,...

Navigation in Modular Applications with Deep Linking

Featuring Damian Burke

Android engineering has come a long way. Nowadays most applications are modularized to a certain degree - to combat high compile times, enforce separation of concerns or to group code based on certain scopes.

In this talk you will explore navigation in modularized apps. Navigation in Android can...

Let your design evolve, adopt a Design System!

Featuring Jean-Baptiste VINCEY

As the Deezer team expanded over the last years, making changes and maintaining design in the mobile app became a major concern: How do you keep the different screens of the app(s) consistent and let the design evolve? How do you ensure consistency across platforms / applications? How do you fill...

Cool tricks you (probably) didn't know in Android Studio

Featuring Saurabh Arora

Understanding and mastering the tool that you use on a daily basis is the perfect way to boost your productivity. In this talk you will discover tips that will help in boosting your productivity with Android Studio.

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When in Rome, speak…maybe not Italian?

Featuring Raquel Moss and Kai Koenig

With a diverse, global base of users, how do you decide which language to use to present content to your user? Location makes sense, right? Romans speak Italian, Osakans speak Japanese, and Ohians speak English. Simple!

Except that you know it’s not like that. Everyone knows there’s Vietnamese...

Easy, scalable backends for Android developers

Featuring Doug Stevenson

In the past, engineering teams typically split “frontend” and “backend” responsibilities. As an Android developer, you almost certainly slotted into the “frontend” category, with no responsibility on the backend. And if you do want to work on the backend for an app, it can be taxing to learn new...

Sharing Is Caring - Kotlin Multiplatform for Android Developers

Featuring Britt Barak

As Android developers, you often work with a backend service. Often in your team, there is an iOS project or a Javascript project, with similar functionality, that is being developed by your teammate developers next door. How fun would it be to write Kotlin code once and share it with all...

Kotlin DSL For Android Projects

Featuring Claudia Luque Fernández

Lets face it, Groovy is ok, but Kotlin is irresistible. During this talk you are going to learn how easy it is to migrate your Android project to Kotlin DSL and find on the way some tips to boost the gradle files reusability.

Designing Experiences For Voice Interactions

Featuring Alina Catalina Banuleasa

In times where design revolves around interfaces and screens, moving towards UI-less experiences brings new challenges. Most of the interactions between humans are done through conversation and still, most of that communication is wrong. Technology brings new challanges but also makes life easier...

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Three Approaches To Animations On Android

Featuring Matt Carron and Connie Reinholdsson

At comparethemarket.com they have explored a number of approaches to animation, including building them using the Android framework, leveraging Airbnb’s animation library Lottie and using video. In this talk, they will show a step by step implementation of each approach and discover their...

Lightning Talk: Move Over Certificate Pinning. Certificate Transparency Is Here!

Featuring Matthew Dolan

Failing to protect your users data can not only result in fines but of course loss of your users trust.

You can protect your apps against man-in-the-middle attacks using techniques such as certificate pinning. However, as you will discover, implementing certificate pinning requires us to answer...

Supporting Each Other: Growth for Juniors and Seniors

Featuring Lara Martín

Bringing Junior developers into your team can be a challenge, but it can also be rewarding. Mentoring can benefit both sides: It can help juniors with the most difficult moment in their career, and it can help seniors become better professionals. Come and learn how juniors and seniors can support...

Rx in Multiplatformland

Featuring Sergey Ryabov

Reactive programming has firmly become one of the modern Android developer's tools. More and more teams apply fully reactive architectures for their apps utilizing MVI approach. This plays well for separating OS-independent business logic from presentation layer. And while it can be...

Do Not Go Gentle in that Good Night - Implementing a Dark Theme on Android

Featuring Faiz Malkani

Google is bringing a system-wide dark mode to Android Q, and Material Design is evolving to adapt to this new change in the system. Dark theme UIs use predominantly dark surfaces, with sparse color accents and maintaining a high standard of usability while retaining the simplicity and beauty of...

First look at Jetpack Compose

Featuring Łukasz Wasylkowski

Announced at this year Google I/O, Jetpack Compose is a brand new, exciting toolkit for UI development on Android. It borrows from such frameworks like React or Flutter, and offers concise, composable, reactive way to designing your UI 100% in Kotlin!

Idio~~ma~~tic Kotlin

Featuring Márton Braun

"Idiomatic" is a word often used by Kotlin experts to describe elegant patterns or solutions that make excellent use of Kotlin’s features. In this session you will discover how to abuse Kotlin language features to take shortcuts, create tricky solutions, achieve exciting syntax, or...

Dependency injection from zero to hero with Koin

Featuring Arnaud Giuliani

Koin is a pragmatic dependency injection framework for Kotlin/Android developers. In this talk, you will discover how Koin will make your life easier thanks to the power of Kotlin language: from basics to the setup of Android architecture's components, without forgetting the testing part......

Espresso Patronum: The Magic Of The Robot Pattern

Featuring Adam McNeilly

Are you one of the numerous developers who wants to implement Espresso testing but hasn't? Perhaps it's for one of the common reasons - not enough expertise or time, it feels like a daunting task, or it feels downright tedious. Adam has personally felt each of those things. All of that...

The Focused Developer

Featuring Philipp Hofmann

Are you more productive at home? To really get something done, do you do home office? If the answer is yes, something is wrong. Most modern offices and company cultures are primarily built to communicate and interrupt. Think, how often do you respond to a message within seconds? How often do you...

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Keynote - Android: For Users and Developers

Featuring Romain Guy and Chet Haase

Join in this technical keynote with Chet Haase and Romain Guy!

Lightning Talk: Mobile Addiction

Featuring Hawazine Haouat

Mobile/game addiction is a reality. As a mobile developer Hawazine feels concerned by this problem. Addiction to phone can cause different ranges of issues from miscommunications, anxiety.. to mental health issues. In this session, you will explore what could cause these issues and how you could...

Overview of Biometric Auth

Featuring Michael Bailey

Allowing users to login with Biometric Auth (fingerprint) in your app can help with both ease of use and security, but there are many “gotchas” to implementing fingerprint authentication across a wide variety of devices. During this talk Michael will explore how to add fingerprint authentication,...

Having a Voice on Android: How hard can it be?

Featuring Paul-Louis Nech

Mobile is a leading platform that keeps growing (amounting today to 52% of web traffic and half of online shopping), no wonder voice interfaces are met with success there. And with half of all voice interactions taking place on mobile, you see many original ideas being developed in this field.

Cosmos: How to create a better Scalable UI

Featuring Artem Rudoi

At Badoo they are developing several applications for millions of users across the world and lots of features are run with A/B tests. Due to the specific nature of this case a combination of speed and quality of development is critical for them. However, given such a large code base, the large...

Keynote: Building An Accessible Smart Guitar For The Deaf, Blind and Mute

Featuring Joe Birch

Joe has always loved playing guitar - but he feel it's something that's always been taken for granted. Whilst he was able to pick up a guitar and start teaching himself how to play, that experience might not be the same for everyone. That's why Joe decided to build a smart, accessible...

Image Loading With Fresco: 4 Years Later

Featuring Alexander Oprisnik

Fresco is an open-source library from Facebook that makes it easy for you to display images in your Android apps. In this session, Alexander, a core maintainer of Fresco, will talk about how the library has evolved in-step with its popularity by gaining new features while also losing weight and...

Lightning Talk: Backup and Restore; Where are we? Where do we want to go?

Featuring Al Sutton

You all know that users buy new devices, but how many developers have considered the user experience of moving users from their old device to their new one?

Safe Kotlin

Featuring Marcin Moskala

You don’t need to have any experience with development to get upset when the application you use crashes, or when there is an error on a website that does not let you check out after you spent an hour collecting products into a basket. Having fewer crashes makes the lives of both users and...

Using Benchmarks for Tracking Regressions and Improving UI performance

Featuring Aziz Murtazaev

Rendering UI takes a significant amount of CPU time, therefore it's important to keep this part of the computation as lean as possible. Whenever UI rendering regresses key metrics such as app startup, time-to-interaction, scroll performance are all affected which eventually affects product...

Creating smaller, faster, production-worthy mobile machine learning models for Android

Featuring Jameson Toole

Getting machine learning models ready for use on-device is a major challenge. Drag-and-drop training tools can get you started, but the models they produce aren’t small enough or fast enough to ship. In this talk, you’ll learn optimization, pruning, and compression techniques that keep app sizes...

A Real use case of practical AR-AI couple - Size my luggage

Featuring Giovanni Laquidara

You may have been reading about AR as the future platform, even though currently you are only able to experience gaming/entertainment use cases about it. However, there are effective non-gaming examples: Many travel and transport companies are using AR to help you to understand if your luggage...

Flowing Things, Not So Strange In The MVI World

Featuring Garima Jain

In the MVI world, there was a missing piece from the coroutines framework and due to this, it always felt strange to completely adopt coroutines. Recently, with the introduction of Co-routines Flow library, things are not so strange anymore. In this talk Garima will explore the Coroutines Flow...

Reverse-Engineering apps on the device - how far can we go?

Featuring Jeb Ware

As Android developers, you know that your app is insulated from other apps in the device by the Android Application Sandboxing model. But the reality is that this sandbox only protects your data. Your APK is completely exposed to other apps, including resources, assets, and code. Jeb wanted to...

Improve your code with Lint checks for Kotlin

Featuring Emma Tresanszki

One of the tools most commonly used for static analysis, that comes at no extra cost is Lint, so why not take full advantage of it. You can now apply Android Lint to Kotlin modules as well. The number of supported built-in Lint checks is much lower though since not every Lint check that targets...

Keynote: Coding like an Athlete

Featuring Christina Lee

Many programmers get paid amounts similar to professional athletes, yet pro athletes have entire suites of team doctors fine tuning how they eat, drink, and exert themselves to maximize performance. In contrast, programmers rarely seem to account for how their physical surroundings effect their...

Keynote: Get Happy, Get Known, Get Paid

Featuring Stacy Devino

Little Secret, the superstars of the Developer World didn't get there on pure talent alone or "accidentally" (for the most part)! There are concrete steps that you can do to be recognized for the work you are ALREADY doing at every level and stage in your career. Personal branding...

Pushing Dynamic Features Your Users Want, As Quick As They Want Them

Featuring Raul Hernandez Lopez

Many successful Android apps offer multiple features and components that work together to provide a great user experience. Although you want all prospective users to have the ability to install your app, this may not be possible due to limitations in storage and network connection, especially in...

Skills Matter droidcon London 2019 Wrap Up!

Featuring Ariel Horn

Join us for this wrap up of 2 days of droidcon London joy!

droidcon2gether Community Day 2018

One day in London

We hope droidcon London 2018 will inspire you with lots of new ideas.

droidcon London 2018

Two days in London

Take your Android development skills to new levels at droidcon London 2018, the biggest Android developer conference in Europe. Now in its 10th year.

droidcon2gether 2017 Workshop: Get hands on with Android Things!

0.5 days in London

We hope droidcon London 2017 will inspire you with lots of new ideas.

droidcon2gether Weekend 2017

Two days in London

We hope droidcon London 2017 will inspire you with lots of new ideas.

droidcon London 2017

Two days in London

Want to meet the international Android community, listen to expert speakers, find out about all the latest Android advances and see fantastic new technologies? Then join us at droidcon London, the largest Android developer conference in Europe!

Two days in London

We hope droidcon London 2016 will inspire you with lots of new ideas. If you fancy getting stuck in straight away, join fellow droidcon attendees and some of the most talented coders and experts, for the traditional, weekend-long DroidconHack and create something amazing!

droidcon London 2016

Two days in London

Want to meet the international Android community, listen to expert speakers, find out about all the latest Android advances and see fantastic new technologies? Then join us at droidcon London, the largest Android developer conference in Europe!

2.5 days in London

We hope Droidcon London 2015 will inspire you with lots of new ideas. If you fancy getting stuck in straight away, join fellow Droidcon attendees and some of the most talented coders and experts, for the traditional, weekend-long DroidconHack and create something amazing!

Two days in London

This October the international Android community, gathered for a great 2 days to listen to expert speakers, find out about all the latest Android advances and discover new technologies.

Droidcon Hackathon 2014

Two days in London

Novoda and Skills Matter would like to offer you a very warm welcome to the 6th Droidcon London Hackathon…two days, one night, 100s of of bacon sandwiches (or veggie option!), litres of coffee and beer, not to mention the very latest SDKs, software and thinking in the Androidsphere.

Droidcon London 2014

Two days in London

Join Europe’s largest and most exciting grassroots Android developer conference, the only place offering the chance to hear more than 40 tech leaders from around the world and from industries including animation, electronics, gaming and travel, share their expertise about the world’s most popular...

Droidcon Hackathon & Workshops

Two days in London

Join fellow Droidcon attendees for this exciting hackathon and workshop weekend, where you can make new partnerships, deep-dive into Gradle with Hans Dockter or ROM cooking with GenyMobile, create something new (and maybe win a prize!), and have a lot of fun in the process!

Droidcon London 2013

Two days in London

Droidcon London 2013 was held on October 24-25th in the Business Design Centre in Islington, where hundreds of people enjoyed two days of pure Android with big speakers like Hans Dockter, Eric Lafortune, Ty Smith, Taylor Ling and the rest of the Android community!

Droidcon UK 2012

Two days in London

Droidcon London 2012 was another jam-packed two day conference!

1000 + Participants

100% Android

Droidcon 2011

Two days in London

Skills Matter and WIP are pleased to announce Droidcon London 2011, which will take place in London on 6th - 7th October 2011 -- featuring the cream of the Android developer world.

DroidCon London 2010

Two days in London

Skills Matter is pleased to support droidcon London 2010, this year taking place in Islington's Business Design Centre, the new permanent home for droidcon UK. The event is organised by the London Android Community leads Kevin McDonaugh and Karl Gustav Harroch, and is scheduled for October 28...

Droidcon London 2009

One day in London

Skills Matter is pleased to support droidcon London 2009 taking place in London on 2nd December - the UK's first community event aimed at grassroots Android developers!