AllJoyn P2P

Featuring Mitch Williams

Learn about using AllJoyn P2P

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Proguard Optimization and Obfuscation

Barcamp talk: Proguard Optimization and Obfuscation

android mobile

The World's Simplest Ad Enablement Solution Using a Native App Wraper

Featuring Laith Al-Janabi

The worlds simplest ad enablement solution using a native Android app wrapper from VSERV.MOBI

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Haptic SDK

Featuring Bob Heubel

Barcamp talk: Haptic SDK

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Android Security and encryption best practices

Featuring Jonathan White

Android Security and encryption best practices

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Device Fragmentation

Device Fragmentation will get worse, how to deal with it

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Private Social Network

Featuring Geoff Revill

Private Social Network

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Augmented Reality SDK Qualcomm

Featuring Dominic Binks

Augmented Reality development in Unity

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Improving text layout in localization

Featuring Charles Harley and Robert Hewitt

Improving text layout in localization

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Intel - Tools for x86 and GPU

Intel - Tools for x86 and GPU

Unify VOIP/MSG Core

Featuring Martyn Davies

Unify VOIP/MSG Core

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Introduction to Polarus, a mapping library for Android

Featuring Cyril Mottier

Introduction to Polarus, a mapping library for Android

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Tools for Quality Assurance and the AQuA initiative

Featuring Martin Wrigley

AQuA can help you improve the quality of your Android apps

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Extending the Android SDK (add-ons)

Featuring Dario Laverde

Extending the Android SDK

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x86 HDK and Case Study

x86 HDK and Case Study

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The Unique presentation device (updated)

Featuring Matthias Camobi

We make presentation more meaningful than ever before

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Joyns as a platform

Featuring Sanjeet Matharu

Using RCS as a way to add video, audio and chat to your Android apps natively

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Cross platform development done right!

Featuring James Hugman

Cross platform development done right!

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Location using Qype!

Featuring Stefano Dachille

Using Qype for location in your app

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An open source multiplayer game framework for Android (updated)

Featuring Lukas Jarosch

ANDLABS working on an easy to integrate and efficient framework to enable multiplayer features in any game. The goal is to solve the main problems game developers are facing today. It's also cross platform capable.

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How to develop for the smartwatch

Featuring Jerker Lindgren-Götsten

Developing for the smart watch.

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OpenCV for Android

Featuring Erik Hellman

Using OpenCV on Android!

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Customised ActionBar for Froyo and optimising list views

Featuring Ferran Garriga

Customised ActionBar for Froyo and optimising list views

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Test Automation from Testdroid

Featuring Jouko Kaasila

Find out how you automate your Android app testing!

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Using APIs with native and web apps

Featuring Dan Murphy

Using APIs with native and web apps

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Hot new stuff from Samsung, the Android camera SDK and more!

Featuring Manfred Koranda

Hot new stuff from Samsung, the Android camera SDK and more!

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Find out more!

Featuring Nat Macleitch

We provide APIs through a cloud platform for maps, chat, push notifications and social media

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Mobile security wthout passwords using NFC

Featuring Steve Ives

Mobile security wthout passwords using NFC

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An open debate on Android's role in the tablet market

Featuring Phil McDermott

Join a debate about what role Android has to play in the tablet market!

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Server-less apps, using server, coding Android

Featuring Friedger Müffke

Services that help my Android app to use the cloud without managing servers

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BigFat Sofftkey SDK (tapping)

Using gestures like tapping as user input method

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Future of Android: OUYA

Featuring Julie Uhrman

Keynote followed by Q&A by Julie Uhrman CEO of OUYA, The first Android based gaming console was launched on Kickstarter earning funding ($8.5 million dollars!) and fans. The Kickstarter darling will ship to gamers in March 2013.

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Future of Android Keynote: VendScreen

Featuring Paresh Patel and Glenn Butler

VendScreen personalizes the vending experience while utilizing the intuitive ‘Touch & Swipe’ user interface already familiar to millions of people using smartphones and other touch screen devices every day, so our users gain rich information and interactive services without the hassle of a...

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Future of Android Keynote: Parrot

Featuring Frederic Albinet

Frederic Albinet speaks on Parrot at Droidcon London 2012.

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The Fragment Transition

Featuring Corey Latislaw

Android is evolving, but developers aren’t keeping pace. Fragments, which let you break your UI into smaller functional pieces, were released over a year ago. Fragments enable scaling of your app to tablets and the next generation of devices. There’s a huge opportunity to lead the market, yet few...

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Introduction to AndEngine

Featuring Lukas Jarosch and Johannes Borchardt

AndEngine is one of the most amazing and widespread 2D game engines for the Android platform. Johannes Borchardt & Lukas Jarosch will introduce this amazingness by showing the general structure of an AndEngine game.

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Building Songkick on Android

Featuring Akshay Dashrath and Jamie McDonald

Songkick launched their Android app earlier this year. Jamie and Akshay will present a case-study of the project, revealing how Novoda worked with Songkick to bring the app from whiteboard to market. The talk will discuss key decisions taken to create a great Android experience.

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Differentiate your app using software tools

Featuring Julian Harris

In 2011, consumers downloaded 5.4 billion applications across all app stores. In 2015, that number is projected to grow to 19.7 billion.* These numbers demonstrate that today’s app landscape is a crowded and competitive one for developers. Differentiation is absolutely essential for creating...

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NOOK Developer Session: The developer opportuity

Featuring Tom Chavez

Join NOOK Developer for a session on NOOK Apps. Learn about the development process – from app creation to app submission, and marketing opportunities once your apps are in the NOOK Storefront.

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Picking up the pieces - overcoming device fragmentation

Featuring Jan Berkel and Jon Schmidt

SoundCloud is the leading audio sharing platform on the web today, of course available as an Android app. In this talk, Jan & Jon will focus on the challenges of building a strong, reliable, audio recording and audio streaming app.

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The Butler Did It: Continuously building & enforcing app quality using Jenkins

Featuring Christopher Orr and Jørgen Tjernø

Android developers strive to ensure their apps work well across a multitude of OS versions, languages and hardware configurations. In this talk, Chris and Jørgen discuss using Jenkins.

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Writing games for an Android video games console... Oh yeah!

Featuring Al Sutton

Many devices are based on the Android Open Source Project release of Android which does not include the Google additions. This talk will take you through some of the things you’ll need to consider when developing applications which will run on a variety of devices including Android based video...

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Who Needs Thumbs? Android Instrumentation and Reverse Engineering

Featuring David Teitelbaum

What does it take to become a true Android Hacker?

Ever wondered how to inject code into APKs straight off the market? Or how to introspect on the app to determine exactly what it is doing, including what it’s displaying on the screen?

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The new Facebook SDK for Android

Featuring Simon Cross

In the last 30 days, Facebook sent users into Google Play and the Apple App Store to download new apps 174 million times. In this session we’ll see how to use Facebook’s new SDK for Android to help you grow you app, and make your existing users more engaged.

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Mind the Gap - Bringing legacy Android apps up to speed

Featuring Ronan ‘Zero’ Schwarz

Android has seen major changes in the last year. With the introduction of Android 4 and above, not only the User Interface has been replaced, many of the underlying concepts have changed as well. We will show an overview of the changes, and try to explain what they mean for application design.

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The fly-in app menu for designer and developer

Featuring Cyril Mottier

In the past few months there has been a tremendous buzz around an emerging navigation component on Android. This pattern, known as the fly-in app menu or side navigation, is now used in numerous high-quality applications such as Prixing, YouTube, Spotify, Google+, Evernote, etc. In this talk, we...

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Beaming Data to Devices with NFC

Featuring Mark Murphy

NFC supports peer-to-peer sharing of data between devices, in addition to tapping on “smart posters”, tags, and the like. Such device-to-device data “beaming” will mostly be used for short payloads, including bootstrapping more elaborate communications via other channels.

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Panel: Monetising your Android Application

Featuring Kevin McDonagh

What are the techniques, technologies and tricks available to developers to monetize their application? Our panel will discuss how different technologies and techniques can be used to help you get downloads, users and make you money.

Panel: Being successful with your Android game

Leaders in the mobile games industry discuss what it takes to make a successful and profitable game on Android.

Interfacing Hardware the Easy Way with Android and Arduino

Featuring Fei Manheche

There are many techniques and options for using your Android Smartphone to interface with hardware projects you may create using Arduino, but with so many options it can be hard getting started with development. I will therefore take you through a quick getting started with creating and...

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Building your app for multiple app stores

Featuring Timur Dyussebayev and Ildar Karimov

Just like Android is not only about Google, Google Play is not the only way to distribute Android apps. Today, marketplaces like Amazon AppStore, Nook Store, GetJar and the upcoming Yandex.Store are considered to be strong alternatives.

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Addressing the contradiction between content protection and user experience

Featuring Pravat Dalbehera

Digital Media content protection play a central part of the modern entertainment eco-system. At the same time it is presenting a big challenge to achieve a smooth user experience. Sony Mobile has developed and open sourced a DRM License Service (DLS) to address this.

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Effective Automated Tests for Android apps

Featuring Julian Harty

We’ve reached the point where there are plenty of options to create and run automated tests for Android apps. New open-source frameworks appear, existing ones morph, and others stagnate.

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Memory Analyzer: avoiding memory leaks

Featuring Felipe Ferraz

After a couple of sleepless nights working to find out how to solve different errors related to the same exception ‘OutOfMemoryException’, Felipe Ferraz learned some very valuable lessons that he’ll share with you.

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Using Ubuntu to develop cloud-connected Android apps

Featuring Victor Palau

Most Android apps nowadays are a front or local client for online services, from backing up data to the cloud to providing a cross platform service. This requires developers to have access to not just an Android environment, but also to a staging server that they can mess with.

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Developing Games for Android Running on x86 and a highlight of the Orange San Diego with Intel Inside

Featuring Steve Hughes and Ting Peng

Android has a new abi – x86. We show the key differences between x86 and Arm , allowing you to produce optimized code using processor specific features and how to provide a single apk for both architectures.

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Protect Your Business Against Reverse Engineering

Featuring Mark Noctor

Mark will share case studies of a variety of companies, ranging from start-ups to global financial institutions, which use Arxan’s tools to defend their valuable intellectual property and assets from digital thieves.

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Deep Dive into Android Custom Components

Featuring Chiu-Ki Chan

Android comes with many built-in components, but some tasks are best accomplished by rolling your own. We will start with an overview of the different ways to extend View and ViewGroup, then dive deeper.

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Growing your Android app with Facebook

Featuring Simon Cross

Facebook has 600 million monthly mobile users. To help your Android app grow, you can integrate with Facebook’s Open Graph to get distribution on the web, mobile web and to iOS and Android apps.

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Fast, user-friendly. and power-efficient network communication on Android

Featuring Erik Hellman

Designing and implementing an efficient network communication in your Android application is not an easy task. Developers face a difficult balance between latency, power-efficiency, data charges and several other aspects that can be the cause for bad reviews.

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Mobile Analytics - taking your Android apps to the next level

Featuring Simon Podd

This session will draw on the very latest data and insight to show how consumers are using mobile apps with a focus on how Android is evolving and what the key trends are for Android app usage. The talk will focus on what existing behavioral trends mean for app usage in the future

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Write Less / Do More

Featuring Scott Alexander-Bown

Android is based on openness and the development community has embraced this ideal and provided numerous solutions to common problems just waiting to be plugged in. This session focuses on the features of some of the best and freely available resources the community has to offer.

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NFC? Yep!

Featuring Henri Veidenbaum

This talk will outline solutions that could be enhanced with and business models that could benefit from NFC.

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Developing for Android on 2.x/3.x/4.x

Featuring Kenichi Kambara

Android developers must now consider a host of versions 2.x, 3.x, 4.x as well as devices. Through Kenichi’s experience developing Japan’s Sekai Phone App (Real time translation phone services), he shares some tips for supporting multiple Android versions and devices with demonstrations.

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Dynamic animation using custom view

Featuring Anders Ericsson

In this talk, Anders will talk about a simple and powerful pattern of animating the content of custom views in android, as custom views are getting more and more important.

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Applying lean principles to enterprise mobile development

Featuring Dave Slocombe

Dave will share the tools and processes he uses and how he is continually improving and self evaluating to “sharpen the sword” of lean and agile all in the context of delivering enterprise mobile products for lastminute.com internationally.

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Beyond Facebook Connect: Handling oAuth and REST for all the rest

Featuring David O’Neill

While there are some simple ways to add some social networking services integrated into Android and provided by some OEMs, once you get outside of Facebook and Twitter and into other oAuth services it can become an integration nightmare.

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Replacing the Android SDK emulator

Featuring Daniel Fages

This talk will explain how to use a VirtualBox Virtual Machine to replace the slow QEMU emulator from the Android SDK. It will be based on Daniel’s work on the Buildroid.

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Integrating AI into your app

Featuring Lars Hard

Leading-edge apps like Google Now, Zite and Siri all use advanced mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AI). This is driven by both competitive pressure and the possibility to incorporate more human-like behavior and capabilities into apps using AI.

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Crash Reporting Trends for Mobile App Developers

Featuring Andrew Levy

Andrew Levy, Crittercism’s co-founder and CEO will provide the Droidcon audience with an overview of the insights he has seen across Crittercism’s extensive data set that covers 250 million devices and over 11 billion app loads.

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Android Layouts

Featuring Mark Allison

Some journalistic criticism is leveled at Android because of “Fragmentation”. Many people mistakenly believe that the Fragmentation is the result of having to support a huge array of different display sizes, pixel densities, and aspect ratio.

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Rights and innovation - challenges of working with content providers

Featuring Various Speakers

This panel, presented by IC tomorrow, will feature the experience of a number of start-ups involved in the IC tomorrow programme who have been working with rights-owners to launch innovative new digital products and services.

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Developing accessible apps for Android

Featuring Gary Readfern-Gray

Building on the foundation of Ice-Cream Sandwich, Google have brought a raft of new accessibility features to Jelly Bean. this session will demonstrate the new accessibility enhancements and APIs found in Jelly Bean.

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Introduction to Developing for Google TV

Featuring Matt Gaunt

What you need to know to target Google TV and covering some of the API’s which are available to you beyond vanilla Android.

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droidcon London 2019

Two days in London

Take your Android development skills to new levels at droidcon London 2019, the biggest Android developer conference in Europe.

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droidcon2gether Community Day 2018

One day in London

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

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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.

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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.

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droidcon2gether Weekend 2017

Two days in London

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

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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!

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droidcon London Hack Weekend 2016

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!

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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!

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DroidconHack 2015

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!

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Droidcon 2015

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.

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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.

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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...

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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!

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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!

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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.

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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...

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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!

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