2 DAY CONFERENCE

Droidcon 2015

Topics covered at #droidconuk15

Thursday, 29th - Friday, 30th October in London

63 experts spoke.
Overview

Thank you!

Thank you for joining us at droidcon 2015!! We had a terrific time, we hope you did too! A massive thanks to our great program committee, all speakers, sponsors and to everyone who joined us this year!

Thanks also to everyone who joined us at the DroidconHack the weekend following Droidcon alongside FullStackHack, Gamecraft and Lean Poker. Was great to meet, collaborate and work with you all!

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Programme

Day 1: 29th October

Thursday

Track Albert Hall Big Ben The Tower The Shard London Eye
08:15

Registration and Welcome Break

09:00
KEYNOTE

Keynote: The Long Road

Sandro Mancuso


droidcon
10:00

Coffee Break

10:15

BarCamp Selection and Announcements

10:30
2

RxJava

Pascal Welsch and Wolfram Rittmeyer


android rx-java android-apps rxandroid-1.0

From Zero to Hero: An Introduction to the Google Cloud Platform

Robert Kubis


android google-cloud-platform google-cloud-spin

Journey of an event, the Android touch

Marco Cova


android android-touch

Build your own video streaming app!

Andrew Jack


video-streaming video-streaming-app droidcon

Beyond Reality - Epson Moverio Smart Glasses/Unity3D

Sean McCracken


epson android epson-moverio unity3d virtual-reality bt-200 smart-glasses
11:15
KEYNOTE

Coffee Break, Networking, Q&A Clinics, Games and Demos


11:30

Gradle

Etienne Studer


android gradle android-studio

Evolution of the Android ROM Community

Jeremy Meiss


android android-rom-community xda xda-developers aokp cyanogenmod paranoid-android

Workshop: User centred design

Leonie Brewin


android user-centred-design paper-prototyping design-collaboration

Reverse engineering is not just for hackers!

Jon Reeve


reverse-engineering hackers android open-source bugs closed-source-libraries

Behind the scenes of ASOS.com's mobile apps

Marco Belinaso


android asos
12:15

Coffee Break

12:30

Gradle Plugins: Take it to the next level

Eyal Lezmy


android gradle gradle-plugin android-gradle-plugin gradly-dsl

Land’s End: Creating the flagship mobile VR adventure

Peter Pashley


android ustwo-games vr-experience gear-vr

Workshop: User centred design

Leonie Brewin


android user-centred-design paper-prototyping design-collaboration

Building Spoken Language Apps for Amazon Echo and Alexa

Peter Heinrich


Open Devices Project – Open Source on Sony Devices

Alin Jerpelea


android sony open-devices open-source hero-developer
13:15
KEYNOTE

4

Lunch, Networking, Q&A Clinics, Games and Demos - Day 1

Gergely Kis, Sean McCracken, Mandeep Khataria, and Jesus Gumiel


clinic android zeroturnaround epson intel sky now-tv
14:15

BarCamp - Gradle Performance


android gradle

BarCamp - Show me the code material animations


Workshop: Android Katas

Corey Latislaw


android android-katas tdd test-driven-development robolectric

BarCamp - ClassyShark - Android Executables Browser


BarCamp - Survival of the CI


android droidcon testing
15:00
KEYNOTE

7

Coffee Break, Networking, Q&A Clinics, Games and Demos

Sebastiano Poggi, Maria Neumayer, Pascal Welsch, Mark Allison, Wiebe Elsinga, Leonie Brewin, and Nick Butcher


android clinic novoda design app
15:15

BarCamp - Making your app better


android droidcon

BarCamp - Animate me, if you don't do it for me then do it for Chet


Workshop: Android Katas

Corey Latislaw


android android-katas tdd test-driven-development robolectric

BarCamp - Genymotion in Ci


BarCamp - Advanced techniques for concurrency and memory management


16:00
KEYNOTE

Coffee Break + Intel Raffle


android raffle
16:15

Democamp Community Demos


android democamp-community-demos

Streaming


streaming android

Workshop: Android Katas

Corey Latislaw


android android-katas tdd test-driven-development robolectric
17:00

Coffee Break

17:15
KEYNOTE

Keynote: Managing Expectations: A Manager's Guide for Managing to Manage Unmanageable Teams Manageably

Chet Haase


team-management process-management managing droidcon
18:00

Droidcon Party

Day 2: 30th October

Friday

Track Albert Hall Big Ben The Tower The Shard London Eye
08:15

Registration and Welcome Break

09:00
KEYNOTE

Keynote - Android for Java Developers

Chet Haase


droidcon android mobile-app java
09:45
KEYNOTE

7

Coffee Break, Networking, Q&A Clinics, Games and Demos

Sebastiano Poggi, Maria Neumayer, Pascal Welsch, Mark Allison, Wiebe Elsinga, Leonie Brewin, and Nick Butcher


android clinic novoda design app
10:00

React Native for Android

Olivia Bishop


react-native android js-framework ui ios
2

Hinting around: text demystified

Sebastiano Poggi and Eugenio Marletti


android java design ui ux

Staying alive, online and offline

Erik Hellman


online offline best-practices android

From clockwork to smartwatch

Daniele Bonaldo


horology wearable wearable-devices smartwatch smartphone android android-wear-platform

The Jack and Jill build system

Eric Lafortune


android jack-and-jill-compliers jayce-bytecode dex-complier dalvik-bytecode google
10:45

Coffee Break

11:00

Give your users superpowers in the real world

Hoi Lam


android google beacon android-wear iot wearables

Beautiful Typography on Android

Lisa Wray


android typography textview fontmetrics font text-drawing typefaces spans internationalization bidirectional-text

Working Together: Avoiding house divided with developers and designers

Juhani Lehtimaki


developer designer android

Android Wear - Get your app on your wrist

Maria Neumayer


android wearable android-wear

All about ORM’s

Kevin Galligan


android orm touchlab realm
11:45
KEYNOTE

Coffee Break + Booking.com Raffle


droidcon raffle booking.com
12:00

Understanding scrolling techniques in Android

Cyril Mottier


droidcon scrolling mobile-platforms android-sdk listview recyclerview scrollview

Let's get Functional

Benjamin Augustin


functional functional-languages android

Pixel Perfect is not the New Black

Lydia Selimalhigazi


android fragmentation pixel/dpi-conversion adaptive-design material-design

Designing apps that everyone can use on an Android TV

Ataul Munim


androidtv android accessibility usability process a11yolo

Prototyping your Android app, the (U)X-factor

Wiebe Elsinga


android android-app material-design prototypes
12:45
KEYNOTE

3

Lunch, Networking, Q&A Clinics, Games and Demos - Day 2

Pavel Jacko, Abhisek Devkota, and Rafael Ördög (aka DeVill)


android clinic
13:45
2

Meaningful motion

Nick Butcher and Benjamin Weiss


android material-design ui motion-design animation transition

Permissions: Changes that benefit users and devs!

Eric Cochran


android permissions runtime-permissions ifttt if-automation-app /data/app-app /system/app-app ux /system/priv-app-app

Power optimization for Android apps

Xavier Hallade


android power-optimization battery power-consumption api os

Material Design Adaptative UI

Marcos Paulo Damasceno


material-design material-design-adaptative ui android

How UX Research Delivers Successful Games

Graham McAllister


ux ux-research games android
14:30
KEYNOTE

Coffee Break + Zeroturnaround Raffle & Intel Raffle


android raffle zeroturnaround intel
14:45

Advancing Development with the Kotlin Language

Jake Wharton


kotlin android
2

Physics UI

Filipe Abrantes and Will Bailey


android animation springs ui rebound physics origami framer spring-damp-mass-systems

Accessibility in Action: Technical Solutions to the Accessibility Challenge

Kelly Shuster


android accessibility itriage ios material-design

Invisible Apps

Tim Messerschmidt


android paypal invisible-app uber tokenization leveraging gps bluetooth-le wifi

“The experiment has just begun.” Building a real Reddit ‘button’ game with Android, IoT, and Firebase

Mike McDonald


reddit button-game android iot firebase experiment
15:30
KEYNOTE

2

Coffee Break, Networking, Q&A Clinics, Games and Demos

Erik Hellman and Kevin Galligan


android clinic
15:45

Mobile Services from Google

Laurence Moroney


android google location maps places mobile-vision-apis

Vector All The Things

Mark Allison


vector android vector-drawable compat-library android-l-developer-preview compat leak anitamedvectordrawable animated-icons

Microservices is our BFF: why SoundCloud stopped using its own public API for its mobile clients

Duana Stanley


android microservices soundcloud api bff backend-for-the-frontend scala ios

Facebook Infer: A static analyzer for catching bugs before you ship

Martino Luca


android facebook facebook-infer static-analysis static-analyzers bugs ios

LEVEL UP! A better gaming experience with Google Play Games Services

Stefan Hoth


android games gaming google-play google-play-games-services
16:30
KEYNOTE

Coffee Break + Pollfish Raffle & Epson Raffle


raffle droidcon android
16:45

Make Believe

Shanee Nishry


virtualreality project-tango gaming android

Android is the World Phone

Corey Latislaw


android emerging-market

Let's talk usability testing

Leonie Brewin


android usability-testing user-centred-design process

Android Auto

Benjamin Stürmer


droidcon android
2

Hive CI: Making Automation Scale for iPlayer

Jitesh Gosai and David Buckhurst


hive-ci android bbc-news bbc pumas iplayer iplayer-mobile-app
17:30
KEYNOTE

Wrap Up & Thanks (Albert Hall)


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