Jorge Barroso is the co-founder and Android developer of Karumi and Android GDE.
Karumi is an intentionally small software development studio headquartered in Madrid and specialized in developing lean and stable native applications and working with teams for improving their skills. Before Karumi, he worked 5 years as a Senior Tech Lead at Tuenti, the leading Spanish social network, and MVNO, part of the Telefonica Group.
At Tuenti, Jorge developed a wide variety of strategic products covering J2ME, Blackberry and especially Android. With over 10 years of software engineering experience, Jorge defines himself as a pragmatic coder who thrives on improving the Android project architecture by being a firm advocate of the concept of semantic code and test development.
He is continuously learning and honing his Android coding skills in an effort to understand and adapt to the evolution and of the internal framework. Jorge is also a seasoned tech conference speaker. He is well known among the Spanish developer community for talks covering the topics of best practices for Android development, Material Design adoption, and optimal application architectures.
Talks I've Given
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Android MythBuster with Jorge Barroso!
Featuring Jorge Barroso
How good are the recommendations and best practices that you can find in Android books and articles? Are they real? Come and join Jorge to find out at this months droidcon London Bytes!
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Dinosaurs and Android: The Listview Evolution
Featuring Jorge Barroso and Fernando Cejas
Jorge Barroso and Fernando Cejas explain the evolution of this widget from previous versions of Android (based on its source code), mistakes that have been made in its implementation, giving examples and showing tips on how it should be used when developing applications.
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