Real world Flutter

Featuring Maksim Lin

Using Flutter to build a production app, especially from existing Android/iOS app code bases presents an interesting set of challenges beyond what has been mostly covered until now in "getting started" type Flutter talks.

This talk will cover topics that will be useful when you come to build your...

Android DataBinding: This is the DSL You're Looking For!

Featuring Maksim Lin

The Android Data Binding Library is great for reducing the amount of boiler plate you need to build the view layer in your android apps.

But going beyond the basics will give you an even bigger payback.

In this talk I'll cover some of the more advanced users of Data Binding including:

• 2-way Data...

Polished Droids: Bringing Android Apps to Chromebooks

Featuring Maksim Lin

At I/O this year, Google announced that Android apps and Google Play itself were coming to Chromebooks. So what does this actually mean for Android developers? How easy or hard is it in practice to bring an Android app across to work well on Chromebooks? And what do Chromebook users think of all...

The Secret Life of Services

Featuring Maksim Lin

Unlike their showy cousins Activities and Fragments, Android Services are often left out of the limelight, staying quietly in the background, carrying out the book-keeping jobs needed to display all those fancy UI elements on the screen.

But do you really know about Services? While they have much...

Customing Android: Looking inside the droids belly

Featuring Maksim Lin

Android is becoming the OS of choice for those needing an easy to use embedded operating system.

I’ve spent the last 2.5 years building customised versions of Android to run on various devices for use in the digital signage.

In this talk, I’ll cover the basics of what’s involved...