Mark Allison
Mark Allison is a GDE for Android and software engineer with almost 25 years' experience. He is passionate about providing the user with the best possible experience. He has developed both server and client side, most commonly Android on the client side, but with also for iOS, HTML5, Symbian, and J2ME.
Mark writes a technical blog (http://blog.stylingandroid.com) which focuses on Android UI/UX topics, but often covers more general Android development techniques. He regularly speaks at Android developer events in such diverse locations as Turkey, Spain, and Brazil. He is a stalwart of Droidcon London - this will be his fourth consecutive appearance.
When not being geeky, Mark likes to unwind by hurling abuse at football referees, specifically those who are unkind to his beloved Watford FC with whom he holds a season ticket. He also has a deep love of the chilli pepper and consumes spicy food (his favourite being Indian) at every opportunity!
Mark is happily married with a grown up step-daughter, and lives in Hertfordshire, UK.
Talks I've Given
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Coffee Break, Networking, Q&A Clinics, Games and Demos
Featuring Sebastiano Poggi, Maria Neumayer, Pascal Welsch, Mark Allison, Wiebe Elsinga, Leonie Brewin and Nick Butcher
Join us on the exhibition floor over lunch for your chance to chat with leading experts and discuss upcoming trends and technologies. We have an awesome range of clinics taking place across four zones, as well as a number of amazing raffle prizes to give away at sponsor booths.
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App Clinic (Design Zone - Hyde Park)
Featuring Nick Butcher, Leonie Brewin, Wiebe Elsinga, Mark Allison, Pascal Welsch, Maria Neumayer and Sebastiano Poggi
Find the Design Zone in Hyde Park - the Exhibition Floor @ Droidcon London 2015!
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Vector All The Things
Featuring Mark Allison
Vector Drawables were introduced with the Android L Developer preview and the accidentally leaked Compat library shows that Google are adding backwards compatibility for this extremely useful addition to the Drawables toolkit.
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Graphical Magic
Featuring Mark Allison
The android.graphics APIs contain some useful tools which enable us to perform some tricks more commonly associated with Photoshop or Gimp. It is not always possible to use such tools, particularly when images are being loaded dynamically from external sources.
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Android Animations
Featuring Mark Allison
Watch Mark Allison's talk from Droidcon London to learn about the animation APIs available within Android!
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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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