Kevin McDonagh
Kevin McDonagh is the founder and CEO of Novoda, Europe’s largest and fastest growing independent Android consultancy with offices in London and Berlin.
Founded in 2008, Novoda offers software development exclusively for the Android platform, helping companies embrace Android strategies while providing assured development quality for manufacturers like Sony and Motorola.
Novoda works with big businesses across all sectors as well as with many venture capital funded tech start-ups such as Songkick, Podio, Meetup and WeeWorld. It also recently delivered a native suite of Android applications for Tesco’s new hudl tablet including its flagship ‘Tesco groceries’ app and ‘Tesco launcher’.
Novoda remains active in Android’s community by organising the London Android user group and the London arm of Droidcon, which is the UK’s largest Android conference.
A passionate and highly active contributor to the Skills Matter community, by helping to organise meet ups and conferences, by giving talks, by sharing his skills and contributing ideas, Kevin also sits on Skills Matter's Board since 2013.
Talks I've Given
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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.
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How are you managing errors
Featuring Kevin McDonagh
Group chat communal session curated by Kevin McDonagh, CEO, Novoda. We discussed what exception handling should your app go to market with, when you are releasing a build? Should you declare global exception handlers? What is the min/max logging you should include in the app?
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Android Repos Guided Tour
Featuring Kevin McDonagh
Kevin McDonagh from Novoda will gave a guided tour of Android Repos, exploring tools and process working with the Android Repo.
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Android For Africa: Some Applications in Practice
Featuring Kevin McDonagh
The mobile market is rapidly gaining momentum and has the power to dramatically effect developing countries in the next few years. In this talk, Kevin McDonagh discusses Android's potential to becoming widely ported and the far reaching effects of them upon society.
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Motion Sensors and orientation in Android
Featuring Kevin McDonagh
All leading smart phone manufacturers are now bundling accelerometers. Application's can now not only monitor screen orientation but also become spatially aware. Learn how to interpret the sometimes confusing results from Android's sensor output accompanied by the reasoning and...
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Kevin is CEO at Novoda (www.novoda.com) a software development consultancy specialising in the best of the Android platform, organiser of the London Android user group(www.meetup.com/android) and organiser of the UK’s Android conference Droidcon(www.droidcon.co.uk). Kevin has developed for print, web, desktops and apps and can confirm that they all take a long time to do right.