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From clockwork to smartwatch

Featuring Daniele Bonaldo

The measurement of time has always had a big impact on our society. The way we tell the time greatly evolved especially in the last centuries, leading to the creation of always more accurate tools, up to the first wearable technological devices.

In this talk you will explore the evolution of...

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All about ORM’s

Featuring Kevin Galligan

Android has matured to the point where there are several database access and management options, as well as some totally non-sqlite alternatives. You will discover some of the well known options, take a look at Realm, and demo an ORMLite port that uses annotation processing instead of reflection,...

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Power optimization for Android apps

Featuring Xavier Hallade

Android devices running on battery need to be optimized for power. When taking a look at the CPU this optimization starts typically with the race to idle, meaning to go to finish the workload as fast as possible.

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Give your users superpowers in the real world

Featuring Hoi Lam

People no longer need to sit at a desk to get the benefits of technology. You can now build experiences that work seamlessly between the virtual world and the real world. Superpowers that would not have been possible, too complex or prohibitively expensive are now possible.

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Invisible Apps

Featuring Tim Messerschmidt

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Keynote: The Long Road

Featuring Sandro Mancuso

Choosing the next career step in such a diverse and fast-paced industry is not an easy task. But when it comes to our careers, there is no right or wrong. Or there is? How do we know? In this talk we will be talking about different career choices, how can we choose good companies to work for,...

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

Featuring Martino Luca

Static analyzers are automated tools that spot bugs in source code by scanning programs without running them. They complement traditional dynamic testing: Where testing allows individual runs through a piece of software to be checked for correctness, static analysis allows multiple and sometimes...

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Mobile Services from Google

Featuring Laurence Moroney

Google provides a number of terrific mobile services that developers can use to build better apps. In this talk, Laurence a developer advocate at Google, introduces a number of these services, including Location, Maps, Places and Mobile Vision APIs.

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

Featuring Mike McDonald

The button was a game and social experiment run on Reddit from 1 Apr 2015 to 5 Jun 2015. The idea was simple: a 60 second countdown timer next to a reset button. When users pressed the button at a specific time, they would also be assigned a specific colour: purple if between 52 and 60 seconds,...

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