IG
IG is a global leader in online trading, dedicated to putting the potential of financial markets in people’s hands. Established in 1974 as the world’s first financial spread betting firm, our cutting edge technology provides individuals with fast, flexible access to over 10,000 financial markets – including shares, indices, forex, commodities and binaries. Over forty years on, we continue to innovate and grow, expanding both our global presence and range of products. We now have offices across Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific and the US, where we offer limited risk derivatives trading via the Nadex brand.
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Why developers need to get involved in AR & See-Through Smart Eyewear NOW! And how they can get started
Featuring Giles Beaumont and Marc-Antoine Godfroid
Augmented Reality in combination with transparent smart eyewear is fast becoming the most exciting revolution in the computing industry. This pioneering technology enables digital content to be freed from the restrictions of screen based hand held devices, opening up endless applications in all...
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Making fully Reactive apps using advanced RxJava
Featuring Paco Estevez
Francisco has been developing using Functional Reactive Programming for the past two years, learning from his mistakes. He's delivered one full production application (52 screens, real-time intra-day trading!) whose features were expressed completely using functional style using RxJava. At...
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Safe vs Deep integration of Realm
Featuring Viraj Tank
Realm: A fast and secure database for Android, which is easy to learn and integrate.
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How to be the only Android Developer in your team and still have fun
Featuring David Gonzalez
Being the only developer in a project can be frustrating, everything falls into your shoulders and it's very easy to get trapped into bad habits. You are not alone! There are many tools, practices and services that will make your life easier... and efficient!
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Really Important Things about the Business of Technology
Featuring Chet Haase
This may be the most important keynote you will attend at this time during the conference. The things you will learn during this hour will far surpass anything you could have learned at other sessions. Some may argue that this is because there are no other sessions offered at this time, but many...
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Practical Bluetooth LE on Android
Featuring Erik Hellman
Bluetooth Low Energy was announced for Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean MR2, API level 18) and the API has received some updates with each new version since then. Unfortunately, the way the API works and the number of undocumented "features" in the Bluetooth stack on Android has made it very...
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Android Data Binding in action using MVVM pattern
Featuring Fabio Collini
The Data Binding framework was one of Google's announcements at I/O 2015, and it represents a big change in the code organization of an Android app. Some developers are skeptical about this framework but, if used in the “right way”, it’s very powerful and it allows to remove a lot of...
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Radical RecyclerView
Featuring Lisa Wray
This talk will cover how to madly customize (almost) everything in a RecyclerView. Today's apps aren't simple lists and grids. They have complex, hierarchical content and move, interact, and flow with the user and their device. The layout-dp folder is dead; long live the custom adapter!...
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Breaking Spotify’s release cycle by using the backend to drive the UI and feature releases
Featuring Chris Doyle
If you’ve ever glanced at Spotify’s release notes, you’ll find them quite underwhelming. No announcements of super awesome features, some random ramblings that may or may not be true. Of course, the team is always rolling out new features and their UI changes from day to day. And, it’s all...
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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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