Gumtree
Gumtree is the UK’s #1 classifieds website. It’s a place that connects people - buying or selling something they own, searching for a new job, a flat or a new ride. Gumtree is a community that brings these opportunities to 1 in 3 adults every month. Current figures show that 37% of the UK digital population visited Gumtree in August 2016 and that the Gumtree smartphone app, launched in 2012, has been downloaded over 13.9 million times.
Our technology is built in-house and based in London. We’re a passionate team and believe in delivering a great user experience for our customers, striving to improve our product and systems is what we do. Lots of things are happening here (tech workshops, hackathons or pulling trucks - just to name a few), you can check us out on Twitter @GumtreeDevTeam Also, Gumtree is hiring. We are looking for passionate engineers for all roles, so come speak to us!
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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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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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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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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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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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The Future of Android - Evolution of Android in mobile platforms and a glance to the future. Helping the kernel taking the best decisions
Featuring Carlos Lloret and Unai R.C.
We know you dream big and we know you will love and android device (mobile, smartwatch...) that will work flawless with a battery that last for a month! Well, you are not alone in this world. Nowadays, even if all developers around the globe follow the most strict guidelines and produce the most...
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Making Retrofit 2 Work For You
Featuring Jake Wharton
Retrofit's recently-released version 2 is the easiest way to do HTTP in your applications. Once set up, Retrofit is designed to make declaring endpoints as simple as a method on an interface with annotations. Behind that simplicity, though, there is a lot of power and knowing how to use and...
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