Droidcon schedule

Thursday 28th October 2010

• Dev / Design / business Barcamp

  Thursday is a barcamp day where the attending audience propose the talks! With the industries foremost experts in attendance you can expect multiple tracks covering a wide range of Android concerned mobile topics. Alongside the dynamic content will be:

  Sponsored displays
  Android developer boot camp provided by Google
  Competitons
  The App circus event
  Android developer hacking evening with Pizza

  Find out more about Day1: http://www.droidcon.co.uk/News/d...

  At 10:00am to 5:00pm, Thursday 28th October

• Continuous Integration with Maven for Android applications

  by Hugo Josefson

  Developers from other environments who are used to creating well-structured applications, will notice that the standard way of working with Android app development can cause pain and unstable projects. The tools are lacking when it comes to dependency management and support for continuous integration. What the developer builds, is not the same as what the build server creates.

  This technical session will demonstrate how you can have a uniform way of building your projects, across developers and build servers. You will experience how the addition of Maven to your projects makes it easier to manage dependencies to external code, and to share relevant code between your projects. Instead of reimplementing what others, or yourself, have done before, this will let you to focus on what's important: Coding *your* app effectively.

  • Android
  • Continuous Integration
  • Hudson
  • Maven
  • Robotium

  At 2:00pm to 2:50pm, Thursday 28th October

  Coverage note slide deck link link

• Apps Circus

  by AppCircus

  On the 28th of October Droidcon is proud to be hosting London's first App Circus! AppCircus is venturing across 30 cities as a traveling showcase of the most creative and innovative apps presented by their creators during some of the most influential international events in mobile/web.

  http://www.droidcon.co.uk/News/A...

  • Android
  • Apps

  At 5:00pm to 6:00pm, Thursday 28th October

• Devloper Hack evening

  Gather with your fellow Android lovers as we spend an evening in hack and chat. Pizza will be provided.

  At 6:00pm to 10:00pm, Thursday 28th October

Friday 29th October 2010

• Keynote

  by Sony Ericsson

  At 9:00am to 9:20am, Friday 29th October

• AIR 2.5 for Android

  by Seb Lee-Delisle

  More details: http://www.droidcon.co.uk/Speake...

  • Adobe
  • Adobe AIR
  • Android
  • Flash

  At 10:00am to 10:30am, Friday 29th October

• Driving Downloads via Intents

  by Sean Owen and ZXing

  Using intents, Apps can be used like a library or API. This can be a powerful way to drive downloads for some applications.

  More: http://www.droidcon.co.uk/News/W...

  • Android
  • Intents
  • Mobile
  • QR Codes
  • zxing

  At 10:00am to 10:30am, Friday 29th October

• Apps for Good. Innovation on the fringes of Android

  by Iris Lapinski and AppsForGoodCDI

  Apps for Good is a course where young people learn to create apps that change their world – using Android. More details: http://www.droidcon.co.uk/Speake...

  • Android
  • Apps
  • Charity
  • Mobile

  At 10:40am to 11:10am, Friday 29th October

• Excellence in the Android User Experience

  by Roman Nurik

  Crafting a great user experience and user interface is fundamental. In this talk, we'll discuss interaction and visual design tips, as well as relevant SDK resources.

  • Android
  • User Experience

  At 10:40am to 11:10am, Friday 29th October

• JRuby on Android

  by Jan Berkel

  The talk will present some of the challenges faced during this process and show that Ruby can be a valuable additional tool for Android developers.

  More details: http://www.droidcon.co.uk/News/W...

  • Android
  • JRuby
  • Mobile

  At 10:40am to 11:10am, Friday 29th October

  Coverage slide deck

• Android Reuse Models

  by Mark Murphy

  The development community needs to get into more of a reuse mindset, so that recommended patterns and snazzy UIs get reused, not rewritten.

  More details: http://www.droidcon.co.uk/News/W...

  • Android

  At 11:30am to 12:00pm, Friday 29th October

• Best of UK mobile business 1

  by Tom Hume, Antony Ribot and ribot

  Tom & Antony will be kicking off this double session with presentations on lessons learned whilst winning business for mobile design and development.

  • Android
  • Business
  • Mobile

  At 11:30am to 12:00pm, Friday 29th October

• Mobile UX for the Blind and partially sighted

  by Robin Spinks

  Rob Spinks of the RNIB will share some considerations and advice for all those wanting to develop accessible usable interfaces. More: http://www.droidcon.co.uk/News/A...

  • Accessibility
  • Android
  • Design
  • Mobile
  • User Experience

  At 11:30am to 12:00pm, Friday 29th October

• Best of UK mobile business 2

  by Tom Hume, Kevin McDonagh, ribot, kgutteridge and Ewan MacLeod

  Room 1

  Chaired by Ewan MacLeod

  Panelists...

  Tom Hume
  Antony Ribot
  Kieran Gutteridge
  Richard Hyndman
  Kevin McDonagh
  Joe Neale

  Whilst cases of mobile developers striking gold with one application that becomes extremely popular do exist, they are rather rare. Serious mobile developers need to seek and win commissioned work to make ends meet, using this to fund the time spent working on interesting ideas for new apps. This panel seeks to explore a range of examples of the opportunities in Android development.

  This session features the founders of successful UK mobile development companies talking candidly about the industry and how to succeed. They will be joined by Joe Neale, Principal at M8 Capital, adding the view of a London based VC fund. In this panel, delegates will get to ask our experts for advice and ideas on real business situations that they have experienced or may have to negotiate in the future.

  At 12:05pm to 12:30pm, Friday 29th October

• Android and CouchDB

  by Aaron Miller, CouchDB, CouchOne and Aaron Miller

  Why CouchDB is useful for mobile devices, it gives you synchronisation for free. Aaron will explore the current state of Android CouchDB.

  More: http://www.droidcon.co.uk/News/W...

  • Android
  • CouchDB
  • CouchIO
  • Databases
  • Mobile

  At 12:10pm to 12:40pm, Friday 29th October

  Coverage note

• How to develop an app concept

  by Fee Beyer

  Fee will describe the frameworks she uses when creating an app concept from scratch. More: http://www.droidcon.co.uk/Speake...

  • Apps
  • Design
  • Mobile

  At 12:10pm to 12:40pm, Friday 29th October

• Android has a "dude" problem

  by belindaparmar

  For most women, the iPhone is still the preferred device despite the fact it is not the most technically capable smartphone on the market. If companies want to pierce the Apple bubble, they need to understand what women want. And that is not pink handsets

  At 1:40pm to 1:50pm, Friday 29th October

• Android behind the scenes

  by Sony Ericsson

  Karl-Johan and Erik will take you on a journey behind the scenes of Sony Ericsson’s phone propositions.

  Have you ever heard the term bringup? What is the idea behind Sony Ericsson’s user experience? How can Android be used as a differentiator? This session will take you on a journey behind the scenes of Sony Ericsson’s phone propositions, and you will learn how Xperia™ phones will be made successful thanks to the influence of Sony, the Android platform and unique design elements from Sony Ericsson. Also, you will learn how the Android platform is implemented and what it means to be working with Android from a manufacturer perspective.

  At 1:50pm to 2:20pm, Friday 29th October

• Android beyond the phone; Tablets, eReaders, and more

  by Al Sutton and AndAppStore

  This talk will introduce some of these new devices, explain some of the challenges that they can present to developers.
  More details: http://www.droidcon.co.uk/Speake...

  • AndAppStore
  • Android
  • App Stores
  • eReaders
  • Tablets

  At 2:30pm to 3:00pm, Friday 29th October

• App Ltd – a business-like approach to your Android app

  What do you need besides a brilliant idea and your excellent coding skills? A business-like approach could help.

  • Android
  • Apps
  • Mobile

  At 2:30pm to 3:00pm, Friday 29th October

• Designing the mobile shopping experience of tomorrow, today

  by ribot

  This talk will take a look at the processes and thought required to design a mobile shopping experience. The Ribot design studio have recently released the Tesco mobile shopping app to wide spread acclaim.

  More about Ribot: http://www.droidcon.co.uk/Speake...

  At 3:10pm to 3:40pm, Friday 29th October

• Making money on Android: The economics of apps

  by Volker Hirsch and Scoreloop

  This talk will show how developers can adapt their games and apps to the changed environment of crowded app stores and demonstrate smart use of social tools.

  More: http://www.droidcon.co.uk/Speake...

  At 3:10pm to 3:40pm, Friday 29th October

• Turn good ideas in to great apps

  by Reto Meier

  Starting with an overview of the 5 deadly sins and 5 golden rules, you will learn how to build apps that users love and that are good citizens of the mobile environment.

  More: http://www.droidcon.co.uk/Friday...

  • Android
  • Apps

  At 3:10pm to 3:40pm, Friday 29th October

• Evolving past the fingertip

  by Nick Hunn - mHealth

  New wireless standards are about to produce a generation of connected devices that we wear, carry with us, or have around the home, which can talk directly to the handset and to an Android application.

  More: http://www.droidcon.co.uk/Speake...

  At 4:00pm to 4:30pm, Friday 29th October

• Interface design for Android tablets

  by Tigerspike and Mr Greg Taylor

  Greg's designs are behind some highly publicised IPhone/IPad Apps. Instead of being constrained by the well intentioned conventions of Apple, Greg speaks about how we can take Android tablet interfaces further than yet imagined.

  Blog post: http://www.droidcon.co.uk/News/I...

  • Android
  • Interaction Design
  • Tablets

  At 4:00pm to 4:30pm, Friday 29th October

• Maximising revenues from your Android app

  by Russell Buckley

  This session will cover everything you need to know about monetising mobile, ranging from developing your mobile advertising strategy and how you get started, to monitoring and optimising your earnings on an ongoing basis.

  More: http://www.droidcon.co.uk/News/W...

  • Advertising
  • Apps
  • Business

  At 4:00pm to 4:30pm, Friday 29th October

• Maximising revenues from your Android app

  by Russell Buckley

  This session will cover everything you need to know about monetising mobile, ranging from developing your mobile advertising strategy and how you get started, to monitoring and optimising your earnings on an ongoing basis.

  More: http://www.droidcon.co.uk/News/W...

  • Business
  • Digital Marketing
  • Marketing
  • Mobile

  At 4:00pm to 4:30pm, Friday 29th October

• Smart Risks

  Given the rapidly increasing importance of smartphones to EU citizens, businesses and governments, ENISA (the European Network and Information Security Agency) considers it important to assess their security implications

  More: http://www.droidcon.co.uk/Speake...

  At 4:40pm to 5:10pm, Friday 29th October

• Future of Android Panel

  by Reto Meier and Ewan MacLeod

  Room 1

  The panel and chair, Ewan MacLeod, will explore the ways Android is growing around the world on mobile devices, and the great range of opportunities this presents.

  Panelists...

  Michael Smith
  BenMedlock
  Reto Meier

  And a couple more to be confirmed soon.

  At 5:35pm to 6:12pm, Friday 29th October

• Thanks and beers

  by Kevin McDonagh, Dominic Travers, Carl-Gustaf Harroch and novoda

  At 6:00pm to 8:00pm, Friday 29th October