“Book Dash gathers volunteer creative professionals to create new, African storybooks that anyone can freely translate and distribute.” REBECCA FRANKS @RIGGAROO BOOKS AVAILABLE IN 11 OFFICIAL LANGUAGES OF SOUTH AFRICA
“As developers, we need to start thinking now about how to create applications that serve a diverse range of users.” KELLY SHUSTER @KELLYSHUSTER ANDROID IS FOR EVERYONE
ANDROID RESPONSIBILITY TO ALL OF YOUR USERS. PART OF YOUR DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT DECISIONS. EFFICIENCY SAVES YOUR USERS PRECIOUS DATA AND INCOME. MAKES YOU A BETTER ENGINEER.
OFFLINE MODE WANT THE USER TO BE ABLE TO ACCESS THEIR BOARDS AND CARDS OFFLINE. EASY. DOWNLOAD THEM WHEN WE HAVE NETWORK. BUT WAIT! THAT CAN BE A LOT OF DATA. BRAZIL IS ONE OF LARGEST USER GROUPS.
OFFLINE MODE HOW DO WE MAXIMIZE UTILITY OF OFFLINE WHILE MINIMIZING BATTERY/DATA DRAIN? PRIORITIZING “IMPORTANT” BOARDS AND CARDS. SELECTIVE BOARD/CARD DOWNLOADING. BATCHING TO MINIMIZE OVERHEAD. TEST. TEST. TEST. METRICS. METRICS. METRICS.
“The #1 reason I like working in Android is because I feel like I’m building for the entire world. Not a niche, not a segment, but EVERYONE.” GONÇALO SILVA @GONCALOSSILVA
“…wanting to be able to have more of a connection with the product [that] I was building and doing a client app made it feel more tangible.” Lien Mamitsuka @lientm
“What I loved about Android in the first place (and mobile development in general) was the fact that I could see my code actually running on my phone.” Bruno Aybar @brunoaybarg
DARIO MUNGOI @DARIOMUNGOI PET PROJECT: DISPLAY INFORMATION AND SHOW TIMES FOR LUSOMUNDO IN MOZAMBIQUE EVOLVED INTO TICKET SALES FOR FIRST LUSOMUNDO AND THEN OTHER EVENTS WITH CO-FOUNDER STARTED A CONSULTING COMPANY ON TOP OF TICKET BUSINESS
“What I like about mobile is that it's so broad, that there are so many areas that you can be specialised in… and that if you're curious, you'll never get bored…” FLORINA MUNTENESCU @FMUNTENESCU
ARCHITECTURE PATTERNS FOR ORGANIZING AND ARCHITECTING APPS FINDING THE APPROACH TO MAXIMIZE MAINTAINABILITY, STABILITY, TESTABILITY HOW TO MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENT PIECES FIT TOGETHER. CREATING THE MOST EFFICIENT, ELEGANT ABSTRACTIONS WHILE STILL MAKING EVERYTHING WORK.
MACHINE LEARNING DESIGNED WITH MOBILE AND EMBEDDED PLATFORMS IN MIND EFFICIENT MODELS, REDUCED CODE FOOTPRINT INSTANT TRANSLATION LIKE GOOGLE TRANSLATE
NOVEMBER 12, 2011 ADOBE DONATES FLEX TO THE APACHE FOUNDATION “In the long-term, we believe HTML5 will be the best technology for enterprise application development.”
UI/UX PATTERNS EVOLVE. TIME AND TESTING REVEAL NEW WAYS OF INTERACTING WITH THE USER. ALWAYS MOVING TOWARDS A BETTER EXPERIENCE. STILL ROOM TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX.
COMMUNITY PROVIDES OPPORTUNITY. GENERATES TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE. PROVIDES GUIDANCE AND FEEDBACK. BRINGS SOCIAL INTERACTION TO THE SOMETIMES SHY ENGINEER.
GOOGLE DEVELOPER GROUPS DEVELOPER GROUPS RECOGNIZED BY GOOGLE. VERY INDEPENDENT. RECEIVE SOME ASSISTANCE TO THROW EVENTS LIKE DEVFEST. THERE ARE MANY OF THEM. NOT STRICTLY ANDROID BUT ANDROID COMMUNITY IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF GDGS AND VICE VERSA.
GDG LISBON JUST ONE PART OF A STRONG TECH COMMUNITY IN LISBON. COLLABORATES WITH OTHER LOCAL GROUPS: AndroidLx, MobileLx, AngularLx, Azure Cloud Pro, AzureLisbon, BigDataPortugal, MongoDbLx, SINFO COLLABORATES WITH LOCAL UNIVERSITIES: IST, FCUL, ISE
GDG LISBON OPEN: ANYONE CAN SUGGESTION A TALK OR EVENT AND GDG LISBON WILL ORGANIZE IT. MONTHLY MEET UPS + DEVFEST + ANDROID STUDYJAM MEETUP.COM/GDGLISBON GDGPORTUGAL.XYZ FILIPE BARROSO @ABARROSO
LUSOPHONE ANDROID COMMUNITY ORGANIZES GDG SÃO PAULO SLACK LUSOPHONE ANDROID COMMUNITY slack.androidevbr.org MEMBERS FROM BRAZIL, PORTUGAL, MOZAMBIQUE, AND OTHER PORTUGUESE-SPEAKING COUNTRIES COMMUNITY SHARES REAL-WORLD USE CASES OF ANDROID WALMYR CARVALHO @WALMYRCARVALHO
DARIO MUNGOI @DARIOMUNGOI LUSOPHONE ANDROID COMMUNITY GDG MENTOR FOR THE AFRICAN LUSOPHONE COUNTRIES WRITES A SERIES OF ANDROID BEGINNER POSTS IN PORTUGUESE @ dariomungoi.wordpress.com “I really love the way the community is so vibrant: the large amount of content and resources to help developers succeed and build high quality apps.”
THE ANDROID COMMUNITY TRULY GLOBAL, INCREDIBLY ACTIVE, COMES IN MANY DIFFERENT FORMS. LOTS OF PARTICIPATION AND ACTIVITY FROM ANDROID GOOGLERS. A HUGE NETWORK OF CONFERENCES AS WELL AS MEET UPS: DEVFESTS + DROIDCONS ONLINE COMMUNITIES LIKE SLACK CHANNELS ANDROID COMMUNITY MEDIA: PODCASTERS AND YOUTUBERS
REFERENCES ANDROID HISTORY http://www.androidcentral.com/android-history ANDROID | WIKIPEDIA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system) THE EVOLUTION OF CELL PHONE DESIGN BETWEEN 1983–2009 http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/05/the-evolution-of-cell-phone-design-between-1983-2009/ BLACKBERRY 6210 | ALL-TIME 100 GADGETS http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2023689_2023708_2023714,00.html OPEN HANDSET ALLIANCE http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/index.html OPEN HANDSET ALLIANCE | WIKIPEDIA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Handset_Alliance
REFERENCES A LOOK BACK AT SOONER, GOOGLE’S FIRST ANDROID PHONE http://www.androidcentral.com/look-back-google-sooner-first-android-phone A BRIEF HISTORY OF ANDROID PHONES https://www.cnet.com/news/a-brief-history-of-android-phones/ THE 20 GREATEST MILESTONES OF ANDROID’S FIRST FIVE YEARS http://www.cio.com/article/2369687/android-os/125072-The-20-greatest-milestones-of-Androids-first-five- years.html#slide21 MOBILE INTERNET USE PASSES DESKTOP FOR THE FIRST TIME, STUDY FINDS https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/01/mobile-internet-use-passes-desktop-for-the-first-time-study-finds/ ANDROID JUST HIT A RECORD 88% MARKET SHARE OF ALL SMARTPHONES https://qz.com/826672/android-goog-just-hit-a-record-88-market-share-of-all-smartphones/ THE DATA TRAP: AFFORDABLE SMARTPHONES, EXPENSIVE MOBILE DATA http://blog.jana.com/blog/2015/05/21/the-data-trap-affordable-smartphones-expensive-data
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