Today's mobile ecosystem is silo-ed. It's often hard to build for each complex platform, which are each important in their own right, but if we take a step back, the value of going cross-platform is the seamless experience you can build for your customers across the many devices they use throughout the day.

Learn how Ali Parr, head of Partner Engineering at Facebook & Parse, has been working with the most disruptive tech companies for the last couple of years, helping them build cross-platform Mobile Apps that scale to millions of users and becoming highly profitable businesses.

Human to human communication is never at a standstill. We’ll go through 8000 years of innovation, up until today, and then extrapolate our likely future. We’ll place the smartphone revolution in context when it comes to openness, disruptive decentralisation of publishing and what metrics truly influence success in the application development space. Expect tech details on wearables, Internet of Things and … what’s next.

The android.graphics APIs contain some useful tools which enable us to perform some tricks more commonly associated with Photoshop or Gimp. It is not always possible to use such tools, particularly when images are being loaded dynamically from external sources. Mark Allison, author of http://blog.styling android.com, explores these APIs and shows you get some amazing results by dynamically altering images in your app.

Releasing a great app is more than having a unique idea. It takes teamwork, collaboration and the will to be the best. At Novoda we make awesomeness happen. This talk is about our process from coding dojos to group design and iterative sprint planning with our customers. We'll describe some of our best practices as well as some of the components that can make a good app great.

This includes:
- Day-to-day processes: pairing tennis, gif code reviews and toggling hidden features.
- Work Environment: hack & tells, continuous communication & kicking ass at Tekken.
- Releasing the app: polishing & quantifying can get you top of the class and not listening to Google can get you expelled.

Finishing with some bonus Android coding tips and tricks and crazy AOSP anti-patterns.

User authentication in mobile applications is a very common and integral use case. Implementing regular passwords is an easy solution for developers but comes with several pitfalls that impair user experience like (re-)entering passwords, the need to create a new unique password or even just the input of personal data on a flaky keyboard while registering a new account.

In this talk the security flaws and UX implications of passwords will be discussed and highlighted which different techniques exist that are able to offer a more mobile friendly flow.

Highlighting authorization and authentication techniques like OAuth, OpenID Connect and even hardware features like Bluetooth Low Energy this talk will be interesting for anyone who's facing a situation where creating and storing user accounts matters.

Eat lunch, get to know the other developers and have a chat with our sponsors. :)

Learn how to focus on creating a great user experience and forget complex infrastructure. Instantly add a powerful core, push notifications, and analytics to your app with Parse.

We will take a deep dive at Parse's native SDKs and see how to build an app that scales to millions of users.

NOTE: This workshop does not require a computer and will be held in the main hall during the conference lunch break

"Materials" is a beautiful new design framework in which we can re-think some fundamental design choices we've made in our applications, across multiple platforms.

But what part of Material design is right for you? Where do you start? Your company just made a huge investment in redesigning your product for iOS7, and now you want to change it again? Who is really in control of your product here?

Come to this talk, and we will cover real ways (with code!) to implements tasteful and meaningful material design paradigms, without sacrificing all of the hard work you've put in until now, and without compromising on your company's design integrity.

Working in a startup environment has its impact on the code, you don't always have the time needed to make everything as perfect as you like. Adding to this fact that the first version of the Wrapp app was a iOS clone written for Android 1. Early does make it easier.

In this talk we will go through how the Wrapp has handled the Android development and being able to have a app supported by (almost) all Android devices with very few Android developers. We will look at different tools and mentalities which helps keep the code understandable and maintainable.

"Android Wear" is a version of Google's Android operating system designed for smartwatches and other wearables. It is a very interesting technology. So I immediately developed and released the Android Wear Application. Through this developing experience, I've got some tips.

In this talk, I'd like to introduce these topics
(Overview, the basis of the AndroidWear Development, some development topics
(e.g. Notifications, User Operations, Syncing data, Distributing apps and so on) with some demonstration.

Android finally has established design guidelines and widely used UI design patterns. Android users understand functionality of components like the navigation drawer, action bar, sharing and many more. However, the guidelines are just that, guidelines, not rules.

All Android apps should not look alike but neither should they all reinvent all the controls. In this presentation I want to take a deep dive into details of the common design patterns and how they can be customised without compromising usability.

I want to help developers and designers alike to understand how to correctly use Android UI design patterns.

"SoundCloud is the leading social audio platform in the world. Mobile in particular has seen rapid growth, and our Android app today is installed on over 15 million devices. Confronted with a large feature set and a monolithic, complex architecture, we rethought our development approach from the ground up, so as to retain the ability to iterate quickly on features, all without having to rewrite the application in its entirety.

In this talk I will share some development and architectural styles we've adopted to achieve that, such as branching by abstraction or using fluid domain objects and a reactive programming model to implement lightweight UIs on top of complex information flows."

When trying to find the right view component for their app, many Android developers turn to collaborative code sharing platforms like GitHub.

Sometimes some expert coders have already created and published a component that seems to solve your specific problem. If you're lucky it works exactly as you want or is general enough to be customized to fit your needs. But in many cases you might find that you spend more time styling or modifying it than what you would spend implementing it yourself from scratch.

Creating your own custom views yourself gives you the great advantage of only having to tend to your specific needs. This talk will explain the reasons behind why you should spend the time to make your own custom views, the basic concepts of how to make them and some advanced tips and tricks on how to make your application unique and beautiful.

One of the hardest things about with Android is working with images. In their uncompressed form, they take up vast quantities of memory. Even the best-written apps routinely suffer crashes and slowdowns due to their demands.

This talk will show you how to improve image handling in your apps. I will first go over the options the API has offered, past and present, to improve image handling, and talk about their pros and cons.

Finally, I will go through several new techniques we have developed at Facebook using little-known parts of the SDK. Using these properly can lead to faster and safer image handling. I will be including walkthroughs of actual source code that you can adapt to use in your apps.

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Android is evolving, but developers aren’t keeping pace. Fragments, which let you break your UI into smaller functional pieces, were released over three years ago. Fragments enable scaling of your app to tablets and the next generation of devices.

There’s a huge opportunity to lead the market, yet few businesses and developers are leading the charge. Corey will show you techniques for starting a fresh project, renovating an existing Android code base, optimizing for tablets, and balancing use of new APIs, while remaining backward compatible.

She has been using fragments as long as they have been around in the XfinityTV app as well as her personal projects. She'd never start a new project with out them!

Let’s talk what we, Dev’s and IT Pro’s, can/should/must apply when thinking of building and delivering apps for mobility era. What Enterprises expect, how to understand and digest security requirements that goes with the territory.

Android platform have really good security mechanisms incorporated in platform and it can extend.

Encryption, VPN, IRM/DRM, SAML 2.0, MDM and etc. - Are we using it? Are we working together to everage flexibility, usability and security at the same time.

Mobile devices are - by nature - designed for location-based apps and services. You can enrich your apps with geographic functionality such as geocoding, routing, mapping as well advanced geospatial analysis and real-time location-based messaging.

Many developers make use of these diverse services that a handful geo-platforms expose through their APIs. There are no limits to the imagination for geo apps if we think apart from what standard APIs provide. What if the geographic service world would be highly customizable?

You could build your own street network, use different attributes and algorithms for routing, use it mobile, online and offline. You could let people edit your maps, provide fine grained access and capabilities, and provide customized cartography. There are many more examples where using web and native geospatial building blocks for your applications is beneficial compared to only using standard platform services and functionalities.

In this presentation, we will show you advanced and customized standard services.

Key takeaways:
- Inspiration & startups
- The technology *underneath* the apps
- History lesson / old-man-rant :)

Google Play services makes it easy to integrate exciting functionality into your Android apps delivered through the Google Play Store.

This talk will give you a rundown of Google Play services and how your Apps can use this wealth of functionality continuously being pushed to the world. And of course… we will also present some highlights of the new upcoming features of Android.