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Custom Components for Android
Paul Lammertsma conducts a hands-on workshop on creating custom components for Android applications, providing best practices for accessibility, measuring and memory management.
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Near Field Communication
Neil Garner discusses the role played by NFC in today and tomorrow’s economic landscape and how businesses can take advantage of it.
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Building a Media Player Application with the GStreamer SDK for Android
Xavi Artigas introduces GStreamer, a Free, Open-Source framework for handling multimedia, enabling applications to capture, process and playback any kind of media.
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Android App Anatomy
Eric Burke advises on creating mobile applications for Android: the lifecycle of an app, loaders, fragments, Otto, DI, and others.
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Continuous Integration for Mobile
Godfrey Nolan introduces the necessary pieces to set up continuous integration for iOS and Android: Hudson/Jenkins, headless emulators, unit testing tools, functional testing and beta app deployment.
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Dagger: A Fast Dependency Injector for Android and Java
Jesse Wilson introduces Dagger, a dependency injection framework for Java, covering the motivation behind its creation, examples on how to use it and some of the internal details.
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Android App Anatomy
Eric Burke discusses: why building visual interfaces, design guidelines for Android apps, and an example.
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The Fragment Transition
Corey Leigh Latislaw discusses Android Fragments which enable scaling phone applications to tablets.
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Concurrency in Android
G. Blake Meike discusses concurrency in Android, focusing on AsyncTask – what can be done with it, what problems using it and how to circumvent them.
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Mobile Webdev: The Horror
John Bender presents the good, the bad, and the ridiculous aspects of doing cross-platform mobile web development, suggesting progressive enhancement as a way to address the existing issues.
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Console Quality Lighting on Mobile Devices
Matt Wash introduces the Geomerics Enlighten framework used by several popular games for generating dynamic lightning scenes and the challenges met porting it to iOS and Android.
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Fast Mobile UIs - You’re an Edge Case
Horia Dragomir offers tips on creating responsive UIs on mobile platforms along with advice on several pitfalls that need to be avoided.