Android Makers 2017
2017-04-10..2017-04-11
Paris, France
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as the organisers put it
Android Makers Paris, the biggest Android event in France. Android Makers brings in Paris the world class experts in Android for 2 days of sessions, workshops and showcases.
who it's for
Android developers, app architects, engineering managers, QA engineers, release engineers, mobile designers
topics
Kotlin migrations and adoption; single-activity app architecture; modularizing legacy Android code; ExoPlayer for media and VR; Android Wear 2.0 development; Android Things and IoT integrations; deep links and native SSO; cold-start and launch performance; UI testing with Espresso and Robolectric; dependency injection with Toothpick; Gradle build and release optimization; React Native integration into Android apps
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Keynote: An Android Retrospective | Romain Guy, Chet Haase | 54m |
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| Deep Android Integrations | Ty Smith | 48m |
Practical how‑tos and concrete implementations: building HTTP and app‑scheme deep links that survive install flows and Play Store referrers, implementing… | ||
| Leboncoin on Android, flashback between pragmatism and requirement | Pawoubadi Abalo | 21m |
The talk reviews the Android leboncoin app’s development over four years and 13+ million downloads, addressing legacy code and quality goals (99.85% crash-free… | ||
| Industrialization of mobile development | Jean-Sébastien Dupuy, Samuel Metias | 21m |
How to industrialize Android app development using Microsoft tools: using Xamarin Test Cloud for testing, HockeyApp for beta distribution and crash reporting… | ||
| Launch Screens: From a Tap to Your App | Cyril Mottier | 45m |
Shows concrete changes and measurements: uses adb shell screenrecord with timestamps, reportFullyDrawn and activity manager logs to compare… | ||
| Let's Get Functional? Seriously! | Cédric Creusot, Geoffrey Tan | 24m |
Automated functional testing for Android apps using tools like Calabash and Cucumber to replace manual replaying of user interactions (clicks, scrolls… | ||
| Scaling Android at PagesJaunes | Thibault Fighiera, Alexandre Badie | 21m |
PagesJaunes describes scaling an Android team of 13 developers across 5 feature teams working on one app. They explain their organization and… | ||
| RxJava is dead, long live RxJava 2! | David Wursteisen | 44m |
Overview of RxJava 2: history from RxJava to RxJava 2, the API and performance changes introduced in version 2, and concrete differences between RxJava and… | ||
| Merge Like It's 2099 | Xavier F. Gouchet | 26m |
An open-source Python tool integrates with Git via .git/config and runs a pipeline of small, language-aware resolvers to auto-handle import additions… | ||
| Mobile Print – Disruption, Collaboration and Opportunity | Mark Boyt | 21m |
Explains why apps should support printing with concrete numbers and tools: Android has a built-in Android print framework since 4.4, manufacturers preload… | ||
| Remote, lonely and productive | David González | 42m |
Builds Help Scout’s Android app from scratch and ships an alpha in months while working solo, using pragmatic choices not shiny tech: lightweight homegrown… | ||
| Developing for Android Wear 2.0 | Hoi Lam | 43m |
In this session, Hoi will explore the past, the present and the future of Android Wear. Come and find out the new developer features in Android Wear 2.0 and… | ||
| Android Things for IoT | Wayne Piekarski | 44m |
Google recently announced the Developer Preview for Android Things, a comprehensive way to build IoT products with the power and security of Android. This talk… | ||
| Android modules, an effective way to work with legacy code | Gabriel Adgeg, Damien Locque | |
The talk explains how Meetic created and used Android library modules to refactor legacy code for reuse across features and apps. It describes concrete… | ||
| ExoPlayer, a media player for your applications and virtual reality | Julien Salvi | 22m |
Overview of ExoPlayer as a modern replacement for Android MediaPlayer, comparing ExoPlayer v1 and v2 including their pros/cons, supported formats and available… | ||
| How to reactively load and cache data without even trying | Mike Nakhimovich | 40m |
A lightweight library called Store implements memory + disk + network loading with concrete APIs get/fetch/stream and concrete helpers for parsers and… | ||
| Android and Pepper: a love story | Thalía Cruz Castañares, Erwan Pinault | 13m |
Pepper’s tablet becomes a true robot controller by tunneling Ethernet over USB + TCP so Android and Pepper share audio, mic beams and state; an Android service… | ||
| Kotlin in the real world: what you should know before starting a Kotlin project | Rémi Pradal | 27m |
Kotlin as an alternative to Java for Android is evaluated by listing tools and language behaviors that are still missing or incomplete and that could be… | ||
| Taking care of your UI tests | Florian Mierzejewski | 44m |
Most Android UI testing talks focus on how Espresso works and how to start writing simple tests. This is fine for a simple app but maintaining and expanding… | ||
| Offline mode: our Android app works at level -5 of a parking garage | Romain Potier, Mathieu Hausherr | 20m |
Describes how Virtuo’s Android app supports fully offline car rentals using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to unlock/start vehicles in underground parking without… | ||
| Heat the neurons of your Android smartphone with Deep Learning | Qian Jin, Yoann Benoit | 20m |
An Android Makers 2017 presentation describes a proof-of-concept educational Android app that uses deep learning for image recognition. It covers the mobile… | ||
| One year of Clean Architecture: the Good, the Bad and the Bob | Gabriel Adgeg, Dorian Lamande | 41m |
The talk reviews one year of applying Clean Architecture (Uncle Bob) in Android projects, migrating from older patterns to MVP and combinations like MVVM +… | ||
| The ART of organizing resources | Jeroen Mols | 20m |
Proposes a single naming rule—what_where_description with optional size—that aims to make resources discoverable, logically grouped, and less error prone… | ||
| Android Auto - live coding | David Fournier | 19m |
Live coding shows a small Android Auto media app that plays local MP3s and streams using the Android Auto SDK and Android Studio template, built in roughly 20… | ||
| The Fabulous Journey to Material Design Award | Taylor Ling | 48m |
Taylor will be sharing his experience as a design co-founder of Fabulous, an app that recently got the Material Design Award, from design and marketing… | ||
| OpenGL, a noob's guide for Android developers | Benjamin Monjoie | |
OpenGL is often regarded as too complex, obscur or even too low level to be considered when developing an application. Most people will even try to go around… | ||
| Keynote: Android First | Lisa Wray | 36m |
Argues for launching Android first by namecalling the iOS‑first habit a self‑reinforcing mistake and backing it with specifics: Android holds an 85% global… | ||
| Evolution of notifications - tips & tricks | Jeremie Martinez | 42m |
Covers the evolution of Android notifications across platform versions from UX and design perspectives, explains proper notification practices using concepts… | ||
| Toothpick: a fresh approach to Dependency Injection on Android | Stéphane Nicolas, Daniel Molinero Reguera | 53m |
You find RoboGuice simple but slow? And you think Dagger 1 & 2 are fast but complex and bloated? Toothpick is the best of both worlds! Toothpick is a scope… | ||
| Android Design Tools : New features and tools for rapid UI development | Nicolas Roard | 46m |
Android Studio provides powerful tools to help you develop your application user interface. With many capabilities added in the past year, there's a lot to… | ||
| Develop your next application with Kotlin | Arnaud Giuliani | 39m |
Kotlin, a JetBrains language now production-ready (versions 1.0.6 and upcoming 1.1), is presented as an alternative for Android app development. The talk… | ||
| Drunk, he marketed Android apps alone | Pierre Benayoun | 48m |
A developer recounts a three-year solo effort building Android apps as a one-person startup, covering Android app development, product strategy, marketing… | ||
| An Introduction to Google Home, Google Assistant and Actions on Google | Elaine Dias Batista, Wajdi Ben Rabah | 34m |
Google Home is a voice-activated speaker powered by the Google Assistant. You can ask questions, tell it to do things. It’s your own Google, always ready to… | ||
| Improve your Android skills by making Android Wear dials | Gautier Mechling | 42m |
The talk explains how building Android Wear watch faces can sharpen native Android skills by teaching platform constraints and graphics APIs. It walks… | ||
| Testable Android Architecture | Chuck Greb | 42m |
Claims a concrete architecture called MVPC (modified MVP) that splits activity as controller, presenter (logic), and model (data) so half the app does not… | ||
| App Live Review by GDEs | Cyril Mottier, Lisa Wray, Eyal Lezmy, Mike Nakhimovich, Ty Smith, David González | 43m |
Your favorite Google Developer Experts will open for the very first time a few applications, on stage. Please send your APK or Play Store link at… | ||
| Root: a stranger at home? | Bruce Bujon | 41m |
Explains why many Android users install root access on their devices, compares that to leaving an admin account or password exposed, and examines how rooting… | ||
| Discovering and Mastering Obfuscation on Android | Renaud Boulard, François Lolom | 46m |
Covers practical Android app and SDK obfuscation to protect against reverse-engineering and data leakage, using ProGuard and other free tools, with… | ||
| Make or brake… using Gradle. | Stanojko Markovik | 45m |
This talk will focus on automating the tedious tasks every team has. Everyone knows you should write clean code, unit test, and check for common bugs. But… | ||
| Streamlining Payments on Mobile | Mathieu Calba | 41m |
How to build a mobile payment flow from scratch for a commerce app, using concrete techniques: simple payment forms, evolving to 3D Secure handling… | ||
| Mobile Design Is Not Easy! | Quentin Sallat | 39m |
Explains common pitfalls and misconceptions when designing mobile apps for Android and iOS, showing concrete examples of awkward or legitimate design requests… | ||
| Modern Android: How to ditch Activities and Fragments | Fabien Devos | 46m |
Claim: adopt a single Activity architecture and use Magellan so screens are plain Java objects, screens survive rotation while views are recreated, and… | ||
| About React Native inside your existing Android App | Damien Cavaillès | 45m |
Claims React Native can replace painful webviews by inserting JS-driven UI into an existing Android app and rendering real native widgets; demo shows a mixed… | ||
| Android Leaks Live Episode | Benjamin Monjoie, Yannick Lemin | 19m |
A live recording of the Android Leaks podcast featuring Yannick Lemin and Benjamin Monjoie, presenting news and discussions about the Android ecosystem. The… | ||
| Putting the “Pro” in “Proximity”: Interactive Demos of the Nearby API | Chad Schultz | 38m |
What if… - you could share a meeting agenda, link, or access to a document to a roomful of people without having to enter their email addresses? - you could… | ||
| The Business of Technology Business Technology | Chet Haase | 19m |
Claim asserts a self‑reinforcing loop: business‑tech circularity where more business makes more technology and vice versa. Evidence consists of hand‑drawn… | ||
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