Droidcon Italy 2017
2017-04-06..2017-04-07
Turin, Italy
[Droidcon Italy 2016, Droidcon Italy 2017, Droidcon Italy 2018, droidcon Italy 2019, droidcon Italy 2020, droidcon Italy 2021, droidcon Italy 2022]
as the organisers put it
droidcon Italy 2017 is the most important Italian Android developer conference: 2 days, 70+ talks, 100% Android!
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Video Review | 02m | |
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| Gophers are coming | Jovica Popovic | 39m |
Demonstrates using go mobile bind/build to produce Android APKs and AARs, shows native Go apps and Java-callable libraries, and lists concrete limits and… | ||
| Making the most of your Gradle Builds | Egor Andreevici | 28m |
Gradle performance improves by concrete steps: keep Gradle and the Android Gradle plugin up to date, enable the daemon and parallel execution, and use the… | ||
| Make your Android Studio Plugin | Andrea Lucibello | 33m |
A concrete report on a working Android Studio plugin that scaffolds an MVP login flow, creates activity/fragment/presenter/interface files, edits… | ||
| Adaptable architecture for agencies | Luca Piras | 37m |
A practical agency architecture that fuses Clean Architecture and MVP claims to let a small team ship 2–3 apps per month across short‑lived kiosks and… | ||
| ASO Professional Techniques for Google Play | Daniele Biolatti | 35m |
Claims concrete metrics and tactics: Google Play downloads jump 21% last quarter and 2.3M apps make discoverability brutal with 70% of installs coming from 1%… | ||
| Smart-Watches as paradigm-shifting player in IoT | Francesca Stradolini | 27m |
A working system turns a smart‑watch into the monitoring hub: bedside Android clients connect to biosensing platforms via Bluetooth and to an intermediary… | ||
| Android high performance baby | Enrique Lopez | 40m |
Claims concrete gains from techniques like prefetching, connection queuing and exponential backoff, and shows that careful networking and caching cut mobile… | ||
| Android Things for IoT Talk | Wayne Piekarski | 36m |
Android Things Developer Preview extends Android to IoT, using familiar tools like Android Studio, the SDK and NDK and supporting boards such as Raspberry Pi 3… | ||
| RxJava 2 for the rest of us | Hugo Visser | 40m |
RxJava 2 is a full rewrite that splits Observable and Flowable so Flowable supports backpressure while Observable does not; the talk shows an Android RFID… | ||
| Add proximity to apps with Nearby | Brian Duff | 26m |
Nearby exposes three concrete APIs: pub/sub messages (≈100 KB) that combine BLE, classic Bluetooth and an optional ultrasound room-detection channel plus a… | ||
| Working with Google Assistant | Erik Hellman | 33m |
Demo shows a working integration with Actions on Google and API AI (Dialogflow), backed by Firebase Cloud Functions and Node.js, using a static JSON of… | ||
| Android First | Lisa Wray | 27m |
Argues that companies should launch Android first or simultaneously because Android has 85% global market share versus iPhone 15% and U S share near 55% and… | ||
| Deep Android Integration | Ty Smith | 44m |
Practical recipe: implements deep links with autoVerify and assetlinks.json so universal HTTP links open the app and Play Store referrer continues flows… | ||
| Journey to material Design Award | Taylor Ling | 46m |
Builds Fabulous as an Android‑first MVP in six months, bootstrapped and remote, reaches 3 million downloads 100000 daily active users and 8000 daily new users… | ||
| How to reactively load and cache data without even trying | Mike Nakhimovich | 34m |
NYT open sources Store, a concrete library that implements mem-cache then disk-cache then network with reactive APIs and streaming parsers so apps get data… | ||
| Gradle 3.0 and beyond for Android Development | Etienne Studder | 48m |
Gradle 3.x adds concrete, measurable improvements: Daemon-by-default keeps JVM warm for faster runs; remote and local build cache (experimental in 3.5, enabled… | ||
| Does it work? Did you test it? | Derek Rozycki, Kirk Chambers | 35m |
Argues automation alone fails because exhaustive permutations are impossible—915 million permutations illustrates scale—and recommends building state diagrams… | ||
| RxFireDroid: From Idea to MavenCentral/jCenter | Martin Liersch | 39m |
RxFireDroid is an RxJava wrapper for Firebase built, tested and published end to end: code lives on GitHub, unit and instrumentation tests run on an emulator… | ||
| Spinning the Phisycal Web with Android and Bluetooth 5 | Martin Wooley | 46m |
Demonstrations show Android using BLE advertising and scanner APIs to broadcast Eddystone URLs and UID frames and to startAdvertising from a phone, parse… | ||
| Amazon tips & tricks for in-app purchase | Mario Viviani | 39m |
Cohort analysis of Top 50 apps finds a tiny group of power users (defined >$50/month, average >$200) often under 0.1% but supplying up to ~80% of revenue… | ||
| Android Security, an enterprise perspective | Pietro Maggi | 22m |
In this talk I’m presenting some hot topics for European Corporation in the process to adopt Android as COSU devices.
How features introduced in Android 6.0… | ||
| Attacking Android Applications | Dario Incalza | 43m |
Walks through concrete attacks: unzip an APK, use apktool to recover AndroidManifest and resources, inspect classes.dex and smali to find a hard‑coded AES key… | ||
| Roasting Google APIs on a Firebasse to create Iberritos | Ishan Khanna | 39m |
Shows how to assemble an Uber‑like app with Firebase as the backend and Google Maps/Places/Directions for routing and search, claiming a prototype in hours and… | ||
| Kotlin: A Followup | Christina Lee | 31m |
Kotlin adoption at Pinterest is a gradual, pragmatic experiment: teams of 30+ developers let individuals choose Java or Kotlin, which produces a split codebase… | ||
| What’s NNNNNNNNew in Android Security? | Scott Alexander | 43m |
Gets concrete: how to enable Network Security Config XML (including debug-only self-signed certs, user cert handling, and SSL pinning), how to ask the keystore… | ||
| Spinning the physical web with android and bluetooth 5 | Martin Woolley | 46m |
Shows that Bluetooth beacons actually broadcast tiny packets with Eddystone URL frame and telemetry fields, includes working Android code using Bluetooth LE… | ||
| Continuous deployement on Android with the publishing API | Julio Zynger | 37m |
Explains how to automate APK uploads and store metadata using Google Play’s Publishing API, showing the service account JSON key fields to configure, the Java… | ||
| Rosie: use case framework | Jorge Barroso Carmona | 35m |
Karumi ships Rosie after 1.5 years of iteration as a concrete app framework focused on testability, scalability and readability, with internal code on GitHub… | ||
| Write once, ship multiple times | Zeljko Plesac | 37m |
Claim: a maintainable whitelabel product exists and works if most business logic lives server‑side and apps share only configurable UI and feature boundaries… | ||
| Grokking the contrastaint layout | Wolfram Rittmeyer | 45m |
Demo-heavy coverage of ConstraintLayout and the revamped layout editor in Android Studio with concrete claims and caveats: requires Android Studio 2.2+… | ||
| User experience , what matters | Mika Alapiessa | 40m |
Claims and numbers are concrete: a 14,000‑marketer Adobe survey and a MobileBridge survey, apps convert about 3x conversion vs mobile web, and only 25% active… | ||
| What’s new in Android Wear 2.0 | Daniele Bonaldo | 34m |
Android Wear 2.0 adds concrete developer features: watches get a Play Store and can run independent apps (manifest flag plus minSdk 25), apps can perform… | ||
| From zero to play store | Massimo Frasson | 35m |
• Where do I find Unity? Where are the docs?
• Which other software/skill can support game development?
• Setting up first project: differences from 2D to 3D… | ||
| Testing Android Apps Based on Dagger and RxJava | Fabio Collini | 35m |
Shows how to test an Android app built with Dagger, Retrofit and RxJava by running most tests on the JVM and minimizing boilerplate. Concrete examples include… | ||
| A new hope | Eugenio Marletti, Sebastiano Poggi | 45m |
A concrete claim: Flutter (Dart + Skia engine) produces near‑pixel‑perfect Android/iOS UI and ships with the framework inside the APK; a Droidcon event details… | ||
| Eco-friendly hardware hacking with android | Carlo Pescio | 41m |
Uses a regular Android phone/tablet plus plain Java and an OTG adapter to control scrap hardware no firmware just Java and USB OTG keyboard LED via control… | ||
| Android things in action | Stefano Sanna, Giovanni Di Gialluca | 40m |
Android Things runs on low‑cost boards and exposes real Peripheral I/O: Raspberry Pi 3, Intel Edison, GPIO, PWM, I2C, SPI, UART with Android APIs to open… | ||
| Cross-platform mobile apps development | Gianni Rosa Gallina | 42m |
Claims that Xamarin with C#/.NET plus Visual Studio lets one build Android iOS and Windows apps from one codebase and achieve 95% code sharing. Shows… | ||
| Client and server, 3 meters above the Cloud | Matteo Ferroni | 30m |
Claims and concrete engineering: designs bring distributed-systems patterns to mobile and IoT—publish/subscribe via MQTT, challenge-response authentication for… | ||
| Retro games for Android devices? At your service! | Marco Mazzaglia | 49m |
Argues that retro arcade constraints map neatly to mobile play: short sessions, simple inputs and tight mechanics. Shows Android-specific wins — emulators for… | ||
| Make your app for TV | Sonia Sharma | 31m |
Talk will have details like:
What is Cast
Why a developer should make their app cast enabled
Tips for coding for TV
Design and UX considerations
Coding needed… | ||
| Hacking for Salone | Emanuele Di Saverio, Simone Lippolis | 33m |
Toy Parrot drones get hacked into a multiplayer racer: an Android app controls cameras over Wi‑Fi while each drone also joins a local network to hit a central… | ||
| TG3 Piemonte of April 6, 2017 | Maura Fassio | 02m |
A conference report for Droidcon Italy 2017 summarizes attendance (900+ attendees, ~60 speakers) and announces Android Things as a shipped OS for IoT devices… | ||
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