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*+-The Internet of Things (IoT) is a new vision of the Internet which is becoming a reality due to emerging new technologies guided by the current economy demand. Among these we can encounter Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), embedded systems, as well as everyday life objects like smartphones. The goal of the […]

*+-Android Auto is coming to your car, and this, pretty much quickly and easily. This is a new extension of the Android platform. As well as Android Wear, this is meant to propose notification, and quick or low interaction to the user. The main difference is that where you use to find flexible guidelines, there […]

*+-I would like to present the process and methodology that we employ at Yahoo London to build high quality apps for millions of users over the world. This would be a high-level talk touching on several different aspects such as team dynamics, testing, architecture, reporting, internationalisation etc.

*+-Discover Android TV and its promising ecosystem. See how you can easily adapt your apps and games to bring these to TV and distribute them through the Play Store. Learn how to take advantage of TV-specific features from your apps, like live channels, global search and recommendations. Also, the Nexus Player being based on an […]

*+-Unit Test Support in Gradle, the new Android Testing Support Library , Espresso 2.1, JUnit4 …everyone talks of testing in 2015 ! We will review what is new and what is coming from Google. Happy Testing!

*+-In his talk, Sebastiano will guide you through a topic that is often ignored: the Canvas API. Even if there’s only scarce documentation for it, the Canvas API is at the heart of everything that shows a UI on Android. You’ll need to tame this powerful and mysterious creature if you want to create great […]

*+-Over 10 billion devices which use Bluetooth were shipped in the technology’s first 10 years. But last year alone, a further 2.5 billion new Bluetooth devices materialised. Bluetooth is going through what has been described as “quiet revolution”, with massive and increasing levels of adoption driven by the release of the latest version of Bluetooth […]

*+-With the addition of Android Wear to the Android ecosystem, the “wearables era” is officially opened. Android apps can now extend beyond the limits of smartphone and tablets, providing to the user a new kind of interaction where “less is more” and opening new ways for developers to engage users within their apps. However, the […]

*+-Like cool animations and transitions? And what about letting all the hard work to the Android Framework? In this talk Lucio will do a Deep dive into the TransitionManager and the new Activity Transitions on Lollipop and show how you can do cool transitions and let almost all the hard work to the Framework.

*+-Join this talk to discover the magic inside the Google Cardboard box. We will show you how the cardboard works and how to create apps with the associated Google SDK. Finally we will present an example of integration with an augmented reality framework.