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Droidcon India 2014

Droidcon India’s fourth edition

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Madhukara Phatak

Android development with Scala and Macroid

Building Android applications using Scala and Macroid. more
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  • Submitted
  • 15 Sep 2014
Section: UI - crisp talks Technical level: Intermediate

Dipesh Khona

D. Thinking - Thought to Action

Design Thinking D. Thinking is a relatively new area for developers in India. It is an effective mechanism and a tool chain for the Developers, Architects, CIO’s, CTO’s etc.. pratically anybody to apply at problem solving. With a very short cycle for developement, release and goto market in the mobile world, it becomes important for developers to implement tools like D. Thinking. Through this wor… more
  • 1 comment
  • Submitted
  • 18 Sep 2014
Section: Workshops Technical level: Intermediate

Kashi Vishwanath

Apps for your wrists and eyes - ( Demo on Google Glass along with app development on Android Wear)

The objective of the session :- Introduce wearables more
  • 6 comments
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 01 Oct 2014
Section: Workshops Technical level: Intermediate

indu s

Android development using Kivy

This workshop will enable you to build android apps in core Python programming language. A working knowledge of Python programming language is assumed and required. more
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  • Submitted
  • 06 Oct 2014
Section: Workshops Technical level: Beginner

Anubhav Sinha

Power of HTML5: PhoneGap, PhoneJS and more

This talk will explore cross-platform app development options using HTML5 based technologies. more
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  • 06 Oct 2014
Section: UI - full talks Technical level: Beginner

Jitendra singh

Android Whets - The Must Haves to galvanise your android apps

The main motto of this seminar would be the key aspects which should be taken care of while creating or modifying an app to make it appeal to users. I would be concentrating on 3 major topics 1)The key things to keep in mind while adding new features in the app. 2)UI features to make it stand out of all and the design principles and techniques to follow so as to make the app’s UI consistent on va… more
  • 5 comments
  • Rejected
  • 08 Oct 2014
Section: UI - full talks Technical level: Intermediate
Arnav Gupta

Arnav Gupta

Hacking through the Android OS code

This workshop would be to give hands-on demonstration on how to get and build the Android OS Source Code, and build it (for a device like Nexus). Then we will look at various parts of the source that can be modified to change the way the Android Operating System looks and works. People who wish to change the core Android OS itself, or people looking forward to release their own Android-based hard… more
  • 7 comments
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 11 Oct 2014
Section: Workshops Technical level: Advanced

Jose L Ugia Gonzalez

Building our next big thing on a weekend with Google App Engine

Note - Category is sync, which doesn’t currently show up. more
  • 1 comment
  • Submitted
  • 11 Oct 2014
Section: Versioning - full talks Technical level: Beginner
Arnav Gupta

Arnav Gupta

One small tap for mankind: Exploring NFC

NFC on Android is not just about payments. There are a plethora of actions achieveable by that small tap of your phone, and surprisingly, NFC hasn’t been applied to as many fields as it should have been. more
  • 4 comments
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 12 Oct 2014
Section: Hardware - full talks Technical level: Beginner
Arnav Gupta

Arnav Gupta

Enriching your App's UI with SimpleFingerGestures

Making your App stand out from competitiors can be tough. Often the UI makes the difference, especially how the users are interacting with the app. Users want intuituve and easy control over the app, and you want to cram in as many options as possible while keeping simple. The most successful solution to improve UI is to implement touch gestures like (Un)pinch, 1/2/3/4-finger drags, swipes, flick… more
  • 4 comments
  • Cancelled
  • 13 Oct 2014
Section: UI - full talks Technical level: Beginner

Varun

Create your own social network app using Parse.com

This hands-on session goes through the process of building a consumer Android app by taking an example of a simple social network. We will go through the different considerations (design & technical) you have to think about to build such a product. more
  • 5 comments
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 16 Oct 2014
Section: Workshops Technical level: Intermediate

Parul Soi

User Research for Developers

Developers, particularly those working alone or in small teams, often waste a significant amount of their time by skipping user research, even though they’ve probably been advised to do so. My talk is designed to reiterate the importance with facts, teach them best practices and also methodologies they can adopt, particularly here in India. more
  • 0 comments
  • Rejected
  • 17 Oct 2014
Section: UI - crisp talks Technical level: Beginner

Vinay S Shenoy (@vinaysshenoy)

okulus: Image effects to make your apps stand out

It’s one thing to do Image loading, but another thing altogether to make them look pretty. You would often want to make your app stand out from the rest by adding multiple effects, say borders, rounded corners, circular crops, etc. more
  • 4 comments
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 17 Oct 2014
Section: UI - crisp talks Technical level: Intermediate

Basavaprasad B

Application of Graph Based Image Segmentation in Android Technology

Android technology is new and breathtaking field for both developers and users. Smart phones used in today’s world are as good as computers and are available commonly with affordable price. Smart phones are aided with cameras with good resolution, faster CPU’s and large memory storage. Image processing operations are very friendly to android smart phones. The common operations of image processing… more
  • 3 comments
  • Submitted
  • 18 Oct 2014
Section: Versioning – crisp talks Technical level: Beginner

Tushar Choudhary

Moving towards Material Design with Lollipop

Attend this session to get the real sense of material design and how this design is better than previous inconsistent designs. Atendees will get to know how the user experience can be enhanced by adopting the material design specs in their apps. more
  • 3 comments
  • Submitted
  • 18 Oct 2014
Section: UI - crisp talks Technical level: Beginner

srinivas kodali

Securing User & Android Data

Lot of existing apps do not use any form of security measures while storing user/app data & also while consuming APIs over the network. The main objective is to help developers gaurd their apps against penetration attacks and securing their proprietary data. more
  • 0 comments
  • Rejected
  • 19 Oct 2014
Section: Security – full talks Technical level: Intermediate

Anvita Bajpai

Mobile Apps for Developent

SMAC, especially mobility has changed the world in many ways. As a result, many companies are working on innovative solutions for the changed world. Startup culture is also flowering. However, as one talks about solutions, we start talking about the best in class technologies, for the best available devices. What about the other extreme end of population? and what solutions they need? and what is… more
  • 5 comments
  • Submitted
  • 20 Oct 2014
Section: UI - full talks Technical level: Intermediate

Yashal Shakti

Beyond Looks : The runway to a perfect UI in a nutshell

Mobile ecosystem is fast enveloping our daily life and apps are growing in great numbers ; with multiple apps available on similar backgrounds and technologies it is now paramount to get the edge and UI is just the key to that. This crisp talk would acquaint you with design principles and the skeleton on which a perfect UI can be molded. more
  • 1 comment
  • Submitted
  • 20 Oct 2014
Section: UI - crisp talks Technical level: Beginner

Shashwat Pradhan

Android apps for Amazon and BlackBerry- Money with Android

Android developers struggle with getting traction to their apps, this session will help them understand how to expand their market reach into Amazon, BlackBerry and Chinese markets. more
  • 2 comments
  • Submitted
  • 20 Oct 2014
Section: Hardware – crisp talks Technical level: Beginner

Kumar Sukhani

Multiboot your device with Android, Firefox and Ubuntu OS

MultiBoot your device so that you can have multiple OS available on your device more
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  • 21 Oct 2014
Section: Hardware - full talks Technical level: Intermediate

Kumar Sukhani

Lil'Debi-Running Debian on Android

Lil’Debi is an Android application while allows you to run Debian Operating system in parallel using chroot more
  • 2 comments
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  • 21 Oct 2014
Section: Hardware - full talks Technical level: Advanced

Srinivasan G Proposing

hardware/IoT

To understand iOT that is not amazon iOT or Cisco iOT. Can we call it iOP(internet of people)? more
  • 1 comment
  • Rejected
  • 21 Oct 2014
Section: Hardware - full talks Technical level: Advanced

Sukesh Soman

App Testing, CI & Automation

Demonstrate the benefits of a mobile test strategy, a continuous integration tool and how to use an app test automation framework more
  • 3 comments
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 21 Oct 2014
Section: Versioning - full talks Technical level: Intermediate

srinivas kodali Proposing

Security of In-app Payments

Payment systems in India are highly monitored and controlled. Uber was asked to shut operations for using an international payment gateway system. What are the major security issues and how firms are tackling them. more
  • 0 comments
  • Cancelled
  • 21 Oct 2014
Section: Security – full talks Technical level: Intermediate

Arvind

Android High performance in GPU using opengles and renderscript

Understanding basic concepts of GPU programming to hardware accelerate graphics and compute programs. We will discuss about OpenGL API for graphics programming and briefly introduce Renderscript API for High Performance computing more
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  • 21 Oct 2014
Section: Hardware - full talks Technical level: Intermediate

srinivas kodali

Sorry State of Security in Indian Mobile App Ecosystem

Indian firms are reallly proud of their mobile apps, yet they dont realize how easy it is to reverse engineer one especially when you dont bother about the security. Indian app ecosystem is highly vulnerable to attacks and these firms dont have any intrusion detection measures. more
  • 2 comments
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  • 21 Oct 2014
Section: Security – crisp talks Technical level: Beginner

Alok Vaish

Tips for Designers: from a developer

Provide guidelines for designers to create adaptive designs that will help easing up the implementation part for developers. more
  • 1 comment
  • Rejected
  • 22 Oct 2014
Section: UI - crisp talks Technical level: Intermediate

Raghuram Trikutam

What does it take to build an app like FreeCharge?

At FreeCharge, we lay a lot of emphasis on UI/UX principles while building our apps. Designers and engineers alike work on building an understanding on the core flow and representation of the app while ensuring performance and quality of the functioning of the app. For us, and for a lot of others, UX is about customer’s like-ability of an app. That stems from an ease of usage, crisp communication… more
  • 2 comments
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 24 Oct 2014
Section: UI - full talks Technical level: Beginner

indu s

Polymer

This talk is about Polymer, a front end framework which came out of Google and provides some neat ideas on how front end developemnt should be done. more
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  • 24 Oct 2014
Section: UI - crisp talks Technical level: Beginner

KK Sharma

Enhancing UX/UI Using Custom Views

The Android framework has a large set of View classes for interacting with the user and displaying various types of data. But sometimes your app branding or app UX appeals some unique UI with animation that aren’t covered by the built-in views then you need to create robust and reusable Custom Views. more
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  • 25 Oct 2014
Section: UI - full talks Technical level: Intermediate
Arnav Gupta

Arnav Gupta

Push to Play : A full CI implementation for Android apps using open tools

Using three free to use tools/services, namely Github, Travis-CI and Google Play Developer APIs, we can automate the whole process from pusing changes in source code to compilation, signing, and finally publishing to Google Play Store. more
  • 1 comment
  • Rejected
  • 26 Oct 2014
Section: Versioning – crisp talks Technical level: Beginner

Sriram Ramasubramanian

Abstract UI Concepts

UI performance is more important for an app to be popular. In this talk you will learn about few concepts that can change the way you think about writing UI code. more
  • 5 comments
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 26 Oct 2014
Section: UI - full talks Technical level: Intermediate

chinmayisk

triggering with jerks and falls

To learn how to use a phonefall or a jerk on a phone as trigger points for your android application. more
  • 3 comments
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 27 Oct 2014
Section: Hardware – crisp talks Technical level: Intermediate

Ramu K C

Mobile Deep linking

Deep linking for better user interaction and engagement more
  • 4 comments
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 28 Oct 2014
Section: UI - crisp talks Technical level: Intermediate

Anirudh S

I heard that you loved Open source and Android

To let others know what it takes to build an open source, cloud-connected Android library. more
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  • 28 Oct 2014
Section: Versioning - full talks Technical level: Beginner

Shreyas B

Leveraging BLE beacons for proximity & positioning

Introduce and discuss how the Bluetooth Low Energy beacons can be leveraged to detect proximity and indoor positioning. more
  • 2 comments
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 29 Oct 2014
Section: Hardware – crisp talks Technical level: Beginner

Abhisek Devkota

A Cyanogen Journey

This presentation would be to give a first hand account of what it takes to bring a consumer mobile device to the India market - based on the CyanogenMod Project. This is for those with general interest in CyanogenMod, hobbiest who want to make changes to AOSP, or people looking forward to releasing their own Android-based hardware products. more
  • 1 comment
  • Submitted
  • 30 Oct 2014
Section: Hardware – crisp talks Technical level: Beginner

Abhisek Devkota

Scaling Open Source

To discuss the growth of the CyanogenMod Project and the challenges around scaling it’s unique position as both a community and a retail OS. more
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  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 30 Oct 2014
Section: Versioning - full talks Technical level: Beginner

Dinesh Shetty

Strategic Mobile Application Security

The attendees will be given a detailed walkthrough on how to perform security testing for Android applications in a real-life environment, where they have a short deadline and need to deliver optimum reports. more
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  • 04 Nov 2014
Section: Security – full talks Technical level: Intermediate

Safwan Erooth

Drupal - A drop in scalable & secure backend for Android Apps

Learn to use Drupal as a drop-in backend for App development. more
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  • 04 Nov 2014
Section: Workshops Technical level: Beginner

Arpit Toshniwal

Data caching and asynchronous data binding for seamless user experience

To let others know how to effectively use data caching and asynchronus data binding for seamless user experience. more
  • 2 comments
  • Submitted
  • 05 Nov 2014
Section: UI - full talks Technical level: Intermediate

Paresh Goel

Android: Building for India. Gearing for 100 Million Users.

Attendees will learn how communication layer could be built for an always-on service like messaging. more
  • 2 comments
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 05 Nov 2014
Section: Versioning - full talks Technical level: Intermediate

Shreyas Malavalli

Delightful User Experience

This talk concerns about how to provide a delightful user experience that is actually going to work once it hits real life. more
  • 2 comments
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 05 Nov 2014
Section: UI - crisp talks Technical level: Intermediate

Deepak Abbot

Measuring App Install campaign’s effectiveness

Objective is to help App developers to find out if their app installs are working for them and delivering the right ROI. I will take them through various tools to use for attribution and what key metrics to measure more
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  • Submitted
  • 13 Nov 2014
Section: Workshops Technical level: Intermediate

Soham Mondal

New Material design patterns

To cover the new material design patterns introduced in Android L and understand how to implement those patterns in your app. more
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  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 14 Nov 2014
Section: UI - full talks Technical level: Intermediate

Nish

Say hello to Android in C# using Xamarin

Building Android apps in C# gives the developers the power of nativeness combined with code sharing benefits. In addition to allowing a developer to write Android apps in C#, Xamarin lets them reuse existing .NET libraries and share their business logic across iOS, Android, and Windows apps. The session will help developers determine the architecture necessary to support maximum code sharing and … more
  • 1 comment
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 14 Nov 2014
Section: UI - full talks Technical level: Beginner

Makerville Systems

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Tah : Open Source BLE Arduino-compatible Board

The market is being flooded with new accessories for the smartphone. Smart wrist devices being the most common ones. Bluetooth LE is at the heart of all these devices. The objective of this demo will be to showcase how Bluetooth LE can be used to interact with our surroundings in different ways. more
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  • 14 Nov 2014
Section: App demos Technical level: Intermediate

Preethi Raj Proposing

Applying Design Thinking to Mobile Game Development

Games are among the most downloaded apps across app stores. Mobile games continue to grow in popularity among all age groups. Mobile game developers constantly face the challenge of creating new game concepts that appeal to users and will result in downloads and revenues. In a market where me-too games have little chance to succeed, developers are under constant pressure to create a new concepts … more
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 15 Nov 2014
Section: Workshops Technical level: Advanced

Gulzar Azad

M.A.W.A- Multimodal Access Ware Android

Talk about new User Experience challenges and opportunities, and propose a solution framework for more meaningful user interactions and upcoming concepts. more
  • 1 comment
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 21 Nov 2014
Section: Versioning - full talks Technical level: Intermediate

senthil kumar

Mobile Applications (Android, other OS too) Strategy when building Applications for Emerging Markets

Emering Economy nations have their own constraints, like intermittent internet connectivity, lack of electricity, lack of affordable broadband connectivity, huge volume of semi literate users and so on. The standard strategies or frameworks adopted for the developed nations could not be directly applied in the context of emerging nations. Developing countries are unique with their constraints. At… more
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 22 Nov 2014
Section: Workshops Technical level: Intermediate

Rudi MK

Mobile Chrome Apps - HTML5 mobile apps done right?

The objective of this session is to introduce people to Mobile Chrome Apps, a relatively new project from the Chromium team, that allows you to package Chrome Web Apps, for Android, among other platforms. We’ll talk about how PhoneGap didn’t work out, how the Mobile Chrome Apps initiative solves the performance problem web devs face, and we’ll explore a couple of short demos. more
  • 0 comments
  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 24 Nov 2014
Section: App demos Technical level: Intermediate

Vijayan Srinivasan

Enterprise Ready Test Execution Platform for Mobile Apps

This talk will be covering the limitations of Open Source test execution platforms (selenium grid) and how Intuit modified the selenium grid to suit for enterprise needs. more
  • 1 comment
  • Submitted
  • 24 Nov 2014
Section: Versioning - full talks Technical level: Beginner

Abhishek Narain

An overview of developing mobile applications on the cloud

Quickly get started with client agnostic backend without having to send much time. Also how to leverage highly scalabe cloud for IoT scenarios. Learn how to power your media streaming apps, and mobile notifications with Cloud. more
  • 0 comments
  • Confirmed
  • 26 Nov 2014
Section: App demos Technical level: Beginner

Abhishek Narain Proposing

Build, Deploy and Scale mobile applications with the Cloud

In this session, we will look at how we can build mobile applications leveraging the power of the cloud. Using standard development platforms like Eclipse or Visual Studio, we see how we can add additional capabilities like authentication, notifications and offline support to our applications easily. We then take a look at deploying and monitoring these applications on the cloud and configuring o… more
  • 0 comments
  • Confirmed
  • 26 Nov 2014
Section: Workshops Technical level: Intermediate

syed amanat

PROJECT JARVIS

Project Jarvis is an AIS system and the main reason of this project is compression of all the apps onto one and storage on local device would be NULL resulting in the major usage of Clouds,SQL system by most of the people this will help to revolutionise the idea of cloud to everyone.A system which can talk and fullfill all the needs of user is what the world sorely needs. more
  • 0 comments
  • Submitted
  • 02 Dec 2014
Section: App demos Technical level: Intermediate

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