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Android Dev Camp Amsterdam

Jan 8
Thu 3:00 PM
Location
Pakhuis de Zwijger

Piet Heinkade 179
Amsterdam 1019
+31 (0)20 7884433

Estimated attendance
 241  people attended.
4.00 4.0068

Who organized?
Maarten den Braber,  Martijn Pannevis,  Peter Robinett,  Raimo van der Klein,  and Yuri van Geest

On January 8th 2009 we will organize the first Android Dev Camp Amsterdam in honor of the introduction (early 2009) in The Netherlands of the T-Mobile G1.

In short:

For whom?: Current or future Android developers
When and where?: Thursday, January 8th, 3pm - 10pm at Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam
More info: http://androiddevcamp...

Topics

Android Application Showcases (10-15 minute talks):
- Wikitude - Philipp Breuss. See this demo video
- PicSay - Eric Wijngaard (Winner of Android Developer Challenge)
- Twitli and others - Christine Karman
- Open slot

Android Fundamentals:
Sean Sullivan - Connecting to Web Services on Android

Keynote:
We are proud to share that Alexander Muse from Big in Japan (makers from ShopSavvy) will talk about their experience with ShopSavvy (Crunchie nominee by the way) and Android.

APIs:
As we said in our invitation we will have different kind of APIs available, both documentation and API developers to assist you. Currently we have IlseMedia/Nu.nl, ING ATM locator(exclusive), MobyPicture and Hyves confirmed! We hope to get some great additional APIs available for the event

Program
15:00 Doors open
16:00 Opening
16:15 Introduction on Android
16:45 Android App Showcases
17:45 Keynote: Alexander Muse - ShopSavvy
18:15 Hackaton & Workshops:
Stream 1: Sean Sullivan - Using REST-based Web Services with Android
Stream 2: API corner - Hyves, IENS, ING, Nu.nl, Huizenzoeker, Mobypicture
Stream 3: Android Building Blocks/Fundamentals/Objects
23:00 Closing and drinks!

We are all looking forward to meeting you all on January 8th!

Raimo, Peter, Yuri, Martijn and Maarten
Android Dev Camp Amsterdam

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Talk about this Meetup

  • Andy Kalbvleesch
    Posted Jan 9, 2009 9:44 PM
    Andy Kalbvleesch
    I liked the meeting. I have an idea but I am not sure if I can make the deadline for the NL challenge. Anybody interested to join who doesn't have a thought of an application but wants to be part of the buzzzzzzz ? I have some coders who can help but are all starters on Android. Rotterdam base location but anywhere in Holland is fine, we still have phones... [masked]
  • Posted Jan 9, 2009 8:26 PM
    pjv
    An enormous turnout. Very nice opportunity and well-organized. Many thanks to Maarten, T-Mobile and the others. Maybe next time we can get passed the introduction mode and actually do or code something useful. Any open source devs are welcome at FOSDEM in Brussels soon: http://groups.google.com/gr....

Who attended?

  • 241 attendees
    • “ Very interesting, well organised, good business opportunities ”
    • “ Interesting speakers, demos, and discussions. Well-organized. The hackatons could have benefited from some hands-on developing, but overall: Very inspiring! ”
    • “ Great first Android DevCamp, nice mix of speakers. Looking forward to see the apps ”
    • “ For me it was an eye opener for what is possible nowadays. ”
    • “ Brilliant way to get up to speed on the technical aspects of Android. Really gave me that good old pioneer feel, too. Respect to the organizers for a job well done in a very short period of time. We want more! ”
    • “ Great! With some 'wowy zowy' speakers. Very impressive! ”
    • “ great meeting. Maybe next time more development time to actualy build some apps. ”
    • “ The speaker from Google did not have a particularly gripping speech. When asked to comment on commercial Android aspects, he was hushed by a suit sitting behind him. Hmm. The best practices were good, particularly the well laid out business case for ShopSavvy. ”
    • “ It was great. Thanks guys, for organizing! Very inspiring! The meetup was held between 16:00 and 23:00, which is quite late for people not living in Amsterdam. I had to travel for about 2 hours. Because of that I could not visit the workshops. 11:00-18:00 hours would have been better. But it was great anyway. ”
    • “ The first half was very useful, good speakers and nice information with examples. After the break I experienced very technical stuff and as I don't know much about java, I couldn't follow much. As my companion felt the same, we left around 20:00. But the main attraction that we were able to play with a G1 for a while. I want to thank the organisation for this great event. ”
    • “ Great initiative, good execution. Keynote had a good mix of tech and business. Technical presentations had interesting topics, but could have been a bit more in-depth. Nice friendly vibe, especially if you compare it to NLJUG events (which feature great topics, smart people, but more of a combined business/nerdy atmosphere). Looking forward to the next one! ”
    • “ Great speakers and an excellent keynote (Alexander Muse). Lots of interesting people at the even too. Regretfully, not actually a lot of devving from what I could tell, more seminar than dev camp. The opportunity to actually use the phone was great though. ”
    • “ Great introduction to the Android as a development platform. ”
    • “ Very nice first Android Dev Camp, especially the first part with the talks from application developers. The second part consisted of three different 'streams', one focussing on certain API's, one on REST and the last a more generic stream. These presentations / workshops took however much shorter than anticipated and I expected to get more hands-on experience and knowledge from them. The organisation was very good, so a thank you for them. Everything was sponsored by T-Mobile which made this a free event. ”
    • “ Very intersting. Had to leave early wich was too bad. ”
    • “ first part was good, second part was a bit vague and not structured ”
    • “ It was a nice meetup, lot's of interesting people where there. Furthermore it was fabulously arranged! The only minor downfall was the fact that the 'codehacking on the spot' did not really happen, my guess is this might have happened more easily if there was a room somewhere with big tables where people could hang out and code.. ”
    • “ Energizing, inspiring, geek chic ”
    • “ Some good presentations, some great. Lots of enthousiastic people, and some nice information from people with real experience on the platform. ”
    • “ Great to have WIFI network, although it seemed to be slow at times. I like technical sessions and like to see more of that. ”
    • “ I had expected more technical details about the android platform. But apart from that, it was a great oppertunity to meet and share with peers. ”
    • “ nice talk - although a developer from the android team would have even better. ”
    • “ Very well organised! Chapeau!!! ”
    • “ Good speakers real guys with real experiences. Got some valuable tips. Furthermore it was well organized! Some points for improvements: 1) The first block of presentations was too long. although the presentations where cool I was thirsty like hell. 2) I would like to have more time to talk some more with developers with Andriod experience 3) More real development then powerpoint Again thanks alot for organizing this event Cheers ”
    • “ It has given me a good view of the possibility's and 'future' of android. Also it has got me enthusiastic about developing for Android. An evening well spend. ”
    • “ cool stuff this Android, let's see how it develops once it hits the markt in NL. ”
    • “ Very interesting! ”
    • “ ADC: Disappointing, despite a few highlights. Christine Karman and Alexander Muse were really enjoyable. Christine was refreshingly honest about the platform, Alexander about the mobile application ecosystem. I'd like to applaud both presenters for the quality and professionalism of their presentations. T-Mobile should have sent an engineer, not a sales exec - the same goes for Google. Both of them blithered about the mobile business instead of saying anything concrete about Android, and what it means to their businesses. (On a side note - am I the only one who remembers that T-Mobile tried to copyright a *colour* not too long ago?) I so wanted to like the them, the camp and the device. The only thing I'm really excited about now, though, is that Android has finally driven a real, mainstream open handset to market - now if I can just find a decent OS for it... ”
    • pjv
      “ An enormous turnout. Very nice opportunity and well-organized. Many thanks to Maarten, T-Mobile and the others. Maybe next time we can get passed the introduction mode and actually do or code something useful. Any open source devs are welcome at FOSDEM in Brussels soon: http://groups.goo... ”
    • “ Nice event. Good organization. Enthusiastic speakers with very motivating presentations. ”
    • “ nice bunch of people. ”
    • “ Mixed group. The streams part of the evening was for the real developers. ”
    • “ Next time, give the people something to take notes. That would be more usefull than a T-shirt. ”
    • “ The first part of the meeting was great, I expected more from the fundementals meeting. ”
    • “ The guy of one of the streams (in the biggest room on 2e floor) was BORING AS HELL!!! What a DORK. Left the room. Pitty because I missed the oppertunity to learn something ”
    • “ It was a great opportunity to meet other developers and see the vision of some companies. ”