Bust the Android Fragmentation Myth
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We are glad to have our friend Chiu-ki Chan (https://twitter.com/chiuki) back to cover another interesting area of Android - the platform/device fragmentation.
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Agenda:
6:30 pm: Doors Open and Networking
6:50 pm: General Announcements
7:00 pm : "Bust the Android Fragmentation Myth" presentation
Brief Overview of the Talk:
Designers and developers have been afraid of the variety of Android flavors for way too long. Android borrows a lot of concept from the web, and we can use the same techniques to cater to the different OS versions and form factors.
Be responsive. Forget about absolute coordinates. Embrace the relative, use resource folders to differentiate among screen sizes, much like CSS media queries.
Be progressive. Take advantage of the latest Android functionalities, but gracefully fall back to the basics when you are on older OS versions. Remember the days when not all browsers have javascript?
Best of all, you don’t need a huge team to do this. Chiu-ki runs a one-person company, and will show us how she applied these techniques to her apps Monkey Write and Heart Collage.
Speaker Bio:
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Chiu-Ki started writing mobile apps at Google, where she worked on Google Mobile Maps for Android. After a brief stint in web development at two startups, she is now back to her mobile roots with her own company (http://blog.sqisland.com/) for app development. Her apps include Monkey Write (http://www.monkeywriteapp.com) for learning Chinese writing and Heart Collage (http://www.heartcollageapp.com) for snapping photos to stitch into a heart.
When she is not writing apps, she can be found traveling the world, sometimes sightseeing, sometimes dispensing Android tips on stage at various tech conferences.