Automotive Opportunities and Mobile

Godfrey Nolan joins us to talk about the opportunities in automotive for mobile developers.

Over the last year, many Automotive companies have released SDKs and APIs that finally allow Android developers to create their own mobile automotive apps that expand the boundaries of the automotive dashboard far beyond the physical car. In this class, you'll learn how to create apps for this new and relatively overlooked commercial opportunity for mobile developers.

We'll take an objective look at the different SDKs for a variety of Autos. And we'll also show a couple of sample apps that focus on how communicate with Ford's Sync dashboard as well as GM's Remote APIs and we'll briefly dip into some of the other manufacturers have on offer, such as VW and Nissan.

Godfrey is founder and president of RIIS, a mobile development firm in the Detroit Metro area. He is also author of "Decompiling Android," "Decompiling Java", "Android Best Practices" and the soon-to-be-published "Bulletproof Android." Godfrey has spoken at JavaOne, ASP-Connections, VSLive, CodeMash, Code PaLOUsa, 1DevDay, and many local Java and .NET user groups on a wide range of topics, including continuous integration, executable requirements and mobile security.
Twitter : @godfreynolan (http://www.twitter.com/godfreynolan)