Gradle and Android Holiday Meetup @ Google SF

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We are teaming up with Gradle, Google, Twitter, Udacity, and the Bay Area Gradle User Group (https://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Gradle-Users-Meetup/) to host our Holiday Meetup Party.

This special evening is dedicated to our meetup members, users, and subscribers. Join us for our last meetup of 2015 and celebrate the holidays. What to expect from the event? There will be talks on Gradle and Android with industry leading speakers, with plenty of food, drinks and time dedicated to Gradle Q&A, networking, and socializing.

Talks by:

• Hans Dockter (Gradle co-founder and Gradle Inc CEO)
• Ty Smith and Yohan Hartanto (Android Engineers on Twitter Fabric team)
• Bruno Bowden (Data Collective Equity Partner)

Announcements by:

• Peter Lubbers (Google Developer Advocate)
• Saša Gargenta (Twitter University)
• Rooz Mohazzabi (Gradle Inc Development Support)

Talk: What's New with Gradle and the Android Build System
By: Hans Dockter, The founder of Gradle and CEO of Gradle Inc

Talk: Better Android Development with Kotlin and Gradle
By: Ty Smith and Yohan Hartanto, Android Engineers at Twitter, working on the Fabric developer tools.

In this talk, Yohan and Ty will walk you through setting up and using Kotlin with Gradle to streamline your workflow for Android development, both within the build tool phase and within the application itself. After a brief overview of Kotlin, we'll dive into how it can be used with Gradle to accelerate Android Development with a consistent language.

Talk: Sharing Java code across Android & iOS with Gradle
By: Bruno Bowden, Data Collective

As mobile apps become more complex, it becomes increasingly valuable to share code across Android and iOS. This talk will discuss how to run Java code on iOS, using the J2ObjC Gradle Plugin. This is based on Google's J2ObjC tool (Java to Objective-C transpiler). The technology was used to share 70% of the code across iOS and Android for Google's Inbox app.

Sponsors

Our generous friends at Google are hosting and sponsoring the event with food and drinks. The event is also sponsored by Udacity, the Android and Gradle self-paced training provider.