Silicon Valley Android Developers Meetup

Silicon Valley Android Developers Monthly Meetup

January 16 · 5:30 PM
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This is our monthly main event.

Agenda:

5:30PM Food and networking

6PM Introduction 6:10PM

Speaker and Presentations

Speaker: Mike Setlur

Speaker Bio: Miki Setlur - Product Designer for Android at Evernote. Topics:

Designing an app that works for everyone
Building apps that still support the older platforms
Action bar, panel design, some more things. Why we choose to design our app this way.

Speaker: Hemant Garg

Speaker Bio:
Hemant Garg; Role - Android Technical Lead. Joined Evernote some 2.5 years ago and created the first Evernote for Android app. Played Product Manager, designer, developer, QA & customer support during initial period. Bachelor of engg (computer Science) from Mumbai University, India. Worked at Openwave and Motorola before joining Evernote. Topics:

Why we decided to use our own code to build it.
Talk about Panel Architecture a little bit.
Talk about out of box approach - think how to do things which are not part of the platform like - Panel architecture, Rich text, Pin Lock etc.

Speaker: Jess Anders
Speaker Bio: Jess Anders is a consumer focused Senior Android Developer at Evernote who is passionate about making apps work beautifully on as many Android devices as possible. He worked on the Evernote App and Evernote Widget, and is currently focused on creating the Evernote Food App as well as writing shared Android app components. Before joining Evernote, Jess spent 8 years as a software developer at Motorola, working on cell phones, DVRs, and cellular infrastructure. Topics:

General Gotchas to be aware of (initial activity class name)
Manage single project for different platforms, partners, app sizes and countries.
Evernote
- Super Fast Bitmap loading.
- Keeping DB uncorrupted.
Food stuff
Web clipping.
Image processing on small heap
Styling to get ICS on older phones.

Platform Talk by Seth/Ty/Ahmed
Speaker Bio: Ty Smith is a Sr. Android Engineer on the Evernote product team. In addition to working on the core Evernote client, Ty maintains the Android SDK on Github and supports our developer community. Prior to Evernote, Ty was the lead engineer on Powow Text Messaging andZagat for Android (before the Google acquisition) at One Louder Apps.
Speaker Bio: Seth Hitchings: Seth Hitchings, Evernote's VP of Platform Strategy, leads a team that helps developers build great apps that work with Evernote. Before joining Evernote, Seth was the managing architect at CoreStreet and a software engineer at Vignette.
Topics:
Why Evernote cloud for your needs, Android SDK, Maven & intents.

Talk about how Hello is a different app structure and still works very well with Evernote service.

Q&A Session

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Brian Cantoni

This was a great meetup focusing on several areas of product development from the Evernote team. I liked the format and thought the speakers delivered some good insights on Android app development as well as what it's like to work on product teams at Evernote.

0 · January 18
Pradeep Jain

Loved the talk - esp UXD=Sexy+Useful
+Usable

I add the last one usually as I am realizing a lot of products are not usable by normal humans :)

0 · January 18
Tracy Alves

Good event

0 · January 17
Greg Lynn

Good event, first one I attended, Evernote was very hospitable

0 · January 17
Tyler Smith

The slides are available. http://www.slideshare.net/Tyler...

0 · January 17
Lynne Jolitz

busy.

0 · January 17
Randall Sayat

Awesome event! Thanks Evernote! Was too shy to get on the mic ;) but wanted to announced that I have a creative and mobile development team in the Philippines if anyone is looking to outsource there ideas. We offer quality, timely and affordable services. Feel free to reach me anytime: [masked]

1 · January 17
Nathan Chandra

Great seeing everyone tonight, thanks for hosting @Evernote! My company, WeLink, is hosting a hackathon on 1/26 at ConnectionsSF. We got a cool project and some valuable prizes. We welcome developers and sponsors! For more info and to get involved check out: http://welinkhackathon.eventbri...

0 · January 16
Jonathan Koren

Will the slides for any of these presentations be made available to attendees?

0 · January 16
- Tyler Smith
  
  They'll be posted after the event.
  
  0 · January 16
- Nelson To
  
  Thank you Tyler for your great presentation.
  
  0 · January 16
Anil

Hi everyone,

It was a great meetup thanks everyone@evernote. Introducing ourselves, we are a Startup delivering a platform to help App developers with In-App Monetization (targeted In-App retailing & Dynamic pricing), we also offer a single SDK to integrate with the 3 leading Appstores on Android (GooglePlay, Amazon & Samsung). Checkout our proposition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

We are currently integrating our product with a Mobile Payments startup (http://www.supergas.me) and are urgently looking for an android App developer to build the mobile payment app (QR code based) and the Point-of-sale tablet App for the payment capture.

If you are interested in participating in the beta trial of the SDK or the job opportunity please get in touch ASAP - [masked]. We are based out of Palo Alto.

Thanks!
Anil Kutty

0 · January 16
Prince Arora

Would love to connect with developers looking for Mobile CRM API, we are launching API to help developers send in-app messages, in-app cross promotion,in-app surveys and in-app feedback. Sign up at http://www.neemware.com or email me [masked] for access.

0 · January 16
- Nathan Chandra
  
  Hi Prince! Looking forward to seeing you tonight and learning about all the progress you have been making with your technology!
  
  0 · January 16
Matthew Yeseta

I am hiring software engineers immediately for mobile development and website development. Contact me for details.

0 · January 16
Nathan Chandra

If you are looking to build a social community in your Android app, check out www.welink.com

0 · January 15
Sean Gallavan

Unfortunately, I'm not able to make this meetup, but would greatly appreciate any insights on outsourced development of an Android app. We're looking for an outsourcing company who can do both Android and iOS. Anyone have any good/bad experiences with specific companies?

Thanks,

--Sean

P.S. Companies interested in this work, please contact me directly at [masked].

0 · January 7
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- Balwinder
  
  I have used Akvelon for Android App development and they delivered on time and were easy to work with.
  
  0 · January 7
- Li Peng
  
  I could not join this event also, it's quite a pity for me. Other wise I will introduce our product, the Open Source Mobile Analytics - Cobub Razor to the group members. demo here: http://demo.cobub.com... .
  
  0 · January 10
- Don H. Chanoufi
  
  I'm the founder of ESFT, and we got a fair experience of android iOS app dev
  
  0 · January 14