Silicon Valley Android Developers Meetup

SV Android Developers cohosting with ARM® TechCon™

October 30, 2012 · 5:30 PM
Santa Clara Convention Center

We are cohosting an Event with ARM company on Oct 30th at Santa Clara Convention Center.

ARM® TechCon™ convention pass are not required to attend but free passes to the show floor are available for those interested.

Location: Mission City Ballroom 5

Food and beverages provided; mingling from 5:30-6pm.

6:00-8:00pm

Presentation Topics:

Speaker: Akshay Agrawal ( Samsung )

Topic Summary:

Samsung will be sharing their community and development platforms which include powerful multi-core and GPU cores that will usher new possibilities for your advanced applications in gaming, computer vision, video and other computationally intense operations in the mobile space.

Speaker :Luke O'Reilly (Havok)

Topic Summary:

Luke O'Reilly, Havok will provide a peek inside the Havok Android development environment. This talk will provide a brief overview of Havok's game development tools and workflow on Android.

Speaker: Matthew Du Puy and one more speaker ( ARM )

Topic Summary:

Matthew Du Puy, ARM will share advances in tools for GPU and compute development, system and application performance analysis along with an update for the ProjectNe10 library with new DSP functionality for accelerating audio and video applications.

GIVE AWAY

limited number of Android devices to give away (50+) of various types. mostly PC-on-a-stick type devices and desktop development platforms pre-loaded with Android and the gator kernel module that allow for Native profiling of software with ARM's free Eclipse plugin, DS-5 Community Edition<http://www.arm.com/products/tools/software-tools/ds-5/community-edition/index.php>.

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Pradeep

I have not yet received my device yet. I am keen to use.

0 · February 7
Matt

If you were able to use the devices we gave away to do any application profiling (or have any questions about doing so), I'd like to hear your stories. If you found DS-5 Community Edition or Streamline useful, we'd be happy to write up a case study about your product and share it on arm.com! Thanks again.

1 · February 7
Sunil Sabat

Thanks Matt. According to Bit9, there are 290k apps in Google play, which are vulnerable to security flaws. What can be done at instruction level (as NEO for media ) to make sure the thread executions are safe and trustworthy. x86 has security related instructions. I know iOS has many kernel protections. Solution can come from Android side as well . From ARM, it would apply to all OS platforms. I just wanted to bring it up to the attention of the community.

0 · November 2
- Matt
  
  ARM is attempting to address hardware protected execution with TrustZone:
  http://www.arm.com/pr...
  
  0 · November 12
Matt

I've shared Luke's slides (from Havok) here:
http://www.androidtools.org/sto...

0 · November 12
Matthew Johnson

Good topics, but presenters made poor use of microphone.

0 · November 2
Matt

I received lots of great, critical feedback on my presentation from the meetup and TechCon show floor theater. I've posted my slides here:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=...

And opened a discussion forum here:
http://forums.arm.com/index.php...

If you'd like more information on some of my presentation topics, my corner of the ARM webspace is here: arm.com/solution-center-android

Thanks for the opportunity to speak. I'm very sorry we did not have enough budget to purchase devices for everyone. I hope that if you utilize the Streamline tool with the devices we shared (or your own device running Gator.ko), we generate case studies on your findings and make a case to purchase more for the next SVAndroid event we share at.

On behalf of Havok, Samsung and ARM. Thank you all!

0 · November 1
Matthew Johnson

The announcement lists various "Android devices to give away", but I only saw the PC-on-a-stick.

1 · October 31
- Matt
  
  Both the Samsung Arndale and pc-on-a-stick devices are Android devices (as I described in my comment on Sunday). I still have a few more to give away on the show floor at TechCon Thursday if you're an interested developer. Akshay from Samsung gave away all of the Arndale boards that they brought to the meetup but if you have a need for their Exynos 5 development board, Samsung are at the show too and happy to hear about your needs as a developer and may still be able to arrange to ship you one.
  
  0 · October 31
Art

Excellent presentations suited the topic.

0 · October 31
noel guzman

Swell venu

0 · October 30
Sunil Sabat

Today's event started bit late, but all talks were excellent. I really liked Havok's gaming talk on Android and Matt's talk on using ARM NDK/NEO on Android. We had lot of learning in short period. Food/drink choices were excellent. Thanks to all sponsors and organizers.

2 · October 30
Tim

Hi everyone -- Unfortunately I'm unable to attend tonight due to other last minute obligations. But wanted to express that I'm looking for developers & companies interested in collabor ating on kid friendly products for both ios & android platforms. Please contact me ([masked]) to arrange a meeting to discuss this exciting venture that is sure to yield great things for everyone involved. Thanks!

0 · October 30
Nelson To

The event is at "Mission City Ballroom 5"

0 · October 30
Matt

I'll have 40 devices (in addition to the Samsung/Arndale boards) to share at the meetup and another 40 to distribute on the show floor at TechCon on Wednesday and Thursday. Looking at the meetup RSVP numbers, I suspect there will be high demand so please send me your requests ahead of time at [masked]. Share your performance analysis needs. I'll also be in the ARM booth with the Arndale board running our tools and monitoring Samsung's developer forum after the meetup.

1 · October 29
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- A. Karriem A.Khan
  
  mark me down
  
  1 · October 30
- Shuyi Chen
  
  +1
  
  0 · October 30
- Kabeer Manchanda
  
  +1
  
  0 · October 30
- Michael
  
  +1
  
  0 · October 30
- Doug Stevenson
  
  Folks, I don't think spamming everyone with your +1 replies is going to get you free hardware. Matt said to email him directly with your specific performance analysis needs in order to work something out.
  
  2 · October 30
Michael

+1

0 · October 30
Desiree

If you are interested in attending the expo at TechCon, register for your free expo pass this week https://armtechcon.reg.ubmelectr...

0 · October 23
- Matthew Johnson
  
  The link is now closed. Are there still free expo passes available at onsite registration? Anywhere?
  
  0 · October 29
- Matt
  
  Yes, you will still be able to register for the free expo pass on-site. If UBM gives you any trouble at the desk, email me on the show floor: [masked]
  
  0 · October 29
Jimmy

-range to discuss things in more detail. Thank you for your time.

0 · October 28
Jimmy

Hi Android developers. I'm an iOS developer here in San Jose with a successful iOS app (over 100,000 downloads and growing) that needs an Android version. I apologize for the unconventional approach of my request -- let me explain: I'm approaching developers in this way because, as I said, I myself live in San Jose and would like to work closely with the developer throughout the process. I've approached large development companies about this project but they all prefer payment upfront and outsourcing the actual work to other countries. This is not in line with my vision. So what do I want? I would like an android developer who is willing to work with me in creating this app and share all the generated revenue, essentially becoming part of our team. I am currently one of a team of two. I know this feels like a risk (not being paid by the hour for the work) but I assure you that $ will be made on the final product and you will not regret investing your time. If you're interested please let me know and we can ar

0 · October 28
Matt

Thanks Akshay! We're happy to see the Arndale picked up by engadget:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/10...
and excited to see what the SVAndroid and greater Android developer community can do with the Exynos 5.

We know the boards you're giving away are going to be targeted at devs that will push the systems to their potential. Those in attendance that don't receive the Arndale but still interested in performance tuning with DS-5 CE from ARM, we're going to share a limited number of pc-on-a-stick devices with the Gator kernel module pre-loaded. If you think you could use a different class, dual Cortex-A9, Mali 400 ICS, gator enabled HDMI dongle please share your project and email address with me at this meetup or at TechCon. We're happy to help you profile your apps and use Samsung developer board. If we find we can help performance tune your app we'd like to share your story as a case study, blog post or even developer conference demo.

0 · October 28
Akshay Agarwal

I hope that you saw our announcement today on the new ARNDALE board (http://www.marketwatch.com/stor....)

My talk at the meet up will discuss our newest board: ARNDALE community development board based on Exynos 5250 SoC, the world’s first production solution based on the dual core ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore processor and ARM Mali-T604 GPU.

I’ll also be giving away a few boards to developers with qualified application projects. Please let me know about your project and register to be eligible to receive a board on the ARNDALE website http://www.arndaleboard.org/wik....

I look forward to seeing you there.

0 · October 26
Akshay Agarwal

Snippet from Samsung's participation at the BIG Android BBQ in Hurst, TX over the weekend.. http://www.xda-developers.com/a...

0 · October 23