Wearables Londroid

Mingle with the local Android community, listen to expert speakers and find out more about the latest Android advances.

Schedule:

6:00pm - Open, arrivals, meet & greet
6.30pm - Hello Everyone!
6.45pm - System Performance and Android Wear - Flavio Lerda from Google
7.15pm - Complications for Android Wear - Daniele Bonaldo from Novoda
7.45pm - Drinks Networking

Speaker: Flavio Lerda

Flavio Lerda is a staff software engineer at Google, where he has been working on mobile platforms and applications for the last 8 years. He has contributed to different Google products for different operating systems, focusing on Android for the last few years. He is currently working on Android Wear, where he contributes to the framework and core applications. Flavio holds a laurea degree in Software Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, USA.

Abstract: In this talk, I will describe some of the reasons system performance mattersfor Android Wear apps, some of the tools to measure it, and some of thepitfalls and best practices, as to provide listeners ideas on how to build greatapps for Android Wear.

Speaker: Daniele Bonaldo

Daniele Bonaldo is an Android Software Craftsman at Novoda in London. He’s passionate about photography and wearable technologies. Before moving to London, he worked at i’m Spa, an Italian startup where he had the chance to play with the Android platform while developing one of the first smartwatches on the market.

Abstract: In this talk we'll have a look at the new Complications API for Android Wear 2.0 and how complications can be used to add new functions and make every watchface more useful for the user.

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