Leeds Mobile

This month, we will be at The NatWest Accelerator, hosting an event as part of the Leeds Digital Festival.

We'll have a talk from Ed Halloway-George.

How To Become Your App’s ‘Security Champion’

In this session, we will take an introductory look at mobile security, the threats we face as mobile developers and the steps you can take to become a 'security champion' for your app to protect your business and, most importantly, your users.

Ed Holloway-George is an Android Developer and Google Developer Expert originally from Oxford, UK but now currently residing in Nottingham, UK.

An Android developer for 10+ years; Ed now works for Kraken as a Lead Developer having previously worked on well-known applications such as ASOS, National Trust, My Oxfam, Snoop, Carling Tap and many more.

In his spare time, Ed can be found playing trading card games and posting pictures of his dog.

Agenda

• 17:00 Event opens 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️
• 17:00 Food arrives 🍕
• 17:30 Event starts
• 17:35 Talk from Ed 🗣️
• 19:00 Event closes, optional drinks at a nearby pub 🍻

Our first speaker is Vadym Pinchuk. His talk will be:

No touch. No gestures. Can you still build a Great UX?

Building applications for TVs, kiosks, and other remote-controlled devices isn’t the same as building for mobile. There’s no touch. No gestures. Just a handful of buttons—left, right, up and down. That constraint changes everything.

In this talk, you’ll learn how to design and build Flutter interfaces for these input-limited environments using the power of focus navigation. We’ll dive into Flutter’s focus system, directional navigation logic, and how to create clean, intuitive UIs that users can control from across the room.

And the best part? The presentation is the app. Shaped like a TV-style Flutter interface, the talk itself will demonstrate how to structure widgets, style your UI, and guide the user using focus alone.

If you’re used to building for touchscreens, this session will help you shift your thinking—and show you how to create smooth, accessible, and fun experiences on remote-controlled devices.

Key takeaways:

• Understand how to navigate UIs using only directional inputs
• Learn how Flutter’s focus system (FocusNode, FocusTraversalPolicy, etc.) enables non-touch interactions
• Discover UI design patterns for limited-input environments like TVs
• See how to structure widget tree for predictable, intuitive focus behaviour
• Gain practical techniques to build polished, accessible apps for remote-controlled devices

Stay tuned for the announcement of our second speaker.

Agenda

• 17:30 Event opens 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️
• 17:30 Food arrives 🍕
• 18:00 Event starts
• 18:10 Talk from Speaker #1: Vadym 🗣️
• 19:00 Talk from Speaker #2: TBA 🗣️
• 20:00 Event closes, optional drinks at a nearby pub 🍻