Android Meetup Sept 2016

Android Nougat is now out! Time to network and learn with your fellow devs

September is startup month for Vancouver and so we thought we'd start fresh as an Android group this month too. Calling all Android developers in Vancouver: come out and mingle with your fellow devs and learn something new. Junior through Senior experience levels welcome.

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We’ll talk about recent Android news, but that is just a start.

We have 2 lightning talks this month: The first is by Albert Lo who will present about using Retrofit2 for HTTP. Elizabeth Cross is then going to talk about animations in Android using ObjectAnimator. Our main speaker is Johnny Shi of buddybuild talking about quality android apps through testing.

Our host this month is Mobify. Come join us at the Mobify office at 948 Homer Street.

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Schedule:

6:30 - Time for Networking and refreshments
7:00 - Introductions and News
7:15 - Speakers
8:45 - Networking and clean up

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Make better Android apps!
We will go over best practices for writing tests, as well as how to get insights from the tests.

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Johnny Shi of Buddybuild.
Co-Founder/Engineer at buddybuild. Used to code UI for Amazon.

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Exploring Object Animators

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Elizabeth Cross of MobifyLiz is a member of Mobify’s native app team. She has been creating Android apps since the days of Jelly Bean. She currently works on growing Mobify’s Astro framework which is used to build awesome e-commerce apps.

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Retrofit2: Yesterday & Today

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Albert Lo of PNI Digital Media

Albert works full-time as a Senior Android Developer with PNI Digital Media Inc. Albert has over 2 decades of on-the-job software development experience in the Tech Industry with the last 5 years heavily focused on mobile development. Albert is passionate about transforming complex programming concepts into simple solutions and bridging the gap between academic theory and practical, real-world solutions.

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VanAndroid is a safe environment for all developers. Contact the organizers or tweet to us at

@VanAndroid (https://twitter.com/VanAndroid)

if there is something we can do better, or just to say Hi!