Silicon Valley Android Developers Monthly Meetup

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... [read more]

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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