Google I/O Special Meet up!

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Google I/O Special Meet up!

2017-05-15 | Laurence de Villers | Uncategorized

Thursday, June 1st

Google I/O took place last week and all our organizers were in California attending the Mother of All Google Conferences. For that reason, we have no meet-up in May 😢.

To redeem ourselves though, we’re bringing details about everything announced at the conference in the best way possible!

A GOOGLE I/O SPECIAL MEET-UP 🎉🕺💃👯👯💃🕺🎊🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉! 

Yes folks, we’re doing it again like every year, and yes, you guessed it, our friends at Google Montreal are hosting us🥇! Our agenda is full of new talks and new content straight from Google I/O!! You can also expect food, goodies, drinks, networking and to have a good time🤳💃 🕺!

Agenda:

  • 17:00 — Socializing and Welcome
  • 17:40 — The Future of Assistant on Android Things
  • 18:20 — ConstraintLayout is now the default layout!
  • 18:50 — Break
  • 19:10 — Getting started with Kotlin 
  • 19:50 — New Architecture Components: Best way to build your app 
  • 20:30 — New Animation Physics API for Android

 


 

Talks and Speakers

Here’s a snippet of what we’ll be covering on our next meet up

The Future of Assistant on Android Things

Talk by Marcos Paulo Damasceno, Android Dev at TransitApp

Android Things was recently released by Google as a new open source initiative to build IoT devices in a big array of hardware options. During io17, Google made sure to highlight the new APIs for Google Assistant and how this could power IoT devices for the future of hardware tech. We’ll go over the SDK basics and see how can you build your own Google Home at home.

 

ConstraintLayout is now the default layout!

Talk by Laurence de Viller, Android Dev at TransitApp

Yes, you heard it right, starting from Android Studio 3.0, ConstraintLayout is the new default layout for every new project or even layout file. Google first introduced this new layout last year and has been working hard since then to make it even more performant and easy to use. In this talk, we will go over the newly announced features and how you can take advantage of this great layout in your new projects.

 

Getting Started with Kotlin

Talk by Phillipe Breault, Google Developer Expert

Oh the moment everybody was waiting for is finally here. Kotlin was announced as an official supported language for Android and the crowd went crazy. So… What now? Phillipe will share all his knowledge with this new language that he has been using for a good time right now at American Express and give us the best tips on how to get started with it and migrate current projects written in Java!

 

New Architecture Components: The best way to build an Android app

Talk by Samuel Dionne, Android Dev at TransitApp

Google surprised us with a new library to help us architecture our apps. Lifecycle aware components and new data classes are here to make development for Android easier and less error prone. Sam will give us an overview of what was announced at Google I/O and will be ready to answer questions so everybody can be ready to embrace this new approach.

 

New Animation Physics Library for Android

Talk by Boris Dubois, Android Dev at LaPresse+

To finish the night, Boris will go through the recently released library for physics animation from Google which was showcased at Google I/O. Learn how to create richer, more dynamic animations for your applications

 

Ouff 😫, so much to cover!!! And… We’ll also have some surprises and goodies so you don’t want to miss it!

 


 

Venue and Sponsors

Our friends at Google Montreal are not only hosting us, but sponsoring the conference (Thank You)!


1253 McGill College #150, Montreal, QC H3B 2Y5, Canada

 

BuddyBuild is being awesome like they have always been by making sure we’ll have food and drinks for the night. Buddybuild is a continuous integration, continuous deployment and user feedback platform built specifically for mobile development teams. Buddybuild takes minutes to get setup, and automates the process of configuring a reliable and robust infrastructure for teams to build, test, and deploy their iOS and Android apps. Thousands of companies, like Slack, Meetup and Mozilla trust buddybuild with their mobile development because it allows them to focus on what’s important – building apps users love.

If you never heard of them, you should definitely check them out here


 

We have limited spots available so hurry up🏃, register at our Eventbrite event right here:

See you all soon ✌️!