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Using RecyclerView to show multiple different kinds of items

Level: Beginner

by John Brohan

RecyclerViews are very fast and offer a way to show a part of a larger database without concern for the full size of the database. It is an added complication to have more than one view to show, but this is well supported and works well.

Bio

MVVM on Android

Level: Intermediate

by Sami Lassed, Bell Canada

Bio

A team lead with more than 07 years of experience in depth knowledge of Android, J2EE, Android Embedded Development,iOS, Java Development Tool chain and a deep experience on Software analyses & Design, Cloud Development, Mobile and Distributed Solutions.
A highly motivated individual who is always willing to learn, be able to work to tight deadlines and who can communicate effectively. Someone who encourages learning and the sharing of ideas and who is always open to new ways of working.

Bring your IoT to production

by Macy Kuang

We know how to bring a software from prototype to production, how about hardware projects? What’s beyond the prototype? This talk will compare all the IoT platforms and help you make the right choice for your projects. Also, we will have a glance of a hardware product roadmap.

Bio

GDE for IoT and Flutter, Game Developer at Miaomiao Games, intel innovator for IoT and gaming.

Android Things Remote Controlled Robocar

by Etienne Caron

Then we’ll close by building a simple Augmented-Reality remote control app. We’ll be using Google’s ARCore and Sceneform libraries.

Some familiarity with Kotlin and OpenGL is helpful, but not required.

Bio

Etienne Caron is a developer lead at Shopify, a popular Canadian e-commerce company. He is also part of Google’s Developer Expert program, and an instructor for Caster.io

Etienne has been an active member of the Android developer community in Montreal since 2010, and regularly devotes his time to mentoring startups, developers and students in the mobile space.

3D animation, procedural content generation and VR are some of his hobbies, and he loves introducing other developers to this fascinating field.

Intro to Material Design 2.0

by Steven de Tilly, BCITI Solutions

We will take a brief look at how to read the new material design guidelines and we’ll see how the new widgets will make our life, as developers, way better.

Bio

Mobile team lead at BCITI Solutions in Montréal, who studied electrical engineering at ETS. I started developing on Android in 2015, where I joined the APPLETS student club at ETS. Eventually, I joined BCITI’s team in 2016, where I work full time ever since.

App marketing for indie developers – how to get installs with minimum budget

by Amir Ganjeii, 6thSolution

Most mobile developers, spend their free times on side projects, hoping to make the next big thing (maybe next flappy bird) or at least creating steady passive income stream and as we know, most of these projects fail. The talk will cover important issues(from business perspective) in designing / developing an app and how to market the app with minimum budget. I will also talk about our Android weather app and how we got +100K users without spending a dollar on paid acquisition methods.

Bio

Amir is Founder and head of product at 6thSolution, a company specialized in e-business and software development. He is expert in digital strategy, digital marketing and product design.

TouchTunes is the largest in-venue interactive music and entertainment platform, featured in over 75,000 bars and restaurants across North America and Europe. Our network supports a growing portfolio of location-based digital solutions that encourage social interactions through shared experiences.

Android’s new Paging Library in Action

Level: Intermediate

by Graeme Campbell, TouchTunes

The Paging Library is a new part of Android Jetpack which uses all the latest Android Architecture Components, and it has just recently been released as a stable 1.0 version. This talk will introduce the Paging Library to developers and show it in action in TouchTunes’ mobile jukebox application.

Bio

Graeme is a software developer and former research scientist who has been working in Android development since 2013. 

The Navigation Architecture Component

Level: Beginning

by Laurence de Villers, Transit

Bio

Laurence works at Transit has an Android developer.  She’s involved in the community has a GDG organizer, GDG Mentor and a Women Techmakers Lead. 

Google Keynote

Learn about the latest product and platform innovations at Google in a Keynote led by Sundar Pichai.

Developer Keynote

Nurun is a global design and technology consultancy. Part of the Publicis Worldwide family, Nurun creates products, services and platforms for a connected world, grounded in state-of-the-art data science.

Continuous Integration & deployment

Level: Intermediate

by Michael Bernier, Breather

In this talk, I will demonstrate how to use 2 different CI environment to help Android devs build better apps and save time. I will be showcasing an open source project with Circleci and a more enterprise project with TeamCity from JetBrains. I will also show how to do production or test deployment with tools like Gradle and Beta from Crashlyctics.

Bio

Android Developer at Breather.com in Montréal, who studied software engineering at ETS. I’ve started mobile development with BlackBerry in 2010 and then moved on to Android full time in 2014. 

Flutter, let’s try

Level: Intermediate

by Aurore Jard, Nurun

Bio

Aurore works at Nurun where she has been leading the Mobile department and a team of iOS and Android developers since 2015. She likes exploring new subjects & challenges

Shopify is the leading cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses. Merchants can use the software to design, set up, and manage their stores across multiple sales channels, including web, mobile, social media, marketplaces, brick-and-mortar locations, and pop-up shops.

Vincent Carrier
The Zen of Kotlin – Tips and tricks for maximizing code maintainability

How is internal visibility in Kotlin different from package visibility in Java? When should you use a lateinit property and when should you use a lazy-delegated property? How do you use with(), let() and apply()? How do you replace your confusing Dagger annotations with something more Kotlin-esque? Find out the answer to these questions and many more with me!

Shopify is the leading cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses. Merchants can use the software to design, set up, and manage their stores across multiple sales channels, including web, mobile, social media, marketplaces, brick-and-mortar locations, and pop-up shops.

AR and computer vision with Google Mobile Vision

by Nicolas Martino, Samsao

Google works on its computer vision library since 2015. At Samsao we successfully used it in one of our recent projects. In this talk, we will present the purpose of the library and then share our experience using it.

Bio

Nicolas is a multimedia engineer specialized in Android mobile development since 2011. He currently works as a mobile developer at Samsao. 

App Lifecycle and common problems

by Alan Le Corre, Microdrones

You want to sharpen your understanding of Activities or Fragments lifecycles, and avoid common pitfalls when designing your app. This talk will go through the main concepts and share real-life examples to solve some architectural problems.

Bio

Alan is an Android developer passionated by Mobile and the way it changes the Software industry. He has previously worked on the La Presse+ Tablet App and the TouchTunes Phone App.