Google I/O Extended Montreal (in-person)

Maplr – 355 Sainte-Catherine Ouest Montréal, H3B 1A5 – View Map

Compose Camp

A big thanks to Transit for the venue!

5333 casgrain, bureau 803, Montréal, H2T 1X3

We are happy to announce our Compose Camps, a workshop that will takes place over 3 evening sessions of 2 to 3 hours each. 

Date :

• 31 January from 6 PM To 9 PM
• 7 February from 6 PM to 9 PM
• 13 February from 6 PM to 9 PM

Compose Camps are community-organized events focused on how to build Android apps using Jetpack Compose, where attendees get hands-on coding experience with Compose.

This event targets experienced Android developers (familiar with Kotlin and the view system) who want to learn Compose and integrate it into their existing apps. What better way to learn than through a supportive community of learners helping each other?

Hope to see you there!

#ComposeCamp

To register please take a free ticket on eventbrite:

DevFest 2022 in-Person

In-Person Event – Saturday, November 19th at Notman House

We are happy to announce our first Devfest in person-event since the beginning of the pandemic.

DevFest is a global, community-led event series offering speaker sessions across multiple products and areas of technologies, hack-a-thons, codelabs, and more!

Join us on November 19th  for a full-day event to talk about

• AI
• Espresso
• Design
• And more!

Get a free ticket to attend the event.

• The ticket includes food for the day!

This year, we have an incredible roster of experts coming to Montreal.

What is Vertex.ai all about?

In this talk, we’ll introduce you to Vertex.ai, an “optional-code” machine learning platform that enables you to train and deploy models on the Google Cloud Platform.

We’ll show you how to get started with Vertex.ai, train your datasets using no code, or some code, explore the most interesting parts of Vertex and finally deploy your models to production for the world to use!

Advantages of espresso tests automation how and why?

As engineers, it is good practice to maintain a healthy culture where we write both UI and unit tests. However, the biggest hurdle comes when you have to set up continuous integration; how do you ensure your tests don’t slow down builds from other pull requests hence slowing down the merge process..? What if I told you we found a tool and now run our UI tests nightly and on specific days? Join me, and let’s talk about how, why, and what tool we use.

Design for engineers: How to make your UI sizzle, or at least not embarrassing

Many development projects don’t have access to design resources so it falls on the engineers to make interfaces. This session will teach you practical tricks to improve the “feel” of your interface, decrease UX blocks, incorporate branding, and highlight resources you might be missing. As a bonus, we’ll cover a few several CSS/HTML tips to make “good design” easier to achieve.

Building Multi-Platform Projects with MVI Architecture

For modern applications, targeting multiple platforms has become table-stakes. That can be an insurmountable challenge for a team working on a project with limited resources. Kotlin Multiplatform is a promising solution to this problem, allowing you to target mobile platforms and the web.

The strength of Kotlin Multiplatform is that it allows you to write _native_ applications, unlike cross-platform frameworks like React-Native and Flutter. While having access to native APIs can lead to a superior user experience, you need to be careful to avoid code duplication.

We’ve decided to embrace the Kotlin multiplatform approach at my company, convinced it will help us build better quality products. And in this talk, I will show how we’ve used MVI architecture patterns to help us maximize code sharing.

Building mobile apps at scale

This talk will cover how to scale up your team and development process to serve millions of users. You’ll learn how to ship fast while maintaining a very high level of reliability, reduce tech debt while continuing to ship new features, and handle issues in production like a pro.

Whether you work for a startup or a unicorn, you’ll be able to immediately apply techniques to take your development process to the next level.

Inclusive Design

Naveen Nigam, the head of developer ecosystems at Google is going to talk about inclusive design.

Community Partner

Android Study Jams 2021

Learn new skills and deepen your Android chops

Starting on September 22nd and for the next 7 weeks, we will be holding weekly events over lunchtime where we will talk about new Android libraries or tips and tricks you might not already know about. Each week, we will present a new subject and set you off with an in-depth codelab, then we will answer questions about the previous week’s subject. We aim to do both sections within 35-40 min.

We also will be available on slack in the channel #android-study-jams-2021 to help you out if you’re blocked in the codelab, or simply want to ask a question. If you know about a subject already and want to help out on slack, you are welcome to join the channel 🙂

Schedule*

• Sept. 22nd: Welcome + Coroutines
• Sept. 29th: MotionLayout
• Oct. 6th: Using Hilt in your Android Apps
• Oct. 13th: Advanced WorkManager
• Oct. 20th: Advanced Testing: Survey of Topics
• Oct. 27th: Jetpack Compose Basics
• Nov. 3rd: Last questions + Thank you

* Please note that these subject and associated codelabs are for advanced developers. Prior knowledge of the Android platform and Kotlin is expected. We’ll do our best to make it interesting to devs of all levels but can’t cover all the fundamentals during the short presentations.

Link

Join us every week at noon: https://meet.google.com/fxm-fncw-hoo

Google I/O Extended 2021 – Online

Saturday, June 12th from 12:30 PM to 5:30 PM

GDG Montreal in collaboration with Flutter Montreal presents Google I/O extended. The event will be held on June 12 and is open and free to everyone who wants to participate. Join us for this online event where we will explore in more detail some of the announcements that were made by Google during I/O 2021. We’ve prepared an afternoon full of incredible talks by experts where we’re sure to learn a lot. We will have two tracks during this event. You can pick one track or jump from one to the other.

Schedule

Link for sessions in Room A:
https://gdgmontreal.whereby.com/io-room-a

Link for sessions in Room B:
https://gdgmontreal.whereby.com/io-room-b

Link to Gathertown:
https://gather.town/app/B9f2a9MH7BxjNyHg/googleioextendedmtl
password: extended_montreal

Details

Exploring Jetpack Compose Canvas 🎨

by Julien Salvi, Aircall

In this session, we are going to explore the Jetpack Compose Canvas and its capabilities. Let’s see the different ways of drawing custom shapes with Jetpack Compose: exploring the Canvas Composable and its APIs, building custom Shape or overriding the canvas of any existing Composable. Then, we’ll see how we can animate the shapes we drawn and how you can access the native Android canvas to bring your existing shapes to life with Jetpack Compose.

Google IO Flutter new features

by Louis-Philippe Papineau, Flutter Mapp

New features on Flutter 2.2 [Null safety on default / Payments and monetizations / flutter flow / Material You]

Build native looking macOS apps with macos_ui

by Groovin Chip (Reuben Turner)

Details to come

Benchmark et MacroBenchmark

by Boris Dubois, Transit

Details to come

Flutter Tips for Productivity and Learning

by Roman Jaquez, Philips

In this talk, Roman Jaquez, a seasoned Flutter Developer with several published apps on the App Store and Google Play, as well as being a GDG NorthEast Mentor and GDG Lawrence Organizer, will share with us useful tips both for people new to Flutter embarking on their Flutter-learning journey and experienced Flutter developers to make them more productive

Google I/O 2021 for Android Developer Recap

by Etienne Caron, Consultant

Google I/O 2021 is behind us and has left us with a ton of new information to look at. In this session, I’ll share what caught my attention as an Android developer.

We’ll cover subjects like Android 12, Jetpack Compose, upcoming changes in Material Design, new features with Dev Tools, the Android Wear announcements, improvements to ARCore, and what’s new with Firebase.

Getting the Most Out of Your Mobile Platforms with Flutter

by Paul Ruiz, Google

As developers, it’s not uncommon that we will need to create complex apps that run on multiple platforms, either as separate apps for each platform, or using cross-platform tools. While it’s easy enough to say “just build it with Flutter!”, this talk will introduce you to how you can add Flutter into your existing apps, some of the available tools for supporting multiple operating systems with Flutter, and how to reuse some of your already written native components.

Why Everyone Needs CI/CD and How to Make It Easy

by Scott Stoll, Appcircle.io

Many individuals and small teams think CI/CD is complicated takes too much effort and costs a lot, but it doesn’t have to be that way. We’ll take a look at how CI/CD saves more work and time than it takes, and how to get up your pipeline up and running in under ten minutes!

Flutter UX: Material State Properties

by Neevash Ramdial, Stream

Over the years, Flutter has evolved from being a cross-platform mobile framework to a fully-fledged portable UI toolkit available on multiple operating systems and platforms.

For businesses, this is great since they can ship applications on multiple platforms and reach more users, but for us developers, it leaves us asking the question, How do I handle and respond to interaction on different platforms?

Join us as we explore Flutter’s Material State properties and look at how it can help us respond to user interaction on multiple platforms.

February MeetUp – Online

Thursday, February 25th, 2021

For this event, we will be using remo  https://live.remo.co/e/gdg-montreal-february-meetup

Schedule:

• 18:20 Welcome!
• 18:30 The D-KMP Architecture: Declarative UIs + Kotlin MultiPlatform + MVI pattern by Daniele Baroncelli
• 19:15 Break (time to get another coffee / beer / etc.)
• 19:30 Custom Lint Rules by Boris Dubois

The D-KMP Architecture: Declarative UIs + Kotlin MultiPlatform + MVI pattern

by Daniele Baroncelli

Year 2020 has not only been the year of the pandemic, but also the year which set the division between “The Past” and “The Future” in apps development. With JetpackCompose and Kotlin MultiPlatform reaching “Alpha” stage in August 2020, The Future will already start in 2021, the year where both technologies will reach “Stable” stage.

The Future is a clean cut from the The Past, as “MultiPlatform” will become the preferred choice. We will see many platform-specific technologies (LiveData, RxJava, Dagger, Retrofit, Room, etc.) losing their centrality, replaced by KMP technologies such as StateFlow, Coroutines, Ktor, Serialization, SqlDelight, etc.

In this talk I will present the D-KMP architecture which is based on the 3 pillars:
– DeclarativeUIs (JetpackCompose on Android, SwiftUI on iOS, Kotlin/React on Web)
– Kotlin MultiPlatform (KMP)
– MVI pattern.

Bio

I am a mobile architect (client/server), with over 10 years experience. I started Android development in 2009 and iOS development in 2015. I am also one of the early Golang adopters, starting in 2013.

I have architected the highest-rated travel app in Europe (called Trenìt!), which has 4.8 stars on both Android and iOS, out of over 110,000 reviews.

I have historically focused on “thin” client architectures, with most logic residing on the webservices. I am now envisioning a future of “rich” client architectures, thanks to declarative UIs and Kotlin MultiPlatform.

Custom Lint Rules

by Boris Dubois, Transit

Custom lint rules or how to enforce your code style to your coworkers without them knowing 🙂

DevFest Montreal 2020

Wednesday, November 25th, 2020

Fo our event, we are using remo  https://live.remo.co/e/devfest-montreal-2020

DevFest is a global, community-led event series offering speaker sessions across multiple products and areas of technologies, hack-a-thons, codelabs, and more!

Join us on November 25th to talk about

• Stately and Composed
• State Management with MobX, it just works
• And more!

We will be using remo.co as a platform to allow smaller breakout sessions and ease discussions between us all before and after the talks. Presentations will be shorter in time to allow for more questions in the split groups. So come prepared with your questions and we will do our best to answer all of them.

Please join us here : https://live.remo.co/e/devfest-montreal-2020

Stately and Composed

Level: Intermediate
Language: English

by Etienne Caron

Libraries like RxJava, LiveData and Flow have made it easy to build, observe and react to data streams. But the story sours when you try to consume those streams with a static, XML-backed UI.

Jetpack Compose is the missing puzzle piece. We’ll soon have an excellent first-party solution that will make it easy to build reactive UIs with dynamic data streams.

In this session, we will explore how Jetpack Compose empowers us to push the envelope of UI and UX interactions. We’ll learn about State management, Unidirectional Data Flow, and how Jetpack Compose keeps things efficient while reacting to changes in your application State.

Bio

Etienne Caron is part of Google’s Developer Expert program, an instructor for Caster.io, and a freelance software development consultant.

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.

https://twitter.com/kanawish

State Management with MobX, it just works

by Joshua maiquez de guzman

In this talk, I will cover MobX’s core principles and its practical usage. With the examples, you’ll see how intuitive and declarative MobX is when using it for your Flutter applications. Lastly, I will also share our team’s experience building an app for a startup, using MobX as its core state management tool.

Bio

Joshua is a software engineer with a passion for learning and teaching. He is a Google Developer Expert for Flutter and Dart and a Software Engineer for Betterbank, a fintech startup based in Brooklyn, New York.

Life outside work, Joshua enjoys engaging with the community through meetups, conferences, writing articles. He also enjoys reading books, solving the Rubik’s cube and recently, have been enjoying playing Among Us with friends!

https://twitter.com/joshuamdeguzman
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuadeguzman/

February MeetUp #2

Wednesday, February 26th, 2020

The meetup will be held at Mirego!

1195 Wellington, bureau 401, Montréal (QC) H3C 1W1

Schedule:

• 18:00 Socializing!
• 18:30 Kotlin Multiplateforme par Nicolas Presseault et Martin Gagnon 🇫🇷
• 19:15 Break
• 19:30 Performance tweaks for Android Studio and Gradle by Samuel Dionne

Sponsors

Kotlin multiplateforme

NB : 🇫🇷 this talk will be in French 🇫🇷

par Nicolas Presseault et Martin Gagnon, Mirego

Introduction à Kotlin multiplateforme. Nous allons évoquer les principales raisons qui font en sorte que Kotlin multiplateforme a été le choix logique pour le développement de nos nouveaux projets multiplateformes.

Nous survolerons les principales différences du développement multiplateforme en kotlin (kotlin native et JS) versus le développement sur la JVM et les outils qui sont mis à notre disposition.

Bio

Martin Gagnon, Directeur, développement mobile

Avant de cofonder Mirego, Martin a travaillé comme développeur de logiciels et chef d’équipe chez Copernic. Chez Mirego, il met son expertise en R&D, en développement mobile, Web et Cloud au profit de nos clients afin de concevoir pour eux les meilleurs produits numériques. À titre de Directeur, développement mobile, il est responsable de l’amélioration continue de l’équipe mobile et de la mise en place de processus et d’outils pour livrer des produits remarquables. Il chapeaute aussi la formation de l’équipe mobile et son développement continu.

Nicolas Presseault, Développeur Android

Développeur chez Mirego depuis 7 ans, Nicolas a travaillé sur plusieurs projets mobile multiplateforme, se consacrant principalement au développement Android. Il a principalement travaillé sur des projets multiplateforme (Android / iOS) avec la technologie de J2Objc mais découvre tranquillement l’attrait pour Kotlin multiplateforme.”

Performance tweaks for Android Studio and Gradle

by Samuel Dionne, Transit

Android Studio is an awesome tool for Android development, but it may be sluggish at times. We’ll explore some of the way you can tweak it to make it faster. AS is not the only culprit when it comes to performance. Gradle builds are sometime, nay, always slow but there are some parameters we can use to improve its performance. When everything else fails, raw power does does it.

Kotlin/Everywhere

Wednesday, August 28th, 2019!

We have a special Kotlin/Everywhere meetup.

Kotlin/Everywhere is a global series of community-led events, where developers can learn the essentials and best practices of Koltin in Android, Google Cloud Platform and multi-platform development.

At Hopper, 5795 Gaspe Ave #100, Montreal, QC H2S 2X3

Schedule:

• 18:00 Socializing
• 18:30 Android functional testing made easy with Kotlin by Marc-Antoine Sauvé
• 19:00 Delegation in Kotlin by Philippe Breault
• 19:45 Break
• 20:00 Coroutine + Flow = MVI ❤ by Étienne Caron

Sponsors:

https://www.hopper.com/

Google I/O special event

Thursday, May 30th, 2019!

We have a special Google I/O meetup co-organized with ApplETS, a scientific student club.

We have the pleasure to have a Firebase speaker for this event!
We will provide food for the occasion!

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1100 Notre-Dame St W, Montreal, QC H3C 1K3 (Room A1170)

Schedule:

• 18:00 Socializing
• 18:30 Build and scale serverless mobile apps with Firebase and Google Cloud by Doug Stevenson
• 19:15 Break
• 19:30 Jetpack Compose by Étienne Caron