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October Meetup

2019-10-17 |by Laurence de Villers | 0 Comments | Meetup

Wednesday, October 23th, 2019!

We have a special meetup this month! It will be held by our sponsor onepoint!
They are providing food and drinks  🎉

606, rue Cathcart, Office 400, Montréal (Québec) H3B 1K9

Schedule:

  • 18:00 Socializing!
  • 18:30 Test-driven development in Android by Illias Kondratov
  • 19:15 Break
  • 19:30 Doze Mode and App Standby by Graeme Campbell

Sponsors

https://www.groupeonepoint.ca/

Test-driven development in Android

Level: Beginner

by Illia Kondratov

Introduction for people who never tried TDD or unit testing before, or struggle with some part of it. We’ll cover benefits, discuss best practices and see what people mean when they say “it’s better to have unit-tests here”.

Bio

7 years in Android development, 3 years in TDD

Doze Mode and App Standby

Level: Intermediate

by Graeme Campbell, Octave Group

Since Doze and App Standby were introduced in version 6.0 (Marshmallow), Android has been trying to preserve battery life by limiting the amount of processing that apps are allowed to perform when they are in the background, and when the phone is not in active use. This talk will help developers understand these limitations, and know how to work with Doze mode to provide a better user experience.

Bio

Graeme has been working as a software engineer for 15 years, and started learning the Android platform in 2012. He is currently working as a mobile developer at Octave Group, creating music and entertainment products under the brand names TouchTunes and PlayNetworks.

 

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Kotlin/Everywhere

2019-07-26 |by Laurence de Villers | 0 Comments | Events, Meetup

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/

 

Android functional testing made easy with Kotlin

Level: Intermediate

by Marc-Antoine Sauvé,  Hopper

This talk will walk you through how Hopper leveraged Kotlin to build clean DSL based functional testing that separate the “what” from the “how”.

Bio

Marc-Antoine Sauvé is a Senior mobile developer at Hopper, a Montreal startup that use Big Data to predict the price of hotels and plane tickets.

He’s a mobile enthusiast, enjoying bleeding edge technology, app architecture, functional programming, reactive programming, Swift and Kotlin.

Delegation in Kotlin

Level: Beginner

 

by Philippe Breault, American Express

Ever heard of the phrase “Prefer composition over inheritance”? One of the better patterns to achieve this is “Delegation”. And thankfully, Kotlin has built-in support for this pattern.

This talk will cover class delegation and delegated properties as a mean to make your code more readable and reusable. We’ll take a look at both approaches’ strengths, weaknesses, and when you should use them. We will also take a look at the code that is generated under the hood to discuss performance implications.

Bio

Phil is an Android engineer who has been passionate about Kotlin since way before Google officially accepted it as an official language for their mobile platform. He worked on a wide variety of Android apps for banks, newspapers, startups, television providers, and more. He currently works at American Express.

Coroutine + Flow = MVI ❤

Level: Intermediate

 

by Étienne Caron, Google Developer Expert, Shopify

Managing state in Android applications can be painful. Over the years, various architectural patterns have evolved to try and tame it: MVC, MVP, and MVVM. MVI (Model-View-Intent) is an evolution of these patterns. Thanks to Immutable State management and Unidirectional Data Flow, we can finally say goodbye to race conditions and rogue mutations. Combine the power of MVI with Kotlin Coroutines alongside the recently released Kotlin Flows library. The result? Real magic. No RxJava incantations required! In this session, you’ll learn how to build a Model-View-Intent (MVI) Android App, using both Kotlin Coroutines and Kotlin Flows. You’ll walk away understanding the core principles of this pattern, as well as its key benefits. Get ready to fall for MVI❤!.

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.

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June Meetup

2019-06-21 |by Boris Dubois | 0 Comments | Meetup

Wednesday, June 26th, 2019!

!It’s summer and June meetup is here ☀️ It will be held by our sponsor Ineat !
They will provide food  for the event 🎉

INEAT Canada inc. 204 rue Saint-Sacrement 7e étage Montréal (QC) H2Y 1W8, Canada

  

Schedule:

  • 18:00 Socializing!
  • 18:30 Pourquoi vous avez besoin d’une Clean Architecture ? By Julien Hamon
  • 19:15 Break
  • 19:30 Vim or How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love The Keyboard. By Vincent Carrier

Sponsors

Ineat Canada

 

Pourquoi vous avez besoin d’une Clean Architecture ? (In French)

Level: Intermediate

by Julien Hamon

L’architecture applicative définit la façon dont nous développons, testons et maintenons nos applications. Une bonne architecture vous permet d’adopter facilement les changements constamment demandés et vous protéger de casser des fonctionnalités existantes.

Dans cette présentation je vais introduire le concept de Clean Architecture : ses avantages et vous aider à comprendre pourquoi cela s’appliquerait bien au développement de votre application.

Nous utilisons le concept de Clean Architecture sur l’application mobile sur laquelle je travaille et nous en voyons les bénéfices tous les jours !

 

Vim or How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love The Keyboard

Level: Intermediate

by Vincent Carrier, Omnigate

In this talk you will learn what is Vim, why and how it is useful, and how to integrate it into your Android development.

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Google I/O special event

2019-05-20 |by Laurence de Villers | 0 Comments | Events, Meetup

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

 

Build and scale serverless mobile apps with Firebase and Google Cloud

Level: Intermediate

by Doug Stevenson, Google Developer Advocate, Firebase team 

If your app has millions of users, you need a backend infrastructure to support its growth.  Do you want to build that infrastructure?  Of course not!  Your time is better spent focusing on the app.  In this talk, we’ll take a look at the code for a mobile app that works like a “universal translator”.  It uses Firebase and Google Cloud services and APIs.  And we’ll do it “serverless” without having to manage servers or infrastructure.  A live demo of the app will be done with audience participation – bring a phone or laptop!

Bio

Doug is a veteran engineer, experienced public speaker, and developer advocate at Google with the Firebase team.  He developed web apps before the web had “apps”, and developed for Android since the very first Android device was on the market.  In the SF bay area, he’s bootstrapped the efforts of several startups.  Outside of work, Doug follows professional ice hockey and enjoys craft beer.

Jetpack Compose

Level: Beginner

 

by Étienne Caron, Google Developer Expert, Shopify

Jetpack Compose is an unbundled toolkit designed to simplify UI development that was released at Google I/O 19. It combines a reactive programming model with the conciseness and ease of use of the Kotlin programming language.

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.

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Google I/O Extended

2019-04-15 |by Laurence de Villers | 0 Comments | Events, Meetup

Vous n’avez pas réussi à avoir un billet pour le Google I/O ou vous ne voulez pas payer 1500$ USD pour y aller? Vous êtes chanceux, GDG Montreal Android et Desjardins organisent le Google I/O Extended de Montréal! En plus des deux Keynote de Google, il y aura 3 conférenciers. / If you weren’t able to get a Google I/O ticket or you don’t want to pay $US1,500 to go, you’re in luck, GDG Montreal Android and Desjardins are organizing the Montréal’s Google I/O extended! Both keynotes will be streamed live and a few speakers will also be on hand.

Au programme / Program:

  • Google I/O diffusé en direct / Google I/O LiveStream
  • Conférences / Conferences
  • Café, thé, eau, petites bouchées sucrés / Coffee, tea, water, sweet little bites
  • Une section RH pour faciliter les échanges entrent les employeurs et ceux qui recherchent un emploi, Desjardins y sera ! / An HR section to facilitate exchanges between employers and those looking for a job, Desjardins will be there!
  • Prix de présence (Liste des prix à venir) / Attendance prizes (Price list coming soon)

Diner / Lunch

Pour 10$+frais, ne cherchez pas ce que vous allez manger / For $ 10 + fees, do not look for what you are going to eat

  • un sandwich options aléatoire, végé ou sans porc / a random, veggie or pork-free sandwich
  • accompagnement aléatoire / random accompaniment
  • dessert aléatoire / random dessert

 

Programme / Schedule:

  • 9h30 Ouverture des portes / Doors openning
  • 10h15 Mot d’ouverture par Chadi Habib (Premier vice-président Technologies de l’information, Mouvement Desjardins) / Opening remarks by Chadi Habib (Executive Vice President, Information Technology, Desjardins Group)
  • 10h30 Comment mobiliser une démarche centrée utilisateur pour intégrer le talent dans une organisation ? (in French:  slides and talk) par Loïc Nunez
  • 11h15 Assistant vocal Desjardins (Ok Google, je veux parler avec Desjardins) (slides in english and talk in french) by Yannic Luyckx and Loic Legault
  • 12h00 Diner et socialisation / Lunch and networking
  • 13h00 Google Keynote
  • 14h45 Scheduling Background Work on Android (all english: slides and talk) by Alexandre Boucher
  • 15h45 Developer Keynote
  • 17h00  Mot de la fin, tirage des prix de présence et socialisation / Conclusion, attendance prices and networking
  • 18h00  Fermeture / Closing

 

Sponsors

Eventbrite - I/O Extended 2019 Montreal

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April Meetup

2019-04-09 |by Laurence de Villers | 0 Comments | Events, Meetup

Wednesday, April 24th, 2019!

We have a special meetup this month! It will be held by our sponsor Mirego!
They are providing food and drinks  🎉

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

Schedule:

  • 18:00 Socializing!
  • 18:30 Be a good citizen – Care about Android lifecycle and window size by Guillaume Bourassa
  • 19:15 Break
  • 19:30 Flutter 1.0, go or no-go by Samuel Dionne

Sponsors

https://www.mirego.com/en

Be a good citizen – Care about Android lifecycle and window size

Level: Intermediate

by Guillaume Bourassa, Mirego

Properly handling app lifecycle and window size is a challenge as old as Android itself. However, even today, many developers still don’t care enough about it, either because they don’t really understand the issue or because they think that they don’t really need to.
With Google pushing ChromeOS more and more, Android apps that work properly in a multi-window environment is more important than ever. And this requires proper lifecycle and window size understanding.

This talk will explain the different challenges of lifecycle handling, how to properly craft layouts that fits in any window size and, above all, why Android developers should care about all that. And why “my app is phone-only and locked in portrait” is not a valid reason to ignore these aspects.

Flutter 1.0, go or no-go

Level: Intermediate

by Samuel Dionne, Transit

Now that flutter have been in version 1.0 for a couple of months. Is it ready for prime-time? We’ll look at some good use cases for it and some less ideal situation. Hopefully this talk will get you excited and you might consider flutter for your next project that fits with the previous points.

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February Meetup 2019

2019-02-08 |by Laurence de Villers | 0 Comments | Events, Meetup

Tuesday, February 26th, 2019!

We have a special meetup this month! It will be held by our sponsor onepoint!
They are providing food and drinks  🎉

606, rue Cathcart, Office 400, Montréal (Québec) H3B 1K9

Schedule:

  • 18:00 Socializing!
  • 18:30 Using RecyclerView to show multiple different kinds of items by John Brohan
  • 19:15 Break
  • 19:30 MVVM on Android by Sami Lassed

Sponsors

 https://www.groupeonepoint.ca/

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.

My app gathers observations for a whole day and shows this as a recyclerView. Swiping moves up or down within a day and right to left changes days. I will use this app as the backbone of my presentation

Bio

I’ve been programming computers for rather a long time, mostly in real time data acquisition. The last LabView job was to instrument a simulator for a mine which happens to be in porous rock under a lake. The goal of the simulator is to see how best to freeze the ground before cutting out the frozen rock. Thermocouples, pumps valves flow meters and so on!
In the last ten years I’ve been trying to program mobile phones to help people with disabilities, especially Old People.

MVVM on Android

Level: Intermediate

by Sami Lassed, Bell Canada

How to do MVVM on Android

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.

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Holiday parties! 🎄☃️❄️

2018-11-26 |by Laurence de Villers | 0 Comments | Events, Meetup

Tuesday, December 18th, 2019

We never do Meetup in December because there is a lot of holidays parties, but we decided

to do a get together at Pub L’île Noire instead.

1649 Rue Saint-Denis, Montréal, QC H2X 3K4

Please come to talk and take a beer, scotches or gins with us!

We have a reservation on the first floor at the name GDG Montreal Android.

7 PM to 9 PM

***IMPORTANT WE HAVE SOME SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS EVENT!  🎉***

 

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August Meetup Special IoT

2018-07-24 |by Laurence de Villers | 0 Comments | Events, Meetup, Uncategorized

Wednesday, August 8th, 2018

The meetup will be held at Shopify!

490 Rue de la Gauchetière O, Montréal, QC H2Z 0B2

Schedule:

  • 18:00 Socializing!
  • 18:30 Bring your IoT to production by Macy Kuang
  • 19:15 Break
  • 19:30 Android Things Remote Controlled Robocar by Etienne Caron

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.

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April Meetup

2018-04-04 |by Laurence de Villers | 0 Comments | Meetup, Uncategorized

Wednesday, April 18th, 2018!

We have a special meetup this month! It will be held by our sponsor Nurun!
They are providing food and drinks  🎉

740 rue Notre-Dame Ouest, bureau 600 
Montréal, Québec H3C 3X6 CANADA

Schedule:

  • 18:00 Socializing!
  • 18:30 Continuous Integration & deployment Michael Bernier, Breather
  • 19:15 Break
  • 19:30 Flutter, let’s try by Aurore Jard, Nurun

Sponsors

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.

http://slides.com/michaelb85/android-ci-cd#/0/1

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

Exploration of Flutter and some first feedbacks

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

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