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.

Virtual Reality, general introduction

by Boris Dubois, Transit

A presentation that is somewhat different from what we are used to in our meetup even if Android is still in the picture.

• A little bit of history.
• How does Virtual Reality work from a technical perspective
• What can we do with that

Bio

Boris is an Android Dev at Transit and a VR enthusiast 

Intro to Acoustic Processing in Android

by Serge Masse

Description of processing in Android Java for sound input to analysis and sound synthesis to output.

Bio

• First program: 1969, École Polytechnique, U. de Montreal
• Two Android apps currently in Google Play store, both free, without ads, and open sourced on GitLab, with their library for acoustic analysis, also open sourced.

https://www.mirego.com/en

Toothpick 3 – a Dependency Injection library

by Etienne Caron, Shopify

The magic of SpannableString

by Samuel Dionne, Transit

SpannableString is a powerful concept that goes beyond clickable links in a TextView. We’ll look at different standard use cases and other more daring. We’ll check the different already available Span types and look at how we can create our very own.

Designing High Impact Acoustics Apps for Cross-Species Communication Research

by Serge Masse

Part 1: Markets (ecosystem, potential users, partners, competitors).
Part 2: Android Design and Technical Issues, AI and Artificial Neural Net.
Part 3: Apps Features.
Part 4: Usage Issues. The presentation will including recordings and spectrograms of sample data: dolphin vocalizations.

Bio

Informaticien depuis 1973, actuellement chez un client local

What’s new with Material Design?

by Quentin Sallat

Were you bored by all these apps which looked like a sample from the Material Design website? Then rejoice, change is coming!

At the last I/O, Google announced a refreshed version of their famous Material Design language. It brings more power to the hands of designers and developers by allowing more customization. With Material Theming, you finally have the ability to create nicer apps while keeping that material spirit.

The talk describes the main changes of “Material Design 2” from a design point of view, and how developers can implement them on Android. Many major changes will be illustrated thanks to Google examples or real apps implementation.

Bio

Quentin Sallat is a senior Android developer at magicplan. Mobile app development has been his passion for many years. He loves to create smart and user-centric applications, focusing on little design details.

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.