Android Wear Hackathon – June 2014

by GDG Montreal Android

starts at 13h00, on Thursday June 19 2014

Notman House

Overview

This is a half-day event to introduce you to the Android-Wearable platform and SDK. It’s a short afternoon Hackathon, so we’re not expecting full-fledged products to emerge, but rough prototypes, proof-of-concepts, slidedecks and UX mockups are the order of the day.

The big news is, we’ll be giving away 3 vouchers for Android Wear Devices to the best concepts, so you’ll get a chance to complete your idea and be first to market. Thanks to Google for sponsoring this event!

Hackathon Preparation

We’ve received a very handy preparation guide from the fine folks at Google, go follow the instructions and you should be in fine shape for the hackathon.

Of course, if you’re totally new to the platform, don’t forget to pre-install the following:

• Android Studio
• Genymotion

If you need help with your installation, barring any work-emergencies, Etienne or other Android-Montreal volunteers will be on site starting at 12h00. Please plan ahead. 🙂

Day Agenda

• 13h00:
  • Welcome
  • Overview of Android Wear
• 13h30:
  • Pitch for ideas
  • Form teams
• 14h30:
  • Prototyping
• 18h00:
  • Demos in front of group (Prototypes, or UX mocks/slides, etc)
• 19h00:
  • Voting and judging
  • Awards and thanks
• ~20h00:
  • Beer and food, @Ye Olde Orchard Pub

[Animateur/MC: Etienne Caron]

Meetup Sponsors

Google

As mentioned, big thanks to Google and the Google Community Managers for sponsorship and support of this event.

JetBrains

Can’t code without Once again, we’re very happy to announce that we’re being sponsored by none other than the makers of IntelliJ, JetBrains! We’ll be having a draw for 1 Free License of IntelliJ IDEA.

Register Now!

Intro to Android / Metrics and Feedback!

Hey everyone, attended our Intro to Android evening? Enjoyed it? Regular club member, but you missed this evening?

We typically report event numbers to Google community managers, this helps us get support for future events, and lets us deliver you even more awesomeness on a regular basis 🙂

To help us with metrics, please register as a member on our Chapter Page. Attended tonight’s event? Register on our Event Page, and if you’re not totally tired of all this clicking, fill out our survey.

Thanks a ton for participating everyone, and have a good week-end!

Links

Get the original GDG slides.

And links to the labs:

• Lab 1.1 http://goo.gl/bvCxzo
• Lab 2.1: http://goo.gl/kY6grs
• Lab 3.1: http://goo.gl/3QqBEM

Intro to Android / Intro to Rx

by GDG Montreal Android

starts 18h30, on Thursday May 22 2014

Notman House

Overview

First off, big hello to everyone who attended the DevArts evening at Google last month, we had a blast and hope you did as well.

Our next event will be taking place at a brand new, freshly renovated Notman House, next week. If you’re new to Android, you won’t want to miss it, because we’ll be onboarding new members with an Introduction to Android session.

Evening’s Agenda

• 18h30
• Community annoucements (All are welcome!)
• Call for Google Dev Expert submissions
• 18h45
• Intro to Android
• 20h00 Quick break
• Show and Tell: New toys! (Fancy bluetooth headset)
• New advanced APIs: Netflix’s Rx library
• 20h15
• Review of Android Intro Code lab, Q&A
• ~20h45
• Beer and food, @Ye Olde Orchard Pub

Intro to Android

Animateur/MC: Etienne Caron

We’ll be teaching the Android fundamentals, show you how to create your first Android project, compile it and run it.

You’ll learn about the Android application lifecycle, the different types of Android components (Activities, Intents, Services, etc.)

We ask attendees to prepare for the intro course by pre-installing the following:

• Android Studio
• Genymotion

If you need help with your installation, barring any work-emergencies, Etienne or other Android-Montreal volunteers will be on site starting at 17h00~17h30. Please plan ahead. 🙂

Meetup Sponsors

JetBrains

Can’t code without Once again, we’re very happy to announce that we’re being sponsored by none other than the makers of IntelliJ, JetBrains! We’ll be having a draw for 1 Free License of IntelliJ IDEA.

Register Now!

DevArts – Coding and the Arts

When?

Thursday, April 10, 2014 @ 5:30 PM

Where?

Google Montreal
1253 McGill College
Bureau 150
Montréal, QC

Event Pages

• Meetup
• EventBrite
• Google+
• GDG Community

Overview

“DevArt is a new type of art. It is made with code, by developers that push the possibilities of creativity and technology.”

And so, this Meetup will aim to give people tools to explore their creativity. If you’re an artist or a developer looking to explore new ways to express yourself, the following sessions will aim to empower you.

Planned Talks

• Openframeworks, presented by Hugues Bruyere and Elias Zananiri of Dpt.
• Raspberry Pie for Instalations and Interactive Art, by François Légaré
• OpenGL ES, WebGL and GPU Computation made accessible, by Etienne Caron

TBC / Details incoming

• The Processing language
• Sound and software synthesizers

For more info

We invite you to visit and browse the main DevArts website, it’s a real treasure trove of information.

2014 Planned events

#gdg #2014 #gdgmontrealandroid #report

For 2014, we’ve already had a few events (see previous year’s activity report).

Monthly Meetups

We’re planning on holding our monthly meetups where we usually have one or two hours worth of presentations. Agendas vary based on speaker availability, etc.

We want to experiment with a Video-Podcast format we’d film during the meetups, very much at the “drawing board” stage at this point.

As far as the bigger events on the radar:

April 2014: DevArts / The Art of Coding Art

Talks planned:

• Processing language
• http://www.smallfly.com (Hugues Bruyere)
• Leap Motion (Javascript based API, easy to start with)
• Raspberry Pie / USB Android Dev Kit (François)
• Procedural Content generation/GPGPU (Etienne, preview of upcoming talk)
• Waiting back on word from:
• Montreal MiniMakerFaire people.
• Friends from Concordia TAG labs.

Autumn 2014: Hackathon (part of DevFest, if possible)

We’re hoping to hold another week-end long Android / Mobile themed hackathon in early Autumn, 2013’s DevFest week-end was a great event, we’d like to repeat and improve the experience for 2014.

Supporting the community

Last but not least, we’ll be continuing outreach efforts, to do “Introduction to Android” / “Rapid prototyping” presenteations, as well as mentorship during various hackathons / startup weekend type events around the city.

2013 Activity Report

#gdg #2013 #gdgmontrealandroid #report

Here’s a recap of events we’ve held and been involved in for the past year.

I’ve added G+ / Eventbrite numbers where applicable, but do note our regular members tend double book eventbrite and g+, so you can’t simply add G+ and Eventbrite numbers to get attendance.

While I mention this, if anyone knows of a way to better integrate G+ events and Eventbrite, please let me know 🙂

March 5th 2014 – Meetup G+ (17 RSVP), EventBrite (28 Tickets)

• Introduction to building Android Studio plugins, by Philippe Breault
• Latest trends in Mobile Security, by Francois Proulx

January 29th 2014 – Meetup G+ (12 RSVP), Eventbrite (8 Tickets)

• 18h30 – Open mic: Advertise your events, quickly introduce personal projects, call for developers, etc.
• PasswordBox beta developer program enrollment.
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• 18h45 – Short Talk: An introduction to developing for the NVidia Shield.
• 19h30 – Android News
• New/refreshed developper tools and APIs
• App highlights
• Hardware news
• 20h00 – Planning: Preparation for DevArts event in February.

November 27th 2013 – Meetup G+ (9 RSVP), Eventbrite (14 Tickets)

(Low subscription numbers on G+/Eventbrite, still had ~18 people showing up)

Informal ‘Open mic night’

• What’s new in Android 4.4
• Retrofit REST client api

October 30th 2013 – Meetup G+ (22 RSVP), Eventbrite (37 tickets)

• Google Glass Development, by Macy Kuang
• Intro to the Gradle build system, Dagger injection framework and the Otto event bus, by Etienne Caron

September 21st 2013 – DevFest G+ (20 RSVP), Eventbrite (63 tickets)

Day 1

• Presentation Deck: http://goo.gl/jRjh3N
• Participant Worksheets:
• Lab 1.1: http://goo.gl/bvCxzo
• Lab 2.1: http://goo.gl/kY6grs
• Lab 3.1: http://goo.gl/3QqBEM

Day 2

HackFair day

Our Jury’s choice award went to Avery Smith who presented his app HairPiq.

Hairpiq aims to bring barber posters into the mobile space. Users can take snaps of their favorite styles, Barbers can build portfolios of their best work. Throw social networking into the mix, and jury found the app’s potential very interesting.

Next, the public choice award went to RestoNet, by Jean Bagdoo.

Restonet acquires the City of Montreal’s public restaurant inspection data and displays it to the user in a set of 4 listview’s based on chronology, amount of fine, number of fines, and alphabetical order. Each listview row is clickable to display a detailed view of the offense, giving restaurant name, owner date , judgement date, fine, and more. (Soon to be available on the Play store.)

Our other presentations included:

ETS Mobile by the mobile apps development student club from ETS.

Gnito, an app that tries to bridge the gap between social networks and unify your online identity.

Map Marker, an app to help you simply drop markers at will on a Google map.

Wedding Guestbook, an app that allows guests at a wedding to record video messages for the happy couple.

You’ll find all the HackFair presentations on the following YouTube links:

• HairPiq
• RestoNet
• ETS Mobile
• Gnito
• Map Marker
• Wedding Guestbook App

August 28th 2013 – HackNight G+, Eventbrite

• Official registration of projects for the DevFest.
• Registration for DevFest speakers and volunteers.
• Hands-on, one-on-one mentoring for DevFest projects.

July 31st 2013 Meetup G+, Eventbrite

• Intro to Android development
• Mathieu Méa – Show and Tell OUYA Android game console
• HackFair – Building teams and Call for projects

July 13th 2013 – StartupWeekend: Intro to Android development / Hackathon rapid prototyping

Speaker: Etienne Caron

Presented as part of Montréal Startup-Weekend, our session will concentrate on Android development, but should be of interest for mobile developer in general. We’ll be reviewing some of our favorite tools for rapid development.

Talk announcement, Speaker notes

June 26th 2013 Meetup G+, Eventbrite

• John Brohan – The technology behind the Stay-in-Touch project

May 29 2013 Meetup G+, Eventbrite

• Bertrand Orlowiez – Mise en place de notifications journalières
• Philippe Breault – Getting to Know Android Studio

April 24 2013 Meetup Eventbrite (30 Tickets)

• Informal meetup at “Le Vieux Dublin” after Google+ Hangouts meet-up at Google Montreal.
• Gina Cook – A visit to the Android “Market” in Shenzhen

March 27 2013 Meetup G+ (18 RSVP), Eventbrite (44 Tickets)

Thanks to Nurun who hosted us this month!

• Francis Toth – Android development best practices
• Etienne Caron – Dependency Injection on Android with RoboGuice

February 27 2013 Meetup G+ (23 RSVP),

• Presentation of the Hack-together app modules from Nov 7th
• Etienne Caron – Google Maps API changes and improvements
• Paul Pereira-Brunner – Porting Doom3 to the ARM architecture. Premature optimization by any other name.

January 30 2013 Meetup G+ (17 RSVP)

• Anthony Dahanne – Spring for Android
• Bob Heubel – Extending the Android Vibrate Function for Games and other apps

March Meetup

Hello everyone, our next meetup will be taking place on wednesday, 5th of March, 2014 at 18h30, at l’Amère à Boire.

We have two great talks this month! François Proulx will give us an overview of the latest trends in mobile security, and Philippe Breault will present an introduction to building Android Studio plugins.

Latest trends in Mobile Security

by Francois Proulx

BIO:

François Proulx is a senior mobile application developer who has worked on dozens of iOS applications since the very beginning of the Apple iOS platform. Over the past few years he has switched his focus to security. He spends a lot of his free time participating in Capture the Flag events (CTFs) and organizing the NorthSec security competition.

Description:

Last AppSecUSA 2013 had a great line up of talks, especially regarding mobile applications. This session will be covering all the hottest presentations about mobile security by doing an overview from what we saw at AppSecUSA, all with some slides and snippets of presentations that was recorded at the event. Discussion will be encouraged within the audience as this will be more a dynamic event than a regular talk.

Introduction to building Android Studio plugins

by Philippe Breault

BIO:

Hey There!

My name is Philippe Breault, I am a software developer living in Montréal (Canada) and my job/hobby is Android.

I have been working on the Android platform since 2010 and I hope that sharing what I have learned will help people get proficient in Android faster!

Description:

With this presentation, Philippe will be showing us how to develop plugins for Android Studio. Note that all products based on the IntelliJ Platform (IntelliJ IDEA, RubyMine, WebStorm, PhpStorm, PyCharm and AppCode) share the same underlying platform API, and as such this talk will be of benefit to anyone working with one of these IDEs.

Meetup Sponsors

JetBrains

Once again, I’m very happy to announce that we’re being sponsored by none other than the makers of IntelliJ, JetBrains! We’ll be having a draw for 1 Free License of IntelliJ IDEA.

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Notman House is currently closed

Hey everyone, just a reminder Notman House is currently closed. We will be rescheduling the meetup next wednesday, at L’Amère à Boire. Details coming very soon.

January Meetup

Hello everyone, our next meetup will be taking place on the 29th of January, 2014 at 18h30, at Notman House.

The evening’s agenda is as follows:

• 18h30 – Open mic: Advertise your events, quickly introduce personal projects, call for developers, etc.
  • PasswordBox beta developer program enrollment.
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• 18h45 – Short Talk: An introduction to developing for the NVidia Shield.
• 19h30 – Android News
  • New/refreshed developper tools and APIs
  • App highlights
  • Hardware news
• 20h00 – Planning: Preparation for DevArts event in February.
• 20h30 – Meet and greet: Our usual post-meetup diner and a beer.

For these free-form evenings, we always welcome audience participation. So if you have last minute things you’d like to present or talk about, we’d love to hear from you.

November Meetup

Tickets here

Hello everyone, our next meetup will be taking place on 27th of November, 2013 at 18h30, in Notman House as usual.

OPEN MIC NIGHT

We’re a bit short notice this month, and we wanted to open the floor to anyone who’d like to get a hand at presenting an API, library, open source project or technology that is dear to their heart. The format we’re aiming for is small and informal, timeboxed to anything between 10-30m long.

As of now we had people interested in presenting What’s new in Android 4.4, a short tour of Dagger (the lightweight Injection library) as well as Retrofit (a Rest client API).

As usual, you’re welcome to come by and make announcements to our community. We’ll probably be going out for food after the event, so we hope you’ll stick around and hang out!

Meetup Sponsors

JetBrains

Once again, I’m very happy to announce that we’re being sponsored by none other than the makers of IntelliJ, JetBrains! We’ll be having a draw for 1 Free License of IntelliJ IDEA.