Schedule: Platform Development sessions
The Android OS is a complete operating system stack. Although powerful, it’s fairly complex and most of it is not well documented. This track aims to unpack how Android works under the hood. We’ll explore how to modify various frameworks and services, port Android to alternative devices, and generally hack the system in ways it hasn’t been done before.
Karim Yaghmour (Opersys inc.)
Much like Linux a decade ago, Android is disrupting the embedded world; displacing established players and overtaking home-brewed solutions. Android, however, is poised to achieve what no other OS was able to: become the default user interface for the majority of user-centric devices, whether they be mobile or not. This workshop will show you how to make your embedded device run Android.
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Seacliff D
Magnus Bäck (Sony Ericsson)
Being an Android device manufacturer, producing flashable software images for your devices is easy if you have a limited number of configurations for the markets or operators that you target. That’s what Android’s build system and resource framework was made for. But what if you have hundreds of different configurations?
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Grand Ballroom B
Lars Vogel (vogella.de)
As of Android 2.2 you can notify your Android application once relevant new data is available in the web via the Cloud to Device Message (C2DM) Service.
This talk will demonstrate how you can build C2DM into your own app and will show example server side code.
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Grand Ballroom A
Mike Burns (thoughtbot)
Java is the past. We present the Scala programming language, which exists in the powerful space between Java, Ruby, Haskell, and awesome. See the tools for building Android apps using Scala, along with their benefits in integration and debugging. This will be a frank discussion of debugging, performance, workflow, and how to make the choice between Scala and Java. There will be code!
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Grand Ballroom A
Peter Hoddie (Marvell)
This session will introduce Kinoma and discuss the challenges that had to be overcome to bring a high performance, alternate application framework to Android.
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Grand Ballroom A
Simon Monk (Momote)
This presentation describes how to use the ADK with standard Arduino hardware to create accessories for Android devices.
Both the Arduino and the Android ends of the solution are explained in detail, with example code.
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Seacliff D
HTC OpenSense SDK was recently launched at http://htcdev.com. We will give a quick overview of the SDK as well as the benefits and opportunities HTC provides developers to expand market reach.
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Grand Ballroom A
Mark Gross (Intel)
Android is a pretty complete stack and includes a lot of infrastructure for testing and integration. It even includes code for boot a loader and a pre-os environment for doing device updates after the device is deployed.
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Grand Ballroom A
Zigurd Mednieks (Surfaceable.com)
One of the theses of Programming Android is that Android is now client Java. Android Java is very different, emphasizing component lifecycle, inter-process communication, and inter-app cooperation. How will Android change Java and can Android's app runtime be treated separately from Android OS - that is, can Android's Java runtime be a portable, cross-OS Java runtime?
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Grand Ballroom B
David Wu (HTC)
HTC Sense is a customized UI framework that enhances the stock Android by centering its design around people and their social networks. It aims to provide a seamless social experience across applications and widgets, while conserving battery life and maintaining performance. In this session we will share some of the technical challenges in designing HTC Sense and experiences to overcome them.
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Grand Ballroom A
Karim Yaghmour (Opersys inc.)
Though Android is built on top of Linux, can "classic" Linux apps be made to run with or under or on Android? Can such apps be made to "talk" to Android components and vice-versa? Beyond getting the basic legacy Linux apps running under Android, this talk will go over some tips and tricks for making Linux apps coexist and interact with the Android stack on the same Linux kernel.
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Grand Ballroom B
Philip Lindsay (rancidbacon.com)
Have you ever wanted to create a cool new hardware accessory for your
Android device? But do you find the thought of writing Android code daunting?
Attend this session and you will learn how to create Android
accessories without the need to learn Android development first.
It's like cheating on your Android accessory development test!
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Grand Ballroom A
Ralph Tavarez (Collective Bytes)
With the release of the Android ADK there will be an incredible demand for apps that assist in the automation of home appliances. The development community will have a difficult time keeping up with the demand. As a result new tools need to be created to enable casual programmers and end-users to develop solutions.
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Grand Ballroom A
Bruno Terkaly (Microsoft)
The face of IT and of mobile computing is dramatically changing before our very eyes. There are an estimated 4 ½ billion mobile devices on earth. A successful mobile application can result in millions of simultaneous users, consuming gigabytes of data per day. Everything from games, to business apps, to social networks are putting unbelievable demands on developers and server side technologies.
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Grand Ballroom A
Yahya Mirza (Aurora Borealis Software)
RenderScript is Google’s open source solution to the problems of productivity, performance and portability. This presentation uses a simple numerical algorithm as a case study under Android-x86 and the Intel Sandy Bridge CPU. This presentation’s objective is to provide insight into how a RenderScript program works and how a RenderScript compiler translates source programs to a specific target.
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