Taking Android to Work

Taking Android to Work

Fred Chung, Andrew Stadler, Gabriel Cohen

More and more people are bringing Android devices into enterprise environments. This talk will cover general enterprise adoption considerations and related Android features. We will also provide an overview of security issues, managed internal app development, corporate app directories, and an in-depth look at a sample implementation of device management policies.

Level: 201
Track: Android
Time: May 11, 04:15PM – 05:15PM
Room: Room 11

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Memory management for Android Apps

Memory management for Android Apps

Patrick Dubroy

Android apps have more memory available to them than ever before, but are you sure you're using it wisely? This talk will cover the memory management changes in Gingerbread and Honeycomb (concurrent GC, heap-allocated bitmaps, "largeHeap" option) and explore tools and techniques for profiling the memory usage of Android apps.

Level: 301
Track: Android
Time: May 11, 04:15PM – 05:15PM
Room: Room 9

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Honeycomb Highlights

Honeycomb Highlights

Romain Guy, Chet Haase

Android's "Honeycomb" release includes a large number of new features, capabilities, and APIs to access them. This session gives a high-level view of everything that's new, with special focus on how this affects developers' lives and what they should be paying attention to.

Level: 101
Track: Android
Time: May 10, 10:15AM – 11:15AM
Room: Room 11

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Don’t just build a mobile app. Build a business.

Don’t just build a mobile app. Build a business.

Wayne Pan

Learn how to build a business on mobile apps so you can quit your day job. Walk away with an understanding of app business basics and how to use house ads for app promotion, mediation to optimize in-app advertising revenues and analytics to measure real ROI.

Level: 201
Track: Android
Time: May 10, 01:15PM – 02:15PM
Room: Room 11

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Designing and Implementing Android UIs for Phones and Tablets

Designing and Implementing Android UIs for Phones and Tablets

Roman Nurik, Adam Powell, Richard Fulcher, Christian Robertson, Matias Duarte

There are a large number of Android tablet devices starting to ship. This session discusses the new APIs and tools available to developers for use in constructing apps that work well on them, and provides guidance on creating good user experience for users of these devices.

Level: 201
Track: Android
Time: May 11, 12:30PM – 01:30PM
Room: Room 11

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Best Practices for Accessing Google APIs on Android

Best Practices for Accessing Google APIs on Android

Integration with Google APIs (such as Buzz, Latitude and Translate) can enrich many Android applications. In this session, we will demonstrate how to do so easily, efficiently and securely using the Google API Client for Java. We’ll walk you through how to authenticate for the APIs using AccountManager, how to reduce the client library size and several other Android-specific optimizations.

Level: 201
Track: Android
Time: May 10, 11:30AM – 12:30PM
Room: Room 9

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Android Protips: Advanced Topics for Expert Android App Developers

Android Protips: Advanced Topics for Expert Android App Developers

Writing an app is easy, but with 100k competitors you need to do better than launch and cross your fingers. I'll demonstrate how to use advanced Android techniques to take a good app and transform it into a polished product. Features advanced coding tips & tricks, design and implementation patterns, and insight into some of the lesser known API features. This is an advanced session designed to help experienced developers.

Level: 301
Track: Android
Time: May 10, 11:30AM – 12:30PM
Room: Room 11

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Android Market for Developers

Android Market for Developers

There are few things developers care more about than Android Market and, during the year since Google IO 2010, we have been investing huge amounts of efforts in expanding and improving it. This presentation walks through what's new, with a particular focus on where developers can take action to improve their apps' Market performance.

Level: 101
Track: Android
Time: May 11, 10:45AM – 11:45AM
Room: Room 11

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Google Chrome: Day 2 Keynote from Google I/O

Google Chrome: Day 2 Keynote from Google I/O

Day kicked off with the announcement that Chrome is now at 160M active users, up from 70M last year. Watch for more announcements from the Chrome Web Store, Angry Birds, Chromebooks and Chrome In-App Payments.

Level: 101
Track: Keynote
Time: May 11, 09:30AM – 10:30AM
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3D Graphics on Android: Lessons learned from Google Body

3D Graphics on Android: Lessons learned from Google Body

Google originally built Google Body, a 3D application that renders the human body in incredible detail, for WebGL-capable browsers running on high-end bPCs. To bring the app to Android at a high resolution and frame rate, Nico Weber and Won Chun had a close encounter with Android's graphics stack. In this session Nico will present their findings as best practices for high-end 3D graphics using OpenGL ES 2.0 on Android. The covered topics range from getting accelerated pixels on the screen to fast resource loading, performance guidelines, texture compression, mipmapping, recommended vertex attribute formats, and shader handling. The talk also touches on related topics such as SDK vs NDK, picking, and resource loading.

Level: 101
Track: Android
Time: May 11, 04:15PM – 05:15PM
Room: Room 8

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Accelerated Android Rendering

Accelerated Android Rendering

Android 3.0 introduced a new hardware accelerated 2D rendering pipeline. In this talk, you will be introduced to the overall graphics architecture of the Android platform and get acquainted with the various rendering APIs at your disposal. You will learn how to choose the one that best fits your application. This talk will also deliver tips and tricks on how to use the new hardware accelerated pipeline to its full potential.

Level: 201
Track: Android
Time: May 11, 10:45AM – 11:45AM
Room: Room 9

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Android: Momentum, Mobile and More at Google I/O

Android: Momentum, Mobile and More at Google I/O

Thanks to the ecosystem of manufacturers, developers and carriers, the platform has grown exponentially--100M activated Android devices. Read more on the official blog post at http://goo.gl/XZkAo

Level: 101
Track: Keynote
Time: May 10, 09:00AM – 10:00AM
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Android + App Engine: A Developer's Dream Combination

Android + App Engine: A Developer's Dream Combination

This talk will introduce App Engine Tooling for Android. A complete set of Eclipse-based Java development tools for building Android applications that are backed by App Engine. With these tools developers can focus on building fantastic Android applications using common tools and techniques that span the client and server parts of the application AND make it extremely simple to deploy the server side to App Engine. This talk walks through building a fantastic cloud based android application.

Level: 201
Track: Android
Time: May 10, 03:45PM – 04:45PM
Room: Room 9

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Android Development Tools

Android Development Tools

This talk provides an in-depth look at the Android development tools, along with tips & tricks for getting the most out of them. From project support, to source editing and visual editors, to emulator execution and debugging and profiling, this talk will help you get more productive with Android development. The main focus is on Eclipse, but we will discuss other complementary tools as well. This is a demo-oriented talk, and our goal is to show the available features, and how they fit into the workflow.

Level: 201
Track: Android
Time: May 11, 03:00PM – 04:00PM
Room: Room 11

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Turbo-charge your UI: How to Make your Android UI Fast and Efficient

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Turbo-charge your UI: How to Make your Android UI Fast and Efficient

Learn practical tips, techniques and tricks for making your Android applications fast and responsive. This session will focus on optimizations recommended by the Android framework team to make the best use of the UI toolkit.

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