What is the state of the art of android development? What's best done in an emulator? What's best done through conventional unit tests? Has anyone found libraries like robolectric to be helpful? Not that anyone here has ever written a bug of course. :)

Hello Chi-Droids,

 

I would like to call a cafe-shop planning meeting tomorrow night to gather ideas and get a chance to talk to folks face-to-face.

 

Please bring your:

- ideas for meetings, 

- show your Android apps,

- suggestions for venues for future meetings (your company may want to host us),

 

Looking forward to meet some of you tomorrow at 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM,

at  Argo Tea (UPSTAIRS)

Dearborn & Madison, Chicago IL 

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=41.882566,-87.629077&num=1&vpsrc=0&t=m&z=16

 

respectfully,

Uki Dominque Lucas  

founder: CyberWalkAbout.com

manager: ChicagoAndroid.com

Mobile: 

Skype: UkiDLucas

Twitter: @UkiDLucas

in: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ukidlucas

"Roadmap for Mobile Business" eBook: http://bit.ly/CyberBook

Please post on Twitter:

 

Looking forward to #ChiArduino "Google ADK - Accessory Development Kit with Arduino" http://bit.ly/lDLjdN @UkiDLucas

 

This is a special interest group meeting of ChicagoAndroid.com

 

LOCATION: TBD

DATE: subject to change depanding on the response

 

We will meet to talk about programming Arduino boards:

- workshop: electronic components 101

- workshop: electronic schematics and symbols 101

- workshop: Android ADK

- showcase of projects by Chicago area enthusiasts

- review of boards / shields available 

- review of books

- review of projects

Please bring your:

- Arduino phone running v. 2.3.4, or tablet 3.1

- books, boards, electronic equipment you want to connect

- spare electronic parts

- laptop with Android SDK (Eclipse) installed

Android workshop 1 out of 8

Hackathon and expert panel

 

Experts in Mobile Web, iPhone / iPad and Android design will be sharing  real techniques, tips and best practices with designers, developers and entrepreneurs in this whole day, fast-paced conference.

 

 

PLEASE POST ON TWITTER:

I am attending  #ChiMobileDesign  Designing for Mobile, Tablets and more.. http://t.co/NudoNts @UkiDLucas 

 

 

Agenda:

09:00 (30 min) breakfast and social introductions 

09:30 (30 min) welcome note from SPONSORS : 

• Jeffrey Epstein, Digital Bootcamp
• Mike DiPirro, DVP Mobile eCommerce, Sears Holding Corporation
• Natalia Cantemir, president, CyberWalkAbout.com
• Google, GTUG, Chicago Android

10:00 Presentations  (10 min. "social break" after each presentation)

(30 min) Natalia Cantemir, Art Director and President of CyberWalkAbout.com Creator of over a dozen mobile applications will be talking about design tips for native apps.

• techniques to create graphical assets for various size platforms
• stretchable 9patch images for Android
• Metro design

 

(30 min) Karim Varela, Developer Support, AT&T

(30 min) Jason Shah, Mediafly.com

(30 min) Pek Pongpaet - http://www.shelfluv.com

• UX design for iPhone and iPad

(30 min) Lwin Maung Managing Director, Accolade Systems, Inc.

• Android development with Arduino

(30 min) Uki D. Lucas, Android Architect, Mobile Innovation Group, Sears / KMart / Kenmore

• creating graphical elements programmatically for Android
• designing for Android tablets

 

(30 min) Travis Smith, designkitchen.com

• how mobile app design is disproving traditional usability axioms

(30 min) Hugh Jedwill, CEO, Mobile Anthem

• understand market dynamics and their impact on your design
• learn guidelines for utilizing human behaviors to design a successful experience

(30 min) Paul McCann, Instructor, Digital Bootcamp, http://paulmccann.com/

• Responsive design for the mobile browser. 

16:00 SPEAKER PANEL: Google IO 2011 recap:

• World-Wide Google Technology User Group - updates
• developing not only for phones and tablets: Google Accessory Development Kit & API
• home automation: Google Android@Home, Project Tungsten
• Google APIs - review
• Google TV
• Chrome OS
• NFC - Near Field Communication
• Q & A

 

 

Roundtable 2 - 3/26/11 - Mobile Technology

Twitter: #MobMediaPub

Facebook page: new-mobile-media.com

Ask tough questions, get real answers from mobile tech and digital branding experts.For the roundtables, we will discuss the topics crucial to understanding the future of mobile in media.  All participants are invited to bring questions or challenges from their business to address in a roundtable format.Could networks like Al Jazeera, or others, win new media markets?Fox Network and CBS are the most politically right-biased networks in the public view. NPR is loosing government funding for being too much to the left. US media is notorious for lack of objective journalism. Networks like http://english.aljazeera.net/ are gaining new audiences. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said: "Al Jazeera is 'Real News', U.S. Losing 'Information War' [..] Al Jazeera has been the leader in that are literally changing people’s minds and attitudes. And like it or hate it, it is really effective” Are eBooks a new form of journalism?Writing of a magazine-article-length eBook and publishing it almost overnight is becoming media of choice for experts who need to get the information fast and to maximum amount of people using social media distribution. This has many advantages over publishing in a single magazine (months of waiting and dozens of rejections), or a website (hard to edit if not your own site). Because of wide proliferation of eReaders and tablets, eBooks are also becoming easier to consume then Websites as readers can download them for later reading.Will Social Media become New Media?

Do you remember the "Long Tail" theory? The major media outlets can only cover the "majority interest", in fact a lot of news agencies are closing foreign offices, not to mention inability to cover "ultra-local" events. Many agencies outsource writing to freelance reporters with mix results. Twitter is already a source of instant news for many. Will Social Media, and Crowd-Sourcing play significant role in mainstream journalism. Will they undertake editing, analizing and polishing of materials coming from their Social Networks?

 

 

Please meet Uki. D. Lucas (LinkedIn) for a talk about the future of mobile innovation.

Uki is an Architect at Sears Holdings Corporation Mobile Innovation team prior to which he has been a principal, founder and director of technology for many years. As a leader of Chicago's Android mobile development community, he is working closely with both Google Corporation and Motorola/MotoDev as well as Syncubator and DigitalBootcamp to organize conferences, events and workshops for over thousand participating Chicago developers. Uki is an Android developer himself and has been speaking and teaching on topics related to Google technology, Android platform and Social Media on numerous occasions.

For recent mobile portfolio please visit: http://www.dominiquelucas.com

 

This class is geared towards students who would like to learn Android mobile development. No previous experience is required, students will be shown how to develop complete applications start-to-finish. Development will be focused on no-nonsense approach of what is needed in the mobile application development today.

 

This class is geared towards students who would like to learn Android and/or Google Web Toolkit (GWT) web development, but their background is Flex, JavaScript, C#, C++, PHP, etc.

Completion of this set of classes is a prerequisite for any non-Java programmer to take further Android or GWT courses. 

 

 

A smartphone is a mobile phone that offers more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a contemporary basic feature phone.Smartphones and feature phones may be thought of as handheld computers integrated within a mobile telephone, but while most feature phones are able to run applications based on platforms such as Java ME, a smartphone allows the user to install and run more advanced applications based on a specific platform. Smartphones run complete operating system software providing a platform for application developers. A smartphone can be considered as a Personal Pocket Computer (PPC) with mobile phone functions, because these devices are mainly computers, although quite smaller than a desktop computer (DC). Additionally a PPC (Personal Pocket Computer) is more personal than a DC (desktop computer).

Growth in demand for advanced mobile devices boasting powerful processors, abundant memory, larger screens, and open operating systems has outpaced the rest of the mobile phone market for several years. According to a study by ComScore, over 45.5 million people in the United States owned smartphones in 2010 and it is the fastest growing segment of the mobile phone market, which comprised 234 million subscribers in the United States. Despite the large increase in smartphone sales in the last few years, smartphone shipments only make up 20% of total handset shipments, as of the first half of 2010.

 

 

REGISTRATION REQUIRED for Google security -->  http://bit.ly/gfnDqs

 

Google is working with the local Chicago GTUG to bring you an end of year tech talk about the latest in HTML5 and an update about Chrome OS.  Please join us for food, drinks, and seasonal good will & cheer!

Speaker:

Ian joined the Google Chrome team as a product manager in 2007, focused on security, browser infrastructure, and the team's implementation and development of new web standards. Prior to joining Google, Ian worked for the U.S. Government. Ian has degrees in Computer Science from the University of Michigan and Carnegie Mellon University.

Abstract:

Ian will give an update on new HTML5 APIs that have been added to Google Chrome this year, as well as an outlook for what challenges the team is currently focused on and what new APIs to expect over the coming year.

When: Monday, Dec. 13 @ 6:00pm

Where: Google’s Chicago Office

Please RSVP using the form below! 

 

REGISTRATION REQUIRED for Google security -->  http://bit.ly/gfnDqs

 

A very popular feature of mobile applications is to provide locationaware display of items on a map.  This presentation will demonstratehow to develop that important use case by using the familiar exampleof garage sales.  Local garage sale information will be retrieved froma server and displayed on the phone using the Android Google Maps API.Topics Covered   * Making HTTP requests to remote server   * Processing XML   * Updating a database   * Displaying items in a list using ListView and a custom Adapter   * Displaying items on a map using the Google Maps API   * Allowing the user to interact with items on a mapSpeaker BioJames Harmon is a consultant and trainer specializing in Androiddevelopment.  He has a background in Java and related open sourceframeworks including Spring, Hibernate and JSF.  Jim has also writtena book for Prentice Hall on the Dojo JavaScript Framework.  He wasformerly a Manager with Accenture and now runs his own Trainingcompany: Object Training Group, Inc.  He can be reached at.

 

1. Brief introduction to Augmented Reality - by Uki D. Lucas
2. Camera Preview and Overlay - by Mark Perona

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We will create an Android application that renders your camera preview and a transparent graphic overlay.

This technique is a crucial step to creation of various Augmented Reality applications.

PREREQUISITES:

• laptop with installed Java and Android development tools (Eclipse and Android SDK, or MotoDev)
• Android phone, and USB cord, USB drivers for Windows

 

 

 

 

see setup instructions: https://sites.google.com/site/chicagoandroid/100/100a

slideshow: https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dcwxvgtn_72dgxvm8d6

 

 

Please join me for a Private Equity 101 event at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney’sChicago Loop office on November 19, 2010.Seating is limited, so please respond promptly to this email to reserve space (limit twoattendees per company). We will promptly kick things off at 1:30pm. The location is 227W. Monroe, Suite 3400, Chicago, IL.

What We Will Cover:

• A (brief) history of Private Equity
• Transaction Types
• Financing the Enterprise: Venture Capital & Angel Investment
• Exit Strategies

I look forward to seeing you on November 19th !

Regards,Galen G. WilliamsInvestment AdvisorMorgan Stanley Smith Barney227 W. Monroe, Suite 3400, Chicago, IL 60606

 

 

The Google Android Mobile Platform Turns 3 Years in November 2010. It has been three years since Google launched the Android mobile platform.Android is a mobile operating system initially developed by Android Inc., a firm purchased by Google in 2005. Android is based upon a modified version of the Linux kernel. It is a participant in the Open Handset Alliance. Unit sales for Android OS smartphones ranked first among all smartphone OS handsets sold in the U.S. in the second and third quarter of 2010, with a third quarter market share of 43.6%.This is a video of Sergey Brin, Google co-founder, introducing Android: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FJHYqE0RDgThe Android Market is an online software store developed by Google for Android devices. An application program ("app") called "Market" is preinstalled on most Android devices and allows users to browse and download apps published by third-party developers, hosted on Android Market. The website, rather than the Market app itself, provides details of some of the available apps, in particular those that are termed "Featured", "Top Paid" and "Top Free". On October 25, 2010 the official AndroidDev twitter account announced that the Android market had surpassed the 100,000 app milestone.

More details:

http://chicago-social-marketing.ning.com/events/google-android-birthday

Location: Bennigan'sStreet: 150 S Michigan AveCity/Town: Chicago, IL

 

We will see a demo of these Android apps:

• Taxi Cab Share
  • Late for a meeting downtown and not an open cab to be found? Or, maybe you are going to the ball game along with half of the city. Then, Taxi Cab Share application is up for you!
• Children TV - videos for kids
  • This app is designed for kids 2 - 8 years old. It is inspired by seeing children search and watch YouTube cartoons. We wanted to create a save and convenient app for our children to enjoy the car rides, etc.
• Yachts and Tall Ships
  • Whether you are on the water or land, Yachts and Tall Ships application will astonish the explorer in you. You will find detailed information for over 700 sailing vessels, all major ports around the world, events and schedules, famoust buildings and various points of interests.
• Questions and Answers session:
  • Android application development and marketing to Android mobile users

This event is also listed on:

 

http://chicago-social-marketing.ning.com/events/google-android-birthdayhttp://www.meetup.com/chicago-web-design-meetup/calendar/15374232/http://www.meetup.com/social-media-marketing/calendar/15374268/http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=167513303273255http://events.linkedin.com/Google-Android-Birthday/pub/478741http://www.meetup.com/Mashable/27791/http://www.meetup.com/TechCrunch/17518/http://www.builtinchicago.org/events/google-android-birthday

 

 

 

Hello folks, this class is a great opportunity to see how development for Android is done, my assumption is that attendees will be total beginners.

As you may know there are about 38 different tablets scheduled to come out and about 60 Android phones on the market. This is the biggest revolution you may witness in this decade. In the next couple of years everyone will carry a tablet and a smart phone, that trend will change how we entertain, shop and communicate.

 

This is beginner workshop to introduce Java/C# developers to Android programming.

We will cover workshop 201 - barcode scanner.

https://sites.google.com/site/chicagoandroid/201

workshop 305 - SC card file access and simple media player with ListView

https://sites.google.com/site/chicagoandroid/305

Installation of IDE is required prerequisite.

https://sites.google.com/site/chicagoandroid/100

respectfully,Uki Dominque Lucas  Android Architect: Sears Holdings Corporationcommunity organizer: ChicagoAndroid.comMobile: +1 (650) 815-6603Skype: UkiDLucasGoogle docs/calendar: fb: http://www.facebook.com/ukidlucasin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ukidlucas

cv: http://www.dominquelucas.com/

 

 

Join us for the welcoming event for T-Mobile Android G2

Agenda:

• free beer, social mixer
• G2 specifications and technical info - Todor Krecu
• Mike Rhodes - introduction to Syncubator 
• Todor Krecu - introduction, mobile marketing strategy
• 1 minute pitches by Android development companies (free)
• Jonathan Ozeran, Tribune
  • WGN Radio for Android 
  • Chicago Blackhawks for Android
• Michael Cote
  • carrier data usage
• Natalia Cantemir, Design Director, Forte Consulting Group
  • Yachts and Tall Ships Android application
• Bruce Montgomery, Executive Producer/Host
  • Technology Access Television 
• Trace Johnson, co-chair, MoMo Chicago
• Geoffrey Domoracki, midVentures / mVLAUNCH
• Daniel Fedor, founder
  • share-a-cab, cabbuddy
• Chris Sweis, Chief Mobile Office 
  • JunoWallet
• Sriram Thodla, strategy, GavityTank.com
• Erin Polgreen, Associate Director The Media Consortium
  • Independent Media Hackathon
• T-Mobile Team
  • Robert Tolnai
  • James Pilcher (Jim)
  • Lisa Henson
  • Mike Thompson
  • Sonya Turner
• 3 minutes pitches - silver sponsors
• 5 minute pitches - gold sponsors
• 10 minute pitches - platinum sponsors
• Q&A mobile development panel
• free beer, social mixer

Slideshow presentation:

https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=dd596shz_112d2ffr8ft

 

 

Scoop:

• http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/09/t-mobile-android-g2-successor-to-o-g-g1/
• http://press.t-mobile.com/articles/T-Mobile-G2-with-Google
• phonearena.com
• T-Mobile G2 vs. T-Mobile G1 – Review

 

 

Chicago Android member has been invited to attend a noon meeting at Orbitz where Hal Snyder will be talking about company's mobile development!

500 W Madison Ste 1000 Chicago, IL  60661

Attendees should check in with the front desk on the 3rd floor of the Citibank building (500 W Madison) 10-15  minutes prior to the event. They will receive a pass and should proceed to the 8th floor where they will be greeted and escorted to the meeting room.

Only those who have registered will be granted access to the building by the 3rd floor security team.

 

 

 

 

Hal Snyder has more than thirty years' experience in software engineering, including work in embedded systems, operating systems internals, and fault-tolerant networks. Hal's interests include configuration management, concurrency-oriented programming, and software toolchain development. Before joining Orbitz, Hal worked with Northwestern University's Department of Preventive Medicine developing applications for the web, smartphones, and wearable sensors in support of a clinical trial relating to mitigation of cardiometablic risk factors.Hals holds a M.D. from Northwestern and M.S. (ABD) from University of Chicago in Math (Algebraic Number Theory).  He is the co-author of Internet RFC-3178 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3178

Ste 1900, 200 South Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL‎ -(312) 894-5000‎

 

 

This is a second set of instructions by a renowned Android author and teacher Mark Murphy. We were so impressed during the first set of instructions that we decided to bring Mark to Chicago again.

Interested in sponsoring? Please visit this page.

Agenda:

-- Resources (emphasis on resource sets)-- Integrating WebKit and Advanced WebKit-- AlarmManager (creating scheduled tasks, cron jobs)-- Handling Multiple Devices and API Versions-- Android Security Overview-- Android Beyond Java (overview of stuff like PhoneGap, the NDK, SL4A, etc.)

 

 

 

About Mark Murphy:

Mark Murphy is the founder of CommonsWare and the author of the Busy Coder’s Guide to Android Development and other books on Android application development. He is active in supporting the Android developer community, from answering questions on StackOverflow to publishing sample code and reusable components as open source.

A three-time entrepreneur, his experience ranges from consulting on open source and collaborative development for the Fortune 500 to application development on just about anything smaller than a mainframe. He has been a software developer for nearly three decades, from the TRS-80 to the latest crop of mobile devices. A polished speaker, Mr. Murphy has delivered conference presentations and training sessions on a wide array of topics internationally.

 

 

This is our weekly "official" training session for Chicago Android Workshops. We will be providing different training every week, so make sure you don't miss it. Attend one of MANY FREE "Android dev sessions (free)" listed on the our Google Calendar to catch up on Android basics. Join ChicagoAndroid.com for updates.

Agenda (subject to change depending on students interests and experience level):

• July 28th, 2010
  • 5:30 PM workshop 099: Java introduction for Android developers (only beginners attend)
  • 6:30 PM workshop 303: SQLite, Mp3 database (90 min)
  • 8:00 PM workshop 305: Media Player
• July 7th, 2010: 
  • 5:30 PM workshop 100. Android set-up (students perform by themselves prior to class)
  • 5:45 PM workshop 101. create a new project (fast 15 minute overview)
  • 6:00 PM workshop 106. Creating Menu, switching between multiple screens/Activities (30 minutes)
  • 6:30 PM workshop 302. GPS and Browser WebView (30 min)
  • 7:00 PM workshop 303. SQLite database, GPS, ListView (90 min)
• AUg 11th, 2010:
  • Android User Interface design
  • XML parsing
  • cont. Music Player

Why study Android?

Android has over 60 phones currently on the market, 14 tablets from most major manufacturers are coming out this year. Android started to sell more units than iPhone or Blackberry. There are Android TV boxes, Android in GM's car navigation and emergency systems, Android VOIP desk phones, eBook readers like Alex and B&N Nook and many other devices...

Android becomes the next wave of technology which resembles the Internet wave circa 1996-99. If you are a developer and you are not learning mobile development, you simply miss the biggest job opportunity of this decade.

For every website, company or problem to be solved there will be a question "Is there an app for that?". We want to make sure that the answer is "Yes! There is an app..." 

There are 300,000 businesses in Chicago alone, a large part of them will want at least a simple mobile app to connect to their clients better than a Website can do, the opportunity if incredible.

 

 

We are set for Saturday July 24th, 9AM morning Minsk, Belarus time, which is 1AM at Chicago.

Please use following website as reference (see numbers in the left margin):http://chicago-android-training.com/This is going to be an intense 3 hour lecture.

I do teach hands-on workshops in person, but over Internet it is too difficult.

PREREQUISITES:

• Java programming knowledge (C# would be OK, too)
• Android environment set up (100)
• understanding of English language 

DESCRIPTION:

With an assumption that the students never developed for Android, we will create a fully functional application that receives SMS messages, process them and sends custom response using information provided by user with UI components. Time allowing we will show how to list SMS data in the ListView.Finished product:http://chicagoandroid.com/forum/topics/sms-agent-for-socialitesAGENDA:

• Creating a new project explained (101)
• Creating Menu and multiple screens (106)
• SMS receiving and sending (202)
• User preferences (104)
• UI and styling (203)
• ListView of SMS data (301) - time permitting

I have conducted this type of class several times so I am confident that the students will be satisfied, assuming the Internet connection will be OK.

 

HOW TO CONNECT?

• Skype (voice) find me: UkiDLucas
• I will email GOTO meeting instructions to each registered participant.

 

 

The venue is generously provided by MOTODEV. Special thanks to Anthony Hand of Motorola for arranging it!

Motorola has chosen Android as a simple, powerful means to bring a whole new generation of phenomenal mobile experiences to Motorola users and has already announced an extensive portfolio of Android based handsets around the world. MOTODEV, Motorola's developer network, offers the one, easy-to-access, internet-enabled, open environment developers need to succeed in the future. 

 

 

 

Chicago Android (Uki D. Lucas) and Mobile Monday Chicago are proud to present an intensive one-day "Android 201" workshop with nationally-known Android instructor, Mark Murphy. This course builds on the series of "Android 101" workshops offered by Chicago Android in order to help students advance to the next level of competency with the platform.

As a prerequisite, all students SHOULD have successfully completed at least couple of FREE classes offered by ChicagoAndroid.com: SMS sending and receiving, barcode scanner, Database access, WebKit, GPS, etc. Due to the high demand for this course, no exceptions can be made. 

Uki ([email protected]) will announce location of Monday evening get-togethers to fulfill the prerequisites.

This course is expected to cover the following modules (details may change):

9:00-10:15 Threads lecture & hands-on10:15-11:30 Handling Rotation Events lecture & hands-on11:30-1:15 Extending Android with JARs lecture & hands-on & LUNCH1:15-2:30 Remote Services lecture & hands-on2:30-3:45 Maps lecture & hands-on3:45-5:00 Media lecture & hands-on

Registration is limited to just 30 participants in order to offer this rare "hands on" course with Mr. Murphy. As mentioned, due to the intense nature of this workshop, a minimal level of experience is required. Students completely new to Android cannot be accommodated for this workshop. (Look for additional entry level workshops coming soon!) ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Mark Murphy is the founder of CommonsWare and the author of the Busy Coder’s Guide to Android Development and other books on Android application development. Mr. Murphy teaches Android development courses nationally and internationally at all levels. 

A three-time entrepreneur, his experience ranges from consulting on open source and collaborative development for the Fortune 500 to application development on just about anything smaller than a mainframe. He has been a software developer for over 25 years, from the TRS-80 to the latest crop of mobile devices. A polished speaker, Mr. Murphy has delivered conference presentations and training sessions on a wide array of topics internationally.

 

 

We would like to invite you to a party at which we want to celebrate our vibrant community in Chicago. We want to give a chance for each mobile company/start-up/developer to introduce themselves. Our mission tag line...

 

"Chicago the hub of mobile development!"

 

This party is a part of the preparation for the next year's MEGA TRADE SHOW MobileAppEx in Chicago.

Twitter handle: #ChicagoAndroid

SPONSORS: please review this page (click here).

OUR SPONSORS:

 

Agenda:

Presentations: "What I am doing in mobile space and what do I need from you, the community, to become more successful." Presenters should send in a single full-screen image for the presentation (png or jpg format) to [email protected].

"Elevator pitch" SPEAKER LISTING (1 minute each, unless a sponsor):

• Uki D. Lucas (ChicagoAndroid.com): our agenda
• Michael Labowicz (Motorola): DROID X introduction
• Bruce Montgomery: Chicago as a hub of mobile development
• Chris Sweis: JunoWallet.com (platinum sponsor - gift cards)
• Keith McGorisk: Mobile Visionaries
• Darrin Stern: MobileAppEx
• Jason Shah: GroupPick app
• J. Schwan, Kelly Manthey: Solstice Consulting
• Chris Rechtsteiner, co-funder, CMO of page-foundry.com
• Anthony Hand: MoMo Chicago
• Jason Goodrich: Space Apart
• Todor Krecu: mobile marketing
• Stanley Chatman: Golden Doodle Games
• Erin Waldron: Wow Bao (gold sponsor - Hot Asian Buns)
• Vera Kimmi: Forte Consulting Group
• Antonio Wells: AndroidTapp.com reviews
• Jason Shah: Mediafly.com
• Nicholas Aiello: MeStream app for video streaming (silver sponsor)
• Matt Wojtowicz: Android at Loyola University
• Juan Bonfante: Android/Flash/Twitter app
• Chris Phenner thumbplay.com (give-a-way sponsor)
• Jinnan Sun (Motorola MotoDev): DROID X raffle (gold sponsor)
• ... let Uki know if you want to pitch.. 

Media coverage: take pictures and videos and upload to: 

• http://www.youtube.com/group/mobileappex
• http://ChicagoAndroid.com/photo
• livestream: http://www.livestream.com/droidxchicago

Verizon Wireless will start selling the DROID X from July 15 for $199 with a 2-year contract, after a $100 rebate.

"Elevator pitch" is a very short, no-nonsense, summary of your idea, activity or proposal to a VIP (very important person like media, investor, president, CEO, etc.) usually presented when you catch that person on the elevator ride, or in similar situation. After the pitch they may invite you for the longer talk where you give them one page "executive summary".

CO-ORGANIZERS:

 

 

 

 

Sold out

 

Agenda:

• 09:00 AM  - Uki D. Lucas  - Android workshop 100 - setup
• 09:30 AM  - Uki D. Lucas  - Android workshop 103 - GPS location services
• 10:30 AM  - Matt Wojtowicz (Loyola) - "Pulling the feed from the Web and parsing it into ListView" 
• 11:30 AM - Uki D. Lucas - Android workshop 201 - SQLite database

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This not-for-profit Android workshop & educational conference is organized by:

• Chicago Android ChicagoAndroid.com
• Google Technology User Group Chicago-GTUG.com
• Chicago Mobile Monday momochicago.org

As most of you know we had several workshops in the past that requiring NO PRIOR SKILLS in which we created REAL apps for barcode scanning, and SMS sending and receiving.

This workshop will also be a beginner's introduction resulting in a real, and practical, application, we will provide details shortly.

Registration and picture ID required.

Special thanks to Anthony Hand and Motorola Corporation for hosting us!

Please use invite friends via email, Facebook or Twitter -- only few days left and we want to reach as many people as possible.

 

 

Agenda:

• 9:00 AM Welcome notes and breakfast
• 9:30 AM teaming up and developing awesome Android apps
• 9:30 AM - 11:30AM Android workshop for beginners barcode scanner and SMS sending/receiving
• 2:30PM-3:30PM Pek: Titanium Appcelerator dev for iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry (soon)

 

 

Communicate through Google Group android-code-sprints (http://groups.google.com/group/android-code-sprints) and through GTalk in room [email protected] (see description for GTalk multi user chat setup)

 

 

 

 

1. Intro

2. Project propsals

3. Participating communities

 

 

1. Intro

To accelerate the growth and acceptance of the Android OS through the creation and promotion of development events and to foster a respectful community environment that allows its members to openly and freely share their knowledge and ideas about Android, the next 24th of April various Android groups will come together to host the first International Android Code Sprint.

To facilitate a structure that can accommodate people with various levels and interest, we are proposing a set of levels that should help to guide people in the process of choosing a project, and the team to set up the projects based on their complexity.

 

Here is the scale:

Level 0:  I need help installing the SDK.

Level 1:  I have the SDK running and I've looked the Tutorials and API examples

Level 3:  I have one or more Apps in the market

Level 4:  I have a good knowledge of Android and deep knowledge in some aspects (Web Integration, OpenGL, NDK, etc.)

Level 5:  I have a superb knowledge of Android.

Level E:  I am a Entrep., designer, or belong to a related field and have an interest in mobile development

 

 

Based on this we could setup projects and groups with like this:

Group 1,  people from Level 0 to 3.  This project(s) would have practical implementations of: basic layouts, events, widgets, intents, array adapters, and one maybe a permanent storage, sensors or maps.

 

Group 2, people from Level 3 to 5. This project(s) would encompass: Group 1 topics +  advance events, widgets, services, media capture, LBS... 

 

Group 3, people from Level 4 and 5.  This project(s) would go beyond the topics of the other groups, and might also be work in some platform level changes or Dalvik level projects.

 

Any code generated will be available publicly and will have an Apache License to maximized the later benefit of all the participants - and beyond, - unless in the license is in conflict with some pre-existent license.

 

Each city can work on the projects they like. However, here are suggestions for projects:

 

2. Project proposals:

 

Group 1

  -  Porra: Office Betting pool.

  -  TMB times:  When is your next city bus coming

 

Group 2

  -  OpenBicing:    This is a bicing app that implements some fairly intelligent caching layer (at the server level).   We've been talking about implementing some new features.  And the author also would like to work ways of getting the app running in other bicing services across EU.

  -  Geocashing + forusquare + hidden treasure combo game.

  -  organize meetups application

 

Group 3

 - Working on issues at code.google.com/p/android might be also a nice idea!

Participating Communities

 

1) Bangalore (Akshay Dakrath)

April 24, 10:00AM

location:ThoughtWorks

topic: Learn and Network among Android Fans

registration/website: http://www.meetup.com/The-Bangalore-Android-Group/calendar/13091382/

 

2) Barcelona (and.roid.es, Luis Moreno, Roberto Serrano)

April 24, 10:30AM - 6:30PM  (EU time)

location: Citilabs 

topics:

registration/website: http://and.roid.es/barcelona-androides-de-abril-codesprint-internacional.html

other activities: entrepreneurial exercise for anyone interested on the potential of creating a business around mobile.

 

3) Berlin (android-in-berlin, Olaf Geibig, Mr Schtief, T)

April 24

location: Beuth-Hochschule für Technik

topics: Mobile Augmented Reality, mixare, Game AR engine

registration/website: http://ardevcamp.mixxt.de/networks/events/show_event.16903

April 25

location: c-base

topics: Teleporther, dialstation, android berlin website

registration/website: http://sites.google.com/site/androidinberlin/android-code-sprint-25-april

 

4) Brussels (Friedger Müffke)

April 25th: 10am-6pm (CEST)

location: hackerspace

topics:

registration/website: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dDg4Wkl6cFBVdGxSSElRbFliQk5DaWc6MQ

 

5) Chicago (Uki Dominque Lucas)

April 24th : 9:00 am - 5pm (CT)

Location: TechNexus 200 S. Walker Dr. Chicago, IL 60606

registration: http://chicagoandroid201004.eventbrite.com/

website: http://ChicagoAndroid.com

 

6) Margarita Island - Venezuela (Kronox)

          April 23th - 24th 4:00 PM - 10:00 PM

          Location: Android Hacklab Margarita Island

          registration/website: http://sites.google.com/site/flyanalytics/android

 

7) Munich (Simon Tennant)

          April 21th - Sunday 25th

          Location: BuddyCloud Towers

          topics: BuddyCloud Android Client

          registration/website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-muenchen/browse_thread/thread/feb459a0b8cf50fa?hl=de

 

8) Seoul (Robert McManus)

April 25, 6PM

(General Android meetup)

registration/website: http://www.meetup.com/Android-Developers-Korea/calendar/13178164/

 

Android workshop

 

PLEASE MAKE SURE TO RSVP AT: http://www.chicagoacm.org

Loyola University - Water Tower Campus820 N. Michigan, Chicago IL 60611Beane Ballroom (13th Floor, Lewis Towers)

• social hour starting at 5:30 PM
• presentation starts at 6:30 PM and ends at 8 PM

 

 

Android workshop

Chicago Android community and Chicago-GTUG.com are organizing an after-part to Flourish 2010 conference.

Saturday, 1PM: 
Uki D. Lucas of "Chicago Android" and organizer of Chicago-GTUG.com will be speaking about Android development, the topic will be on sending and receiving SMS messages and saving user preferences.

Chicago Google Technology conference GTUG #7 is organizedby Jason Gessner (Google Wave) and by Chicago Google Technology User Group - Uki D. Lucas (ChicagoAndroid.com)We hope to create much "Google Buzz" Twitter #ChiGTUG and FacebookAgenda presentations and code workshops will commence at the same time

• 9 AM Uki D. Lucas & Jason Gessner
  • opening
  • bagels provided
• 9:30 AM Uki D. Lucas  - Android 101, no none-sense workshop
  • hands-on development, you will have your own app at the end!
  • bar-code scanner
  • SMS API
  • Saving of user preferences
  • UI elements
• 11 AM David Byttow is an engineer on the Google Wave API team in California.  
  • new additions to the wave APIs.
• 12:30 PM - PIZZA
• 1 PM Jason Gessner is an ads engineer at Google Chicago.  
  • example Google Wave robots and gadgets
  • using wave in a team setting 
• 3 PM David Byttow & Jason Gessner 
  • Google Buzz discussion and Wave workshops
• 4 PM Todor Krecu 
  • Mobile Social apps (FourSquare, etc.)
• 4 PM  Juan Bonfante
  • "Learning Android From Example"  use online android resources (developer.android.com) to build an app.
• 5 PM closing remarks

OUR SPONSORS:KeyLimeTie is a Chicago area interactive design and development firm specializing in web, mobile, kiosk, digital signage, and enterprise software solutions. Visit: http://keylimetie.com

Agenda (presentations and code workshops will commence at the same time):

• 9 AM 
  • Uki D. Lucas: opening, organization
  • Jason Goodrich - OfficePort
• 9:15 AM 
  • Pallavi Kaushik: "Android meets HTML5"
• 10 AM 
  • Cuneyt Taskiran: "Android development 101 Twitter App"
• 11 AM Google
  • Justin Mattson 
• 1 PM - lunch break:
  • LIVE MUSIC by Jason Goodrich, 
  • conversations about alternative energy with Uki D. Lucas
• 2 PM   Google: 
  • Justin Mattson android.bluetooth package (please review prior to presentation)
• 3 PM 
  • Pek Pongpaet: Twitter applications: Tweetlytics
• 3:30 PM 
  • competition team presentations (product does not have to be finished)
• 4:45 PM awards
  • judge panel: Pek Pongpaet, Peter Morano, Bob Brill, James Wylder,..
• 5 PM  
  • dinner out (TBD), after party

• 5:30 PM -- AppEngine with Google Web Toolkit 101Jordan Beck - RevereGroup.com
• 6:00 PM -- Angel Investing & Venture Capital for startupsGalen Williams, Geoff Domoracki - Maroon Global / hydeparkangels.com
• 6:30 PM break
• 6:45 -- Getting REST with the Google App Engine & Android (Part 2)Jason Shah, Cedric Hurst 
• 7:15 break
• 7:30 PM -- Twitter applications: TweetlyticsPek Pongpaet 
• 8:00 PM -- Android development 101Cuneyt Taskiran 

This the 4th Chicago Google Technology conference and the second part of the Android group presentation organized by Roberto Serrano in coordination with Chicago GTUG's Uki D. Lucas.

Possible topics:

• 5:30 pm: Chris McAvoy (Chicago Python Group)- Amazon Cloud Web Services
• 6:00 pm: Eric Cloninger (Motorola - lead in the Motodev Studio Project)"Introduction to Motodev Studio development environment for Android"
• 6:40 pm: social break
• 6:45 Uki D. Lucas- How Social Media can benefit your business? No nonsense approach
• 7:15 pm: social break
• 7:30 pm:  Richard Li- Samsung's Android phone with a cube UI: - How to do color based picking in OpenGL- How to fire up an Android application based on a 3D event - Google NDK with support of native OpenGL ES programming- 3D animation with OpenGL ES on Android

This is the third Google Technology Conference; cooperation of Chicago Google Technology User Group (Uki D. Lucas) and Android User Group (Roberto Serrano of Motorola).

We had a very positive feedback from the previous meetings (85 and 114 people signed up, respectively), make sure you register soon as space is limited!

Follow & post on Twitter by adding #ChiGTUGhttp://twitter.com/#search?q=ChiGTUG

Our Blog:http://www.chicago-gtug.com/ 

LOCATION:

UIC LCD is one of the Lecture Centers sourrounding the quad:https://fimweb.fim.uic.edu/CampusMaps/UICVisitorMap_E_8.5x11.pdf

 

Google Map from Union Station

You will find it between SCE and LIB.  People can park on HLPS parking lot.  The Blue Line, and the Buses 8, 7, 60, 168 stop really close to this area of UIC, there is another bus line that that runs through UIC which is the 157 - Streeterville/Taylor. It's the new 38 - Odgen/Taylor as it merged with the 157 - Streeterville. Along with that there is also the 12 - Roosevelt is another one that can be taken to get to UIC. 

AGENDA:

Please REVIEW the newest AGENDA (spreadsheet on Google Docs):

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tK7L0Q3VuDpNF3-lsof6g0g&hl=en

 

This is the second meeting of Google Technology Users Group (GTUG) in Google offices, Chicago downtown.

We had a very positive feedback after the first meeting (85 people signed up)!

Now we are trying to reach out to other groups around Chicago to join forces... This meeting is the cooperation between Chicago-GTUG and Android User Group organized by Roberto Serrano of Motorola.

Follow & post on Twitter by adding #ChiGTUGhttp://twitter.com/#search?q=ChiGTUG

Our Blog:http://www.chicago-gtug.com/ 

Agenda:

 

TRACK 1: Android phone development

Roberto Serrano - Motorola- introductions- Android OS on various mobile platforms 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jason Shah  (Author of CTA Tracker, and other Android Apps)Audio on the Android Platform 

• Working with Media Playback on Android
• Media Player Class
• Media Player vs. Soundpool Class.

 

 

Jay Williams  (Motorola)

Intro to running Android on a Beagle Board 

• Hardware Shopping list (Material need in addition to the BB)
• Checking out and building an android image
• Configuring the kernel
• Flashing the device (Including how to format a SD for the BB)

Samir Faci  (Android Enthusiast and all around Linux Buff)

Android G1 Hacking  

• How to back up your rooted phone using nand-backup
• How to install JagHero 
• How to Restore your Regular image

TRACK 2: Google Web Toolkit (GWT)

 

Nathan Ingersoll - Google- Open Source Hosting onGoogleCode 

Uki D. Lucas - Revere Group- developing widgets with Google Web Toolkit (GWT)- reusing your custom widgets using jar files- examples of Social Networking widgets 

David Wolverton - Revere Group- Twitter for Google Web Toolkit (GWT)- Friend Connect for Google Web Toolkit (GWT)- Facebook for Google Web Toolkit (quick recap) 

Zainab Z. Aziz - Revere Group- Google Wave demonstration- Google Wave API for robots

waiting list** -- at this time we have no more room to accept anyone else, but if you sign up for waiting list you will be first to get notified about next event. 

 

 

This is Google Technology User Group meeting; developers, students and entrepreneurs are welcome. This is the first such meeting in Chicago -- it is loaded with interesting information, it is big, it is ambitious, don't miss it.

Thanks to courtesy of Google Inc. we will meet at their facility at 20 W. Kinzie, Chicago.

We will have a lot of short 15 minute presentations to stimulate the ideas and raise questions after which you will be able to talk to the speakers and Google employees about what sparked your interests.

The theme of this meeting is:

"Google tools to jump-start your next idea into a social networking start-up"

We hope you will walk out of this meeting super-charged to create the next big thing, and that this group will become an incubator for a lot of new ventures in Chicago land area.

Agenda:

5:15 PM - Uki D. Lucas (Chicago-GTUG.com):- Introduction

5:30 PM - Gregory Kick (Google.com)- GData, Guice, Google collections

5:45 PM - Nathan Ingersoll (Google.com)- project hosting on Google Code 

6:00 PM - Jordan Beck (Revere Group)- GWT and Google AppEngine- Photo Carousel example Widget

6:15 PM - David Wolverton (Revere Group)- Facebook for Google Web Toolkit

6:30 PM - Trevor Skaife (Revere Group)- Maven2 dependencies with Google Web Toolkit

6:45 PM  - David Wolverton (Revere Group)- Google Friend Connect for Google Web Toolkit

7:00 PM - David Lo (Revere Group)- Building mobile applications with Android

7:15 PM - Phil Wodarczyk (Revere Group)- Building application with iPhone (cool bonus presentation)

7:30 PM - 8:00 PM - Questions and Answers

We will start at 5 PM, but we want to allow 15 minutes for people to arrive and mingle a bit.

We still have openings for a guest speaker (Social Networking, Google Technology, success stories, etc.), please contact 

Follow the news and create a buzz on Twitter by including #Chicago-GTUG in your posts.