Spend the day at Heatsync Labs coworking and watching all the Google IO events stream live.

Spend the day at Heatsync Labs coworking watching all the Google IO events stream live.

 

In this session we'll provide an introduction to Google's PlayN game development library. PlayN is a cross-platform game library that allows you to create a single Java code base that will run in HTML5, Java, Android and Flash. iOS will be added to the list very soon.A little about PlayN from their website (http://code.google.com/p/playn/):

"PlayN is a cross-platform game abstraction library for writing games that compile to:

1. Desktop Java
2. HTML5 Browsers
3. Android
4. iOS
5. Flash†
6. More?

PlayN is free and open source, and we hope you will make kick ass games with it!"

Distributing Android apps to more app markets can mean more exposure and greater income, but it can come at the cost of greater maintenance effort. However, there are ways to manage the conflicting requirements and stay competitive.

This presentation will give attendees:

•   An idea of why/if they should pursue deployment to different Android app stores
•   A solid understanding of where the requirements for Android app stores differ
•   An idea of what can be done to reduce effort and complications with complianceSpeaker: Tim Mackenzie

 

Tim escaped the cubicle after a decade of software engineering at large companies to form abusiness  focused on Android app development and research.  He is passionate about simplifyingcomplex problems as well as making life easier through reducing unnecessary work.

 

Tracking all of the available app stores, market browsers,  review sites, testing services, anddevelopment platforms is more work than small developers can typically support.  To mitigate thisgap in available information, Tim has put extensive effort into researching and testing differentAndroid app stores as well as ad networks to measure real-world performance against the claimsand hype.

 

Aside from blogging about all manner of topics related to Android development and income, Tim also has published several books in the “Android Income Series”, which can be found on the ProjectJourneyman site.

Node.js is the new hotness. but why should or would you want to use it?Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.Top industry players such as LinkedIn, Yahoo, ebay and others are using Node.js in production for fast, scalable, real-time applications.Luis and Blaine will help you get started with Node.js with some demos and live coding with the Google APIsBring your laptop and follow along as we get started using Node.js and build an app that uses the Google APIs.

Donn Felker - Roboguice - Dependency Injection for Android

In this session developers will learn how to use Roboguice, the dependency injection framework for Android. Whether starting from a greenfield or brownfield project Roboguice can help streamline your application to allow it to become more decoupled as well as more testable. You will learn how to inject views, resources and use some of Roboguice's built in helpers to help streamline your day to day work process.

 

About the speaker:

Dylan Schiemann is CEO of SitePen and co-founder of the Dojo Toolkit, an open source JavaScript toolkit for rapidly building web sites and applications. He is also co-founder of Comet Daily, co-founder of the London Ajax Users Group, and serves as President and Board Member of the Dojo Foundation. A passionate and tireless expert in the technologies and opportunities of the Open Web, Dylan is a contributing author to the O'Reilly book "Even Faster Web Sites", has provided editorial review for countless other Dojo and JavaScript books, and has shared his knowledge at more than 100 industry conferences across the globe. Under his guidance, SitePen has become the definitive resource for any organization with the goal of building and maintaining innovative, mission critical web applications. Dylan’s commitment to the Open Web has made SitePen a major contributor to and creator of many of the most pioneering open source web development toolkits and frameworks today, including Dojo, cometD, DWR, and Persevere. Prior to SitePen, Dylan developed web applications for companies like Renkoo, Informatica, Security FrameWorks and Vizional Technologies. Dylan earned his Masters in Physical Chemistry from UCLA and his B.A. in Mathematics from Whittier College. Twitter- @dylans

APIs are everywhere, whether we realize it or not.  APIs are a very powerful tool in any programmer’s arsenal. Why reinvent the wheel when you can use one that has already been created? This session explores the general concept of APIs and their evolution towards the Web APIs that many programs access every day.  Examples include use of Google Gadget and Google+ APIs.Speaker: Blaine Bublitz

 

This class is a walk-through of the most important tools available in the Android framework. We will step through setting up and running the tools.  We will highlight some important tips and tricks to ensure you are able to use the tools effectively.  You should come to this session if you would benefit from a comprehensive overview of the tools, or would like to learn how to use them correctly.  We will demonstrate how to use the tools to: isolate performance issues, test on multiple platforms, improve your code quality, and make the development process easier.This class will include a variety of demos, mostly using the Eclipse IDE.  If you would like to follow along - make sure you have Android with the latest version of the Android Developer Tools installed.Speaker: Mike Wolfson

Mobile applications are everywhere. Exploding interest from consumers and corporations brings the need for developers to create applications within a diverse mobile ecosystem. Developers are faced with the choice of learning languages specific to each platform or using tools that will allow a developer to write their application once and deploy it on many mobile devices. We'll discuss what these tools are, when they should be used and also look at the final product these tools generate. This discussion will help you refine your mobile strategy and also help you decide if these tools are appropriate for your application.Speaker: Matt Riley

 Matt Riley is a Sr. Web Applications Engineer at Amkor Technology. Matt has been involved with technology for most of his career and has been developing Web applications for over 10 years. He has broad experience in architecting Web based e-commerce and enterprise applications which are designed to increase departmental efficiency and deliver enabling technologies to individual employees. Most recently, Matt has taken the lead in designing and implementing enterprise mobile initiatives at Amkor and has developed multiple Web based mobile applications that can on numerous mobile platforms.

Come to this session to learn the latest about the Android 3 release, Honeycomb. This release of Android is targeted at tablet development, but is compatible with previous versions of Android. The new features of Honeycomb will be discussed with some code samples that will outline the new features and how to use them. You'll learn about the new action bar, fragments, new homescreen widgets, the system bar, and how the new tablet emulator works.Speaker: Donn is the founder of Agilevent, an agile and innovative software development company that focuses on agile techniques and mobile development. He is also a partner in two startups–Qonqr and Agile Medicine. He has over 11 years of professional experience in various markets, including entertainment, health, retail, insurance, financial and real estate. Donn is the author of the best-selling "Android Application Development for Dummies," "Android Tablet Application Development" and the "Introduction to Android Development" video series on TekPub.com. He is an Android seeding developer awardee as well as an accomplished application author with over 3.2 million installs in the Android Market. He is also a Microsoft ASP Insider, an MCTS in Web Client Development for .NET and is a certified ScrumMaster. Donn presents and consultants on various topics ranging from architecture, development in general, agile practices and patterns and of course, mobile. Read Donn's blog here: http://blog.donnfelker.com.

Since July is usually a light month for attendance, we are going to have an informal hack session concentrating on using App Engine.  We are going to create a simple web app together, that accesses data out of a Big Table database, and presents it to the user.If time permits, we will also write an Android app, to retreive this data via a Restful Web Service.This is intended to be a very interactive presentation, so please come prepared to code (we will send out specific configuration instructions).  This will be an open activity, so feel free to come with questions, or something to demo.Prerequisites:Please come with the following software installed on your machine:-Eclipse (latest version): http://www.eclipse.org-Google SDK and Plugin for Eclipse: http://code.google.com/eclipse/docs/download.htmlIf you want to actually publish to App engine, setup an free account at http://appspot.com

This talk will cover rooting an Android phone.  We will discuss: what rooting is, the Pros and Cons of it, and risks involved in the process.  We will discuss how to unlock your phone, then apply Custom Roms. Useful resources for the 'Rooter', and recommendations in managing a rooted device will be discussed. We will demo a  couple devices: Samsung Vibrant, Nexus One, B&N Nook color.  They have all been rooted and are running custom ROMs. Since they have all have already been rooted - we are not planning on doing a live rooting.  If a group member has a particular phone they would like to root live, contact the organizers in advance.Speaker Information:Barry Shaffer is an Engineering Manager with Orbital Sciences and an avid Android enthusiast who has successfully rooted several devices including: Motorola Droid, Motorola Cliq, Nexus One, Samsung Galaxy, Nook Color.

Speaker:  Luis Montes, Mike Wolfson, Alan Pruitt

 

The next meeting of the GTUG will be an overview of the Google IO developers conference.  We will be highlighting the most important news from the event, highlighting the most important developments.The presentations will be designed to encourage discussion, and highlight the important developments and events for people who weren't able to attend in person, or people who would like to discuss the various announcements in detail.In particular, we will have 3 short presentations with 3 different focuses:

 

Mike Wolfson - will be discussing the announcements in regards to the Android platform.  He will highlight the important announcements regarding platform direction, and highlight the important directions outlined regarding coding standards, best practices, and other tips and tricks that are useful to developers.

 

Luis Montes - will give an overview of the latest happenings with the Chrome Web Browser, Operating System, and Web Store.  Luis will also present on software development using App Engine, the Google Web Toolkit and other interesting client and server APIs

 

Alan Pruitt  - will present a general overview of web applications available in the Android Marketplace that enable developers and other small and medium enterprises (SME) to leverage the power of web applications that can improve developer work flow and project collaboration. Google I/O is jam packed with Googlers and third-party vendors who eagerly share and engage Google I/O attendees with the latest web applications for business. Alan is especially keen about HTML5 development and will focus on business web applications that harness HTML5 as a platform.

Ruboto is Ruby for Android devices. You can access the full AndroidAPI from Ruby, giving your scripts all the power of a nativeapplication. Even better, you can build and distribute packages thatwill run on any Android phone, even ones without Ruboto installed.In this talk, you'll see how to set up a working developmentenvironment (on desktop or phone). More importantly, you'll learn howto manipulate Android from Ruby, giving you access to widgets (buttonsand text fields), canvases (paint to the screen), even sensors(compass and accelerometer). Android novices will learn everythingthey need to get up and running, and pros will gain a powerful newlanguage for their toolkit.About the speaker:Jay McGavren is a developer with Choice Hotels.  Though his primarylanguage is Java, he has been working in various scripting languagesfor over a decade, most recently Ruby.  He has spoken at RubyConf aswell as various regional conferences, on Ruboto and other topics.

Query Mobile is a UI library designed to abstract away the differencesbetween various mobile devices and allow you to focus on your application.Hafthor Stefansson, developer consultant for Parsus Solutions, will showyou the advantages of using jQuery Mobile and how to use it.About the speaker:Hafthor Stefansson is a developer consultant for Parsus Solutions andworks on Java, .NET, Ruby and Objective C based applications and is aMicrosoft Certified Professional Developer.

Due to the current fragmentation of the mobile environment, it is more complicated than ever to capitalize on this emerging market.  It is more important than ever to understand the various options available, and identify opportunities early.

This talk will provide an overview of the major mobile platforms currently available.  It will describe:-Requirements for publishing (approval process, developer costs, etc)-Revenue models available (in app purchasing, subscriptions, etc)-Technologies required to write the apps (languages, html support, etc)-Other important notes (pitfalls to avoid, etc)This presentation will also provide an overview and comparison of App Markets in general (including market share, biggest apps and categories in each market, best selling apps, etc).  

 

About the speaker: Mike Wolfson is a passionate mobile designer\developer working out of Phoenix, AZ. He has been working in the software field for over 15 years, mostly in the Enterprise Java space (his current full-time gig is as a Senior Software Engineer at Choice Hotels International). Mike has been an active contributor to the User Group community for many years (including organizing the PhxGTUG), and has spoken about Android, and mobile development at a variety of conferences and User Groups. When Mike is not working (or geeking out on mobile technology), he spends his free time cooking, hiking, snowboarding, scuba diving, or chasing his small, but quick daughter.

We'll introduce the Chrome OS, and dig deep into a few topics.Time and attention permitting, we'll look at:- What is Chrome OS- How to write applications for Chrome OS- Publishing apps to the Chrome Webstore- Writing plugins for the webstoreLuis Montes has written a whiteboard app which is specifically designed to function well within the Chrome universe.  He will show exactly what it took to write the app, highlighting specific areas of interest and how they relate to the Chrome OS.  He will describe the steps to publish and sell the app in the Chrome Webstore.Luis will have a CR48 Laptop, which is the Google designed laptop, created to highlight their OS.  Time permitting, Luis will give an overview of writing plugins for the Chrome browser.

We'll discuss Google Maps v. 3 using JavaScript.  The goal is to getfamiliar with the basics of what Google Maps can do and to experience "helloworld" execution of primary features.Time and attention permitting, we'll look at:- Creating a Google Map ("Hello World"), and what you get for free- Placing a marker on a map- Geo-locating addresses- Showing a pop-up when you click on a marker- Showing lots of points on a map- Zoom / Center to show all markers placed on the map- KML - the format of geo-relational data- Showing driving directions between two points- Interacting with the map and other parts of the page:       - Click a marker to call a JavaScript function       - Click a link or button to call a map function- Custom marker icons- Custom map tile layersQuestions and discussion will be king here.  If we show an interest in aparticular topic, we'll dive deeper there.  If we run out of time, we'lltruncate the list.About me: Rob Richardson is a Software Architect and Principal of Richardson& Sons, LLC.  Rob has had a passion for software development since middleschool.  Now with a Bachelors degree in Industrial Design, the study ofhuman interface design, and a Masters in Computer Information Systems, he isfocused on listening to customers and creating web-based solutions to theirneeds.  Rob has created software applications ranging from enterprise-scaleapplications to PDA-based systems, web applications to embedded databasesynchronization and postscript processing systems.  Rob's current passionsinclude ASP.NET MVC, JavaScript/AJAX, jQuery, Continuous Integration, EntityFramework, OpenId, coding better, and his family.

Luis Montes gave an introduction to Google's AppInventor for Android

About the Presenter Danny Riley began his career as a software engineer consulting on various enterprise development projects. From there Danny pursued his interests in more business related roles and transitioned himself into a lead technical sales manager providing internal and external sales support. Today, Danny has the responsibility of developing and communicating Isos Technology's vision and strategy through positioning, branding, advertising, and associated growth initiatives. He oversees and manages all aspects of services and marketing for Isos Technology's technical services. About Isos TechnologyIsos Technology provides a range of Cloud Computing offerings including Amazon's Web Services™ EC2 technology solutions and Google Apps™ Authorized Reseller services.  Isos Technology's Google Apps services include setup, training, support, migration, system integration and application development. apps.isostech.com About the Topic

Companies, large and small, are expanding their user base and growing revenue by integrating their web-based solutions with Google Apps.  In short, web-based application can integrate directly with Google Apps.  Applications become easier to use because they can include single sign-on, Google's universal navigation, and features that integrate further using Google APIs.

During this presentation, Isos Technology will discuss their latest Google Apps integration project with the Phoenix-based company, Red Pear, and their hosted Vyllij application.  The Isos Technology team will discuss the efforts taken to integrate the Vyllij application with Google Apps through the utilization of PHP, Java, OAuth and OpenID.