This month we'll have an in depth review of Google Now, plus we'll discuss the new Jellybean features, including the implementation of "Project Butter", the various tweaks that make Jellybean more responsive than ever.

What are we talking about?  Google I/O 2012 - what else???!

We will have all the new Googley gadgets and gizmos from I/O for you to play with (except Google Glass, sadly...)

Presentations will include a brief presentation on the all new Accessory Development Kit (ADK 2012) and a demo of the Nexus Q (a black orb-looking lounge accessory thing with funky mesmerising coloured lights, in case you missed the I/O keynote).

Another fun evening discussing various topics

Presentation by Mat on Android fundamentals, presentation by Abishek of their group's coding session project - the stolen car finder app

Follow up, demos and presentations of our coding session creations.

Our second Auckland GTUG coding session - let's get creative!

We'll be discussing the upcoming coding session.

Paul's going to do a quick demo of the ADK.

I have built a demo of the Beam API. I have the whole project available and people can get a copy.

An introduction to JNI on Android, presented by Julius Spencer, and other topics

An introduction to Android 4.0 - Ice Cream Sandwich, presented by Google Android Developer Advocate, Ankur Kotwal

Come along for our Christmas GTUG special!

Android coding session - come and start development of an idea that's been burning inside you, waiting to be unleashed!  Please indicate your intention to turn up at the URL above, bring laptop with Eclipse (or other IDE), ideas and enthusiasm!

There will be a round table discussion on the new features in Ice Cream Sandwich (including the Beam API) and the Galaxy Nexus.John would like to pilot/demo Work the Room, a new event-centric business contact sharing application.

The apk for Work the Room is available at the following URL: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12838403/20111102/worktheroom.apk

Download it so we can try it out at the meeting tonight!

Monthly meetup - topic TBA.  Please register on our meetup site if you are interested in attending.

Our first official GTUG meetup will include software demonstrations, discussions about recent changes surrounding Andoird and planning events for the rest of the year.

Richard talked on writing Adobe Flex applications for Android. 'Write once, debug everywhere! ' - Richard

John will give a talk using his wiki-to-speech engine and Simon will give an overview on the current state of cutting edge Android phones and tablets

Android programming with 50% less Java and 100% more fun!

Abhishek will talk about targeting the Dalvik/Java VM and runtime on Android, using a non-Java language such as Mirah.

There will be a few short presentations on a variety of topics, and as always there will be lots of devices and general discussion. Justin will describe how he rooted his Nook Color, Julius will talk about styling apps and his recent experiences with Honeycomb Tablets, John will show Android running a Python SL4A CherryPy web server front end for Wiki-to-Speech and Abhishek may do a quick demo of a GIS library he cross-compiled from Ruby if he gets it working by Thursday. Any members who wish to speak are very welcome, last time we had a very interesting presentation on Unity and a few other things from Simon #4.

Justin will be giving a talk entitled 'Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep?' which covers persistence in Android apps with a focus on stability coming in and out of sleep or when switching in and out of activities (and between applications).

John Graves will present the open source project Wiki-to-Speech, an Android app which extracts scripts from web pages and plays them, using text-to-speech in multiple languages while (optionally) displaying other web-based content. This presentation should be of particular interest to developers of guides or tutorials.

This week Justin will be talking about incorporating Google maps into an Android app and over the next few meetups Julius will be describing various aspects of Android development, using his Powershop app "Power Up" as an example. This week he will be focusing on using AsyncTask to perform background operations and publish results on the UI thread without having to manipulate threads and/or handlers.

The main feature of this meetup is the 'Shake an Elf Application Challenge'.

As usual we'll have general discussion from 6:30pm, then people entering the competition will be given a chance to present their apps. The winner will go home with the Motorolla Flipout phone (kindly donated by Telecom) at the end of the meetup!

The plan this week is to have seven members present for seven minutes each on a topic of their choosing. There will also be time before and after for general discussion. Drinks and snacks will be provided.

We are synching up with the other Android group in Auckland. The more the merrier!

Feel free to arrive any time from 6pm for general discussion and a few drinks and nibbles. Presentations start at 7pm. The current plan is for Julius to continue demonstrating app development using Eclipse and Simon to showcase the App Inventor for Android.

This first meetup is going to be on Android Application Essentials. I'll give a talk on how to implement the basics.

• Hello World App 
• Menus 
• Settings 
• Simple storage