July 22, 2009 6:30 PM - 150 attended

Android July: App demos and how to program in Android

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Selected By: David Cao

In this meetup, we had invited people to demo their applications and few guys to explain how to develop in Android. This event will be a collaborated effort with informal Android Developers meetup (http://www.meetup.com...)

Agenda
6:15: Food and networking (Thanks Zanox for sponsoring the food)
6:45PM: Event start
Introduction
Android APP Demos
App Demos (By the order to request date)
Navneet Aron, MobiQpons MobiQpons delivers location-based shopping coupons and deals to shoppers from businesses or retailers in their neighborhood. Users simply show their phone to redeem. Users also get notified of offers when they are close to their favorite stores.
Georgi Dagnall, Geogad -Travelers can create, share and explore top destinations with free multimedia tours. Travelers can view professionally created tours or create their own customized tour from audio and video clips that matches their interests and travel plans.
Nelson To: Apofa SMS providing the easy access to SMS text msg. It allows you to embed your friend's contact information and your predefined msg in the msg. It also allow you to remote access your phone when the phone is not with you.
Andres: 3banana, http://www.cyrket.com.... and here is writeup in lifehacker: http://lifehacker.com...
Manish Mathuria

Speakers/Presenters
James Yum, Google Android group, U Can Touch This - touch events in Android
Adam Blum, CEO of Rhomobile, How to develop Android App using Rhomobile solution
How to develop Android application by Nelson To
Jeremy Arnon, Senior Director, Business Development


Presenter Bio:
Speaker 1: James works on the Android developer relations team. He is happiest writing Android applications and helping others do the same. James has broken or lost over a dozen mobilephones in his lifetime but has managed to hold onto his G1 so far.

Proper understanding of touch events helps you do the really cool stuff, such as sliding and dragging views. This talk will explain how touch events are dispatched and will demonstrate a basic example of a sliding view.

Speaker 2: Adam Blum is CEO of http://www.rhomobile...., the open mobile framework company. He is a longtime CTO/VP of Engineering of several successful startups in the web services and mobile spaces (Commerce One, Systinet, Good, Mobio). He is also an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon and advisor to several other software companies.

About Rhomobile: Rhomobile Inc. offers the world’s leading open source framework for business mobility solutions. Founded in 2008 by a team of Silicon Valley veterans, the company’s award winning software has hundreds of active developers and is ideal for independent software vendors, system integrators and enterprises of all sizes. Powered by a revolutionary approach to mobile application development, Rhomobile offers comprehensive, modern, highly adaptable and low-cost solutions and support services to developers around the world. Rhomobile, headquartered in Cupertino, CA, is a privately held company with backing from vSpring Capital.

Speaker 3 REMY ARNON: Jeremy Arnon is a mobile industry veteran, having spent the past four years on numerous sides of the business. As Senior Director, Business Development at Quattro Wireless, Jeremy is responsible for growing the Premier Ad Network’s mobile inventory through partnerships with major media companies. He has been instrumental in landing marquis clients such as Men’s Health, Washington Post, Fandango, Edmunds.com, TheOnion, Gawker Media, TV Guide, the NY Post, Pandora and many others.

Prior to Quattro, Jeremy was Regional Director at Sybase 365 where he handled key partnerships such as Tracfone Wireless and Major League Baseball. Jeremy also worked for Italian-based Neo Network, a mobile entertainment company, and spent seven years in sports marketing prior to entering the mobile field.

Jeremy has an MBA from Columbia University and a BBA from The George Washington University, where he graduated magna cum laude. He resides just outside of New York City in Westchester County and was recently honored as Best Father of the Year, an award bestowed upon him by his daughter and wife.
Pitch your Android application of business idea. Let audience to give feedback. Contact me if you wish to participate.
Announcements: your chance to announce your news related to Android

Also, our group's Twitter is up: Twitter.com/SVAndroid. You can use twitter to send question to the speakers or presenters, or your suggestions.

If you are interested in speaking, pls send your intro and PPT abstract to me.

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