We're going to try something new this time - an Android Developer meetup event with talks and presentations, in association with Google Developer Group Dublin! Zendesk is hosting us, as well as sponsoring pizza and beer!



Here are the talks we've confirmed so far, and some titles for them which I may or may not have made up:



Barry Carroll (Zendesk) - "Developing an SDK for Android apps"



Barry is the technical lead for the mobile SDK teams at Zendesk. When you're building a library for other developers to use in their apps, you have an entirely different problem set to consider than when building an app for end-users. Barry will talk about the pros, the cons, the problems and the solutions.



Dan Malone (Mawla) - "Gotta catch em-Mawla"



Some of you may have heard of Pokemon Go. Dan certainly has. He decided to have a look at their API and see if he could do something with it. He'll tell us about what he did, how he did it, and what happened next.



Patrick Doyle (MTT) - "Fixing MVP with RxJava"



Patrick doesn't like MVP, but he does like RxJava. In this presentation he'll talk about some of the common problems he's found with the MVP pattern, and how to solve them by leveraging RxJava to its full potential.



Maurice Gavin (OralEye) - "I'm not creative enough" - A lie programmers tell themselves to justify ugly UI's



Knowing where to start is often the hardest part of any problem. This session will explore sources of inspiration for non-designers. You will learn how to formulate and refine a UI and UX that conforms to Material Design. You’ll be introduced to Sketch and Zeplin, two tools that essentially eliminate the need for Photoshop or a professional designer. We will see how these tools can be used to create and export resources that can be then imported into Android Studio with a just few clicks.



If you'd like to speak, at this or a future event, please do get in touch!



Stay tuned for more details!



Note:



Doors open at 6pm, talks start at 6:30pm. Press the "Zendesk Meetups" button when you arrive, and someone will let you in. If you arrive after 6:30pm, there will be no one to let you in, so make sure to arrive before then.