London Android User group

Android and the Paypal API

The Paypal API for android mobile devices is a library to quickly get started accepting payments on mobile devices for physical goods, services, donations and personal payments. Payment is completely integrated–users can provide the financial information necessary to complete a transaction without leaving your app. 

In this podcast, Anthony Hicks and Stephen Naughton demonstrate the Paypal API for android mobile devices. 

This talk was originally given on 19th Aug 2010 at skillsmatter
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Cycloid, and OpenStreetMap

Cycloid is an OpenStreetMap implementation based Cycling route planning app. In this video Christopher Fraser talks more and demonstrates how OpenStreetMap is implementated in Cycloid. 

This video was provided courtesy of Skillsmatter

Skillsmatter’s courses on Android are also hosted at our meeting place.

Qualcomm Developer Day

Qualcomm powers the majority of smartphones around the globe including all the major mobile operating systems, from AndroidTM to our own Brew MP™ OS. They are organizing an innovation and developer day for mobile phone developers, publishers, aggregators or content ownesr interested in technical and business insights to DEVELOP, OPTIMIZE and DISTRIBUTE your apps. During this event you will learn how to tap into over 250m addressable Brew® handsets, as well as new widget and Java channels, and explore opportunities for pre-loads. 

Also you will learn how to examine new trends in application development, such as vision-based Augmented Reality and proximity-based peer-to-peer communication. 

Android Developers - get a close-up viewing of our latest developer tools and technologies, like the Snapdragon Mobile Development Platform, featuring our new, TrepnTM power optimization tool, AdrenoTM profiler and more.
In this podcast Robert Fletcher gives a talk and practical demonstration on the spock testing framework.

This talk was originally given at 19th Aug 2010 at skillsmatter
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The Cycle Hire Widget

by Little Fluffy Toys 

The Cycle Hire Widget is available to download for free from Android Market. It works by displaying the 3 nearest cycle hire places to you and how far away from them you are. The Cycle Hire Widget also confirms if cycles are available at these three locations. There is also a flag status system to confirm other criteria such as closed, no cycle spaces available and cycles low. 
In this podcast, Reuben Harris talks more on the Cycle Hire Widget.

This video was originally taken on the 19th August 2010 at the London Android Meetup provided courtesy of Skillsmatter

 Skillsmatter’s courses on Android are also hosted at our meeting place. 

Continuous integration on Android

by Kamil Olesiejuk

Continuous feedback on how our changes affect the current code allow us to confidently add functionality. Documentation around testing on the Android platform continuous or otherwise is scarce.s. In this podcast, Kamil Olesiejuk explains how to continuously compile your Android project’s tests in a central area for the benefit of the whole team and it’s client

This talk was originally given on 19th Aug 2010 at skillsmatter
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OAuth security on Android

by Carl-Gustaf Harroch

 This video was originally given at the London Android developer meetup 17 Jun 2010 provided courtesy of Skillsmatter

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Android Repos Guided Tour

by Kevin McDonagh

Kevin McDonagh from Novoda will give you a guided tour of Android Repos, exploring tools and process working with the Android Repo.

This video was originally taken at the London Android user group 20th May 2010 provided courtesy of Skillsmatter

Skillsmatter’s courses on Android are also hosted at our meeting place.

Using Facebook Connect in your Android application

by Little fluffy Toys

As part of Google’s developer day in February promoting live wallpapers(which shows twitter and facebook updates), Reuben Harris and Kenton Price wrote Social Wallpaper for the Nexus One and other Android 2.1 devices, available free on Android Market.In this short presentation they discuss about how to leverage Facebook Connect to incorporate Facebook data into your application. A screen shot of the live wallpaper is shown on a emulator at first, later Ruben also shows a live facebook connect demo using facebook connect library. To get permission for this application goto : http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/themes/social-wallpaper_fkzj.html 

This video was originally given at the London android user group on 15th April 2010 provided courtesy of Skillsmatter

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Wider intentions of W3C widgets and its relation to Android

by Scott Wilson

The theme is widgets. Why doesn’t Android support the W3C standard? Scott, who’s involved with the Apache Wookie project, will answer this question and more.. 

This video was originally given on15/4/10 provided courtesy of Skillsmatter
Skillsmatter’s courses on Android are also hosted at our meeting place. 

W3C Widgets on Android

presented by Anselm Garbe

Anselm Garbe is currently working for Aplix Corporation as a software developer for mobile devices. In this talk is covering about his work implementing w3c widgets on android. In this presentation he has shown different scopes of aplix widget runtime followed by a demo of Aplix Web Runtime for w3c widgets running on android, which can add w3c widgets to the home screen, running them in a widget manager application and even wrapping them up as regular Android application. Anselm also talks about different standards and approaches of device api’s, functionality of join innovation lab(jil) and of what components aplix widget runtime comprises .

This talk was originally given on 15th Apr 2010 at skillsmatter
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