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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Understanding Android bytecode with the Dedexer tool

By Gabor Paller

Droidon 2009

This video was provided courtesy of Skillsmatter

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

Advanced Audio Development in Android

by Andreas Reuterberg and Alex Shaw

Developers Andreas Reuterberg and Alex Shaw discuss the realities and possibilities for the world of mobile music and audio creation on Android. They will draw on and share their own practical experience with realtime DSP, interface design and embedded software to demonstrate the new opportunities given to musicians and programmers by the Android platform. 

This video was originally given at droidcon London 2009 provided courtesy of Skillsmatter

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

ParkBench Panel Discussion

Droidcon 2009

After a brief serving of Pizza & Drinks, we held the second ParkBench Panel discussion, to discuss ideas, things we learned, things we would like to hear more about, things to take away after the conference. Ask your questions to the speakers of the afternoon’s expert talks or join the panel to express your opinion or share your experience! 

This video was provided courtesy of Skillsmatter

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

The Future of Mobile

by Yan Minagawa

Droidcon London 2009 

Yan moderated this talk like an interactive workshop, comprising of 3 to 5 minute sessions. Each session will start with a hypothesis and will complete with a collection of arguments and speculations. 

This talk wis about the future of mobile devices, about how a mobile device will look in 2015 and beyond, what features are missing so far, the limitations of API’s and hardware, what apps we will never see on a mobile device and about coupling mobile devices with infrastructure. 

This video was provided courtesy of Skillsmatter

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

The Basics of OpenGL

by Paul Thomas 

This talk will give us an introduction to OpenGL and its implementation on the android framework. Dr Paul Thomas will talk about the basics of OpenGL, including projections, transformations, the frame- and z-buffers, and texture mapping. Then he will show how the OpenGL API is implemented on Android and how to write an app with a SurfaceView rendering 3D graphics in its own thread. 

This talk was originally given on 22nd Jun 2009 at skillsmatter
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