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Struggling to get your website to load in less than 5 seconds on a mobile phone? Switching pages are a little sluggish? You’re not alone! Most web developers can build a responsive site, but fail to meet performance requirements for mobile. Using the latest PRPL pattern and Progressive Web API’s, you can provide a compelling alternative to native apps, as lo…

Developing for multiple platforms is expensive and requires multiple disciplines. Kotlin Multiplatform provides a sane, cheap, and fast method to target multiple environments with the same codebase. Leveraging direct compilation to target environments, Kotlin Multiplatform can save you time and money sharing your business logic between your target platforms.…

Lets take a look at how Cloud AutoML’s technology helps us on building vision models. Cloud AutoML is a suite of machine learning products that enables developers with limited machine learning expertise to train high-quality models specific to their business needs, by leveraging Google’s state-of-the-art transfer learning, and Neural Architecture Search tech…

This session shows how to develop and run native mobile apps without needing to know much about the native platforms, such as Android and iOS, by leveraging a hybrid development framework such as Ionic, which is built on top of Apache Cordova and is capable of transforming an ordinary web app into a mobile app. The presentation discusses a real-life enterpri…

Deploying to a server or the cloud is difficult enough. What about when there are hundreds or thousands of devices, spread across the globe, with limited connectivity and no one around to reset them? When it comes to the Internet of Things, having an understanding of the people, processes, and tools it takes to provision and update devices is a key part of s…

Learn about React Native and why it is so popular. What kind of software and tech stack do you need to get started and how to work within a bleeding edge platform. - History of React Native & Current Support/Release Cycle - CLI for iOS, Android and Windows - React Native UI design, Router and Forms - Tools, Popular Plug-ins and Resources - Windows App Center…

An introduction to the Model View Intent architecture pattern. This pattern takes ideas and concepts from Reactive and Functional programming. We'll go over the core principles of this pattern, and how you can apply them in your Android applications. We'll look at concrete implementation details, and explore some of its benefits. Some familiarity with Kotlin…

In an ever-expanding world of devices for the Google Assistant (smart speaker, smartphone, tablet, smartwatch, earphones, smart TV, car, smart display, and the list goes on and on), developers face today completely new challenges in creating effective and consistent experiences for users. In this talk, we’ll take a closer look at our user’s daily journey as …

Learn how to increase the power of your favorite Google apps — like Calendar, Docs, Drive, Gmail, Sheets, and Slides – with Apps Script, a JavaScript platform in Google Cloud. Find the latest information about speakers, agenda, and other exciting news at devfestflorida.org

"How did they do that?!!!" How many times have you been just stunned, STUNNED by the work you see others do in a fully native app? Smooth, layered animations for every transition that work on even $20 phones? Its not magic and it may not be as difficult or as “mathy” as you might think. “Wow” effects that impress and delight! We will be covering how to use m…

Another year has come and gone. The valuation of XR in the industry has almost doubled. The companies that specialize or invest in XR have doubled. With all this growth comes great advancements in the space. Some you may know, others you may not.In this talk we will go over where we have been, where we are now and where we will be going. We will also take a …

Browser based developer tools have become an indispensable tool for modern front-end web development. New features and changes are being added at a rapid pace, and keeping up with all of the changes is difficult, but well worth it! In this presentation, I’ll walk the attendees through the tricks of the trade of Chrome developer tools, including walk throughs…

In this talk we'll take a deep look at the Navigation Architecture Component that was announced at Google I/O 2018. We'll cover the basic usage of the component, why it's important to consider when starting a new application and experiment with its features through live demos. Find the latest information about speakers, agenda, and other exciting news at dev…

Jupyter notebooks are data science’s favorite new tools, as they combine two things that we typically think of as separate:A human-readable part made of text, images, and even video, all of which combine to form theintroduction, write-up, and summary that you’d expect to find in a paper or report, and An executable part made of code, which provides interacti…

Are you still console-logging all of your Node.js code? Would you like to learn to debug with zero configuration? How about debugging docker? Or logging messages without changing your code with console.log? Would you like an easier way to pair when you just need a second set of eyes to debug your app? Join me and learn how easy it can be to find and squash t…

From the writer of Flutter for Android developers on Flutter.io comes Introduction to Flutter! Flutter is one of the most talked about technologies this year. Flutter is Google’s mobile UI framework for crafting high-quality native interfaces on iOS and Android in record time.Learn how to design, develop and deploy Flutter apps in this talk! Find the latest …

You've made your first action! Probably a great quiz game or a simple information action. But now what? How can you get information from another API, such as Google Maps or Cloud, or even outside Google? How do you know who your users are to permit them to only what they're allowed to see? Get ready to bring your Action writing skills to the next level! Find…

Angular Material provides core components and a Component Dev Kit. However, it's up to developers to integrate the various core components when creating an application. The docs are focused on individual components (behaviors, APIs, etc). In this talk, we'll dig deep into the code with concrete, real-world examples of how to compose a quality, accessible use…

Every release of Android steps up the security and Android 9 (Pie) is no exception. We will take a look into the evolution of security features and changes and how that affects developers/tinkers of the Android ecosystem. Find the latest information about speakers, agenda, and other exciting news at devfestflorida.org

Machine learning is hard, but setting up pipelines around ML shouldn't be. We will go through build a ML model on local, deploying it to Google Cloud ML engine and then use the exposed APIs to get predictions. Find the latest information about speakers, agenda, and other exciting news at devfestflorida.org

In this talk we'll learn how to use all the power of Google stack technologies (Angular, Material, Firebase and Google Cloud) to develop a full stack application. We'll learn how we can empower a serverless Angular + Material application with Firebase and reactive programming by using realtime database, Firestore, authentication (with different providers) an…

With the announcement of Android Slices, you can now provide rich, dynamic and interactive content to your users even outside your app! Slices allow you to build content to be displayed in the Google Search app and later in other places like the Google Assistant. Slices can help users perform tasks faster by enabling engagement outside of the fullscreen app …

This talk is an Intro to NoSQL and an impassioned argument on why you should never host your own NoSQL instance. Do you work on MySQL, SQL Server, Postgres (or other RDBMS) full time? Have you ever wanted to dip your toes into the NoSQL world? Ever wonder about the hype surrounding NoSQL? What is the difference between MongoDB, Redis, Neo4j, and Cassandra? G…

In the world of software engineering, there are those of us who work daily on iterating-over, and improving, a single legacy application.You might be interested in moving your UI toward a modern reactive framework; but how do you leverage this on an older system without dumping your original product entirely and starting over from scratch?I've recently done …

All too often, mobile development is not for the casual developer. Creating an app that works well on iOS and Android can be a time-consuming process, requiring separate teams of programmers for each target platform with different frameworks, languages, and programming tools. This is made worse by the trend toward highly customized user interfaces. Fortunate…

When you build a backend to a web app or mobile app, you want to focus on your business logic, not on your infrastructure. At the same time, you want the infrastructure to always be there for you, ready to run your code. Google Cloud Functions does that for you. In this talk, we will follow the story of the fictional startup "In Jest", publishers of an app t…

As developers, we want to create apps that engage users across multiple devices. But building native apps is costly and cumbersome. Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are experiences that combine the best of the web and the best of mobile apps using new web standards, including service workers, push notifications, and homescreen access. In this session, you’ll lear…

A behind-the-scenes look at how our research has informed Google's Digital Wellbeing initiative, and some of the team's future directions. Find the latest information about speakers, agenda, and other exciting news at devfestflorida.org

AutoML is one of the newest products from Google making it super simple for anyone without machine learning or coding knowledge to build powerful machine learning model. Come learn about AutoML how to use and tips and tricks for AutoML. Find the latest information about speakers, agenda, and other exciting news at devfestflorida.org

React Native is advertised as a framework for developing native apps with javascript. Roughly 90% of the time, my team is able to work strictly in javascript, with only occassional trips into native code. In particular, my team has found our Android build to require more care than its iOS counterpart. This talk will look at the ways in which we have learned,…

Dependency Injection seems like this SUPER complex topic that only the most senior developers understand. At the end of the day, it’s just “inversion of control” where instances of objects/classes are provided to you, instead of created by you. Kotlin’s language features allow us to do this concisely, without a library, and in this talk I’ll show you how to …

With the advancements in machine learning and cloud services, developers can easily make devices that go the extra mile in providing a great experience for users. Come learn how you can make your Android Things devices conversational, respond to user’s voice requests, recognize images and gain the full support of cloud services to perform complex operations …