Mobile Application Development Conference

Inaugural Address – Mobile Application Development

admin — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 04:00:44 +0000

Inaugural Address at the 2nd Annual IndicThreads.com Conference On Mobile Application Development will be delivered by Dr. Sunu Engineer, CEO of Embedded Computing Machines and earlier a senior scientist at IUCAA.

Speaker:

Sunu Engineer is the CEO of Embedded Computing Machines. Sunu was earlier a senior scientist with the instrumentation lab at the Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA). During his tenure at IUCAA, Sunu had been involved with a wide variety of projects involving all facets of Electronic and Software system design. Sunu is also an avid teacher and instructs students in graduate and post graduate courses at various universities around the world. Sunu holds a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Pune.

Sunu Engineer will deliver the “Inaugural Address” at the 2nd Annual IndicThreads.com Conference On Mobile Application Development to be held in Pune, India on 19,20 August 2011.Click here for a list of other Speakers & Sessions @ The Conference

Sunu Engineer – Inaugural Address

admin — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 04:00:40 +0000

Near Field Communication (NFC) For Next Generation Smart Phone Apps

admin — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 06:11:25 +0000

Near field communication, or NFC, allows for simplified transactions, data exchange, and connections with a touch. A smartphone or tablet with an NFC chip could make a credit card payment or serve as keycard or ID card. The ease of use and secure in nature for data transfer makes NFC technology applicable in wide range of use-case scenarios. With Google launching its Nexus S phone with NFC capabilities in December 2010 and reports circulating about Apple planning to incorporate this technology in its iPhone 5, it becomes important to explore what this technology has to offer and if we can do any thing to make sure that the apps we develop can make the best use of it. Session will cover details of technology, its current state and its impact on mobile application development, followed by a demonstration of how to build a NFC based TAG reading Android Application

Speaker:

Ashutosh Tripathi is currently working as an Android Developer at Talentica Software. He has worked on mobile Platforms for over 4 years on Android, NXP and BADA. He was earlier with Samsung Mobiles as a Senior Software Engineer for Android Development, wherein he worked on a number of projects including Galaxy S.

Ashutosh Tripathi will be presenting on “Near field communication (NFC)” at the 2nd Annual IndicThreads.com Conference On Mobile Application Development to be held in Pune, India on 19,20 August 2011.Click here for a list of other Speakers & Sessions @ The Conference

Phone for Me, Tablet for We: Building a multi screen app in One Hour

admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:21:37 +0000

The phone is a very personal device; an extension of one’s own personality. The tablet, on the other hand, is a consumption/development/collaboration device, depending on the time & place it is used. Most developers, when designing for one device, completely ignore, or worse, serve the same app for the other, without utilizing the full potential of differing size factors. It is these fundamental differences that developers must keep in mind while designing & developing multi device apps. I will showcase some simple principles to develop an app for both phones & tablets.

The Presentation Model pattern, or the Code-Behind is an efficient approach to organize code in such a way so as to separate a user interface from its behavior. This pattern allows us to share the code across multiple environments, each with their separate identities, while providing standardization in usability behavior.

We will build an app by doing the following:
- Structure code base to create multiple mobile & library projects
- Connect to a live API to submit parameterized data and display the result
- See how data is shared between the different views of the apps, allowing storage of data in memory when the app is running, and persistence when the app is shut down, either by the user or the system.
- Easily implement mobile UI using resource bundles, CSS & images, thus providing an engaging & aesthetic experience

The takeaway for the audience is to see how easy it is to design & build apps for multiple devices, while optimizing on codebase, thus improving maintainability & achieving a consistent user experience.

I will be using the Flex SDK to showcase the approaches listed above. However, implementing the principles is easily applicable in any of the native & cross platform tools, be it iOS SDK, Android SDK, PhoneGap, Titanium, or any other framework available for mobile development.

Speaker:

Abhay Aggarwal has been programming RIAs in Flash & Flex for over 9 years now, including international stints at UK, New York, and Boston. He has worked with startups and big corporations, delivering solutions for pharma, financial, retail, & publishing domains. He is passionate about getting his hands dirty in Mobile, following Agile, tinkering with Actionscript, and reading & writing fiction, though not necessarily in any order. He has spoken at various industry forums, including Flash & Agile Summits.

Abhay Aggarwal will be presenting on “Phone for Me, Tablet for We: Building a multi screen app in One Hour” at the 2nd Annual IndicThreads.com Conference On Mobile Application Development to be held in Pune, India on 19,20 August 2011.Click here for a list of other Speakers & Sessions @ The Conference

Abhay Aggarwal

admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:21:02 +0000

Abhay Aggarwal is Principal Consultant at Xebia IT Architects. He has been programming RIAs in Flash & Flex for over 9 years now, including international stints at UK, New York, and Boston. He has worked with startups and big corporations, delivering solutions for pharma, financial, retail, & publishing domains. He is passionate about getting his hands dirty in Mobile, following Agile, tinkering with Actionscript, and reading & writing fiction, though not necessarily in any order. He has spoken at various industry forums, including Flash & Agile Summits.

Migrating your Flash / Flex applications to PlayBook, Android and iOS devices

admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:16:37 +0000

What would it take to bring that killer rich web/desktop application to popular smart devices like the Playbook, iPad or Android devices? Does all code need to be written from scratch for these new platforms? Is the process different for each of the devices? Find the answer to all these questions and more as the speaker takes you through all the nuances of migrating your apps from Desktop to IOS, Android and BlackBerry Playbook. Specifically the speaker will cover use of Flash/Flex and media query as development platforms. Also covered in the session are specifics like how to optimize for video on devices and performance considerations on different Platforms, phones and Tablets.

Speaker:

Prashant Singh is a Platform evangelist working for Adobe on the Adobe Flash platform. He works on finding solutions to enterprise and user specific problems, helping in establishing Adobe Flex as a technical standard. He regularly speaks at industry and developer focused conferences, having recently spoken at Adobe Flash Platform Summit, Great Indian Developer Summit and ACM Compute. He also contributes to premium education by conducting workshops and hands-on sessions to make the student population aware about the power of the Adobe Flash platform.

Prashant Singh will be presenting on “Migrating your Flash/Flex applications to PlayBook, Android and iOS devices” at the 2nd Annual IndicThreads.com Conference On Mobile Application Development to be held in Pune, India on 19,20 August 2011.Click here for a list of other Speakers & Sessions @ The Conference

Prashant Singh

admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:07:11 +0000

FoneMonkey: Functional testing tool for iOS apps on the iPhone and iPad

admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:02:24 +0000

The growing popularity of mobile applications is demanding that companies adopt automated testing strategies and solutions that are designed specifically for their mobile application needs. Due to brisk nature of Mobile application it is always challenging to have automation for Mobile Applications.

One of the many available tools to be touched upon in this session would be FoneMonkey, an open source Functional testing tool for IOS apps on the iPhone and iPad device or simulator.

FoneMonkey is easy-to-learn tool that can be used effectually by both development and testing groups. FoneMonkey provides the facility to save the recorded scenario as a script, load a script for playback and conveniently modify the testing scenario. Using FoneMonkey, user can create suites of tests that automate performing user operation sequences and verifying results. FoneMonkey is designed to support developer as well as QA testing, and FoneMonkey tests can be easily incorporated into continuous integration environments. FoneMonkey fills a massive gap in testing area and makes Agile development a pragmatism through automated testing.

In this session we will discuss about

Benefits of Test automation,
Use of emulators and actual devices,
Guidelines for Testing Mobile Applications
Automation tools for Mobile Application.
Getting started with FoneMonkey
Case study of functional testing of mobile application using FoneMonkey

Speaker:

Ipsita Samantarai is a software specialist in Testing at SAS R&D India (Pvt.) Ltd. She holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Science and has been into software development and testing for more than 8 years and worked in different technologies. She has extensive experience in API and automation testing. Her current role is performing the white box testing, automation testing and framework.

Ipsita Samantarai will be presenting on “FoneMonkey: Functional testing tool for iOS apps on the iPhone and iPad” at the 2nd Annual IndicThreads.com Conference On Mobile Application Development to be held in Pune, India on 19,20 August 2011.Click here for a list of other Speakers & Sessions @ The Conference

Ipsita Samantarai

admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:02:15 +0000

Developing enterprise applications beyond PC

admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:57:12 +0000

This presentation talks about how to build applications that target devices beyond PC. It will showcase how Adobe AIR technology is used to develop an application which runs on multiple mobile devices. Presentation will cover specific considerations when building a Flex application for BlackBerry playbook. Application is enterprise class software which showcases various dashboards useful the executives. Talk will also cover architecture behind the application and how it can be scaled to suite multiple mobile platforms such as Android and iOS. Presentation will also talk about performance considerations when developing enterprise class mobile applications as well tips and tricks that are useful while developing such applications. Presentation will end with live demo of an application on BlackBerry Playbook device. Overall this presentation is planned for 40-50 mins including the demo.

Brief outline:

Essentials of BlackBerry Playbook application development
Nuts and Bolts: Architecture and Design considerations
Tools and Technologies
Live Demo
Gotchas: Few tips and tricks

Takeaways:

What is the thinking that needs to be adapted that is different than typical desktop based development
Know what technology has to offer for handheld devices
What are the skill sets that needs to be developed and what is the learning curve
What are the various bits and pieces of mobile application development how to tie them altogether
What resources are available and tricks of the trade

Speaker:

Yateen Shaha is a computer science engineer with more than 9 years of experience in analysis, design, and development of complex software systems using various technologies such as Java, JavaScript and ActionScript. I hold a masters degree in software systems and am a SAS certified warehouse architect. I have a sound understanding of software engineering processes for developing complex, high quality software systems. I was working as framework and API developer before I started developing applications for mobile devices.

Yateen Shaha will be presenting on “Developing enterprise applications beyond PC” at the 2nd Annual IndicThreads.com Conference On Mobile Application Development to be held in Pune, India on 19,20 August 2011.Click here for a list of other Speakers & Sessions @ The Conference

Yateen Shaha

admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:54:38 +0000

Robin Nagpal

admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:53:09 +0000

Robin Nagpal works with Xebia where he helps clients in developing mobile web apps which gives look and feel of native apps, using HTML5 and CSS3. He also has some experience in Android, but his main focus is on developing web application which can serve and look good on most of the devices with various screen sizes and various resolutions. He has written articles on Mobile Web and HTML5. He has also presented on enhancing web for mobiles using HTML5 and CSS3 at Momo Delhi and Mobile Camp.

Robin-Nagpal will be presenting on “Developing web application for devices with various screen sizes.” at the 2nd Annual IndicThreads.com Conference On Mobile Application Development to be held in Pune, India on 19,20 August 2011.Click here for a list of other Speakers & Sessions @ The Conference

Developing web application for devices with various screen sizes.

admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:52:36 +0000

In this session I will talk about the various trends in Smart-phone market and why is it essential for websites to have content that renders properly on smart-phones. Its not just the Desktop/laptop or smart-phones from which users browse the web, there is a new range of devices like tablets, TV’s, gaming devices which have good browser in them, which users use browsing. In fact its the tablet market that has shown the highest rate of growth in the recent years.

With all these devices comes a problem, i.e. how do we design a website that renders properly all of them. How can we have a “one size fits all” solution. Is there a way by which we can have a single website serving all these devices. CSS3 provides a solution to it by using Media Queries. You an now use media queries to query the capabilities/characteristics of the device and then render your content according. I will give a demo on how to write CSS3 Media queries.

I will also discuss some of the patterns/layouts that you should keep in your mind while designing you websites. There will be a demo which will show how a web page adjust itself to fit properly on various screens.

Speaker:

Amit Naik

admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:48:06 +0000

Amit Naik works as an Architect with BMC software. He builds performant cloud solutions with a focus on heterogeneity and monitoring across different virtualization and provisioning vendors in the cloud computing space. His main focus is the Architecture and Design of BMC solutions with emphasis on building highly-scalable systems with REST and other SOA interfaces. Amit has a Bachelor’s degree from College of Engineering Pune and a Master’s degree from Purdue Univ., West Lafayette. He has more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry, much of it in the USA, across a variety of Technical and Techno-Managerial roles. He has been working in the Cloud Computing space for the last two years and has deep expertise across the entire gamut of Cloud Architectures, Vendors and Systems.

Amit Naik will be presenting on “Mobile Payment Systems” at the 2nd Annual IndicThreads.com Conference On Mobile Application Development to be held in Pune, India on 19,20 August 2011.Click here for a list of other Speakers & Sessions @ The Conference

Your Mobile phone will soon be your wallet – Overview of Mobile Payment Systems

admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:48:01 +0000

This presentation will provide the audience with a overview of Mobile Payment systems and the state of the current innovations in the mobile payment space. Recently both Google and Apple have been making multiple announcements on the mobile payments front. We will take a deeper look at Near Field Communication (NFC) enabled mobile payment platforms such as Android. The audience will get an insight into how the NFC stack in Android works and how to program applications for it. The presentation will also look at some alternative NFC software stacks such as Open NFC project that is gaining momentum.
There will also be an overview of payment systems on other platforms such as iOS, Blackberry and webOS.

Key Takeaways for the Audience:
1) Understand the mobile payments space
2) Get an overview of contact less mobile technologies such as NFC
3) Deep dive into programming for NFC on Android systems
4) Overview of Payment systems on other Mobile platforms such as iOS (Apple) and Blackberry OS

Speaker:

Windows Phone 7 (Mango) – Application Development

admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:41:50 +0000

It’s been a while since Microsoft has released Windows Phone 7 and its been in news, always. But, with current update, codenamed ‘Mango’, Windows Phone devices are creating new waves. Apart from Nokia, there are many OEMs trying to get Windows Phone OS on their hardware.
In this presentation, we’ll see fundamentals of Windows Phone 7 application development. We’ll cover how we can leverage existing knowledge of software development to build stunning apps for this platform. We’ll cover basic concepts of mobility like sending SMS, taking pictures, playing music and games. We’ll build a Windows Phone application from scratch and see how we can distribute it through marketplace.

Speaker:

Mayur Tendulkar has been working on mobile platform [Windows Mobile, Windows Phone] since 2005. Delivered talks on various Windows Mobile/Windows Phone at various events including Microsoft Architect Days, Virtual TechDays, Community TechDays, Pune User Group DevCon and many more. Currently working on Windows Phone apps and building Location Based Services.

Mayur Tendulkar will be presenting on “Windows Phone 7 – Application Development” at the 2nd Annual IndicThreads.com Conference On Mobile Application Development to be held in Pune, India on 19,20 August 2011.Click here for a list of other Speakers & Sessions @ The Conference

Mayur Tendulkar

admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:41:35 +0000

Mobile Application Development using PhoneGap

admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:08:14 +0000

1. Short Intro of PhoneGap and PhoneGap’s journey towards Standards
2. Choosing the right UI Framework for PhoneGap
i) jQuery Mobile -
a. A Short Walk through of capabilities of jQuery and its ease of use
b. How to integrate JQuery Mobile with PhoneGap
ii) Sencha Touch –
a. History of ExtJS, EXT GWT and Sencha Touch.
b. A Short Walk through of capabilities of Sencha Touch and its strengths over jQuery Mobile.
c. Integration of Sencha Touch with PhoneGap
3. Doing OAuth with PhoneGap Applications for Facebook and Twitter
4. Building Applications on Cloud using PhoneGap Build
– PhoneGap Build Concept
– Setting up PhoneGap Build Environment
5. Extending PhoneGap to add more native support using PhoneGap Plugins
– Why to build Plugins?
– PhoneGap Plugin Architecture
– Developing iPhone and Android Plugin

Speaker:

“Rohit Ghatol is an Associate Architect with QuickOffice, He is currently building the SAAS platform (on Cloud) for QuickOffice. His areas of expertise are Web 2.0, Android, Cross Mobile/Desktop Platform Products. He has been a Technical Speaker at various events, also double at Corporate Speaker. He was earlier been part of OpenSocial Team at Google. He is the founder of Pune GTUG and Tech Next. He is currently writing a book Beginning PhoneGap for Apress.

Rohit Ghatol will be presenting on “Mobile Application Development using PhoneGap” at the 2nd Annual IndicThreads.com Conference On Mobile Application Development to be held in Pune, India on 19,20 August 2011.Click here for a list of other Speakers & Sessions @ The Conference

Ashutosh Tripathi

admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 06:11:18 +0000

Rohit Ghatol

admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 05:12:31 +0000

Rohit Ghatol is an Associate Architect with QuickOffice. He is currently building the SAAS platform (on Cloud) for QuickOffice. His areas of expertise are Web 2.0, Android, Cross Mobile/Desktop Platform Products. He has been a Technical Speaker at various events, also double at Corporate Speaker. He was earlier been part of OpenSocial Team at Google. He is the founder of Pune GTUG and Tech Next. He is currently writing a book Beginning PhoneGap for Apress.