On April 7th and 8th, I attended and spoke at Droidcon Italy 2016 in lovely Torino, Italy. For me Torino was both a first time in Italy and a first European Droidcon.
The content was fantastic with a few common threads running through different sessions. One of these threads was the role of the developer in UX. By far the best thing that I took home from Torino is an empowering feeling that developers and designers share equal and important roles in building UX.
Read MoreThis week's Android Dialogs is our final video from DroidKaigi 2016: a recap of our adventures in Japan and at DroidKaigi. Hope you enjoy it as well as our four interviews with DroidKaigi staff (who were so awesome to spare time in their busy, conference-running schedule to chat with us).
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At last week's Droidcon San Francisco, I gave my talk on "Loving Lean Layouts", watched other awesome sessions, participated in Speechless, and filmed a few interviews for Android Dialogs.
As well as enjoying high quality technical content, I had an amazing time meeting and hanging with other Android devs and designers. Y'all make my conference.
Read MoreOn March 2, 2016 the Google Experts Program accepted me as a Technology/Android expert. I feel incredibly grateful, excited, and lucky to now be a GDE. Throughout my Android life, I have relied on the contributions of GDEs to help me fix weird and nasty bugs, discover the new and sexy, learn good/best practices, and understand the inner workings of the framework.
I can only hope that I can help other devs even half as much as the GDEs have helped me.
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