Google DevFest Manila 2011 is being held on September 19 at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) Conference Center in Makati. This year’s DevFest will focus on three bleeding-edge technologies: Android, HTML5 and Fusion Tables.
The event was scheduled to start at 9AM and I arrived a little too early at 8AM. However, the event was delayed by 30 minutes and started at around 9:40. The event was organized by GTUG Philippines volunteers Aileen Apolo-De Jesus and company. The opening keynote was delivered by Christine Songco Lau, a Google employee who happens to be Filipina.
Android Market for Developers (Ankur Kotwal)
Ankur made some interesting points on this topic:
- Android activations has reached over half a million per day
- Users are consuming more and more applications
- Paid app installations are moving up sharply especially on tablets
- Target Android 2.2 and 2.3 (95.8% of the market)
- Use Google LVL (Licensing Verification Library) with your Andrdoid application
- Obfuscate code to prevent pirates from stealing your software
Other topics are:
- Bleeding Edge HTML5 (Eric Bidelman)
- What’s New and Important in Android (Ankur Kotwal)
- Displaying Large Geographic Datasets: Google Fusion Tables (Luke Mahe)
- These Aren’t the Site You’re Looking For: Modern HTML5 Web Apps (Eric Bidelman)
- Working Off the Grid: HTML5 Offline (Ernest Delgado)
- Fusion Tables (Geo Codelab) (Luke Mahe)