GDG Montreal Android July MeetupWednesday, July 27 2016

Our Meetup is held at and sponsored by:

La GARE, 5333 Casgrain avenue in Mile End, (QC)

Schedule:

• 18:00 Drinks, Snacks & Socializing!

• 18:30 AI, Android, and your career by Serge Masse

• 19:00 Break

• 19:30 Constraint Layout by Marcos Damasceno

Sponsor

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AI, Android, and your careerby Serge Masse

A personal view of AI and intelligence, with implications for Android apps and the career of Android developers.

Bio

Programming from 1969 to present. Programmed AI systems in production in the 1980's and 1990's: stock trading, steel manufacturing, insurance underwriting, fraud detection, etc. Worked for the best and largest AI software product company at the time: AICorp. Established relationships with surprisingly intelligent individuals from another species, which nurtured an enhanced understanding of intelligence.

Constraint Layoutby Marcos Damasceno

Constraint Layout is a flexible layout manager for your app that allows you to create dynamic user interfaces without nesting multiple layouts. It is distributed as a support library that is tightly coupled with Android Studio and backwards compatible to API Level 9.

Also released, a new layout editor that helps you visually design the layouts in your app. 

Bio

Marcos is a passionate developer from Brazil who has been working with Android since 2010. He loves simple and beautiful UX and UI and is always focused on important small details and what makes mobile apps great. He is an Android GDE (Google Developer Expert), one of droidcon Montreal organizers and he is always helping the Montreal developer community as much as he can. Marcos is currently crafting amazing apps at Mirego. One of those apps reached the global market with more than 500k downloads.