The android train rolls on. Google is offering an unlocked G1 for $400 to developers. An austrailian phone company announced two models for Feb 2009. IceCondor and jFireeagle are progressing.

The next Galois Tech Talk, #2 for 2009, will be Isaac Potoczny-Jones (aka SyntaxNinja) on developing for the Android G1 phone.

The Android G1 is a TMobile phone whose operating system, Android is based on Linux and was developed by Google. It’s a very open smart-phone platform that rivals the iPhone.

While I’m no expert in Android or mobile platform development, I will discuss my experiences in Android development and demonstrate the toolchain used to develop software for the Android. I’ll outline the basic features of the platform, with a focus on the factors that make its openness so powerful:

* the inter-process communications mechanism whereby applications can advertise the services they offer and other applications can take advantage of those services,

* The open-source Java, Eclipse, and Linux-based toolchain,

* the OpenIntents project.

This will be an informal demonstration and discussion.

A group of us in collaboration between the Android Password Safe project and the Openintents project have implemented a cryptography service and a keystore service which other Android applications can use to keep data and passwords safe, in a way that’s convenient for the end user.

Our system allows a single password, and periodic single sign-on so that all applications can encrypt, decrypt, and store keys using the same master password that the user enters once. 

* Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2008
* Time: 10:30am - 11:30am
* Location: Galois, Inc.
  421 SW 6th Ave. Suite 300
  (3rd floor of the Commonwealth Building)
  Portland, OR 97204

Galois has been holding weekly technical seminars for several years on topics from functional programming, formal methods, compiler and language design, to cryptography, and operating system construction, with talks by many figures from the programming language and formal methods communities. The talks are open and free.

Come join us for another gathering of PDXScala, graciously hosted by Jive Software. We'll be meeting at 7PM, June 17th, and Steven Osborn will be talking about his experiences developing for Android using Scala.

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Interested in Android Mobile OS development, but want to be able to program in Scala? Well you can have your cake and eat it too. Steven will give a high level overview of the Android development platform along with his experiences using SBT along the SBT Android plugin to rapidly develop Android applications. We'll cover everything from setting up your project, running your hello world application, and testing.

Steven is the CTO of Urban Airship, a local mobile messaging and content deliver company providing easy to use, cross-platform web services for iPhone, Blackberry and Android. With nearly a decade of experience in the industry he has participated in all stages of a software company from startup to acquisition. Steven enjoys participating in open source development and has contributed significant amounts of code to projects, including Android OpenIntents and IDiB (Identity In The Browser). Steven is also an accomplished Guitar Hero rockstar and believes strongly that ideas are worthless and execution is everything.

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If you have other topics you'd like to discuss or just want to come hear how others are using Scala, please come join us. There is always plenty of opportunity for open discussions and mini-presentations.

An evening about Mobile Development with Eclipse. There will be three presentations covering Android, Blackberry and iPad development:

• Android Development with Eclipse</li
• BlackBerry Application Development Options
• iPad development with Eclipse (using Java)

There will also be free pizza and beers.

The event is scheduled for this Monday, Nov 8th at 6pm at the Lucky Labrador Beer Hall, 1945 NW Quimby (map).

Please RSVP on the wiki.

The next Portland MeeGo Meetup will be next Monday, January 17 at 6:30pm at Kells. I know this isn't a lot of advance notice, but to make it up to you, we have reserved the room at Kells for the third Monday of every month starting in March. We're skipping February to celebrate Presidents Day.

For the meeting this month, we invite anyone who wants to learn more about MeeGo to come hang out and talk about the project. If you have something specific that you want to learn or see, please reply to this post, and we'll see if we can get it on the agenda.

Rough Agenda: 6:30 - 7:00: Hang out and talk to other people interested in MeeGo. 7:00 - 7:15: Introductions 7:15 - 7:45: Quim Gil - MeeGo on Nokia Device Demo 7:45 - 8:30: Open Agenda item or Q & A

Logistics: Date: January 17 Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm Location: Kells Private Room Upstairs at 112 SW 2nd Ave.

It would be great if you could RSVP here to let us know how many snacks we should have available.

Named by JWT Intelligence as one of the 100 things to watch in 2011, Portland's Geoloqi has garnered national attention for being at the forefront of location-based services. Forbes recently asked if Geoloqi was "Foursquare's Biggest Threat?"

Why is there so much buzz for this small project in Portland? Because Geoloqi is on the cutting edge of taking location information and making it truly useful.

As Aaron Parecki, one of the co-founders of Geoloqi, explained to Forbes, "I’d like to share my location with a client if I’m meeting them somewhere, so they can know when I’ll arrive."

We're honored to have Aaron Parecki and Amber Case as our first presenters of 2011. They'll be talking about the next generation of location apps and the importance of ambient location services.

Presentation Description

Wouldn't it be nice if your colleague's phone could SMS its location to you? If you know position and velocity, you know when they'll arrive. The result: the interface disappears. No redundant actions or queries. The same software could turn your lights on as you approach the house. Or automatically "check in" to certain locations for you. Or leave a note for yourself the next time you're at the store.

Augmented reality and location were hot topics last year, but there is often a confusion between aesthetics vs. practicality, and fantasy vs. reality. This presentation will highlight the advantages and disadvantages of visual and non-visual augmented reality.

In the presentation, they will highlight why developers of apps should look at what users want to do now, as well as what users want to do in the future, why social apps should try to mirror real-world relationships, why sharing should be about who you share with as well as how long you’re sharing, and why developers should think about how to make apps "ambient” and require less user interaction.

They will cover the current players in the geolocation market, the location market itself, and why location is such a big deal. They will discuss real-time location sharing, geolocation triggers such as geonotes, proximal notification and automatic checkins, and privacy and security.

What Will Be Covered

• The location market. Where it is now and future projections.
• Why the market is here (timing, hardware, affordability, etc.).
• Some history (PARC research, etc.)
• The current players: What they’re doing and where they fall short
• What we’re passionate about and are trying to solve.
• Philosophy of interface evaporation.
• (Other cool things you can do with ambient location and sensors (fun home automation tricks and pranks).

Aaron Parecki

Aaron Parecki is a Portland-based iPhone and PHP developer interested in solving practical problems with technology. In his free time, he enjoys geolocation, linguistics, and building home automation systems and IRC bots with a sense of humor.

For the past 2.5 years, he has been tracking and visualizing his location every 6 seconds, making him a frequent presenter at the Portland data visualization group. His fascination with location sharing and GPS began at the age of 6, when he traced the routes of family road trips on a map with a highlighter. He combined these interests and created Geoloqi.com with Amber Case in an effort to help people connect in the real world.

Aaron has 11 years experience in web app development, database design, graphic design and printing, and server administration. You can learn more about Aaron at aaronparecki.com, and you can follow him on twitter at @aaronpk.

Amber Case

Amber Case is a cyborg anthropologist and user experience designer from Portland, Oregon. Her main focus is mobile software, augmented reality and data visualization, as these reduce the amount of time and space it takes for people to connect with information. Case founded Geoloqi.com, a private location sharing application, out of a frustration with existing social protocols around text messaging and wayfinding.

Last year, Case was featured in Fast Company as one of their Most Influential Women in Technology and spoke at TED on technology and humans. She worked with Fortune 500 companies at Wieden+Kennedy and now works as a user experience designer at Vertigo Software in Portland, Oregon.

You can learn more about Case at caseorganic.com, cyborganthropology.com and on Twitter at @caseorganic.

This month's topic: Android 3.0

Google unveiled Android 3.0 in February 2011. This release provides a new UI and other features that are suited for mobile tablet devices. In this presentation, we'll discuss Android's new platform API's and highlight changes in the developer SDK.

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/sullis/android-30-portland-java-user-group-20110315

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Speaker: Sean Sullivan

Sean is a software engineer specializing in web services development, mobile applications, and supply chain management systems. Sean is an Apache Software Foundation committer and has contributed to various open source projects, including the OAuth Java library.

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PJUG meetings start with some time to eat and socialize (pizza and beverages are provided), followed by the featured speaker, then Q&A, discussion, sometimes a drawing to give away swag. :)

Though we like knowing how many people to expect, you don't have to RSVP, on Upcoming or otherwise. Go ahead and just show up!

Many people also go for a drink and further discussion following the meeting, at a location determined ad hoc (lately, Trees restaurant in the same building).

http://twitter.com/pjug http://pjug.org/ (join our mailing list, linked from the website!)

The monthly meeting of the AndroidPDX user group.

The monthly meetup for April, running in parallel with the North Portland Coders Night.

Topic: In-App Purchase

The monthly meetup for April, running in parallel with the North Portland Coders Night.

Topic:

Bring out your laptop with Flash Builder 4.5 installed and we will walk through the basics of getting you started with Flex Mobile.

During the discussion we will talk about the differences in architecture between Flex for the Desktop and Flex Mobile. We will talk about Views and ViewNavigators and we will look at how to move data between them. We will also talk about testing your applications locally and on the phone. And lastly we will talk about how to deploy to Android and iOS devices.

Location: PCC Sylvania Library, room 204.

Hello Portland Android Developers!

Janrain is getting ready to release version 1.0 of the brand new Engage for Android library which includes an abstract and easy to implement user authentication component, as well as an extremely simple to use social sharing UI. In anticipation of our upcoming release, we’re hosting a fast track introduction workshop for interested Android application developers.

Who might be interested: Are you an Android app developer? Are you interested in authenticating your users via Google, Facebook and other identity providers? Perhaps you are interested in enabling social sharing - including tweets and wall posts - directly from your app? Save time and effort, and leverage the benefits of our abstract implementation - the Engage for Android library.

What our product does: The Janrain Engage for Android library provides a system to authenticate Android application users with their existing identity accounts - e.g. Google, Facebook, and Twitter. The library also provides a system to enable your users to share information from your application via their social networking accounts (LinkedIn, Yahoo, Twitter, MySpace and Facebook.)

What our event is: Janrain is hosting a coding workshop at our downtown office. If you are interested in adding our library to your Android application, we invite you to come! (Please bring your laptop.)

At this workshop we’ll walk through everything an Android application developer needs to implement authentication and social sharing with the Engage for Android library, including: IDE integration, Android project configuration, build system troubleshooting, Engage application creation and configuration, authentication system design (including Engage token URLs!), and social sharing invocation.

When our event is: Thursday, June 9 2011, starting 5pm.

Where our event is: The Janrain Office @ 519 SW 3rd Ave, Suite 600, Portland, OR 97204.

Please click RSVP to [email protected], so we can save you a spot and make sure there is enough food and beer. We are looking forward to a fun filled evening with the Android developer community.

So, please join us for an evening of coding, beer and pizza!

TL;DR: Do you want to authenticate your users or do social sharing ezmode? -> Come to our workshop.

The monthly meetup for April, running in parallel with the North Portland Coders Night.

Topic:

The monthly Android meetup for June

Topic:

Android Happy Hour

5:00pm Monday, 07/25/2011

Location: Double Tree Hotel bar

Join other Android developers for happy hour at Gather in the Double Tree Hotel on Monday evening. Meet face-to-face and share experiences with other developers working on Android. The first 100 people there get a free drink ticket.

Come hang out, drink beer, and write code every Monday night.

The meetings are extremely informal, and everyone is welcome!

The monthly meetup for August.

Topic:

Motorola Droid 3 Oracle Vs. Google Lodsys

Android Workgroup at the Lucky Lab Brew Pub 915 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Portland, OR 97214

Come and work on your personal Android projects in a workgroup. Share what your doing, ask questions, help others.

Agenda:

5:00 - 5:15: Informal Meet and Greet 5:15 - 5:30: Introductions and Discussion 5:30 - 9:00: Coding

Android Weekly Workgroup at the Lucky Lab Brew Pub

http://www.luckylab.com/

Come and work on your personal Android projects in a workgroup. Share what your doing, ask questions, help others. All skill levels, including beginners, are welcome to attend.

Agenda:

5:00 - 5:30: Arrival, Meet and Greet 5:30 - 5:45: Introductions and Discussion 5:45 - 9:00: Coding

web: http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-android-workgroup

email: [email protected]

In this episode of Code N Splode, Sarah Sharp will lead an exploration of an Android App called Garden Weather Alert. We'll cover some of the basics of Android App structure: intents, activities, and services. Sarah will also show the app development workflow in the Eclipse Android SDK, and how to debug apps. If time permits, we'll talk about storage and background services.

The git repo for the app is here:

https://github.com/sarahsharp/gardengeek

The android app source code is under the src/android-get-temp/ directory. Feel free to browse the source code history to see how Sarah has added functionality over time.

**Note: Code-n-Splode (CnS) is a women-focused group. All women are invited to attend and participate, and men are welcome as the guest of a female participant.

For more information, visit our website, or send an email to our list.

MEETING CANCELED due to lack of confirmed attendance.

Android Weekly Workgroup at the Lucky Lab Brew Pub

http://www.luckylab.com/

Come and work on your personal Android projects in a workgroup. Share what your doing, ask questions, help others. All skill levels, including beginners, are welcome to attend.

Agenda:

5:00 - 5:30: Arrival, Meet and Greet 5:30 - 5:45: Introductions and Discussion 5:45 - 9:00: Coding

web: http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-android-workgroup

email: [email protected]

Android Weekly Workgroup at the Lucky Lab Brew Pub

http://www.luckylab.com/

Come and work on your personal Android projects in a workgroup. Share what your doing, ask questions, help others. All skill levels, including beginners, are welcome to attend.

Confirmation of attendance is suggested but not required.

Meeting canceled this week due to lack of confirmed attendance. Please check the group's website for last minute updates. Please confirm to attend next week's meeting.

Agenda:

5:00 - 5:30: Arrival, Meet and Greet 5:30 - 5:45: Introductions and Discussion 5:45 - 9:00: Coding

web: http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-android-workgroup

email: [email protected]

Meet along the back wall near an open power outlet. A small temporary sign will be visible if you look carefully.

Discussion topics may be pre-suggested on the group's site, but the main focus of the meeting is coding personal projects.

The monthly meetup for September.

Topic:

Google's purchase of Motorola Mobile

Android Weekly Workgroup at the Lucky Lab Brew Pub

http://www.luckylab.com/

MEETING CANCELED. Next meeting Tue Sept 20th.

Come and work on your personal Android projects in a workgroup. Share what your doing, ask questions, help others. All skill levels, including beginners, are welcome to attend.

Confirmation of attendance is suggested but not required.

So far we have 1 confirmed attending on the group's site. We must have 2 confirmations by 12 noon on the day of the event or the meeting will be canceled. Please join group's website for last minute updates.

Agenda:

5:00 - 5:30: Arrival, Meet and Greet 5:30 - 5:45: Introductions and Discussion 5:45 - 9:00: Coding

web: http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-android-workgroup

email: [email protected]

Meet along the back wall near an open power outlet. A small temporary sign will be visible if you look carefully.

Discussion topics may be pre-suggested on the group's site, but the main focus of the meeting is coding personal projects.

Topic TBD

**Note: Code-n-Splode (CnS) is a women-focused group. All women are invited to attend and participate, and men are welcome as the guest of a female participant.

For more information, visit our website, or send an email to our list.

The monthly meetup for October.

Android Weekly Workgroup at the Lucky Lab Brew Pub

http://www.luckylab.com/

Come and work on your personal Android projects in a workgroup. Share what your doing, ask questions, help others. All skill levels, including beginners, are welcome to attend.

Confirmation of attendance is suggested but not required. If no one shows by 5:30 pm, the meeting will be automatically canceled unless otherwise noted on the website. Please check the group's website for last minute updates.

Agenda:

5:00 - 5:30: Arrival, Meet and Greet 5:30 - 5:45: Introductions and Discussion 5:45 - 9:00: Coding

web: http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-android-workgroup

email: [email protected]

Meet along the back wall near an open power outlet. A small temporary sign will be visible if you look carefully.

Discussion topics may be pre-suggested on the group's site, but the main focus of the meeting is coding personal projects.

PLUG Advanced Topics October:

The Android Debug Bridge (ADB)

How and why to root your Android phone

From tethering to better hardware access to watching Hulu, our speaker will explain why you might want to install the Android Debug Bridge.

Our speaker is happy to help you install the "Gingerbread" release on your Droid X of find out what your model of phone would need to receive the ADB.

When: TUESDAY, October 18th, 7PM

Where: Free Geek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue, a few blocks from Hawthorne

IPv6 Update: Ted Mittelstaedt is working with Free Geek and their two ISP's on a move to IPv6. The next hands-on IPv6 installment will wait until this transition is complete.

Food: BYO Gingerbread, Cupcakes, Frozen Yogurt, or Ice Cream Sandwiches! (and beer as you please)

This month we're reviewing face-melting file formats!

Bring your most hideous, complicated, verbose, yak-ridden file formats for a lightening talk style show and tell.

Please sign-up here if you plan to present: http://etherpad.opensourcebridge.org/cns-10-25-2011

**Note: Code-n-Splode (CnS) is a women-focused group. All women are invited to attend and participate, and men are welcome as the guest of a female participant.

For more information, visit our website, or send an email to our list.

Panera bread, 7202 NE Cornell, Hillsboro

Keep walking until you see laptops or a yellow shirt placed on a table.

Discuss your Android and .NET projects. Share ideas and get help.

Discuss Android apps. Share ideas and get help. Look for laptops and me wearing a yellow shirt.

ELC Technologies would like to invite you and a guest to a holiday party celebrating the upcoming launch of our cloud service solution, Maasive. Join us for FREE beer, FREE pizza, live demos on mobile programming with Maasive, and the chance to take home a hoodie at the end of the night!

Maasive is a mobile development platform unlike any other. We've developed an easy way for you to add cloud functionality to your iOS, Android and Windows Phone applications, including native object storage, push alerts, analytics and other services. Compared to other frameworks Maasive is easy to use and more flexible even across multiple platforms. And it's backed by ELC's unique history developing robust, scalable cloud based mobile apps for Fortune 500 companies.

Maasive is free during the beta period, and we're looking for YOUR feedback to help us make it even more reliable and easy to use. Come chat with us during the party and we'll set you up with your own account and show you how to integrate Maasive in your application. In the meantime, if you want to see how easy it is to get started check out this three minute screencast: http://vimeo.com/28125533

The party starts at 6pm December 14th, at Lucky Lab Brew Pub on 1945 NW Quimby Street. Hope to see you there!

P.S.- If anyone is interested in trying Maasive but can't attend, just send an email to [email protected] and I'll make sure you're set up with a user account and the SDK.

Android Weekly Workgroup

Tualatin Public Library 18878 SW Martinazzi Tualatin, OR 97062 503.691.3074

http://www.ci.tualatin.or.us/departments/communityservices/library/

Mass Transit Options: WES Commuter Train, #96, #76

We may or may not start the meeting at

Buffalo Wild Wings Phone: 503-486-5295 8505 SW Tualatin Sherwood Road Tualatin, OR 97062

But will move to the Library at 7:30pm regardless

Come and work on your personal Android software development projects in a workgroup. Share what your doing, ask questions, help others. All skill levels, including beginners, are welcome to attend.

Confirmation of attendance is suggested but not required. You may arrive at anytime after 6pm. If no one shows by 6:30 pm, the meeting will be automatically canceled unless otherwise noted on the website. If you plan to arrive late or are unexpectedly delayed, post a note to the group site. Please check the group's website for last minute updates and meeting status.

Agenda:

6:00 - 6:30: Arrival, Meet and Greet 6:30 - 7:30: Buffalo Wild Wings if desired 7:30 - 9:00: Coding at Library

web: http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-android-workgroup

email: [email protected]

Discussion topics may be pre-suggested on the group's site, but the main focus of the meeting is coding personal projects.

The January 2012 meeting will change things up. A conference room in Collective Agency[1] has been reserved so we can do presentations.

The headline event for January is Tristan Worthington and Grant Thomas of Dark Horse Comics who will be presenting the newly released Comic Reader app[2] for Android. There is time for another short presentation if someone would like to show off something they have worked on recently[3].

The start time is the usual second-monday at 6:30pm.

Collective Agency is in oldtown/downtown portland and they provide "co-working" style office space for telecommuters, entrepreneurs, etc.. They graciously provide meeting space for free to groups such as ours.

Like most tech user group meetings in Portland, a walking-distance pub will be selected so that afterwards folks can mingle and chat.

Februrary Monthly Meetup for Android Enthusiasts of all types.

This month we are going to talk about Android test automation!

Jim Eisenhauer will be showing off his Farmville Tweeter Bot using the Selenium webdriver Android Driver and Andy Doan will be discussing and demoing Android native app automation using nativedriver.

Agenda:

•Setup Android Development Environment

•Integrate Selenium into the environment

•Create and Execute Selenium tests on Android using AndroidDriver

•Demo(Farmville Tweeter Bot!)

•Emulator vs Real Device

•Web Apps vs. Native Apps

•Create and Execute Selenium tests on Android using NativeDriver

•Demo(Android Sample App)

Android Weekly Workgroup at the Tualatin Public Library

18880 Southwest Martinazzi Avenue, Tualatin, OR 97062

http://www.ci.tualatin.or.us/departments/communityservices/library/

Previous Locations: 915 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR 97214 1945 NW Quimby St Portland, OR 97209 7675 SW Capitol Hwy Portland, OR 97219 18880 Southwest Martinazzi Avenue, Tualatin, OR 97062

Come and work on your personal Android software development projects in a workgroup. Share what your doing, ask questions, help others. All skill levels, including beginners, are welcome to attend.

Confirmation of attendance is suggested but not required. You are welcome to show anytime, but If no one shows by 6:30 pm, the meeting will be automatically canceled unless otherwise noted on the website. Please check the group's website for last minute updates.

Agenda:

6:00 - 6:30: Arrival, Meet and Greet 6:30 - 8:00: Coding 8:00 - 9:00: Closure if room still available

web: http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-android-workgroup

email: [email protected]

Discussion topics may be pre-suggested on the group's site, but the main focus of the meeting is coding personal projects.

Transportation via TriMet WES train, #96, #76 bus is available. http://trimet.org/

March Monthly Meetup for Android Enthusiasts of all types.

April Monthly Meetup for Android Enthusiasts of all types.

May Monthly Meetup for Android Enthusiasts of all types.

June Monthly Meetup for Android Enthusiasts of all types.

See PDXPUG blog (linked) for details.

July Monthly Meetup for Android Enthusiasts of all types.

Lots of exciting annoucements at Google I/O.

Presented by Iulian Neamtiu.

The relative novelty and rapid evolution pace of the Android ecosystem (platform, vendor-installed apps and third-party apps) means both the platform and apps receive little scrutiny. Hence there is a need for tools that assess, monitor and verify all components of the Android ecosystem. This lack of tools and scrutiny is particularly problematic when combined with the open nature of Google Play, the main app distribution channel.

In the first part of this talk we will focus on multi-layer profiling of Android apps using ProfileDroid, a tool and framework we developed at UC Riverside. ProfileDroid is useful for a variety of Android app analyses, from performance to usability to security. ProfileDroid monitors and correlates the behavior of an app at four layers: (a) static, or app specification (b) user interaction, (c) operating system, and (d) network layer. Using ProfileDroid on 27 free and paid Android apps, we have revealed: (a) discrepancies between the app specification and app execution, (b) free versions of apps could end up costing more than their paid counterparts, due to an order of magnitude increase in traffic, (c) most network traffic is not encrypted, (d) apps communicate with many more sources than users might expect.

In the second part of the talk we will present results from our long-term permission evolution study of the Android ecosystem---platform and 237 apps---over three years. We found that the platform has increased the number of dangerous permissions and does not move towards finer-grained permissions, and that app developers do not follow the principle of least privilege. We will also briefly discuss our efforts with static information flow tracking for Android apps, as well as building a log-and-replay system for Android.

August Monthly Meetup for Android Enthusiasts of all types.

See PDXPUG blog (linked) for details.

September Monthly Meetup for Android Enthusiasts of all types.

October Monthly Meetup for Android Enthusiasts of all types.

November Monthly Meetup for Android Enthusiasts of all types.

The Portland Linux/Unix Group Advanced Topics meeting

Recoupling Computer Science and Computing

A talk and roundtable discussion

There is no question that hybrid telecommunication/computing appliances like those running iOS and Android have put more open source software into the hands of users than any other effort to date but vendors and carriers consistently choose user control over user freedom. While many users and vendors will argue that "people want their systems to 'just work'", intentional and unintentional decoupling of the user computing experiences from the underlying computer science is the norm, despite the fact that developers and systems administrators are equally lazy and "want their systems to 'just work'".

Because no technical barrier exists between these two experiences of a given system, this talk will explore the historic and modern systems that provide the best balance of user and developer experience and open up to a roundtable discussion of other such systems and how to bridge these two experiences and foster computer science in society.

Please be prepared to talk about your experiences, particularly on platforms like Android and web frameworks which can offer full-stack access to sources yet deliver a competitive user experience.

See you there!

Many will break for the Lucky Lab on Hawthorne afterwards.

Come learn from local Android developers working right here in Portland. We're hosting a few short talks on Android build automation, the new Google V2 mapping library, the Android activity lifecycle and an overview of automated testing frameworks. This is the first of what we hope becomes a regular series of talks on Android development techniques. Developers of all skill levels are welcome.

Update: Pizza ordered! Come hungry.

Please register at the eventbrite link above so we can gauge interest.

Februrary Monthly Meetup for Android Enthusiasts of all types.

Guest Speaker: On The Go Platforms - Android application development for wearable computing such as Google Glass and Vuzix headmount displays by Tyler Phillipi.

Lightening Talks - John Roberts on Amazon App store maps/"Nokia maps", Don Park on location tracking/IceCondor.

The April 2013 meeting for Android Enthusiasts. This is a casual setting to chat with other local android developers, fans, and other interested folk.

Announcing the second Portland Android Lecture Series! We'll be doing a recap of Google I/O related news and several 15 minute Android development related talks.

• Overview of asynchronous image loading libraries
• Overview of the new Android build system
• Overview of Android-IA (Android on Intel Architecture)

There will be time after the event for general questions and networking.

Portland Mobile Workgroup

If you enjoy creating software for mobile devices or are just considering getting started, come join us for an informal workgroup. All levels of experience are invited. Beginners are encouraged to attend.

The meetings are informal and people are free to come and go as suits them. The meeting times are only a suggestion. If you are new to mobile development or have questions, come as early as you can.

Meetings are only held if 2 or more people are attending with an RSVP. This means you must RSVP or check the message board or risk showing up alone. Do not RSVP with a "maybe". If you do RSVP, please show. You are always welcome to just drop in without an RSVP if you are unsure you can make it until the last minute.

To RSVP or see current meeting status, visit: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pdx-mobile-workgroup

If you want to RSVP, look for the day of the meeting in the postings and place a note or contact the group's admin by email.

When: Thursday July 11th, 2013, 5-8 pm Where: Lucky Lab Beer Hall (http://luckylab.com/) Address: 1945 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97209

Note: Powerstrips are always needed.

Presented by Jesse Hallett.

Take control of your hardware by installing an open build of Android. Get root access and extend the life of your device. Learn about what is involved in installing a third-party OS on your phone or tablet.

Welcome to the PDX Mobile Workgroup

If you develop software or hardware for mobile devices but work alone, then this group is for you. Come join us and get involved with others doing similar work. Share ideas, get help, and have some fun while getting realistic encouragement.

The group is informal and beginners are welcome. Visit our Google Group page to learn more.

Visit our website for details about the meeting for Aug 1st.

Stop by, get something to eat and work on your mobile projects with a group. Meetings are held if 2 or more people sign up. Visit the our site for details.

Come join other mobile engineers to work on personal projects. Details are available at:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pdx-mobile-workgroup

Location may change last minute, so check group site for last minute updates.

Beginners are Welcome to attend.

Come join us for a workgroup session. Aside from the normal workgroup we will discuss January's Android Course.

Visit group site for details:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pdx-mobile-workgroup

Visit the group site for details. See the entry under Thursday Sept 26th

A casual pub gathering for Android enthusiasts to talk about new developments in the Android operating system and devices.

This will be an introduction to Android Programming using Eclipse and Java with the Android SDK.

This is the first event in a series of Android programming talks which will inevitably lead to the production of a classic board game, such as Sorry!

All skill levels are welcome, and no prior Android Experience is necessary.

About the Speaker: Sean Walsh is the Chairman of the Association for Computing Machinery at Portland State University. Sean has extensive experience with User Interface design and undergraduate Artificial Intelligence programming. He is finishing his undergraduate degree in Computer Science, while concurrently taking graduate classes toward a Masters of Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence track.

Who: Rogan Creswick
What: Multi-App Security Analysis: Looking for Android App Collusion
Where: Free Geek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue, Portland
When: Tuesday, November 19th, 2013 at 7pm
Why: The pursuit of technology freedom

The Android permission model opens up a number of opportunities for apps to bypass the established single-app permission checks that Android users rely on to control data flow and application behavior on their devices. I'll do my best to terrify the Android-using audience by describing the attack surface for colluding applications and showing interactive visualizations of multi-app data flow. We'll look at the Android permission model, the user-interface it results in, and I'll show just how easy it is to make apps that look innocuous.

Bio:

Rogan Creswick develops unique tools and techniques for software development and security analysis at Galois, Inc. His research interests focus on improving the state of the art in software engineering tools and user interfaces. His experience also reaches into the areas of user interface automation and customization via integrated assistants and automated documentation aides at IBM Research. He has striven to provide natural interfaces to ease communication with complex and semi-sentient agents through existing tools that have already become trustworthy and familiar to their users.

Many attendees will break for a social hour at the Lucky Lab on Hawthorne after the meeting

See you there!

Take a free 8 week class online by visiting:

https://www.coursera.org/course/android

This is the 2nd week of class, but there is plenty of time to catch up.

Join us at the Lucky Lab on Hawthorne between 7pm and 9pm Wednesday to get help with homework and ask questions.

We will likely be sitting in the back by the power outlets, but ask around and you'll find us. Bring your laptop and a power strip if you have them.

Late arrivals are okay.

For more information, join our online group at

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pdx-mobile-workgroup

Sponsored and hosted by CrowdCompass by Cvent, you’ll have 48 uninterrupted hours to build the coolest, most effective tool you can dream up. The only rule? Keep it mobile.

This is our first-ever hackathon, and we’re pumped to be gathering Portland’s top talent together for a weekend of innovation and camaraderie. We’ll keep you satisfied with local food, coffee and beverages so you can focus on the task at hand.

Space is limited; please follow the link and register in advance so we know how many pancakes to flip.

Join beginning and experienced mobile developers to work on projects together. Come ask questions, give help and get help. All levels of experience are welcome.

This week will will also take a look at the next online class offered by Coursera:

https://www.coursera.org/course/posa

Class starts May 12th, but you can get previews of the lectures early. The class is free and so is getting help with homework though our workgroup.

The group is very informal and so feel free to show up early or late and leave early or late, as suits your schedule.

We will meet near the power outlets by the clear glass windows. Look for the orange backpack to find us.

The problem: You are an enterprise or startup with some desktop offerings, and the writing on the wall has turned into the tattoo on your forehead. The time has come to turn some or all of your money printing machine into something that can be easily accessed and used on smartphones and tablets.

The solution: It depends.

It is also the topic of Dee Madden’s presentation at Mobile Portland this month: “Choosing The Right Stack for Mobile: The Pros And Cons of Each”

The topic of Native vs Hybrid vs Pure Web vs Shared Codebase vs Whatever is a well worn one, but dynamic and ever-changing, nonetheless. In this presentation, Dee will examine the current landscape, with a pragmatic approach that holds all solutions equal. He will cover the pluses and minuses of each, and how to leverage the more endearing traits of one over the other as the best solution for the problem at hand.

Among the stacks covered are:

• Native
• Hybrid “Shrinkwrap” solutions – a focus on PhoneGap, with some discussion of the others, such as Appcelerator and Sencha
• Roll-your-own Hybrid – hybrid built with a custom native container
• Drive-Through Hybrid – Codiqa
• Shared Codebase – Xamarin, with a dusting of the Ruby-based Rhodes framework

Throughout, Dee will show some working examples of some of these, providing some concrete examples of the advantages of each, and some of the pitfalls that can come with them as applications evolve, with an anecdote or two for good measure.

Come on out and kick the shindig in the shins! Dee will have his shinguards on!

About Our Speaker

Dee Madden Mobile Solutions Consultant, SoftSource Consulting

Dee Madden is a Software Developer with over 16 years experience in building software, having done everything from Development, to Quality Assurance, Project Management, and Agile / SCRUM Coaching. For well over the last 3 of those years, He has been consumed with a passion for all things mobile and bleeding edge HTML/CSS/Javascript tech. He began life as a Punk Rock Musician and Multimedia Artist. Building from that, and a trip back to the house of higher learning, he found his way into designing and writing software.

Currently, he works as an Mobile Solutions Consultant, Full Stack Developer, and Instructor for SoftSource Consulting.

Into the Mind of a Nerd [May 13th]:

Join us as a team of developers build, design and publish an app in 59 minutes or less while the entire process is narrated for non-technical attendees. That's correct! A full explanation of each technical option will be explained at each fork in the development path.

Developers/Presenters: The Speakers/Developers:

• Dave Shanley

• Cody Garvin

• Jackson Gariety

Early in 2008, Critical Path Software was introduced to eBay by its Apple friends. Critical Path was a premier developer with the skills and experience to launch eBay into the initial iTunes AppStore on July 10, 2008.

It was a heady time. The deadline was tight. The team had to fight through issues with the iPhone SDK and integration with eBay servers. It was a grand success. The eBay app went on to be number 3 of all free apps in the first year of the App Store. Contemporary industry-wide mobile ecommerce revenue estimates were vastly exceeded by the eBay app alone. The mobile ecommerce revolution was born.

Fast forward to today. The eBay Mobile products produced here in Portland are responsible for over 30 percent of eBay revenue. Ladd Van Tol and Dan Weston have graciously agreed to discuss their insights into the architecture of these enterprise-class mobile apps. Their discussion will cover the evolution of the product architecture, lessons learned over the past six years, and how to architect state-of-the-art apps in an enterprise environment.

Learn how they went from an under-the-radar consulting project to 35% of Fortune 500 company.

About Our Speakers

Ladd Van Tol, eBay Mobile

Ladd Van Tol is the architecture lead for eBay's native mobile applications, continuing work started at Portland-based Critical Path Software in 2008.

He is a mobile architect specializing in iOS, providing underlying design and engineering for eBay for iPhone and iPad apps. At Critical Path Software, since purchased by eBay in December 2010, Ladd was the Lead engineer on custom software development for a variety of startups and Fortune 500 companies.

Ladd was previously the technical lead for TechTracker, another local Portland company.

Dan Weston, eBay Mobile

Dan Weston works on functional architecture for eBay's native mobile applications, continuing work started at Critical Path Software in 2008.

Dan has over 3 decades of software development experience ranging from founding successful startups to providing significant leadership and engineering services to Fortune 500 Companies.

Dan previously was a founding member of another Portland startup, Thetus Corporation, as well as a stint working in cryptography and security at Intel.

Let's Meetup and chat about Google Play Game Services.

Google's Game Services offers some nifty features for gaming app developers including: - Built-in leaderboards - Events and metrics - Achievements - Save your game state within Google's cloud - Turn-based games

Bring your laptops and your ideas, show off a work-in-progress, or just come brainstorm with us. We'll have a small presentation highlighting a recent project utilizing some features of Google's Play Services.

Light snacks and some drinks will be provided.

Due to the nature of the venue, we will have a 12 person limit to the attendee list. Please keep your RSVPs updated! Thank you!

abstract: If you do a web search for “encrypting Strings in Android”, you’ll find a lot of example code, and they all look pretty similar. They definitely input a String and output gibberish that looks like encrypted text, but they are often incorrect. Crypto is tricky: it’s hard to tell that the gibberish that’s being printed is not good crypto, and it’s hard to tell that the code example you picked up from Stack Overflow has serious flaws.

The problem here is that sites like Google and Stack Overflow rank results based on popularity, but the correctness of crypto isn’t something we can vote about. It’s not a popularity contest. To use it correctly, you have to understand the properties of the algorithm and the security goals of your code. Maybe the bad crypto someone pasted up on the Internet was acceptable for their needs, but there’s a good chance it’s completely unacceptable for yours.

In this talk, we’ll discuss the use of a very common crypto algorithm, AES, and show how code examples on the Internet usually make serious mistakes in how they use AES libraries. What are the consequences of these mistakes and what are more reasonable defaults. We’ll also talk a bit about our simple Android library that tries to do AES right.

More information on the Tozny blog: http://tozny.com/blog/encrypting-strings-in-android-lets-make-better-mistakes/

bio: Isaac is a security researcher at Galois where he has lead authentication and collaboration projects for the DoD and IC. Isaac earned his master’s degree in Cybersecurity from the University of Maryland, University College, and his B.S. in Computer Science from Ohio State University. In 2013, Isaac founded Tozny, a Galois spin-off company aimed at solving the password conundrum. Easier and more secure than passwords, Tozny replaces passwords with an easy-to-use cryptographic key on a user’s mobile phone.

Sponsored and hosted by CrowdCompass by Cvent, you’ll have 48 uninterrupted hours to build the coolest, most effective tool you can dream up. The only rule? Keep it mobile.

Join CrowdCompass for our annual hackathon in our brand new office! We’re pumped to be gathering Portland’s top talent together for a weekend of innovation and camaraderie. We’ll keep you satisfied with local food, coffee and beverages so you can focus on the task at hand. Cost to participate is $50.

Space is limited; please follow the link and register in advance so we know how many pancakes to flip.

Do you work for a tech company in any way, shape, or form (start-up, developer, marketing, design, admin, tech student, etc.)? Do you want to be more involved in the Portland tech community? Come by and play some Ping-Pong! Or, just come by for some good conversation and a beer. Headbands, wristbands, and other such attire are encouraged.

This event is free but please RSVP so we can get a head count for food and drinks

Do you work for a tech company in any way, shape, or form (start-up, developer, marketing, design, admin, tech student, etc.)? Do you want to be more involved in the Portland tech community? Come by and play some Ping-Pong! Or, just come by for some good conversation and a beer. Headbands, wristbands, and other such attire are encouraged.

This event is free but please RSVP so we can get a head count for food and drinks

MotionPDX

Join us for presentations, demos, discussions, and help getting started with RubyMotion. Bring your laptop if you’d like to follow along. You’ll want to have RubyMotion (download trial), the latest version of Xcode, and Xcode Command Line Tools (xcode-select --install) installed. Since this is our first meetup, we'll set aside some time to socialize. ClearSight will provide pizza and soda, and Epicodus is graciously providing our meetup location.

RubyMotion Basics

Jamon Holmgren

Basic app creation, how-tos, general tips and tricks, best practices, tests, and more!

Social Time

Hang out, meet everyone, ask each other or the speakers some questions, bounce ideas around, etc.

Cross Platform RubyMotion

TBD

We'll explore the current state of cross platform programming with RubyMotion and discuss some of the plans ClearSight has for improving cross platform development.

MotionPDX

Join us for MotionPDX as we talk about building mobile applications in RubyMotion! We'll have pizza & beer starting 6:45pm, so stop by a little early if you want to have dinner and socialize before the presentations.

Presentation at 7pm

Huge thanks to Copious for providing the space, pizza and beer this month.

Agenda:

6:45pm - show up early and mingle

7:00pm - Event begins!

• Announcements
• Presentation: Testing with Bacon - Jamon Holmgren of ClearSight
• Q&A

8:00pm - Hang out and get to know other RubyMotion enthusiasts

Join us for Motion PDX as we build mobile applications in RubyMotion!

Copious will graciously be providing our meeting space, along with pizza and beer for the evening. (Thanks Copious!)

We just got some simulator-only RubyMotion licenses for MotionPDX attendees only! If you'd like to get your hands into some RubyMotion code without buying a full license, this is your chance!

You don't need to have a project to attend, but if you do, feel free to bring it along to get help from the group or just put in a few extra hours.

Agenda:
6:45pm - show up early and mingle
7:00pm - Event begins!

• Announcements
• Group hacking

8:00pm - Hang out and get to know other RubyMotion enthusiasts

Epicodus is a 20 week, full time, in-person class on programming. You'll learn everything you need to know to get a job as a web developer or build your startup's app.

At Epicodus, you'll learn how to build web applications from top to bottom with modern technologies and practices. More importantly than any particular skill, though, you'll learn how to think like a programmer, write good code, and pick up new languages and technologies in this fast-changing industry.

We currently offer three courses: one covering PHP, JavaScript, and Drupal, one covering Ruby, JavaScript, and Rails, and a new class covering Java, JavaScript, and Android. Currently, the Java class is women-only.

Stop in to meet our staff, see the classroom and ask lots of questions. And if you're working on the pre-class homework from learnhowtoprogram.com we can help with that!

Check out our FAQ: http://www.epicodus.com/faq.html

Many of today's drones rely on Android-based ground control stations (GCS) to manage the drone, plan flights, and to control sensors. We'll provide a brief introduction to a few different Android ground control stations, their development environments, and future directions in the drone industry.

http://www.meetup.com/Killer-Android/events/222853252/?a=socialmedia

Boys & Girls Clubs of Portland will be providing a free Saturday App-a-thon event on November 7, 2015. The goal of the event is to engage youth who otherwise would not have exposure to computer science. This event will provide attendees with an opportunity to learn, explore, and create with computers. We are looking for volunteers to lead and facilitate small teams of youth aged 9-14.

"The Road to 100 Million Downloads"

Please join us to learn a bit more about Android development on a massive scale. We'll be reviewing the formation of the eBay Portland office as well as lessons learned over the past five years on the way to 100 million downloads.

Doors will open at 6:00pm and eBay will be providing food and drink (including beer and wine for attendees who can prove they're over 21).

After folks have eaten and networked to their heart's content, the presentation will start at 7:00pm, followed by a Q&A session and more networking until 8:00pm.

Please be thinking of interesting topics and/or speakers you'd like to see at future Meetups. We'd like to keep momentum up and try to have Meetups once a month, if possible.

Happy new year! Want to build a mobile app in 2016? Come join us and learn how to use RubyMotion to build that app in half the time in a syntax that you will enjoy!

Our first meeting of the new year we will be a workshop. We will walk through getting a free version of RubyMotion installed on your laptop, building an iOS app to fetch data from an API, display the data as a list, pass data from the list to a detail screen, and apply some basic styling.

We'll be at a new location, provided by Elemental Technologies. You're on your own for dinner until we can find a pizza sponsor.

This month we're going to discuss Kotlin! If you haven't heard of Kotlin, it's a new language created by JetBrains (the people behind the people behind Android Studio). Kotlin is 100% compatible with java and android, and can be used in existing android projects mixed with java classes. There is incredible IDE support and the language itself is very modern, borrowing many concepts from functional languages such as Scala, but being much more accessible to java developers.

We will have a presentation about Kotlin basics and I encourage you to bring laptops to play with it as we will reserve some time for group work where we all play with the language together.

If you want to participate in that portion of the meetup, please have Android Studio installed along with the Kotlin plugin.

Details of Kotlin can be found at:

http://kotlinlang.org/

As always, excellent food and drink will be provided by our generous sponsor, eBay

This month we'll be discussing Flow, a new library from the creators of RubyMotion for building cross-platform mobile apps using a single codebase.

Come join us and learn how to build iOS, Android, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV apps using RubyMotion.

Come join us and learn how to build iOS, Android, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV apps using RubyMotion.

Google just announced that Google Play will now be supported on Chromebooks. The Chromebook is an inexpensive and lightweight laptop running the Chrome OS (and now apparently supports Android).

You can read more about it here: https://chrome.googleblog.com/2016/05/the-google-play-store-coming-to.html

Sounds awesome, right? So, let's get together and talk Chromebook Development.

Food will be provided. Please keep your RSVPs updated so that we know how much food to order.

Tentative Agenda
5:30 - 6:15: Arrivals, networking, and food 6:15 - 7:15: Presentation & Demo 7:15 - 7:30: Q&A and more networking

Come join us and learn how to build iOS, Android, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV apps using RubyMotion.

Join us online for desktop or mobile at https://zoom.us/j/7891236789

Join us as Michael Wild shares his prototype with the Gemma, LEDs, battery, and a pressure sensor. Adafruit has inspired us to create the Firewalker sneaker for OMSI Maker Faire in September. I hope you'll join us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmuig7dPv-Y&t=92s

Do you want to learn and share your passion in a supportive community? Knowledge Mavens is an ethos of sharing, creativity, and inspiration.

Our Meetup provides an opportunity to "Show and Tell" followed by a feedback and Q&A. You'll have the opportunity to share with our channels such as Meetup, GitHub, YouTube, and Facebook to connect with more passionate people.

The second half of our session we'll collaborate on new topics. The winner wins an award for the most interesting topic and the opportunity to share in an upcoming session.

This event is a social gathering for developers to discuss the latest in mapping, geo technology, geo services, web and mobile mapping apps, app design, cloud solutions, map data or anything else related to solving real-world "geo" problems. Developers of all levels of expertise are welcome, from seasoned GIS professionals to those new to geospatial development.

Join us on Wednesday, December 5th for a Mobile-themed meetup. That means the intro, keynote, and lighting talks will all be focused on usages of mobile within the context of GIS. Food and beverages will be provided at the meetup.

Have you built a cool geospatial mobile app recently that you'd like to show off? Submit a lightning talk! We'd love to see it!

Find out more details and RSVP on our Meetup page.

Join the Wacom Inkathon to build new or existing apps that unlock digital ink for your users. Wacom is calling on developers, designers and all other hackers to build great apps that enable digital ink for their users.

Integrate the Wacom's digital ink solution, the WILL SDK, into an existing app OR a new application to compete for the $15,000+ prizepool. The three challenge tracks are: Ink for Education, Extended Reality (VR/AR), and Blank Canvas (open challenge, not category-specific).

Whether we are posting to social media, messaging friends or crushing candy, most of us spend way too much time on our phones. Chances are you're reading this on a phone or tablet, right now! The future is mobile!

Join Out in Tech PDX on November 20th as we chat about all things mobile. Ever wonder how an app goes from being an idea to being a best seller in the App Store? Curious about what tools it takes to build an app? Confused about the difference between Apple and Android?

Our experienced panel of mobile developers will answer all these questions and more.

Please RSVP for a FREE ticket on Eventbrite to attend!

Schedule

6:00 | Doors

6:30 | Panel Discussion + Q&A

8:00 | Social Hour

9:00 | Event Ends

Featured Panelists

Lauren Lizardo (she/her) - Unity Game Developer

Zach Heusinkveld (he/him) - iOS/Android Developer, Kiva

Dan Melton (he/him) - Staff Software Engineer, Dipsea Stories

Morgan Lutz (she/her) - Android Developer, Kiva

Whether you are interested in technology, leading your own company, or just looking to connect with the LGBTQ+ tech community, this event is for you.

A BIG thank you to our FABULOUS sponsors who made this event possible:

eBay for graciously hosting us and providing food and beverages.

Ovidio Francisco for volunteering his time and talent to build our beautiful graphics for this event