IoT Dev+Test 2016 - Mobile Development
Wednesday, April 20
Usability vs. Security: Find the Right Balance in Mobile Apps
Successful mobile apps have two key features: a great user experience and the ability to protect users’ data. Balancing user experience and security—a key aspect of product design and engineering—requires a multidisciplinary approach. According to Levent Gurses, a well-balanced app is designed through a series of informed decisions, meaningful compromises, and research that supports core user behaviors. Based on lessons learned from designing winning mobile apps and securing front- and back-end infrastructure, Levent shares his method for scientifically discovering the most critical...
Can Your Mobile Infrastructure Survive 1 Million Concurrent Users?
You’re building the next killer mobile app. How do you ensure that your app is both stable and capable of near-instant data updates? Build a backend! But there’s more to building a backend than standing up a SQL server in your datacenter and calling it a day. Since different types of apps demand different backend services, how do you know what sort of backend you need? And, more importantly, how can you ensure that your backend will scale so you can survive an explosion of users that comes from events like being featured in the app store? Siva Katir and Melissa Benua will discuss the...
Building Connected and Disconnected Mobile Applications
Gradle for Android Developers
Thursday, April 21
Build Smarter Mobile Apps with Real-Time Relevance
Scalable and Collaborative iOS UI Test Automation in Swift
Get Started with Google Fit and Its API
Google has created a service that lets you store and read any health data you want—for free! Like every new API, mystery surrounds how it works, what it can do, and where the opportunities are. Google Fit supports storing activity data such as runs and pushups, nutrition information about that delicious piece of cake you just ate, and even stats like weight. Users then can see the information combined from multiple sources, instead of having to mentally or manually compile the data. Luke Wallace shows you which parts Google has built for you and what parts you’ll have to build yourself....
Use the Modern Cloud to Build Mobile Apps
What’s the secret sauce to a successful mobile product strategy? You need to stand on the shoulders of giants. There was a time when starting from the ground up meant architecting a lot of code from a low level to do basic things. Mike Benkovich explores ways you can use the latest technologies and services to quickly and consistently deliver a cloud-connected mobile experience by leveraging the features such as Push Notifications, OAuth for Identity, and Dynamic Data. With the advent of the cloud we can exploit many powerful features and capabilities with a few lines of code that used to...