Conference archive

IoT Dev+Test 2016 - Mobile & IoT

Wednesday, April 20

W9

Building Connected and Disconnected Mobile Applications

Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 1:00pm to 1:45pm
Creating a great connected experience across multiple platforms is an essential element of great mobile applications. However, what happens when there is little to no connectivity—such as on an airplane or in some foreign countries? Does your mobile app effortlessly synchronize data when the device gets back online? Although users expect and deserve this type of behavior, James maintains that developing your own cloud backend and an API across all operating environments is time consuming and error prone. Even more, managing multiple projects, languages, IDEs, and continuous integration...
Jane_Fraser
Anki, Inc.
W15

The Internet of Things in Action: Anki’s OVERDRIVE Racing Game

Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 2:00pm to 2:45pm

As products like Fitbit, Skylanders, and Anki’s OVERDRIVE race car game pop up all over, developers and testers need to be prepared for the wave of Internet of Things (IoT) products. Focusing on the mobile interactions of these devices and the tools used at Anki, Jane Fraser shows you how they ensure their systems are working as expected. Jane describes and demonstrates the tools Anki’s teams use to develop and test their games, especially OVERDRIVE—their racing game that uses robotics, embedded radios, BTLE, and WiFi to connect race cars to smart devices to deliver a multiplayer racing...

Thursday, April 21

Jason Arbon
Appdiff.com
T1

Build Smarter Mobile Apps with Real-Time Relevance

Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 11:00am to 11:45am
Personalized mobile user experience is a hot topic today because a smarter app will delight users, keep them coming back, and make your business stand out above the crowd. The extreme version of personalization is real-time contextual and social relevance. According to Jason Arbon, the contextual brain for your app is only a few API calls away. Based on lessons learned working on search relevance and personalization at Google, Bing, and a stealth mobile app startup, Jason describes the value, performance, limitations, and data-privacy of local and web services available today. He demonstrates...
Mike Benkovich
Improving-Twin Cities
T13

Use the Modern Cloud to Build Mobile Apps

Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 3:15pm to 4:00pm

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...