Ann Arbor New Tech Meetup

Mobile Monday Ann Arbor #1 - Motorola DROID & the Android ecosystem

Nov '09 9 Mon 7:00 PM

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Attendance: 71 people attended.
4.5024 (24 ratings)
Who organized?
a2geeks, Amy Klinke, and Dug Song

For our first Mobile Monday meetup following Friday's release of the new Motorola DROID phone, we're pleased to welcome a special guest speaker!

Karl Rosaen is an Ann Arbor native who recently moved back after 4 years working at Google in California. He spent the past two years on the Android team, helping to launch the initial 1.0 product, and the subsequent "cupcake", "donut", and "eclair" (Android 2.0) releases. He'll be showing off the latest 1.5 and 2.0 features on the Motorola DROID.

We'll follow up with 1-minute lightning talks, brief announcements, and networking.

Anyone interested in mobile development, new technology, and slick new gadgets is welcome!

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Chokha
Great presentation. Nice job Karl.

Posted Nov 9, 2009 9:56 PM
Dug Song
I have nametags for those of you that registered "Yes", and with your full names (will be sorted alphabetically by last name at registration). See you tonight!

Posted Nov 9, 2009 4:06 PM
Keith Bourne
Set up a knowledge collection on Memcatch for the new Droid, got a little carried away: http://bit.ly/droidnotes
tech crunch did a pretty thorough job of breaking it all down, so I broke that into piece by piece. Also caught some other reviews, etc. in there. For me, biggest wow is the navigation, biggest disappointment is the camera. Due to android, now strongly considering a switch to Pandora (over Rhapsody for years) and Pixelpipe sounds promising for a camera/photo sharing app.

Posted Nov 8, 2009 11:32 PM
Aydin
Bought a Verizon Droid on Friday. Great phone. After 5 years of using a (locked down by Verizon) Razr phone, I'm in heaven. With GPS, Accelerometer, compass, can't wait to program it.

Posted Nov 8, 2009 9:20 PM
Keith Bourne
Interested in talking about what apps everyone is using for their 2.0 and the pros/cons of developing for android over other platforms

Posted Nov 8, 2009 1:50 PM
Karl Rosaen
oh yeah, i also have a desktop dock and car dock, so I can show how the DROID works in those situations

Posted Nov 5, 2009 12:40 PM
Karl Rosaen
I'm planning on talking about some of the features from 1.5 and 2.0 I know best, which probably means Android Quick Search Box and how developers can plug into that. Let me know if there's anything else in particular you are interested in hearing about!

Posted Nov 5, 2009 12:22 PM
Dug Song
Jon Oberheide is bringing all of his mobile devices too, and doing a quick lightning talk on what his group is doing with all of them - Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, Palm Pre, iPhone...

Posted Nov 5, 2009 12:28 AM

Who attended?

71 attendees
- Anthony Oliver
  
  “ I was kind of disappointed. This basically was an overview of the Droid, I was hoping that since someone who worked on android system was giving a talk they would've maybe talked more about development, maybe showed off SDK, write a quick app or something. I understand this was setup in 5 days, but I drove all the way downtown to watch this, I think if this is to be a reoccurring event it will need more content. ”
- Andros Lee
  
  “ really liked it ”
- Katie McCurdy
  
  “ Great info! I am not a developer, but I have worked on some mobile app designs. I really enjoyed the talk regardless, and the demo of the Android 2.0 features was great. Thanks for putting this on. ”
- John Harding
  
  “ It was a good overview of Android - well presented. ”
- Dug Song
  
  “ Karl did a great job providing an overview of the Android architecture, development environment, and ecosystem to a full house! The live, larger-than-life side-by-side demos of the DROID and iPhone were really neat to see on the big screen. Very engaged participants with over 10 announcements / lightning talks, and a lot of interesting conversations afterward. Thanks to everyone for coming out on such short notice - please post photos here if you have them! ”
- Amy Klinke
  
  “ it was good - I'd love to know what everyone in the group wanted out of the event - thanks Dug! ”
- Karl Rosaen
  
  “ That was fun! Was great to meet more tech folks in the area; I look forward to future mobile meetups. There were some good discussions afterward about cool ways of using android and the droid; Andros and Steve in particular are a wealth of DROID info! ”
- Matthew Henry (+1 guest)
  
  “ Wish the Q&A session had gone on longer. ”
- Ben
  
  “ I did not gather from the flyer that this event was geared toward developers, and so most of the content was over my head. Regardless, I'm glad I went and was able to learn more about the innerworkings of the Android OS and what it means for applications and whatnot. ”
- Jamie Howarth
  
  “ A good kick off meeting. Hope it becomes a regular event. ”
- Dave Koziol
- Dan Hibbitts
- a2geeks
- Keith Bourne
- Jim Vitek
- kevnam
- Chris Xiromeritis
- James Vuong
- Johannes Kristinsson
- Justin Thompson
- Winston Tsang
- Roger Rayle
- Jack Rosenzweig
- Robert Baxtresser
- Tyler Erickson
- Akshat
- Bill Stumphauzer
- Doug Neal
- Alex Fisher
- Keason Sanvordenker
- Mike
- zzajin
- Noah Botimer
- Chokha
- Sergio Mendez
- Kevin Chan
- Jonathan Duty
- Alex Kuhn
- Ben Kazez
- Justin Adams
- Ryan Burton
- Steve Schwartz
- Don Blumenthal (+1 guest)
- Kurt Skifstad
- Nader Jawad
- John Schultz
- Lana
- Jane Blumenthal