I’ll talk in DevFest Brasil

This year we won’t have Google Developer Day. Instead, Google Developer Groups are organizing their own events called DevFest. These are pretty much like Google Developer Day with some extras. For instance, in GDDs, we didn’t have codelabs with hands on, just 1h (approx) long talks about a variety of topics Google related.

One other thing that changed are the speakers. On GDD, all were Google Employees or invited by Google. On DevFest, the speakers are from community. There are some Google employees as well, but anyone could submit a talk, so I did it. When I saw the schedule, my talk wasn’t there, no big deal, there are a lot of great talks, mine wasn’t chosen, no problem. I would go to the event in any way. For my surprise, there was an error when publishing the schedule and, in fact, my talk is in.

So, next Friday, Nov 30th, I’ll talk about Android internals. Android is open source, right? You can download the source from source.android.com, play with it, compile and load your build into your device (there are some restrictions on some devices), but most of the talks and books are about developing apps for Android. This is great, most people are interested in apps, it’s where the money is and it’s a lot of fun. I benefited from previous talks about apps (see my [Evernote Hackathon post]({% post_url 2012-11-14-evernote-hackathon-brazil %})) to develop my own, I’m not criticizing. But how about the internals? When I worked at Eldorado Research Institute, we worked with Android internals and I always missed references on this. Later came Android Builders Summit and Karim Yaghmour’s Embedded Android (still in beta), but that’s it. So, I would like to introduce the internals and show it’s not so difficult as it seems to hack Android. Also, learning Android internals leads to better app developers because they’ll know what to expect from the inside, what happens behind the curtains.

There’s enough time to register for DevFest Brasil, see you there.

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