Google I/O 2011: Keynote Day 2

Android Market for Developers

Designing and Implementing Android UIs for Phones and Tablets

Building Android Apps for Google TV

Android Development Tools

Taking Android to Work

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Google IO is currently taking place in San Francisco and for everybody who could not attend Google live streamed quite some sessions. In the following you can see the videos which are currently published:

Google I/O 2011: Android Keynote Day One

As an Android developer I am very interested in the Android sessions as you can imagine. So the following the next video first covers advaced topics of android development.

Google I/O 2011: Android Protips: Advanced Topics for Expert Android App Developers

The next video discusses business models that you as a developer can use to monetize your app. So this surely is interesting for everybody of you, isn’t it?

Google I/O 2011: Don’t just build a mobile app. Build a business.

Ever wondered about what Near Field Communication on Android is implemented? The answer gives you the next video.

Google I/O 2011: How to NFC

The next video covers the highlights of the new update release of Android Honeycomb (Version 3.1).

Google I/O 2011: Honeycomb Highlights

The last video of the first day contains a discussion with the Android Team.

Google I/O 2011: Fireside Chat with the Android Team

More videos will follow here as soon as they get published, so stay tuned!

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What I find really interesting there are the interactive data visualizations.

If you like this video drop me a comment!

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Robotium is an open source testing framework for Android applications. It makes it easy to write complex black-box test cases. Test driven development is a methology where tests are written before the actual application.

1. Write a testcase
2. Watch it failing
3. Write the actual source code in you application which enables the test to pass
4. Watch the test passing
5. Go back to step 1

The following video gives you an introduction into Robotium:

I will definitely use Robotium for my future Android projects. It is really worth having a look at it.

There is another interersting video:

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Of all the videogame industry’s tremendous success stories, Minecraft might very well be the most remarkable. [wired.com]

Have fun watching the interesting video:

(via wired.com)

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Have you ever asked yourself if why your employer is not really able to motivate you to love your work? One of the reasons why people are motivated doing what they do is because they see a purpose in their work. This fact you already see in “Maslov’s Hierarchy of Needs“. The following video demonstrates the surprising truth about what drives our motivation.

(via Facebook: Georg Kompacher)

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In the following video Dmitriy Ryaboy, a Twitter Analytics Engineer and a former Cloudera Intern, explains how Twitter uses Hadoop and Pig. Enjoy the video and have a good weekend!

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Here is an introductory video to Google Instant the new search feature that Google provides for its search engine.

I personally do really like the new feature searching while you type. What do you think about it? Do you prefer the traditional “push-the-button” search approach?

RWW asks how will this change affect your companie’s search engine optimization? <name> tries to answer the similar question on if SEO will still be required in 5 years.

For me the more interesting question is how did google do the software engineering part? How did they get it to answer millions of search querys in real-time?

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