This week Active Frequency is taking a field trip to San Francisco for Google I/O 2011!
We’re psyched to immerse ourselves in all things Google for a few days; here are a couple of highlights we’re especially looking forward to:
John
- Learning about ActivityFragments available in Honeycomb. These seem like an incredibly powerful way to use and organize your mobile applications. To use a web concept – this has the potential to be the native “responsive design” to tablet/phone displays.
- I am eager to see just how far Android can leverage NFC today. This isn’t something I’ve read very much about. The hardware/software rollout plan can be very much a chicken and egg problem, so I look forward to seeing Google’s plan.
- And last, but not least, they have a specifically UI building focused talk, which excites me. The app I’ve been working on is mostly functional – but obviously ugly. I hope I get some ideas and inspiration here.
Kevin
- “JavaScript Programming in the Large with Closure Tools” – JavaScript, a language with many critics but one of my personal favorites, has really come into its own of late. As we write bigger and bigger JavaScript apps, though, we run into more and more problems associated with non-trivial systems – and tools like Closure help make JavaScript more of a “real” language than the “scripting” language it started out as.
- “Writing Web Apps in Go” – I’ll be honest: I’m a bit skeptical about Go’s suitability for web apps. But how can you not be curious about a language designed by such an all-star cast?
- “Map your business, inside and out” and “Location Based App development using Google APIs” – these two talks represent just some of the cool things going on with geolocation.
We’ll be hanging around at I/O – if you’re there too, find us: @activefrequency, @kgrinberg, @jobelenus