Industrial Trends for Mobile

1. Industrial Trends for
Mobile
By Kevin Tan and Michael Cheah

2. Types of Mobile Devices
Phones
Tablets
Smartwatches and more…
Wearable fashion accessories etc?

3. Operating System Knowledge

4. Android for Beginners &
Intermediates
Eclipse ADT plugin is obsolete and not actively
maintained.

5. Android for Beginners &
Intermediates
Android Studio is the future.

6. Android for Beginners &
Intermediates
Gradle is the new build system

7. Android for Advanced Devs
Android 5.0
5000+ new APIs introduced. (Knock yourself
out...)

8. Android for Advanced Devs
Material Design elements and meaningful
animation transitions

9. Android for Advanced Devs
Dependency towards UI UX Designers
Conceptualize via material design mockups via
Photoshops or After Effects

10. Wearables Segment
Android Wear

11. Getting ready for the trends
- Project Management and Collaboration
Tools

12. Revision Control System (RCS)

13. Revision Control System (RCS)
Great tool to organize everything in one place
Keep track of what, when, who, and why
changes occur, via issue trackers
Enable collaborations & peer reviews
Standard collaboration procedures eg. pull
requests, resolve conflicts and code merging

14. Continuous Delivery
Corey Scott, GDG Devfest
November 2013

15. Continuous Delivery

16. Not just the mobile stuff
Web technologies should be adopted by mobile
developers too.
Can be any type of web technologies eg.
Spring Boot, Grails, Ratpack, Ruby on Rails,
Python Flask, etc.
Easier to roll out.

17. DO EVERYTHING!
Master web backend and mobile just so that
you can understand the underlying process of
RESTful web services.
Standard data transportation formats eg JSON

18. Web Backend Trends
Microservices
PaaS eg. Heroku and Openshift, Bluemix
perhaps?

19. DEMO
https://github.com/cheah/git-demo