The Android Summit
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
ANDROID IS RED HOT IN EMBEDDED.
When Google bought the company Android and decided to turn it into an open platform for mobile phones, the frenzy was like money falling from the sky. To say that the Android platform has been hugely successful in mobile computing would be an understatement, as it’s now the #1 operating system for smartphones – even besting Apple’s iOS.
Now, embedded devs are embracing it too, using the platform to speed creation of embedded systems outside the mobile space. And why not? Its features are robust and well suited for low-power, Cloud-connected embedded systems. And of course, there are the Apps.
But this adoption requires some changes, both in Android and in the skills and mindset of embedded developers. As more and more projects become Android-based, this situation creates new job opportunities for existing devs who can upgrade their skills. And in embedded, Android also requires some knowledge of the underlying hardware, so everyone involved in Android – from the H/W types up to the App writers – need to come up to speed on all things Android. Yet except for a few professional trainers and consultants, there are few sources of information for embedded developers who wish to learn Android skills. Until now.
Why Attend?
This event will take an embedded hardware, software, systems, or Apps developer from zero to installing and using Android on embedded hardware. You will leave prepared to install the Android operating system on your hardware, and you’ll be equipped to either write, modify or evaluate and select Apps for your next development project.
Spearheaded by bona fide Android expert and technical author Karim Yaghmour, the one-day Android Summit is divided into two tracks: Applying Android to Embedded Designs and Building Embedded Android Apps: what you need to know now.
Track #1: Applying Android to Embedded Designs
Track Chair: Karim Yaghmour
CEO of Opersys and author of the books “Embedded Android” and “Building Embedded Linux Systems”
Karim J. Yaghmour is CEO of Opersys Inc. which specializes in Android and Embedded Linux training and development. Karim best defines himself as part serial entrepreneur and part unrepentant geek. In other words: he’s one of us!
He is the author of O'Reilly's “Embedded Android”, currently available as an Early Release, and “Building Embedded Linux Systems”, which sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide and has been translated into several different languages. Karim pioneered the world of Linux tracing by introducing the Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) in the late '90s. He continued maintaining LTT through 2005 and was joined in this effort by developers from several companies including IBM, HP, and Intel. LTT users have included: Google, IBM, HP, Oracle, Alcatel, Nortel, Ericsson, Qualcomm, NASA, Boeing, Airbus, Sony, Samsung, NEC, Fujitsu, SGI, RedHat, Thales, Oerlikon, Bull, Motorola, ARM, ST Micro. Karim’s contributions include relayfs and Adeos.
Karim has presented and published as part of a number of peer-reviewed scientific conferences, magazines and online publications including: Usenix, the Linux Kernel Summit, the Embedded Linux Conference, the Android Builders Summit, AnDevCon, the Embedded Systems Conference, and AndroidOpen.
Track #2: Building Embedded Android Apps: What you Need to Know Now
Related Android material at DESIGN West
The DESIGN West Conference includes 7 Summits that complement each other. All Access Pass holders can also find other Android material in the ESC Summit, and particularly in the four-session “Android Certificate Program”. You must have an All Access Pass, and you must be pre-registered in order to attend the Android Cert Program.
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All Access Pass Holders will Receive a 10" Android Tablet!
