March marked our first event with our new format, sponsors and pizza, which seemed to draw in quite a crowd.

Main event

• Introduction, what is mobile dorset including rapid fire introductions of everyone attending - (Alec Holmes)
• Guess the emoji™ - (Phillip Caudell)

News

• Apple watch
  • Purpose
  • Who’s it for
  • Other wearables and their approaches
  • Battery life
  • Talk on 3SidedCube’s docs - (Sam Houghton)
• Android 5.1
  • Round up of features and changes
• Cocoapods swift release
  • Swift support is now out of beta and available for use
  • Who uses Cocoapods
  • Alternatives
    • Swift frameworks
    • Git submodules
• Kotlin
  • Talk about what it is, how its pronounced - (Alec Holmes)
  • Code comparison
  • Live web tester
  • Documentation
  • Recommended for people familiar with Swift to intro to Android
• Game engine releases
  • Unity 5
  • Unreal Engine 4
  • Pricing

Mobile Dorset after hours

• Tech comparison iOS / Android
• Swift vs ObjC
  • Speed comparison
  • Current state of affairs
  • Xcode support
• Spying, CIA Xcode compiler injection
• UX
  • Good / bad apps
  • How to start doing it
• Current state of mobile
  • Moving too fast?
  • Lots of bugs introduced
  • Lots of long standing bugs
• Prototyping and design
  • Moving design further down the process and bring prototyping forward
• TDD / BDD
  • Red, green, refactor
  • Cucumber

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