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
- 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
Photos and comments
Posted by Mobile Dorset on Thursday, March 19, 2015