Personal schedule for Joe Bowser

Android is the leading mobile operating system. With its growing popularity and adoption, it is important to understand the security architecture of Android so developers can secure their data and also protect the privacy and confidentiality of their users. This session discusses the overall Android security architecture and talks about different security artifacts provided by Android. Read more.

Learn about the android.speech package and enable Speech Recognition and Text to Speech functionality in your Android apps today. This presentation will give a brief overview of the basics and best practices of Speech Recognition. Then we will quickly put together an application using Speech Recognition for input and TTS for output that can answer almost any question you put to it.  Read more.

Nitobi Software quietly lead a mobile web revolution creating and fostering the PhoneGap project eventually growing it to millions of users worldwide. In late 2011, Nitobi was acquired by Adobe Systems. This talk will go through the transition of small software consultancy working part time on a free software project growing into a small team in a large company dedicated to the same project. Read more.

Progressive Enhancement isn't important on the mobile web because all the browsers are Webkit right? Not so fast. Even among Webkit implementations events, css, and performance vary widely. We'll talk about the darker corners of the mobile web and show how jQuery Mobile can help you build sites that are reliable, accessible, and support more devices. Read more.

The mobile web is now the ubiquitious web. Modern web developers building mobile web applications need to consider the many different devices with many screen sizes and densities. This talk focuses on the different techniques on how to deal with this on the web, regardless of whether this app is a website or a native application built using a framework such as PhoneGap. Read more.