GDG DEVFEST Bangalore 2014

GDG DEVFEST 2014

GDG Bangalore held this year's Devfest at the Royal Orchid hotel on the 8th of November. It was an invite only event and had 200 attendees.

They had a total of 6 main sessions and the flash talks had 5 speakers. The event started with a keynote by Amrit Sanjeev, Program manager at Google. He started with the Google communities and what Google has to offer. Along with that he took a quick session on what should developers do and remember in order to have the perfect product. He covered the areas of code quality, thinking long term, making money, art of selling, availability and most important paying attention to the developer agreement.

Shortly after was a tea break followed by the next session. This session was handled by Dushyant, GDG member. He talked about problem solving and focused on 4 main points in Polymer web components

namely, custom element, templates, shadow DOM and HTML imports. He showed a demo on polymer-project.org and mentioned products that we can engage in like polymer-project and hackademic.

Next was Material Design by Soham Mondol,Triveous and member of GDG blrdroid. He talked about the different design options that can be used in Android lollipop. He focused on all the new features and also described how to use the best layouts and options for one's design. He talked about the left to right placement, different types of buttons and arrangements, cards, floating action buttons and many more topics that have now been introduced in android L. His animated video's made it easy for the members to get a hang of what the designs are.

 After lunch Shreyas and Surabhi took over the stage and talked about choosing the right database. Database Management and using database is one of the most essential factors in one's application.

Next session was a longer session. It was handled by Mr Satish VJ. He talked about Angular JS. He coded a few JS codes along with the audience and talked about the various places where this is beneficial and how it's used. He was one of the speakers that hung with us gsa's while we were working. He has a unique way of selling himself. Being a photographer, he uses the pictures he's clicked  for his visiting cards. These cards are bite-sized and are very cute to look at.

Senthil Kumar took over and talked about IoT. The next big thing in tech. Internet of Things has kept techies intrigued and this was a session that every attendee looked forward to. His session was interactive and entertaining. He used a lot of animated videos and gave a small overview of what IoT is and what the hype is about. Augmented reality and animations are turning out to be the future of tech and this session was the best way to understand why.

At the end of it there were 5 speakers who signed up to talk about their start-ups and/or topics they find intriguing. At this point of time we GSAs and GDG members were busy organizing swags for the attendees and couldn't attend the whole session though I did get to attend a session by a college student named Srinidhi. The eventful day ended with each attendee getting his/her Google developer tee and many group photos. Here's a picture of me and the other GSAs and GDG memebrs.