Marko Gargenta-Marakana
Marko founded
Marakana back in 2001 to help underprivileged youth, minorities, and inner-city kids learn web technologies and get ahead in life. So Marakana emerged with goal of
helping people get better at what they do professionally, focused on open source software training.
Marko is the developer of
Marakana Android Training series. He has taught Android for companies such as Sony-Ericsson, Qualcomm, Ericsson Canada, and many others. Marko is a co-founder of
San Francisco Android Users Group and regularly teaches
Android Bootcamp at Marakana.
In 2006 Marko Gargenta published
"PHP and MySQL By Example", a collection on PHP examples. The book was published by Prentice Hall, world's largest technology publisher and has been also translated to Spanish.
Marko Gargenta obtained his Bachelor of Mathematics Degree from
University of Waterloo (Canada's MIT) and has been developing in Java since 1996. He lives in San Francisco, California.
Track abstract - Mobile Solutions
Android for Java Developers
While Android programming is based on Java, there are some important philosophical differences and Android-specific constructs to consider.
Android for Java Developers is an action-packed, hands-on presentation that takes you through the anatomy of an Android application. The sample application includes most major Android building blocks (Activities, Intents, Services, Broadcast Receivers, Content Providers) to illustrate the philosophy of Android application development. It assumes basic Java knowledge.
Track abstract - Mobile Solutions
Android Internals: Learn how Android works
In this talk we take a step back from the Dalvik virtual machine (i.e. the Java SDK) and explore the often-overlooked (and somewhat poorly documented) Android Internals and NDK.
Marko Gargenta shows us the anatomy of Android system, how various parts work as well as how to use JNI and NDK to write our own native libraries to be called from our Android applications. We will learn how Android system starts up, what major pieces run as part of the C library, how each application is isolated from others, what they use to communicate between them.
Track abstract - Mobile Solutions
Android User Interface: A deeper look at how to use XML and Java to build a rich Android User Interface.
One of the main differences between Android and Java is its new User Interface set of libraries. In this talk we explore how to use the hybrid approach to developing user interface in Android. We'll see pros and cons of XML-based declarative approach and how to incorporate it with Java-based programmatic approach. You will see some basic concept of Android user interface and learn what's possible.
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