My Review of Android Open Conference 2011: Complete Video Compilation

Feb 1, 2012 in REVIEWS
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    Android Open Conference 2011: Complete Video Compilation
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  <a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023838.do" style="display: none;" class="url fn"><span class="fn">Android Open Conference 2011: Complete Video Compilation</span></a></div> 
  
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    <strong class="summary">Hours of Android enjoyment</strong>
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    By <strong>Jim Schubert</strong> from <strong>Richmond, VA</strong> on <strong><abbr title="2012131T1200-0800" class="dtreviewed" style="border: none; text-decoration: none;">1/31/2012</abbr></strong>
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    <span class="rating">5</span>out of 5
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    <strong>Pros: </strong>Helpful examples, Easy to understand, Accurate, Concise
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    <strong>Best Uses: </strong>Intermediate, Student, Expert
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    <strong>Describe Yourself: </strong>Developer
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    There are a lot of videos here. If you&#8217;re only planning to write apps for the market, you&#8217;ll most likely not be interested in the Embedded Android talk or Scala as a Java replacement. If you don&#8217;t work on iOS and never plan to, you can probably scan through Nick Farina&#8217;s talk (sorry, Nick). I found many of the videos worthwhile, whether they related to actual app development or the business of apps.<br xmlns:pr="xalan://com.pufferfish.core.beans.xmlbuilders.xsl.Functions" /><br />I also really enjoyed the keynotes. Tim O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s talk is probably my favorite because I&#8217;ve been saying the same things about many of Tim&#8217;s comparisons since I bought my first DROID a couple of years ago.
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    Even if you&#8217;re familiar with Android development, you should definitely watch the videos by Ken Jones. He shows the start of a Twitter client. Although he didn&#8217;t get very far in the actual coding, he will point you to the finished code. One aspect I loved about his talks is that he discusses a lot of best practices. Many tutorials you find online either don&#8217;t discuss best practices or don&#8217;t incorporate them.
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    Be sure to watch the Arduino videos. I hadn&#8217;t heard about Arduino before this video and I was very impressed. In fact, I watched the keynote video twice.
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    Honestly, there are some videos here that I&#8217;m not that interested in. That doesn&#8217;t detract from the overall usefulness of this video collection. If you&#8217;re 25% of the way through a video and it hasn&#8217;t hooked you yet, move onto the next because there is a plethora of information.
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