Taming Mobile

There are many challenges facing developers when it comes to mobile; user experience, performance, device fragmentation, handling offline status, performance, security and much more. This track focuses on solutions and tools to help developers manage these challenges in an increasingly mobile-driven world.

Day of week:

Thursday

Location:

Grand Ballroom - Salon C

Host:

Holly Schinsky

Presentations

The State of Speech Recognition on Mobile

10:40am - 11:30am

By: Simon MacDonald
Developer at Graphite Software

Learn how you can use speech recognition effectively on mobile platforms. We'll discuss what is speech recognition, go over the current state of the W3C Web Speech API specification including which which vendor's have implemented pieces of the specification. Learn how to smooth over those inconsistencies and contrast this with the native implementation of speech recognition on Android and iOS. Live demo's on how to use speech recognition for dictation, querying the web for answers and translating English to other languages will be performed with full source code available after the presentation.

We'll go over the native options on Android and iOS and delve into the web options.

My mobile app only works on my phone? How to scale enterprise mobile apps.

4:15pm - 5:05pm

By: Cassandra Shum , Maria Gomez
Mobile Developer for web, IOS and Android -- Mobile Developer for web, IOS and Android

This session will discuss the different patterns and technologies that are needed to scale large enterprise mobile systems. We will cover topics that include handling network connectivity, data reliability and real-time communication, and how all of these concepts are tied with each other.

Optimizing Mobile Performance with Real User Monitoring

11:55am - 12:45pm

By: Brittany Young
Mobile Performance Optimization Expert

The performance of your mobile application has significant implications on user perception, engagement, retention and revenues. Yet, navigating the mAPM (mobile application performance monitoring) waters can be overwhelming with such a wide variety of metrics and tools available. When experiencing poor performance in an app, 89% of people say that the best thing developers can do, even more so than providing a refund, is fix the problem quickly. In this talk we’ll walk through a simple framework for identifying the performance metrics that matter most to your users. We’ll look at how analyzing common mobile performance blind spots significantly increases the efficiency of the development life cycle. Learning how to effectively illuminate performance issues you can’t test for, in real time, will decrease troubleshooting time and resources – enabling you to create a better experience for your customers.

Presentations

Mobile Tools Open Space

1:45pm - 2:35pm

Creating Native-Like Mobile Apps with AngularJS, Ionic and Cordova

3:00pm - 3:50pm

By: Christophe Coenraets
Developer Advocate focused on mobile at Salesforce

AngularJS, Ionic, and Cordova/PhoneGap are emerging as the go-to stack for building hybrid mobile applications. In this session, you will learn modern strategies and best practices to build native-like mobile applications with these frameworks. Using a real-life application as a case study, we will explore efficient solutions to common problems when building hybrid mobile apps, including native-like user experience, performance, modularization, effective touch events, Facebook and S3 integration, etc.

The State of Hybrid Mobile Development

5:30pm - 6:20pm

By: TJ Van Toll
Developer Advocate at Telerik, jQuery UI Team Member

Hybrid development, or the approach of building native apps using Web technologies, has gone through its fair share of highs and lows. But, despite high-profile abandonments from the likes of Facebook and LinkedIn, hybrid development continues to be used by a substantial number of developers. For instance, a VisionMobile 2014 study of over 7,000 developers found that “15% of app developers use HTML5 beyond the browser, via hybrid apps or HTML5-to-native tools.” PhoneGap touts that the library “has been downloaded over 1 million times and is being used by over 400,000 developers.” But what do those numbers mean for the future of hybrid? Is hybrid as a platform growing or shrinking? Is performance still a limiting factor for hybrid apps? In this talk we’ll attempt to answer those questions. We’ll look at where the hybrid ecosystem is today, and where it’s heading.