Hi, Habr! As we promised, we post a photo and video report from the last event. Voronezh GDG continues the tradition and for the fourth year in a row DevFest is held to discuss the most important and relevant in the Google world. This year the conference was attended by more than 500 participants, which is almost twice as many as in the past . But as the organizers, as usual, were DataArt and VSU.

Meeting place can not be Changed

According to the established tradition, fans of Google-technology gather in the halls of the Voronezh State University .
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Of course, we did not depart from the other traditions of such events. Registration and gifts for guests:


Incendiary shows and spectacular experiences from the Creative Science team:



Original sweets for morning coffee:



Anyone could take part in a mental-game duel, having adapted a device on his head that captures brain activity. Oh, and hot battles took place on the stand of the “battle of telepaths”.



Fans of entertainment easier to take photos on the memory. With such iron proofs you will surely believe that you were at the GDG and were upgrading your skills:



Well, after the registration of guests and morning coffee - a couple of introductory words from the organizers ...


^{At the microphone - Dean of the Faculty PMM A.I. Shashkin}
... And rushed!

Reports

"Android Marshmallow - be ready"
The first speaker was the first Google Developer Expert in Russia - Denis Neklyudov. He dedicated the speech to Android Marshmallow and to all the new products that are awaiting mobile developers.



Download or watch the presentation separately from the video here .

"Google Apps for Work - automation experience"
After Denis, Alexey Isachenko, the leader of GDG Moscow, the founder of the Google Apps for Business community, took the stage. He talked about workflow automation (programmers rarely think about it) using Google Apps for Work .


Presentation separately.

“Custom View. We make fast, beautiful, clean "
Ilya Demidov, the leading developer of Tinkoff Mobile Bank, went straight to the practice and shared his experience in creating Custom View. Here is his presentation .


He also took a selfie from the stage:



Android Data Binding
Vadim Kotov, CTO Surf, speaks at DevFest is not the first time. This year, he chose a very relevant, but low-light topic - Android Data Binding.



Here is his presentation , and here is a good article on a similar topic.

Lunch and afternoon reports

Since we don’t have Instagram here, we’re not going to post photos of the feast. But we can show this: while the majority of the guests had dinner, the most persistent remained at the master class of Denis Neklyudov (@nekdenis) on Runtime Permissons.



Unfortunately, the master class was left overs, but you can familiarize yourself with other publications of Denis: 1 , 2 .

Three speakers spoke about Material Design. They have a common theme, of course, but the reports themselves turned out to be very different.

"How to use Google Material Design not to make bad interfaces"
Dmitry Provotorov, co-founder and executive director of Manufactura, Downtown.ru and Drez.ru, philosophically discussed the general approaches to working with MD. He told how to deal with problems in general in order to avoid common mistakes in practice.



Here is his presentation and visualization of one of the ideas of his report.

Material Design Light Review (MDL)
Alexander Kasheverov, a web developer at DataArt, researched the callus of many web developers - Material Design on the web. He told why MD in the web environment will feel no worse than on Android, and walked through Google's “killer Bootstrap” - Material Design Lite library.



Online presentation .

“Android Design Library. Implementing material-design »
Maxim Yudin, the Android timlid from Headhunter, knows that real experience is more useful than a thousand pages of theory, and therefore he shared his “live” experience of integrating Material Design into an already finished application.



Here is his presentation .

The theme of Material Design, of course, is topical (by the way, we now have a competition for it), but there are no less relevant issues: wearable electronics and the Internet of Things.

“Wearables, Smart clothes. Are smart clothes really as smart as people say? ”
Dmitry Scherbina from DataArt dedicated his speech to the “smart clothes” topic that was relevant after the last Google I / O. He told about the history of smart clothes, a real breakthrough in the industry, showed an interesting video and gave a forecast for the future.



Online presentation . And he really liked Cardboard:



"DeviceHive: IoT in Android"
Nikolay Khabarov, developer of embedded systems from DataArt and author of a series of articles on IoT, told how to turn an Android-smartphone into the heart of a “smart home”. Right on the stage, he controlled the lights and fans from the phone screen. Presentation .



Work is good, but you should not forget about rest. Serious technologies are used both in AAA-taytlah, and in casual toys for the smallest.

"Features of the development of 2D games in Unity on the example of the project" Masha and the Bear ""
Aleksey Pogodaev, Technical Director of KAMOD answered for gamedev at the conference. Alexey shared his experience in developing 2D games for Android using the popular Unity engine using the example of the Masha and the Bear project. Presentation .



“What does Google Life Sciences do and why does biotechnology expect a breakthrough?”
The last speaker was a person who seemed to be far from the programming profession - the doctor and editor of The Challenger, Dmitry Solovyov. His report was devoted to medical development in general and Google Life Sciences, in particular. For some guests it was the discovery that Google is engaged not only in search, mail and mobile OS, but also in such important things as medicine. Presentation .

Closing

At the lecture Dmitry Solovyov educational part is over, it is time to sum up. Of course, the most active participants in the conference did not go without gifts.



Thanks to everyone who participated in this Google holiday. See you next year.
For now, hold the balls.