Android Masters Finals

We held the finals of Android Masters on October 23, 2015 at PLDT Innnolab. Congratulations to the winners of this year's Android Masters!

Our winner for the Games Category is Space Voyage from Team B, De La Salle University Dasmariñas (Games Category).

The Productivity/Utility Category winner was Crime Chase from JaguarTech, University of the Cordilleras.

Thanks to our judges, sponsors, volunteers, and participants who joined Android Masters 2015!

Android Marshmallow Workshop

Android 6.0 Marshmallow has already started rolling out to devices. Have you updated your apps for it? We are a conducting a workshop on October 21 to help you run and test your apps on Android Marshallow. We're bringing some devices running on Android Marshmallow. Please bring your machines (with Android Studio or your IDE and your app/code that you will test).

The Android Marshmallow Workshop will be held at Bitspace Makati (6/F PDCP Bank Centre, Rufino cor. Leviste St., Salcedo Village, Makati City) on October 21 (7:00 to 9:00 in the evening)

If you are interested to attend, please fill up our registration form here.

GDG DevFest Philippines 2015

We held our GDG DevFest Philippines on October 16-17, 2015.

On the first day which was focused on Android & VR, there were hands-on workshops on Android 6.0 Marshmallow, Android Basics, Firebase, Material Design, and Google Cardboard.

The second day of was focused on Web. Participants joined hands-on workshops on Polymer, Firebase, Material Design Lite, HTML5 Game Development. There was also a Gemma Kit workshop on Day 2.

Thanks to everyone who joined us! Check more posts and updates about GDG DevFest Philippines 2015 at http://devfest.gdgph.org. See you in our next events!

Android Masters Preliminary Judging

Last night was the preliminary judging for Android Masters held at PLDT Innolab. Android Masters is a collegiate inter-school Android app development challenge.

The judges for the Productivity/Utility Category were:

• Darth Vidar, Mobile Client Software Development Manager, Voyager Innovations, Inc.
• Ely Apao, UX Manager, OLX Philippines
• Mike Pua, Software Engineer, Orange & Bronze Software Labs Inc.

The judges for the Game Category were:

• Luna Cruz, Creative Director and Co-founder, Altitude Games
• Paul Pajo, Developer Evangelist, SMART Communications
• Philip Cheang, Co-founder and Creative Director, By Implication

And the finalists are...

The five finalists for the Game category are Healing Touch from Asia Pacific College, Kuvio from University of Cordilleras, Silang Revolt from Asia Pacific College, Space Voyage LITE from De La Salle University Dasmariñas, and SYNC from De La Salle University Dasmariñas.

The five finalists for the Utility Productivity Category are Crime Chase from University of Cordilleras, ShareZone from De La Salle University-Manila, StimuBrain from University of Cordilleras, Universal Presentation Remote Controller (UPRC) from PHINMA - University of Pangasinan, and XYZbeta from Polytechnic University of the Philippines.

Below are all the entries to the Android Masters competition:

The finals will be held on October 23. If you want to join and watch the pitching and the app demos, register at http://androidmasters.gdgph.org.