Android Masters 2016 Finals

Android Masters, our collegiate inter-school Android app development challenge open to all universities and colleges across the Philippines, is now on its second year.

We received a total of 193 app entries from 45 schools across the Philippines. We have selected five finalists each per category (games and productivity/utility) who will be presenting their apps on November 19, 2016 at Natividad Fajardo Auditorium in De La Salle University Manila.

The five finalists in the Game Category are:

Top 5 (Game Category)

The five finalists in the Productivity/Utility Category are:

Top 5 (Productivity/Utility Category)

If you are interested to watch the presentations and support your school/team/apps, register now athttp://androidmasters.gdgph.org.

GDG Campus Roadshow: UE-Caloocan

GDG Philippines, in cooperation with UE-Caloocan's League of Information Technology Students, conducted a GDG Campus Roadshow at Multimedia Room 3A, Tan Yan Keee Building on August 5, 2016.

Juvar Abrera, GDG Philippines Creative Manager, introduced GDG Philippines to the attendees. Jomar Tigcal, GDG Philippines Community Manager, shares about various Google Developer Technologies that the students can use. Afterwards, there was a short break.

Photo from UE LITS

Jomar then talked about Android apps development basics and encouraged the audience to join Android Masters

Photo from UE LITS

If you are a student and would like to invite GDG Philippines in your school, fill up our event request form at http://eventrequest.gdgph.org You are also welcome to attend any of our events! Add GDG Philippines in your Google+ circles for updates about our next events.

Android Masters 2016

Ignite the Maker in You!

Registration is now officially open for the most awaited Android Masters 2016. Android Masters is a collegiate inter-school Android app development challenge. It is open to all universities and colleges across the Philippines. The main objective of the program is to encourage students to develop their creative app ideas and publish it to Google Play Store.

If you are interested to join Android Masters, you can check more details at our website at http://androidmasters.gdgph.org/

Android For Beginners Study Jams

Google Developers Groups Study Jams is a free series of global, community-run, in-person study groups. Last year's Study Jams focused on the Android Fundamentals Udacity Course. Check out the video summary below:

The second Study Jams series is presented in partnership with Udacity and will follow their Android Beginners curriculum. If you are interested in the Android for Beginners Study Jams, join the live Hangout on Air on February 5 (7-8:30 AM, Philippine Time).

This year, GDG Philippines will be partnering with schools/collleges/universities for the Study Jams. If you are a teacher/professor/instructor and you are interested for a Study Jams in your school, please send us an email at gdgphilippines@gmail.com (with the Subject "Study Jams"). If you are already a developer and you are interested in the Study Jams:

• Signup at https://www.udacity.com/account/affiliate/GoogleStudyJams, enroll in the Android for Beginners Course, and start with the lessons
• Join the global Google Developers Study Jams Google+ Community and GDG Philippines Study Jams Google+ Community and post your questions there.
• Create your final project and prepare to present it to us. We'll be announcing details on project presentation/awarding. It's better if you will be able to publish it on Google Play Store.

What will participants in the Study Jams get? Aside from mentoring from facilitators, they will also get completion certificates, schwags, discounts to the Android Nanodegree, and more if they will be able to present their final projects.

Android Dev Summit Extended

The inaugural Android Dev Summit was held on November 23-24 in Mountain View, California. Android Dev Summit was an event for Android developers to learn from technical sessions and network with the Android team. GDG Philippines will be organizing an Android Dev Summit Extended event on December 12, 2015 (08:00 AM to 05:00 PM). We will be watching the keynote and other videos from the Android Dev Summit. There will be short talks and hands-on codelabs afterwards. Bring your computers and Android devices. We will also be bringing a few phones (on Marshmallow) and smartwatches for the workshop and to test your apps.

If you are interested to learn and do hands-on codelabs, fill up the form here. We will be sending confirmation emails by December 5, 2015.

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.

Beginner Android Game Development Workshop

Join us on the afternoon of September 12 for a Beginner Android Game Development Workshop. This will be at Jose Rizal University. Please sign up at https://goo.gl/kLR4rf if you are interested to join and learn.

Check the Google+ events page at https://plus.google.com/events/cq5an65addacc8kd0eccltejkr8 and our Google+ page for updates.

Android Masters

We're launching Android Masters, a National Inter-School Android App Development Challenge.

Android Masters is a collegiate inter-school Android app development challenge. It is open to all universities and colleges across the Philippines. The main objective of the program is to encourage students to develop their creative app ideas and publish it to Google Play Store.

If you are interested to join Android Masters, you can check more details at our website at http://androidmasters.gdgph.org/

Android Fundamentals Study Jams

GDG Philippines is organizing a seven-week Android Fundamentals Study Jams on February-March 2015. This is part of the Google Developers Study Jams, free series of global, community-run, in-person study groups. The first jam session is presented in partnership with Udacity and will follow their Android Fundamentals curriculum. This series will be led by certified Google Developer Group facilitators.

For the GDG Philippines Android Study Jams, there will be a total of seven Saturday sessions. The first six sessions will be for the six lessons of the course (one lesson per week). Each session, we will have a short discussion of the lesson for the week (questions, challenges, etc) and participants can work on their individual projects. (For each week's sessions, participants should have already finished the lessons for the week.) The seventh session will be for the presentation of final projects.

Date: Every Saturday from February 07 to March 21
Time: 01:00 PM to 05:00 PM
Venues: See FAQ below

If you are interested in joining the Study Jams sessions, please fill up the form here. You would also need to join the Google Developers StudyJam Group on Udacity. Please start/continue with the Android Fundamentals Course and attend the Study Jams!

Frequently Asked Questions

Android Fundamentals Study Jam: Pre-Event Survey

GDG Philippines is organizing a seven-week Android Fundamentals Study Jams on February-March 2015. This is part of the Google Developers Study Jams, free series of global, community-run, in-person study groups. The first jam session is presented in partnership with Udacity and will follow their Android Fundamentals curriculum. This series will be led by certified Google Developer Group facilitators. Official sign up for the Study Jam will be through http://www.googledevelopersstudyjams.com/, which will open on January 2015.

In the Android Fundamentals Study Jam, there will be a total of seven sessions (6 sessions for the 6 lessons and one for final projects sharing). For each week's sessions, participants should have already finished the lessons for the week. Each session, we will have a short discussion of the materials for the week followed by discussions around the lessons (questions, challenges, etc). After that, participants will be working on their individual projects.

Details about GDG Philippines Android Fundamentals Study Jams will be announced soon. If you are interested in joining the Study Jam sessions, please fill up the form here.

Event Updates

GDG Philippines has been quite busy the past few days. We had a map up of the Department of Health (September 25), GDG Campus Roadshows in Asia Pacific College (September 27) and UP Diliman (October 4), and a Google Cloud Platform Meetup (October 2) with Melina Lee, Head of Google Cloud Platform Southeast Asia.

We still a lot of events in the next few days. Our next big event is GDG DevFest Philippines 2014, which will be on October 24, 2014. DevFests are community-organized events that provides the opportunity for developers to learn about Google technologies and developer products. Registration for GDG DevFest Philippines 2014 will be opened in the next few hours.

For updates about our next events, add our Google+ Page in your Google+ circles.

GDGPH-GSA Campus Roadshow: DLSU

GDG Philippines went to De La Salle University for the GDG-GSA Campus Roadshow on August 16, 2014. We organized two workshops (Google App Engine and Android) in cooperation with the DLSU Google Student Ambassador (GSA) Kimberly Yu.

In the morning, we had the Google App Engine Workshop with Joshua Guevarra.

Participants in the Google App Engine Workshop

The Android Workshop was conducted by Jomar Tigcal in the afternoon.

Participants in the Android Workshop

If you are a student and would like to invite GDG Philippines in your school, fill up our event request form at http://eventrequest.gdgph.org You are also welcome to attend any of our events! Add GDG Philippines in your Google+ circles for updates about our next events.

GDG Campus Roadshow: NU

GDG Philippines went to National University for our next GDG Campus Roadshow on August 9, 2014. In the morning, we had talks about GDG Philippines, Google Chrome, Google Apps, and Motivational/IT Career. We also had lightning talks of the topics for the afternoon workshops.

Wayne Manuel talking about Google Chrome

Celine Barrozo talking about Google Apps

There were three simultaneous workshops in the afternoon: Android, Google App Engine, and HTML5 Game Development.

Jomar Tigcal facilitating the Android workshop

Benj Tupas facilitating the HTML5 Game Development workshop

The participants of the Google App Engine workshop by Joshua Guevarra and Christine Balili

If you are a student and would like to invite GDG Philippines in your school, fill up our event request form at http://eventrequest.gdgph.org You are also welcome to attend any of our events! Add GDG Philippines in your Google+ circles for updates about our next events.

Android Wear Workshop

GDG Philippines organized our first Android Wear Workshop on August 2, 2014 in De La Salle University. Most of the attendees of the event came from provinces outside Manila (Antipolo, Rizal and Angeles, Pampanga).

We introduced Android Wear and demonstrated the LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live. After that, the participants went on to do the workshop.

For updates on our next events, add GDG Philippines in your Google+ circles.

GDGPH-GSA Campus Roadshow: Ateneo

GDG Philippines went to Ateneo de Manila University last July 26 for the GDG Campus Roadshow workshop organized with Cristine Chen, one of the Ateneo Google Student Ambassadors.

In the morning, we had the Android Workshop while in the afternoon, we had the Google App Engine Workshop. The workshops started with Wayne Manuel, GDG Philippines community manager, introducing what GDG Philippines is, and Cristine Chen, talking about the Google Student Ambassador program.

The Android workshop was facilitated by GDG Philippines community manager Jomar Tigcal. He started with a talk about the basics, followed by a hands-on session. After that, the participants started working on their apps. Three participants were able to present apps.

The participants in the Android workshop

In the afternoon, Wayne and Cristine introduced GDG and GSA respectively. Joshua Guevarra and Christine Balili, new GDGPH community managers, facilitated the App Engine workshop. They talked about the basics, followed by a hands-on session, and another mini-contest. After that, the participants started working on their apps and present them.

The participants in the Google App Engine workshop

If you are a student and would like to invite GDG Philippines in your school, fill up our event request form at http://eventrequest.gdgph.org You are also welcome to attend any of our events! Add GDG Philippines in your Google+ circles for updates about our next events.

Post-Google I/O 2014 Meetup

After returning from Google I/O and our short travel to the US, we organized a Post-Google I/O meetup on July 7. The resource speakers were Wayne Manuel and me. It was held at the Coins.ph office in Centerpoint Building, Ortigas Center, Pasig City.

The event was attended by more than 22 participants; some of them have joined the Google I/O 2014 Extended Manila.

It was a very informal meetup. We talked about the updates and announcements from I/O. We also demonstrated the Android Wear smart watches (LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live). The participants also played with the Cardboard.

For updates on our next events, add GDG Philippines in your Google+ circles. If you are interested in inviting us in your school or community, fill up our event request form at http://eventrequest.gdgph.org

Women Techmakers: Manila

GDG Philippines is organizing a Women Techmakers: Manila event on March 8. The goal of the event is to empower women to pursue their dreams and build tools that will change the world. There will be talks from women speakers, and two Code Labs in the afternoon (Dart and Android). Details of the agenda is available at http://womentechmakers.gdgph.org.

To signup for this event and/or to check details, visit the events website at http://womentechmakers.gdgph.org.