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.

Firebase Dev Summit Live Viewing Party

The Firebase Dev Summit is a full day event for app developers that will focus on how to use Firebase with your apps.

GDG Philippines is hosting a live viewing party on November 7, 2016 from 03:00 PM to 9:00 PM. Venue is at Mozilla Community Space Manila, Makati City. If you are interested to join, register now at http://www.gdgph.org/firebase-live-viewing.

GDG DevFest Philippines 2016

GDG DevFest Philippines 2016 will be on October 2, 2016 at Samsung Hall, SM Aura Premier, Taguig City. GDG DevFests are large, community-run events that can offer speaker sessions across multiple product areas, all-day hack-a-thons, code labs, and more. GDG DevFest Philippines 2016 will bring you the latest Google technologies with the world experts, hands-on activities that will challenge your skills, and fun and exciting games!

Visit the event website at http://devfest.gdgph.org to check the speakers, mentors, and schedule.

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/

Progressive Web App Dev Summit 2016 Live Viewing Party

Google and the Chrome team will be hosting the Progressive Web App Dev Summit 2016 in Amsterdam on June 20th and 21st. The summit will be two days of talks, codelabs and access to the Chrome engineers to discuss the future of the web.

GDG Philippines will be organizing a live viewing party on June 20, 2016 (3:00 PM to 8:00 PM) at Globe Corporate Showroom, Valero Telepark, Makati City.

Registration is free but slots are limited. Signup now at https://goo.gl/plv7Lk if you would like to join us.

Google I/O 2016 Extended Roadshow

Google I/O is Google's annual developer conference, where they share the latest products and technologies. We're bringing the I/O experience to different cities Google I/O Extended Roadshow, a series of talks and workshops to help professional and student developers deep dive in the new technologies announced during Google I/O 2016.

The schedule for the I/O 2016 Extended Roadshow is:
June 25 - Subic
July 2 - Manila
July 9 - Dasmariñas, Cavite
July 10- Silang, Cavite
July 16 - Laguna
July 23 - Bulacan
July 29 - Palawan

We're still finalizing the agenda, registration, and other details. Please add GDG Philippines in your Google+ circles and check http://ioextended.gdgph.org for updates about the event.

Google I/O 2016 Manila Live-Viewing Party

Google I/O is Google's annual developer conference, where they share the latest products and technologies. Google I/O 2016 will be held in Mountain View on May 18-20. If you are not attending in person, you can get the I/O experience by watching I/O Live at the website or by attending Google I/O Extended events being organized by Google Developer Groups and other communities worldwide.

GDG Philippines is organizing I/O Extended Manila Live-Viewing Party which will be held at Globe Corporate Showroom, Valero Telepark, No. 111 Valero Street, Makati City. (Map: http://bit.ly/Map-ValeroTelepark) on May 18-19 (08:00 PM of May 18 to 05:00 AM of May 19).

Take the awesome opportunity to connect with other local talented developers and watch the keynote and other sessions live. We'll also have a short program before the keynote (more details to be announced soon). If you are interested to join this event, fill up the form here or below:

Add GDG Philippines in your Google+ circles for updates about this event and our other events.

GCP NEXT Extended

GCP NEXT is the largest gathering of the Google Cloud Platform community to explore the latest developments in cloud technology. GCP NEXT 2016 was held in San Francisco, California on March 23-24.

GDG Philippines is organizing a GCP NEXT Extended event this April. Stay tuned in for more details!

Update:Registration is now open!

Women Techmakers Manila 2016

GDG Philippines is organizing Women Techmakers Manila 2016 at Teresa Yuchengco Auditorium, De La Salle University Manila on March 19, 2016. The goal of the event is to empower women to pursue their dreams and build tools that will change the world. There will be invited talks from different women speakers who are excelling in STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, technopreneurs, code labs, and breakout sessions.

Stay tuned in for updates. Add GDG Philippines in your Google+ circles and check the events website at http://womentechmakers.gdgph.org for registration and other details.

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.

GDG Philippines in 2015

This year has been another busy year for GDG Philippines. We've had a lot of events and some of them are firsts of its kind.

Study Jams

For the first time, we organized a seven-week Android Fundamentals Study Jams on February-March 2015. This was part of the Google Developers Study Jams, free series of global, community-run, in-person study groups. The first jam session was presented in partnership with Udacity and will follow their Android Fundamentals curriculum.

Women Techmakers: Manila 2015

Our Women Techmakers Manila event this year was composed of 100% women speakers and around 80% women participants. We had more workshops this year (Python, Data Visualization, Hour of Code, Google Sites, and more).

Google I/O 2015 Extended Roadshow

Aside from the usual I/O Extended Viewing Party, this year, we brought the Google I/O experience to different cities. The Google I/O Extended Roadshow is a series of workshops and talks centered around the technologies announced during Google I/O 2015. We went to Pampanga (July 4), Manila (July 11), Batangas (July 18), Albay (July 25), Camarines Sur (July 26), and Cavite (August 1).

GDG DevFest Philippines 2015

GDG DevFest Philippines was composed of two days (for the first time) of hands-on workshops. Day 1 was focused on Android & VR (Android M, Firebase, Material Design, Cardboard) while Day 2 was focused on Web (Poymer, Firebase, Material Design, Gemma Kit, and more).

Android Masters

Android Masters is a collegiate inter-school Android app development challenge 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.

This is the first time we organized Android Masters. There were 72 entries in the Utility/Productivity and Games categories.

GDG HackFair Philippines 2015

GDG Philippines organized the first GDG HackFair in the Philippines this year. GDG HackFair Philippines 2015 is an interactive two-day event where App/Website/IoT projects were created using Google Technologies are given the opportunity to showcase their projects. Thirty teams were selected as exhibitors in the HackFair held on December 19-20.

In preparation for HackFair, we had a GDG Philippines HackTime on December 5. We had talks and workshops about Design, Arduino & Gemma Kit, Android Wear, Firebase, and Polymer.

Other Events

• Google Cardboard Hackathon and Google Cardboard 101
• Polymer Polytechnic Philippines
• Android Dev Summit Extended
• Android Marshmallow Workshop
• Beginner Android Game Development Workshop
• AngularJS Code Camp
• GDG Campus Roadshow: Philippine Christian University
• GDG Campus Roadshow: St. Paul University Quezon City
• GDG Campus Roadshow: UST

2016 Plans

Next year, we will be conducting Study Jams, Women Techmakers: Manila, Google I/O 2016 Extended (hopefully with another roadshow), GDG DevFest Philippines 2016, GDG HackFair/HackTime, and more talks and hands-on workshops on Android (and Android N!), Android Wear, Polymer, Firebase, Google Cloud, Material Design, and other Google technologies. For updates on our events, add us in your Google+ circles or check our website at http://gdgph.org.

GDG HackFair Philippines 2015

Join our year-end event and the first HackFair in the Philippines: GDG HackFair Philippines 2015. HackFair is an interactive two-day event where thirty App/Website/IoT that were created using Google Technologies are given the opportunity to be featured.

GDG HackFair Philippines 2015 will be on December 19-20, 2015 at the Mind Museum, Bonifacio Global City. Witness the Top 30 apps/website/IoT, listen to exciting speakers, and participate in fun activities. Register now at http://hackfair.gdgph.org

Update: Here is the list of the exhibitors for GDG HackFair Philippines 2015:

GDG Philippines HackTime

GDG Philippines is organizing the first GDG HackFair Philippines on December 19-20, 2015. Do you already have an idea but don't know how to start? GDG Hackfair Philippines 2015 presents Hacktime! Jumpstart your idea by joining GDG Philippines Hacktime, a whole day event where you can learn how to create a mobile app, web, IOT, robotics or a mix of the cool technologies and stuff.

See you at Hacktime happening on December 5 at Globe Corporate Showroom, Ground Floor, Valero Telepark, No. 111, Valero Street, Makati City (Map). Register now at http://hacktime.gdgph.org.

Agenda for GDG Philippines HackTime

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.

GDG HackFair Philippines

Do you have projects using Google technologies or do you want to develop something awesome? Do you want the chance to showcase them? GDG Philippines is organizing the first GDG HackFair Philippines on December 19-20, 2015.

Submit your mobile, web, or IOT projects on or before December 12. This is open to everyone: professionals and students (grade school to college students). We will be selecting projects in Health, Education, Productivity, Music, Arts and Culture, and Social Impact. Selected projects will be invited for the exhibit and mini-conference.

To help you in your projects, we will also do GDG HackTime events. In Manila, our HackTime will be on December 5. There will be talks about different Google technologies and time for hands-on development.

Registration for GDG HackTime and submission for GDG HackFair will be opened in the next few days. Add us on Google+ for updates.

Please check details about HackTime and HackFair at http://hackfair.gdgph.org.

Update: Application for GDG HackFair Philippines is now open!

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.

GDG DevFest Philippines 2015

Update: GDG DevFest Philippines 2015 has been moved to October 16-17.

GDG DevFest Philippines 2015 will be on September 28-29, 2015 (Venue TBA). Day 1 will be Android and VR and Day 2 will be on Web. GDG DevFest is a community-organized event that provides the opportunity for developers to learn about Google technologies and other developer products. There will be hands-on sessions especially on new technologies like Android M, Firebase, Material Design, Polymer, and more.

This event is free but slots are limited. If you want to attend, please go to http://devfest.gdgph.org/p/registration.html. Add our Google+ Page in your circles and check the events website at http://devfest.gdgph.org for details.