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 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.

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.

GDG Campus Roadshow: UST

GDG Philippines went to University of Santo Tomas (UST) on May 2, 2015 for our next GDG Campus Roadshow. In cooperation with UST Society of Information Technology Enthusiasts (SITE), we organized a Polymer Workshop at UST Engineering Conference Hall.

Wayne Manuel, GDG Philippines community manager, talked about Polymer and facilitated a Polymer Code Lab.

AngularJS Code Camp

GDG Philippines, in cooperation with Devcon Philippines, Manila AngularJS Developer conducted an AngularJS Code Camp at co.lab xchange last April 25.

Wayne Manuel, GDG Philippines community manager, and Benj Tupas, GDG Bacolod Community Manager, facilitated the whole-day event.

Polymer Polytechnic Philippines

Polymer is a new kind of library, built atop Web Components, that enables developers to create their own encapsulated, custom HTML elements. With Polymer and Web Components, we can componentize the web! Polymer Polytechnic is an event series of in-person, community-run events to help developers learn Polymer. These events are run by local Google Developer Groups or other developer meetups all over the world.

Polymer Polytechnic Philippines will be on March 21 at De La Salle University. If you want to learn more about Polymer and join this event, fill up our registration form below

Women Techmakers Manila 2015

Happy International Women's Day!

This year, GDG Philippines is organizing another Women Techmakers event on March 28, 2015. 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, code labs, and breakout sessions from different women speakers.

If you are interested to join the event, check the registration, agenda, and other details at the events website (http://womentechmakers.gdgph.org). Aside from Manila, GDG Baguio and GDG Cagayan de Oro are also organizing Women Techmakers in their cities.

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.

Upcoming July Events

Chromecast/Google Cast Meetup

Learn more about Chromecast and Google Cast. Chromecast is a thumb-sized media streaming device that plugs into the HDMI port on your TV. Set it up with a simple mobile app, then send your favorite online shows, movies, music and more to your TV using your smartphone, tablet or laptop. Google Cast is a technology that enables multi-screen experiences and lets a user send and control content like video from a small computing device like a phone, tablet, or laptop to a large display device like a television.

Date: July 23, 2014
Time: 07:00 to 10:00 in the evening
Venue: Codeflux Inc., Penthouse (8th Floor) RCI Building, 105 Rada Street, Legaspi Village, Makati City
Google+ Events Page: https://plus.google.com/events/cjr7qqoa3tsdoqcv4enl5iboavg

Workshop Wednesday: Poymer

Join us for a meetup and code lab about Polymer. Polymer is a pioneering library that makes it faster and easier than ever before to build beautiful applications on the web. Polymer is built on top of a set of powerful new web platform primitives called Web Components. Web Components bring unprecedented composability, interoperability, and consumability to the web platform. The result is a monumental increase in developer productivity. Polymer also brings the implementation of Material Design to the web.

Date: July 30, 2014
Time: 07:00 to 10:00 in the evening
Venue: Globe Corporate Showroom, Valero Telepark, 111 Valero Street, Makati City
Google+ Events Page: https://plus.google.com/events/c1l8ae9ndh5srdtdq3lnhtq7ei0

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

Google Cloud Platform Days

GDG Philippines is organizing Google Cloud Platform Days this month. On May 17, participants can learn more about Google App Engine and Cloud Datastore while on May 24, the topics will be Google Compute Engine and Cloud SQL. There will be talks in the morning and workshop in the afternoon.

The events will be at Globe Corporate Showroom (Ground Floor, Valero Telepark, # 111, Valero Street, Makati City) [Map]. Slots are limited so if you are interested to join, signup on the registration forms you can find in the Google+ events page for each event.

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

GCDC Workshop Wednesdays

Google recently launched the Google Cloud Developer Challenge 2013. Google Cloud Developer Challenge (GCDC) is a "contest designed to motivate and reward entrants who develop applications that are based on Google's Cloud Platform that are original and relevant to the region in which they live".

Two of the winners last year are from the Philippines: Collabspot Notetaker and Events KIT. The deadline for the first round submissions is on November 21. Submission will be opened on October 22.

To prepare those who would like to join the competition, GDG Philippines is organizing a series of workshops called GCDC Workshop Wednesdays at (6:00-9:00 PM) at Globe Corporate Showroom (Ground Floor, Valero Telepark, # 111, Valero Street, Makati City) [Map]

Below are the schedule so far:

• October 2: Overview of GCDC (TBA) and Google App Engine (Edge Dalmacio, Senior Software Engineer at Orange & Bronze, co-founder of Haybol.ph) 
• October 9: Usability/Accessibility (Elymar Apao, Product Manager and Co-founder, UsabilityPhilippines.com and Mark Lacsamana, UI Engineer, Sulit.com.ph)
• October 23: Creative use of YouTube API (George Vanous, CEO and founder of any.TV)
• October 30: Google Maps Javascript API (Wayne Manuel)

We'll be announcing additional workshops soon. Signup forms will be available starting tomorrow. Add GDG Philippines Google+ Page in your Google+ circles for updates.

Update: Thanks to everyone who attended our #GCDC #WorkshopWednesdays. Here is the link to the Hangouts on Air of our workshops: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwmhCrOF65MEA4cTpYm1fHgJQWlU7U6IF. Good luck to your entries to the Google Cloud Developer Challenge 2013! Thanks also to Globe Labs for sponsoring the venue.