Learning Android Application Development

Raimon Rafols Montane is a software engineer currently living in the Barcelona area. He has been working on mobile devices since the early stages, ranging from monochrome devices to the current smartphones. In all these years, he has worked in several areas: B2C/B2E/B2B apps, portals, and mobile gaming. Due to this broad experience, he has expertise in many technologies and, especially in UI, build systems, and client-server communications. He is currently working as an engineering manager at AXA Group Solutions in Barcelona, taking care of all the engineering and development processes, mobile application quality, and leading a small R&D team. In the past, he has worked abroad for Imagination Technologies near London and for Service2Media in the Netherlands. In his spare time, he enjoys taking part in hackathons, photography, and speaking at conferences. Raimon has won more than 40 international awards, including AngelHack Barcelona 2015, Facebook World Hack Barcelona, and he has secured second place at js1k 2016. He has been speaking about Java/Android performance and bytecode, Android custom views, and entrepreneurship in several conferences around the world.

Laurence Dawson is a software developer and an academic focused on mobile development. He received a PhD in 2015 from Durham University, developing efficient parallel implementations of algorithms for GPUs using NVIDIA CUDA with an emphasis on metaheuristics and image processing. Laurence currently runs his own mobile software development company and is also a guest lecturer at King's College London, teach software engineering modules. You can follow his projects on his GitHub page at https://github.com/laurencedawson.