Apple picker The one-day conference on mobile application development is becoming more and more popular. Last Saturday, more than 2015 enthusiasts arrived at mDevCamp 400, the largest Czechoslovak meeting of developers. They applauded the lectures on the Internet of Things and mobile security, but they showed the greatest interest in the experience of successfully running a mobile business.
"It's a good thing that we moved the conference to bigger premises again," states the main organizer of the event, Michal Šrajer, with a smile. mDevCamp was held for the fifth time this year. During that time, the mobile market has changed, but so has the audience of the conference. "While during the first years we also offered topics for beginner developers, and later advanced programming techniques, today most are more interested in things that you cannot find in textbooks - real experience with running a mobile business and what it entails," describes Michal Šrajer (at photo below).
At the peak of interest was Jan Ilavský, who revealed something from his kitchen as an independent game developer. There was also great interest in the Šaršon brothers, who described their journey to earning mobile applications.
Traditionally, the evening block of so-called lightning talks – short seven-minute lectures not only from the world of mobile development – was also a great success. In it, for example, Filip Hráček from Google shone with his humorous "lecture about mobile phones".
In addition to the best representatives from the Czechoslovak scene, guests from Great Britain, Germany, Finland, Poland and Romania also came. The foreign speakers were pleasantly surprised by how big an event there is in the center of Europe and how many enthusiastic mobile developers can gather here. Among the most popular, according to Michal Šrajer, was the talk about the design of mobile applications from a developer's point of view, which was presented by Juhani Lehtimaki. But topics related to the security of mobile applications were also a draw.
One of the announced innovations that the visitors appreciated was the opening of the source codes for the now legendary SMS Jízdenka application. It was one of the very first extended mobile applications created in our country. In the past, SMS Jízdenka collected a number of different awards and always served as a place for testing new technologies and procedures (very soon, for example, it gained support for Android Wear watches).
The organizers already have their heads full of plans for next year. "A clear shift that we are already planning will be an even greater opening to the world. We would like to invite not only a number of hitherto unknown international speakers, but also foreign visitors, so that even discussions over coffee can take on a new dimension," Michal Šrajer describes his ideas and adds that the exact form of the topics will be determined only by the shift that will take place in the mobile will take place in the world.
