Finally a live event again. 95 tech talks, 5 simultaneously for 3 days, 1200+ Android Developers, 87 Speaker by over 50 different companies participated.
Topics ranged from `new` technologies, e.g. Jetpack Compose, KMM to how to improve productivity, testing, build times, API design. In short: how to become a better developer.
This time with 25 Checkitos. My whole android developer team was there.
We even had our own booth which lead to a lot of interesting conversations what we do and how CHECK24 works.
I've participated on the GDE coding challenge. It's a pretty cool idea. over the course of the entire droidcon, everyone can participate and code for 15 minutes which can now be found here.
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