nitrodroid 2013 - closing report
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• It is Goa’s only Android Developer Conference.
• Nitrodroid is an annual 1-day event which has had 2
editions in Goa so far – 2012 and 2013.
• Nitrodroid 2013 hosted 223 Android developers from all
over the state and also other parts of India.
• The sessions took place in two tracks.
• The speakers flew in from all over the country to take a
total of 8 sessions and 2 workshops.
• 12 companies were present at the event.
ABOUT NITRODROID
AUDIENCE PROFILE & DEMOGRAPHY IN 2013
• Majority of participants were developers and aspiring student developers.
• This was followed by senior software engineers.
• A handful of audience consisted of corporate management professionals.
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5% 3% 2% Goa
Bangalore
Mumbai
Hyderabad
Other
AUDIENCE PROFILE & DEMOGRAPHY
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Students Developers SSE/SSD Others
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COMPANY PROFILES
Participants belonged to companies from various domains: • Software Product Development • Mobile App Development • Cloud • CMS & Website Development • ecommerce • Digital Marketing & Advertising • Gaming
MODES OF OUTREACH
• Pre-Nitrodroid Hackathon to build Android ecosystem
• Radio Station broadcast once a day – Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM
• Partnership with leading tech & event blogs
• Press release and content publishing in newspapers, print
media
• Social Media presence ( Twitter HashTag #Nitrodroid trended
for entire day of the conference )
• Publicity on our own Android news portal – Androcid.com
NITRODROID 2013 CONTENT SESSIONS:
• "The Evolution of Flyte" - Redesigning Flipkart's MP3 App by Rahul Gonsalves and Gaurav Lochan, Little Eye Labs. The talk was on the crucial role of design in app building.
• 'Infuse real time into your Android apps‘ by Aravind Krishnaswamy. It focused on adding real time elements to your app, to make it more elegant and powerful. He also demostrated a live chat app.
• 'How we built an app to simplify audio conference, in 24 hours‘ by Anenth Guru, co-founder of Ideophone.
• 'Understand the guts of an android app through reverse engineering‘ by Gaurav Lochan.
• 'Making sense of the sensors‘ by Mustafa Ali. He focused on various sensors used in Android devices.
NITRODROID 2013 CONTENT • Android app monetization by Amarnath Bhandari, Manager of
Product & Marketing, Adiquity.
• 'An introduction to android system development‘ by Siji Sunny, Director- ME Labs. It focused on the system level details of Android, including a special focus on Dalvik VM.
• 'Being an AppEntrepreneur by following Right App Life Cycle‘ by Ravi Vyas, Product Manager at Vserv.mobi.
• 'Android basics to Location API's‘ by Soham Mondal, Founder of Triveous and creator of Sky Recorder app.
WORKSHOPS:
• Android Basics hands-on session by Soham Mondal
• Creating Android apps using HTML5, jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap by Gaurav Singh
BENEFITS FOR SPONSORS AT NITRODROID
• Branding
• Opportunity to connect with developers
• Platform to pitch products and get feedback as well as leads
• Great place for marketing your products
Nityaa Labs launched their Android TV at Nitrodroid