Interview: Damien C.

This interview is done with Damien Cavailles. So Damien:

1. Tell us a little bit about your average Android development day or your work day

Hello ! So I work at Tripndrive. We do carpooling for travelers. My task is to build solution that will make the experience of our users a bliss, especially when they are on the field. And this is an awesome purpose since there is a wide range of solution and we try a lot of them in a test-and-learn way of doing.

2. What would you say are the ingredients for a successful app?

I like apps where the UX follow a very simple : “If it’s useless, it’s useless”. This mean that I don’t like when there is cool animation blocking the user interaction. Even for a few milliseconds. I want the UI to be always talkative and responsive to the user. This means a lot of hard works most of the time, for very few changes in the end, but I love when things are smooth in the end !

3. What is your favorite part about working as an Android developer?

The community ! I do also iOS Development and others things. And Android is very different and great because of its community. There is a lot of different open-source solutions for a same problem, and a lot of people all around ready to help and supportive. This is great !

4. What your talk at Droidcon Greece will be about? What is the audience level?

I will give several talks !

The first one is about Android Wear. But more on the product side of the subject. It’s about understanding the usage, the core principle and the purpose of Android Wear. Maybe even talking about what it could become. I will also give you the keys to begin developing on Android Wear, the good way. If you should see only one talk about Android Wear, it’s this one !

The second one is about Android Auto. This is a subject I’m very fond of because of my job ! The talk is an exhaustive expose about what we know of Android Auto, where does it comes from ? What is it really about ! There is cool demos inside, with great music, it’s gonna rock !

The third one is about Bluetooth Low Energy. BLE is an entrypoint to the IoT world. It’s powering a lot of solution like Android Wear, iBeacon and many wearable like Fitbit. Even some Fridge, coffee machine and other cooking tool are now connected with it. The problem is that developing on this technology is not intuitive. Because it’s made by people who are more electronical engineers than developers. So this talk is about explaining you how it works under the hood. After this, you will understand why the BLE stack is working like this and you will be all set to become an expert on the subject !

All those talks doesn’t require to have specific experience. They are designed to be very accessible to a lot of people. The Android Wear and Android Auto talks are even interesting for non-technical person. I’m sure we are going have a lot of fun !

5. What are you most looking forward to at Droidcon Greece?

First of all, I’m especially looking to meet a lot of people ! This often what happen at DroidCon’s and that’s why I love to attend them

We are going to have a great time altogether ! See you there.

Find out more about Damien & his sessions here.