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🚀 From hackathon spark to production success.

Not every prototype gets to shine, but some become full-fledged products.🌟

🟢🎥 Watch now: “The Journey from Prototype to Production: Brilliant Ideas Born at Hackathons”
🔗 https://youtu.be/q7yFmJUYWbU 👈🏻

In this talk from Droidcon Italy 2024, Luca Rossi, shares how a hackathon-born idea became Albus, a real chatbot deployed in production.

📌 Learn how to:
• Navigate from MVP to scalable solution
• Choose the right idea (hint: not always the one that wins)
• Balance speed, experimentation, and long-term goals
• Manage the shift from hackathon team to production delivery

🎤 Luca Rossi, Senior Android Engineer at Subito (Adevinta Group)

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🎤 Guess who’s coming to droidcon Italy 2025?

The stage is already taking shape… and yes, the Call for Papers is still open ✍🏻

Want a sneak peek at who’ll be leading the conversation next November in Turin?
👇🏻 Meet the first confirmed names:
🔗 https://it.droidcon.com/2025/speakers/

🎟️ Early Bird tickets? Still up for grabs.
🎤 Have something every Android developer should hear? It’s your time to take the stage at droidcon Italy 2025! 🇮🇹

📝 Call for Papers is open!
👉🏻 https://it.droidcon.com/2025/join-us-as-a-speaker/ 👈🏻

From cutting-edge AI to Compose best practices, performance tuning, tooling, design systems or team workflows... we want your insights. 🔍

📍 Join the biggest Android event in Italy and:
- Share your experience.
- Grow your reputation in the global Android community.
- Inspire hundreds of Italian and non-Italian developers.

Don’t just attend... be part of the program that drives Android innovation forward. 💡
💳 From plastic to code: here’s how developers can digitize any pass using PassKit 🗂️

🟢🎥 Watch now: “Working with PassKit: Making Physical Tickets & Cards Digital”
🔗 https://youtu.be/kqtSTHRUdcE 👈🏻

Moving from physical to digital passes doesn’t just save paper, it unlocks a smoother, smarter user experience. Whether it’s tickets, coupons, or boarding passes, PassKit helps you turn them into secure, dynamic digital assets.

In this droidcon Italy 2024 talk, you can learn:
How to structure and customize your own pkpass files
Signing & distributing passes securely
Real-time updates using PassKit’s WebService API
Integrating everything with Flutter for iOS and Android

🎤 Jonas Uekötter, Senior Mobile Engineer & Competence Lead

📺 Catch more Droidcon Italy 2024 talks here 👈🏻
📅 Mark your calendars: droidcon Italy is back on November 19 & 20, 2025!

Get ready for two days of talks, code, community, and everything Android, right in the heart of Turin 🇮🇹

🎤 New speakers announced
📣 CFP still open
🎟️ Early bird tickets live
🏃‍♂️ You know what to do 👉🏻 https://it.droidcon.com/2025/
🚨 Performance issues piling up and no time to spare...

Monitoring matters but what if your app is already live, the codebase is massive, and users are feeling the lag?

🟢🎥 Watch now: “How to Handle Application Metrics When the Deadline Was Yesterday”
🔗 https://youtu.be/tWHquP8L5w4 👈🏻

In this lightning talk from Droidcon Italy 2024, Software Engineer Alina Boshchenko shares tactics to help developers spot performance problems fast, even under pressure.

How to collect metrics on large, legacy codebases
Web & mobile frontend monitoring
Real-time alerts and cloud balancing
Proven tools & good practices for urgent observability

🎤 Alina Boshchenko, Software Engineer at JetBrains

📺 Catch more Droidcon Italy 2024 talks here 👈🏻
🎟️ Planning to attend Droidcon Italy 2025? Here's why now is the best time to grab your ticket.

👉🏻 Our discounted ticket prices are still live... but only until the full 2025 agenda drops.
If you already know that droidcon Italy is the event you can’t miss, this is your sign to secure your spot early. 🍿

💥 Even better:
Bring your team (6+ people) and get an extra 20% off your group order!

📅 November 19–20, 2025
📍 Turin, Italy
🔗 https://it.droidcon.com/2025/tickets-droidcon/

Why wait for the agenda when you already know the energy, insights, and Android excellence you’ll get at Droidcon Italy?
🔎 Ever wondered what Kotlin really looks like under the hood?

🟢🎥 Watch now: “Inside Kotlin: Disassembling Features into Bytecode”
🔗 https://youtu.be/Vk9_I0-FCXs 👈🏻

From safe calls to extension functions, Kotlin is packed with elegant abstractions, but how do these features actually translate into JVM bytecode?

In this deep dive from Droidcon Italy 2024, Andrea Cioccarelli walks us through what happens after compilation, revealing the mechanisms that make Kotlin expressive and performant.

📌 You’ll explore:
- How Kotlin constructs map to bytecode
- What really happens with safe calls, null checks, and Elvis operators
- The power behind reified generics, contracts, and delegation
- How Android Runtime (ART) interprets your Kotlin code
- Tools like dex2oat, OAT files & PGO explained

🎤 Andrea Cioccarelli, Student at Politecnico di Milano

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👤 Speaker reveal 3: From InvestiGITor to intergalactic adventures, Ben Kadel will be back at Droidcon Italia 2025! 🎤👨🏻‍🚀

Developer, open source advocate, ultimate frisbee player, and creator behind youtube.com/benkadel this year will present:
“Escape from Planet Regex – Kotlin to the Rescue” 🔍

📝 Regex can feel like an alien language, but what if mastering it could save the galaxy? In this epic Kotlin-powered space adventure, Ben will guide you aboard the USS Singleton, decoding the mysteries of regex with humor, storytelling, and solid technical strategies.

💡 You’ll discover:
- How to go from regex rookie to pattern-matching pro
- Kotlin APIs that make regex readable and safe
- Why learning through storytelling makes complex topics click
- How to survive hostile alien environments (and legacy codebases)

📅 November 19–20, 2025
📍 Turin, Italy
🎟️ Early Bird Tickets → https://it.droidcon.com/2025/tickets-droidcon/
🔧 Small tweaks. Massive results.

🟢🎥 Watch now: “The Impact of Micro-Optimizations on Large-Scale Apps”
🔗 https://youtu.be/dqay_EEzdsE 👈🏻

How much difference can a few microseconds make?
A lot, when you’re building for millions of users.

In this Droidcon Italy 2024 session, Damian Burke, Software Engineer at Meta, shares actionable insights and real-world examples of how micro-optimizations can dramatically improve the performance and responsiveness of large-scale Android applications.

📌 What you’ll learn:
How to identify and fix common performance bottlenecks
Why ANRs and frame drops happen and how to avoid them
Measuring execution time & reading p50 vs. p95 latency
Real examples from Meta: layout tricks, ViewStubs & more...
Best practices for continuous performance monitoring

🎤 Damian Burke, Software Engineer at Meta

📺 Catch all Droidcon Italy 2024 talks here 👈🏻
🔐 Think your app is secure? Think again...

🟢🎥 Watch now: “How I hacked your app, and more bedtime tales”
🔗 https://youtu.be/bfTITsydP3Y 👈🏻

From real-world hacks to OWASP mobile security standards, this talk isn’t just another checklist of best practices, it’s a wake-up call for every Android dev out there.

In this Droidcon Italy 2024 session, Riccardo Poffo, mobile cybersecurity expert, breaks down:
OWASP MAS: what it is and how to apply it
Shocking examples from actual pentesting sessions
Common developer mistakes that lead to vulnerabilities
A mindset shift: thinking like a hacker to write safer code

Whether you're building your first app or managing a global userbase, you'll walk away with actionable insights to secure your mobile apps against real threats, before someone else finds them first. 🕵🏻‍♂️

🎤 Riccardo Poffo, Mobile Cybersecurity Specialist

📺 Catch more Droidcon Italy 2024 talks here 👈🏻
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🤝🏻 Ready to put your brand in front of the largest Android community in Italy?

It’s your chance to:
🔹 Connect with 600+ Android devs, engineers & tech leaders
🔹 Showcase your technology
🔹 Recruit top mobile talent
🔹 Host tech sessions, or experience-driven booths
🔹 Position your company as a key player

📍 Turin, November 19–20, 2025
🎯 Let’s build something great together → https://it.droidcon.com/2025/join-us-as-a-sponsor/

Be part of Europe’s most established Android developer event
📢🟢 Sponsorships now open.
👤🟢 Speaker reveal #4 — We’re excited to welcome Pamela Hill, Kotlin Developer Advocate at JetBrains, to this year’s edition! 🎤 🇮🇹

She’ll take the stage with a talk that will help Android developers collaborate more effectively with their iOS teammates:
🔎 Talk: “Kotlin Multiplatform on iOS ‘Gotchas’”

Kotlin Multiplatform is powerful, but going from Android to iOS isn’t always smooth sailing.
In this talk, Pamela will walk you through some of the unexpected pain points developers encounter when adopting KMP for iOS and how to avoid them:
- Swift interop surprises
- Framework limitations
- Accidental memory leaks
- Architecture pitfalls

🛠️ You’ll walk away better equipped to collaborate with your iOS teammates and write better shared code.

👉🏻 Curious who else is speaking at #DroidconItaly 2025? Check out the first confirmed names → https://it.droidcon.com/2025/speakers/
📣 Final call, Android minds!

The Call for Papers for Droidcon Italy 2025 closes on September 15 – and the countdown is on.

👉🏻 Submit your session now: https://it.droidcon.com/2025/join-us-as-a-speaker/

If you've got a talk idea that could inspire, challenge, or empower the Android community, now's the time to hit submit. 🧠

🎤 Join the lineup of brilliant devs & engineers sharing the stage in Turin, Nov 19–20.
🟢 Ben Kadel takes Git investigations to the next level at Droidcon Italy 2024, the most entertaining talk you've ever seen! 🕵️‍♂️

How do you catch a bug hiding deep in your commit history?
Or scrub a secret that accidentally made it into your repo?

🔎 Talk: “Crime Scene InvestiGITor: How to Investigate Like a Pro!”
🔗 https://youtu.be/bSXU6ixbkrU 👈🏻

In this ultra-practical session, Ben, Senior Mobile/Platform Engineer, puts on his detective hat and shows you how to solve version control “crimes” with Git.

🧠 You’ll learn:
How to interrogate Git objects like a pro
How to track unreachable commits and secret leaks
The power of tools like index-filter, msg-filter, and git gc
How to debug broken code like a seasoned investiGITor

🎟️ Get your Early Bird Tickets for 2025, end soon...
📅 November 19–20
📍 Turin, Italy
🟢📬 Want to stay ahead of the game for Droidcon Italy 2025?

👉🏻 Subscribe now: https://it.droidcon.com/2025/newsletter/

Don’t miss a single update — subscribe to our newsletter and be the first to:
🔹 Discover new speaker reveals
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🧐 7 days left to become a speaker, but let’s talk about what you don’t expect when speaking at droidcon Italy 2025.

Sure, you’ll share your knowledge with a huge crowd of passionate Android developers... you know this.

But here’s what might surprise you:
🏙️ You’ll spend 3 days in Turin, one of the most beautiful and elegant cities in Italy.
🍷 You’ll enjoy a cozy pre-event dinner with your fellow speakers, tasting local dishes and sipping great wine.
🙌🏻 You’ll have the support of a dedicated events team ready to help with anything, so you can focus 100% on delivering your best talk and enjoying the experience.

At Droidcon Italy, you’re not just a speaker, you're part of an experience to remember.
📅 CFP closes in just 7 days → https://it.droidcon.com/2025/join-us-as-a-speaker/
🔎 Looking to connect with passionate, highly-skilled Android developers?
Droidcon Italy 2025 is where your next hires and your future team will be.

By sponsoring the most established Android conference in Italy, you get:
Direct access to the largest Android developer community in the country
Real conversations with engineers, team leads & indie devs
A space to show off your tech, culture, and open roles
A chance to stand out as a company that truly supports the Android ecosystem

🤝🏻 Sponsor info → https://it.droidcon.com/2025/join-us-as-a-sponsor/

🎯 Whether you’re hiring now or building awareness for the future, Droidcon Italy is where the talent is.
📍Turin — November 19–20, 2025
👤🟢 Speaker reveal 5 — Welcome Filipe Baptista, Senior Engineer at Volkswagen Group Digital Solutions, to this year’s edition! 🎤 🇮🇹

Filipe will take the stage with a talk that every Android developer working on large-scale apps should hear:
🔎 “Speeding Up on the Highway – MAN Driver App: A story of an app rewrite without Roadblocks Using KMP”

Rewriting a production app from scratch is never a light decision, especially when you’re racing against time and feature parity. 🛠️

In this talk, Filipe will share how Kotlin Multiplatform helped his team rebuild a real-world driver app for MAN trucks, fast and efficiently.

You’ll hear:
- Why KMP was the right choice
- The frameworks & libraries that helped avoid roadblocks
- The benefits unlocked by their new architecture
- The lessons learned along the way

👉🏻 Curious who else is speaking at Droidcon Italy 2025? Check out the first confirmed names → https://it.droidcon.com/2025/speakers/

📅 November 19–20, 2025
📍 Turin, Italy
🎟️ Get your ticket now... before prices go up!

The full AGENDA for droidcon Italy 2025 is coming in just a few weeks and with it, ticket prices will increase. 👀

👉🏻 Get your Early Bird ticket → https://it.droidcon.com/2025/tickets-droidcon/

If you already know that November 19–20 in Turin is unmissable, with world-class Android speakers, top-notch tech content, and an incredible dev community, this is your chance to grab your ticket at the best possible price.

Don’t wait for the agenda to drop. Lock in your spot now. 🍿
The Call for Papers for Droidcon Italy 2025 closes TONIGHT at 23:59 CEST.

If you've been thinking about submitting a talk, this is your last chance to join the speaker lineup and share your ideas, tools, stories, or lessons with the biggest Android community in Italy 🇮🇹

Don’t let the deadline pass you by.

🎤 Submit now → https://it.droidcon.com/2025/join-us-as-a-speaker/