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Android Squared
Summary
Bob Lee and Eric Burke present Square, a card reader and its corresponding application used to read bank cards in order to receive payments through an Android device, showing how the magnetic stripe decoding works, presenting a point-of-sale API, and a library for persistence, REST communication and dialog management.
Bio
Bob Lee is the Android lead for Square. Before that, he was the Android core library lead at Google. He created Google Guice and led JSR-330 Dependency Injection for Java. Eric Burke is Square’s Android UI guru. He was formerly a Principal SE for Object Computing, Inc. He has written books for O’Reilly about XSLT, Extreme Programming and Ant.
About the conference
Strange Loop is a developer-run software conference. Innovation, creativity, and the future happen in the magical nexus "between" established areas. Strange Loop eagerly promotes a mix of languages and technologies in this nexus, bringing together the worlds of bleeding edge technology, enterprise systems, and academic research. Of particular interest are new directions in data storage,alternative languages, concurrent and distributed systems, front-end web, semantic web, and mobile apps.