For our November 30th event we are super fortunate to have not one, but two extremely distinguished Android engineers from Google share some of their wisdom with us.

Romain Guy (who spoke at our very first event) and Chet Haase (who presented on Flex at SF-JUG) generously offered to give their Devoxx 2K10 talks at our group. That's right, we get to hear these without having to fly to Belgium.

Android Graphics and Animations (1 hour)
Come learn about what Android has to offer to help you create compelling visuals and animations. This talk will show you advanced effects and present you what new APIs are coming in these areas.

Android UI Development: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques (1 hour)
Join Romain Guy and Chet Haase from the Android UI Toolkit team at Google as they talk about approaches for developing more effective user interfaces in Android applications. From performance to widgets to layout to animations, you'll learn tons of top techniques that will make your UIs totally terrific.

Do I have to say that you do not want to miss this event? I will be surprised if we don't "sell out" quickly, so RSVP sooner, rather than later. You've been warned :-)

Pizzas/drinks will be sponsored by the folks at Motorola. We'll be giving away an unlocked HTC Tattoo as well as other books and swag to the lucky winners.

About Romain Guy:
Romain Guy is a software engineer at Google. After spending years having fun with large UIs on the desktop and talking about them at conferences, in blogs, magazines and books, Romain decided to go for the small screen and joined the Android project, an Open Source operating system for mobile phones. He's now trying to make mobile phone UIs as fun and exciting as desktop ones.

About Chet Haase:
Chet is a graphics geek. He has worked across the industry on various platforms and technologies that put the pixels on the screen. He worked on the Java desktop library at Sun Microsystems, on Java2D, Swing, and animation. He worked on the Flex SDK team at Adobe, writing the effects framework for Flex 4. And he now works at Google on the Android project.
Chet is a frequent speaker at conferences such as Devoxx and JavaOne, on topics ranging from graphics to, well, graphics.
Chet is the author of the book "Flex 4 Fun," about the graphical and animated side of the Flex 4 SDK.
Chet is the co-author, with Romain Guy, of Filthy Rich Clients: Developing Animated and Graphical Effects for Java Desktop applications.
Finally, and irrelevantly, Chet also wrote the book "When I am King...", based on his comedy blog writings at http://chetchat.blogs....