{"id":6314,"date":"2025-09-20T23:45:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pokecon.jp\/job\/?p=6314"},"modified":"2025-09-20T23:45:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:45:31","slug":"first-time-experience-at-droidkaigi-2025-by-david-santos-pairs-engineering-sep-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pokecon.jp\/job\/6314\/","title":{"rendered":"First time experience at DroidKaigi 2025 | by David Santos | Pairs Engineering | Sep, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/p>\n
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Assisting for the first time to an Android conference<\/p>\n

Introduction<\/h2>\n

I want to start by saying that this was my first time attending an Android conference in person. I had always followed them online, watching the recorded sessions. So, for this article, I would like to focus more on my personal experience and impressions, rather than diving deep into the technical details.<\/p>\n

I would like to highlight the variety of events available over the two days. These activities made the conference feel more dynamic and fun, offering plenty of opportunities to interact with others. Some of these included stamp collecting, a nail art session, a Japanese festival (Matsuri), an after-party featuring a \u30de\u30b0\u30ed\u89e3\u4f53\u30b7\u30e7\u30fc (tuna carving show), and various themed chat spots for mingling.<\/p>\n

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Listing and briefly explaining every presentation I attended would make this article too long. Instead, I\u2019ve decided to pick up the ones I found most interesting, offering my impressions and highlighting any technical aspects that could be applied to our work at Eureka.<\/p>\n

09\/11<\/h2>\n

Learning Large-Screen Support from the Ground Up \u2014 Development Insights from a \u201cLarge screen differentiated\u201d-Certified App-<\/a><\/h3>\n
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As seen in the recent behavior change for apps targeting Android 16 or higher, displays with a width of 600dp or more will ignore orientation, resizability, and aspect ratio restrictions. This clearly shows Google is pushing developers to support large screens, turning what was once a \u2018nice-to-have\u2019 into a \u2018must-have\u2019 feature.<\/p>\n

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With Android apps now running on a variety of devices (such as phones, tablets, foldables, desktops, cars, and TVs) and windowing modes on large screens (such as split screen and desktop windowing), developers should build Android apps that adapt to any screen and window size, regardless of device orientation. Paradigms like restricting orientation and resizability are too restrictive in today\u2019s multidevice world.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s important to note that Google doesn\u2019t require a premium large-screen experience from the start. Instead, they offer three tiers of support<\/a> allowing us to choose the level that best fits our use cases, development schedule, and business goals:<\/p>\n