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Android is the World Phone

Android is the World Phone

Android is the most popular operating system in the world and growing rapidly.

Emerging markets are where most of the mobile growth over the next decade will occur, but there are too few solutions that specifically target (or even consider) their needs. Building solutions that serve all of your customers will become increasingly more important.

We will explore emerging use cases, technical challenges, and social challenges you will encounter when serving these markets. You will walk away with guidelines to write globally inclusive applications in order to make a broader global impact.

How will you impact the next billion?

Corey Latislaw

August 27, 2015
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  1. Shipments will more than double between now and 2018 within

    key emerging markets, including India, Indonesia, and Russia. In addition, China will account for nearly a third of all smartphone shipments in 2018.
  2. Android One India, Pakistan, Turkey, Myanmar, the Philippines, Indonesia, Nepal,

    Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Egypt, Morocco
  3. Before I can walk in another person's shoes, I must

    first remove my own. Brian Tracy
  4. There’s a temptation to think, ‘Oh it’s east Africa and

    how different can these countries be?’ But it turns out they can be very different. In almost every sense. I mean, they speak different languages, they have different tribal [roles] ... Education level varies, the role of government ... all these things have implications on the software you build.” Thor Muller
  5. We make the world we live in and shape our

    own environment. Orison Swett Marden
  6. The goal of life is not to have our lives

    mean something to ourselves. The goal of life is to have our lives mean something to others. Simon Sinek
  7. Efficiency Tune your backend, fetch less data, create offline experiences,

    resilient when no data, make app faster, reduce APK size, better battery usage, find memory leaks, less images, ...