Community in the AI Era: Obsolete or Essential?

AI is changing how we write code, search for information, and learn new technologies. As more of these tasks become automated, what keeps developer communities relevant? What do we still need each other for?

For years, the Android ecosystem has grown because developers learned from one another. We asked questions, challenged ideas, shared experiments, and collectively figured out what worked. But what happens when our first question is no longer asked to another developer? What happens when we're all getting answers from the same place?

This keynote explores what community means in the AI era. If AI changes how we learn, who creates the next best practices? If knowledge becomes a commodity, what makes a community valuable? And if Android was built by its community, what role will that community play in shaping what's next?

Practical Filament - Resheep your UI!

Let’s take a closer look at Filament, the real-time physically based rendering engine, and learn how to use it to build fun effects in our day -to-day UI.

Using Compose Multiplatform, we will explore the main Filament features, and how to use them to create some particle and material based UI effects and interactions. We will cover how to set up Filament, how to work with its material system, and how to use shaders and lighting to create simple effects that react to touch and animations. All of this rooted in practical examples, without diving too much into low level graphics code.

After this talk, you will have a better understanding of how Filament works, and how you can use it to create expressive and dynamic UI in your own projects.

Keep it fun, keep it animated! :)