At our kick-off event, many of you asked about how to make your Android apps better and how to make your development efforts worthwhile... so you'll be happy to know that a panel of three mobile-industry gurus will address exactly those questions at our August 27th meetup!

Join a discussion of technical enhancements, product strategies, and marketing opportunities for Android application development. Jason, John, and David from Hands-On Mobile will be presenting a technical overview of ways to improve your application’s stickiness, boost adoption, engage users, and increase monetization and ROI. This will include a technical deep dive on implementing some of these key strategies and a discussion on best practices for Android from 8 years of traditional mobile experience. The session will wrap up with an open-discussion and one-on-one concept/app reviews, time permitting.

Like the last time, we'll be giving away free Android books from O'Reilly!

The venue is sponsored by Michael Tougeron from CNET Networks, who also happens to run the SF PHP Meetup. A great guy!

Food and drinks for this event will be sponsored by Hands-On Mobile. Thanks guys!

The rough agenda for the evening is as follows:
6:30pm - Arrive and network
6:50pm - Announcements
7:00pm - The start of the presentation
9:00pm - Wrap-up and book giveaways!

See you all on the 27th!

About the speakers
Hands-On Mobile is a premier mobile technology company as well as an award-winning developer and publisher of mobile entertainment.

Jason Tomlinson
Jason is responsible for all internal Android development at Hands-On Mobile, and serves as the engineering liaison with external partners - i.e. Google, Sprint etc.... Jason works with Android on a daily basis and has been coding for the platform since before the first handsets were released to market. One of his earlier works is the Amazed game for Android (video of the original).

John P. Joseph
John is the Senior Product Manager / Producer responsible for the Hands-On Mobile Developer Network (HDN), a program that helps developers successfully bring their visions to digital distribution marketplaces. While at Hands-On, John splits his time between finding ways to make HDN more interesting and valuable to indie developers, and working with members to make great games and apps. Prior to Hands-On Mobile, John had worked in the mobile space for 8 years, both around the world and in the US, at number of mobile startups and a mobile carrier.

David McCaman, Senior Director of Marketing, Hands-On Mobile
As Head of Marketing, Mr. McCaman oversees all marketing functions for Hands-On Mobile, including the Hands-On Mobile Developer Network (HDN), a program that creates partnerships with developers to bring new content to all platforms. He manages Hands-On Mobile’s marketing relationships with mobile operators, OEMs and license partners. Mr. McCaman also directs PR, research and advertising for all mobile games and applications.

Mr. McCaman has worked at Hands-On for over 4 years. He previously headed marketing for GamePro Magazine and has nearly 15 years experience in marketing and gaming. He holds a BA degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.