What Every iOS Developer Needs to Know about Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference
Get a recap of what you should know about Facebook’s 2014 F8 conference as an iOS developer! By Ryan Nystrom.
Overall Experience
It was obvious that Facebook put a lot of effort into organizing this year’s F8 conference. There were a ton of amazing displays including an Oculus VR experience and a huge centerpiece with dimensional projections, shown below:
Facebook even created an F8 app so attendees could get some basic information on the conference and build their own session schedule. Once you created your personal schedule, the app would send you a push notification reminder when a session was about to begin.
The conference lanyard had some sort of embedded RFID to scan people into rooms; I’m assuming this was for the purpose of getting feedback from attendees.
The F8 conference badge.
The F8 conference badge.
All in all, F8 used technology in some really cool ways.
I have to send out a huge thanks to Ashley Smith who pieced a lot of the conference together!
Closing Thoughts
From the keynote to the swag bag, from Diplo to meeting the Paper team, I had a blast at this year’s F8.
I’m really excited about the commitments Facebook has made to the developer community, especially the overarching focus on mobile integration. Thankfully, Parse is continuing to innovate and grow, and it doesn’t look like they’ll be slowing down anytime soon.
The next F8 conference will take place March 25th, 2015 in San Francisco. I’d definitely recommend that anyone who is considering working with any part of Facebook in their apps should make it a point to attend.
I now have a new tools I need to play around with, new people I can call friends…and a lot of sleep to catch up on. :] I hope you enjoyed this recap, and I hope to see you at the next F8!