DroidKaigi 2026
Overview
One of Japan's largest Android conferences, organized by engineers for engineers. Three days of technical sessions, codelabs, and networking, with many international speakers making it a globally minded technical event.
Foundation
- Founded
- 2015
- Founder
- DroidKaigi Committee
Founded as a community-driven conference with the motto of an Android conference where engineers take the lead
Voices
Traveled from a regional city and put lessons on Compose internals and build optimization into practice right after (from Tori's report, in Japanese)
Nine Android engineers from TimeTree brought back practical insights from large-screen support to AI-driven testing (from TimeTree's report, in Japanese)
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