David Mandala offers an overview of HiKey. With HiKey, developers can easily use the latest Google AOSP SDK to create and debug new and existing peripheral drivers and perform kernel development and other tasks with fewer OEM encumbrances. HiKey can also be used to make VR applications with OSVR, robotic applications with ROS, and secure applications with ARM TrustZone.

Apache Cordova is one of the most popular frameworks for cross-platform mobile development. To build Cordova apps that perform well, its important to understand how to use the technologies in the most efficient ways. Doris Chen outlines what impacts "native performance," demonstrates how to measure mobile app performance, and shares practical tips for building faster Cordova apps.

Bulama Yusuf explains how he and his team introduced agile methodologies to build a mobile app with a cloud-based backend at an organization that previously used the waterfall method of software development (and had never built a mobile app before). Bulama outlines the challenges the team faced and the lessons they learned along the way.

Each year, 15 million people suffer strokes, and at least a fifth of those are due to atrial fibrillation, the most common heart arrhythmia. Brandon Ballinger reports on a collaboration between UCSF cardiologists and ex-Google data scientists that detects atrial fibrillation with deep learning.