--- title: October meetup: GraphQL, and braving the Live Demo description: A recap of a New York Android developer meetup held at Facebook's East Village office. Kevin Schultz presented a condensed version of his Droidcon NYC talk on... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/october-meetup-graphql-and-braving-the-live-demo-rii4n97mg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: October meetup: GraphQL, and braving the Live Demo | daily.dev og:description: A recap of a New York Android developer meetup held at Facebook's East Village office. Kevin Schultz presented a condensed version of his Droidcon NYC talk on... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/october-meetup-graphql-and-braving-the-live-demo-rii4n97mg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/riI4n97mG.png og:image:alt: October meetup: GraphQL, and braving the Live Demo og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # October meetup: GraphQL, and braving the Live Demo **[Touchlab](https://daily.dev/sources/touchlab)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A recap of a New York Android developer meetup held at Facebook's East Village office. Kevin Schultz presented a condensed version of his Droidcon NYC talk on practical GraphQL usage in Android apps, sharing resources for getting started. Brent Watson from Percolate demonstrated a live conversion of parts of the Google I/O app from Java to Kotlin, arguing that adopting Kotlin carries very little risk and offers improved productivity. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#java](https://daily.dev/tags/java), [#android](https://daily.dev/tags/android), [#graphql](https://daily.dev/tags/graphql), [#kotlin](https://daily.dev/tags/kotlin) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/october-meetup-graphql-and-braving-the-live-demo-rii4n97mg) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"October meetup: GraphQL, and braving the Live Demo","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/october-meetup-graphql-and-braving-the-live-demo-rii4n97mg","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/october-meetup-graphql-and-braving-the-live-demo-rii4n97mg"},"datePublished":"2026-08-02T07:15:23.633Z","dateModified":"2026-08-02T07:38:55.414Z","description":"A recap of a New York Android developer meetup held at Facebook's East Village office. Kevin Schultz presented a condensed version of his Droidcon NYC talk on...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/28712ec126ce5042ee7419aa034ae1f4?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/28712ec126ce5042ee7419aa034ae1f4?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Touchlab","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Touchlab","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--CQ0u6GwB--/f_auto,q_auto/v1785654902/logos/touchlab?_a=BAMAMicg0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/touchlab"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/october-meetup-graphql-and-braving-the-live-demo-rii4n97mg","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"java,android,graphql,kotlin","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Touchlab","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/touchlab"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"October meetup: GraphQL, and braving the Live Demo"}]} ```