Ty is a regular community contributor, organizing events like Meatup and speaking at AnDevCon, Droidcon, and many other conferences around the world. He is an organizer of the SF Android group and volunteers teaching Android at Missionbit.;Prior to Twitter, Ty worked on the Evernote App and SDK, cofounded Recapp, a social sports news startup, lead the engineering effort on Powow Text Messaging on Android which was acquired by Sprint, and built Zagat for Android which was acquired by Google. Ty holds a B.S. in Software Engineering from the University of Texas. He lives in San Francisco.Tags: MobileTwitter: tsmithWebpage: tysmith.meSessions App to App: Designing local APIs on Android Building First Class Android SDKs