Course Outline
- Fundamentals of the Android ecosystem
- System architecture and NDK
- The Dalvik Virtual Machine
- Android SDK and associated development utilities
- Eclipse IDE and ADT plugin
- The Android Emulator environment
- Core components: Activities, Services, Content Providers, and Broadcast Receivers
- Implementing intents and intent filters
- Deconstructing an Android application
- Configuring the Android manifest
- Managing application permissions
- Managing activities and user interfaces
- Designing views and layouts
- Integrating widgets
- Handling user events
- Utilizing lists and adapters
- Implementing menus and dialog boxes
- Data management and SQLite
- Working with content providers
- Leveraging device sensors
- Building location-aware applications
- The Telephony API
- Broadcast Receivers
- System-level broadcasts
- Retrieving network-based resources
- Threading in Android
- Crafting responsive user experiences
- Distributing apps on Google Play
Requirements
Candidates should possess prior experience with object-oriented programming languages such as Java, C++, C#, Smalltalk, PHP5, etc.
Testimonials (7)
I really enjoyed our learning and experimenting with kotlin multiplatform.
Renzo Olivares Macias - Google
Course - Android Development
A great variety of useful topics are covered.
Tong Mu - Google
Course - Android Development
Basic introduction to Android and Kotlin.
Nan Yu - Google
Course - Android Development
It struck a good balance between depth of exercises and variety of exercises, within the time constraint.
Gray Mackall - Google
Course - Android Development
Lectures (David is very knowledgeable on Android)
Johnny Miller - FedEx
Course - Android Development
The detail given about each topic was really nice, he made sure we understood each topic before moving to the next.
Richie Wood - FedEx
Course - Android Development
breaking down the multiple services, actions, devices, etc into the component parts.
