Course Outline
- Introduction to the Android ecosystem
- System architectural layers and the NDK
- Dalvik Virtual Machine mechanics
- Android SDK components and development utilities
- Eclipse IDE integration with ADT
- Utilizing the Android Emulator
- Core components: Activities, Services, Content Providers, and Broadcast Listeners
- Implementing intents and intent filters
- Deconstructing an Android application structure
- Configuring the Android manifest file
- Managing app permissions
- Designing activities and user interfaces
- Structuring views and layouts
- Incorporating widgets
- Processing user events
- Managing lists and adapters
- Creating menus and dialog boxes
- Data management using Sqlite
- Implementing content providers
- Interacting with device sensors
- Building location-aware applications
- Leveraging the Telephony API
- Implementing Broadcast Receivers
- Handling System Broadcasts
- Consuming network-based resources
- Threading in Android applications
- Creating responsive and efficient user experiences
- Deployment strategies for Google Play
Requirements
Familiarity with an object-oriented programming language, such as Java, C++, C#, Smalltalk, PHP5, or similar, is required.
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.
