Course Outline
- Introduction to the Android platform
- System architecture and the Native Development Kit (NDK)
- The Dalvik Virtual Machine
- The Android SDK and its associated development tools
- Eclipse IDE with the Android Development Tools (ADT)
- The Android Emulator
- Core components: Activities, Services, Content Providers, and Broadcast Receivers
- Implementing intents and intent filters
- Analyzing Android application structures
- Understanding the Android manifest
- Managing application permissions
- Managing Activities and user interfaces
- Designing views and layouts
- Utilizing widgets
- Handling user events
- Implementing lists and adapters
- Creating menus and dialogs
- Data management and SQLite databases
- Working with Content Providers
- Interacting with device sensors
- Building location-based applications
- The Telephony API
- Implementing Broadcast Receivers
- Processing system broadcasts
- Accessing network resources
- Managing threads in Android
- Creating responsive user experiences
- Deploying applications to Google Play
Requirements
Familiarity with object-oriented programming languages, including but not limited to Java, C++, C#, Smalltalk, or PHP5.
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.
