Course Outline
- Introduction to the Android system
- System architecture and the NDK
- The Dalvik Virtual Machine
- Exploring the Android SDK and developer tools
- Eclipse IDE with the ADT plugin
- Utilizing the Android Emulator
- Key components: Activities, Services, Content Providers, and Broadcast Listeners
- Implementing intents and intent filters
- Deconstructing an Android application
- Configuring the Android manifest
- Managing app permissions
- Developing activities and user interfaces
- Structuring views and layouts
- Integrating widgets
- Handling user events
- Managing lists with adapters
- Creating menus and dialogs
- Data persistence using SQLite
- Working with Content providers
- Leveraging device sensors
- Building location-based applications
- Utilizing the Telephony API
- Implementing Broadcast Receivers
- Handling System Broadcasts
- Fetching network-based content
- Threading in Android applications
- Ensuring application responsiveness
- Distributing apps via Google Play
Requirements
Applicants should possess prior experience with an object-oriented programming language, such as 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.
