Course Outline
- Introduction to the Android operating system
- System architecture layers and the Native Development Kit (NDK)
- Understanding the Dalvik Virtual Machine
- The Android SDK and associated development utilities
- Configuring Eclipse IDE with the ADT plugin
- Utilizing the Android Emulator
- Core components: Activities, Services, Content Providers, and Broadcast Listeners
- Implementing intents and intent filters
- Analyzing Android application structures
- The Android manifest file
- Managing application permissions
- Managing activities and user interfaces
- Defining views and layouts
- Incorporating widgets
- Handling user events
- Working with lists and adapters
- Designing menus and dialogs
- Data storage and access using Sqlite
- Implementing content providers
- Leveraging device sensors
- Creating location-based applications
- Interacting with the Telephony API
- Broadcast Receivers in practice
- Processing system broadcasts
- Fetching network-based content
- Threading mechanisms in Android
- Building responsive user experiences
- Releasing applications to Google Play
Requirements
A solid foundation in object-oriented programming languages, such as Java, C++, C#, Smalltalk, or PHP5, 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.
