Course Outline
- Android system overview
- Architectural layers and the Native Development Kit (NDK)
- The Dalvik Virtual Machine
- The Android SDK and associated development tools
- Eclipse IDE and the ADT plugin
- The Android Emulator
- Core components: Activities, Services, Content Providers, and Broadcast Receivers
- Implementation of Intents and Intent Filters
- Analysis of an Android application structure
- The AndroidManifest.xml file
- Application permissions
- Working with Activities and User Interfaces
- Views and Layouts
- Widgets
- Event handling mechanisms
- Lists and Adapters
- Menus and Dialogs
- Data access methods and SQLite database integration
- Content Providers in detail
- Leveraging device sensors
- Developing location-based applications
- The Telephony API
- Broadcast Receivers
- System Broadcast messages
- Accessing network-based data
- Utilizing Threads in Android
- Building responsive applications
- Publishing apps to Google Play
Requirements
A prior understanding of an object-oriented programming language such as Java, C++, C#, Smalltalk, PHP5, etc. 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.
