Course Outline
- Introduction to the Android ecosystem
- System architecture and the NDK
- The role of the Dalvik Virtual Machine
- Exploring the Android SDK and associated development utilities
- Setting up Eclipse IDE with ADT
- Utilising the Android Emulator
- Core components: Activities, Services, Content Providers, and Broadcast Listeners
- Implementing intents and intent filters
- Deconstructing an Android application
- Configuring the Android manifest file
- Managing app permissions
- Designing activities and user interfaces
- Managing views and layout structures
- Incorporating widgets
- Handling user events
- Working with lists and adapters
- Creating menus and dialog boxes
- Data persistence using SQLite
- Implementing content providers
- Interacting with device sensors
- Building location-aware applications
- Leveraging the Telephony API
- Implementing Broadcast Receivers
- Responding to System Broadcasts
- Retrieving and processing network-based data
- Managing threads within Android applications
- Crafting responsive user experiences
- Preparing and publishing apps to Google Play
Requirements
A solid grasp of object-oriented programming languages, including but not limited to 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.