Course Outline
- Introduction to the Android ecosystem
- System architecture layers and NDK
- The Dalvik Virtual Machine
- The Android SDK and associated development utilities
- Eclipse IDE and ADT integration
- The Android Emulator
- Activities, Services, Content Providers, and Broadcast Listeners
- Leveraging intents and intent filters
- Deconstructing an Android application
- The Android manifest file
- Managing app permissions
- Implementing activities and user interfaces
- Designing views and layouts
- Utilising widgets
- Processing events
- Implementing lists and adapters
- Constructing menus and dialogs
- Data access mechanisms and Sqlite
- Implementing content providers
- Utilising device sensors
- Building location-aware applications
- Integrating the Telephony API
- Configuring Broadcast Receivers
- Handling System Broadcasts
- Retrieving network-based content
- Implementing threading in Android
- Crafting responsive applications
- Releasing applications to Google Play
Requirements
Familiarity with an object-oriented programming language 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.