Course Outline
- Introduction to the Android ecosystem
- System architecture and NDK
- The Dalvik Virtual Machine
- Android SDK and associated development tools
- Eclipse IDE and ADT
- The Android Emulator
- Core components: Activities, Services, Content Providers, and Broadcast Listeners
- Implementing intents and intent filters
- Deconstructing an Android application structure
- Configuring the Android manifest
- Managing app permissions
- Managing activities and user interfaces
- Views and layout design
- Working with widgets
- Event management
- Utilizing lists and adapters
- Creating menus and dialogs
- Data handling and Sqlite
- Content providers
- Leveraging on-device sensors
- Building location-based applications
- The Telephony API
- Broadcast Receivers
- System Broadcasts
- Retrieving network-based content
- Threading in Android
- Crafting responsive applications
- Releasing on Google Play
Requirements
A solid background in object-oriented programming languages, including Java, C++, C#, Smalltalk, PHP5, or similar.
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.
