Course Outline
- Introduction to the Android ecosystem
- System architecture layers and the NDK
- The role of the Dalvik Virtual Machine
- Exploring the Android SDK and associated development utilities
- Utilizing the Eclipse IDE and ADT plugin
- Configuring and using the Android Emulator
- Core components: Activities, Services, Content Providers, and Broadcast Listeners
- Implementing intents and intent filters
- Evaluating the structure of an Android application
- Understanding the Android manifest file
- Managing application permissions
- Designing interactive activities and user interfaces
- Structuring views and layouts
- Incorporating UI widgets
- Processing user events
- Implementing lists and data adapters
- Creating menus and dialog boxes
- Database management and Sqlite integration
- Leveraging Content providers for data sharing
- Interacting with on-device sensors
- Building location-aware applications
- Utilizing the Telephony API
- Implementing Broadcast Receivers
- Responding to System Broadcasts
- Retrieving network-based resources
- Managing concurrency with threads in Android
- Ensuring application responsiveness
- Deploying applications to Google Play
Requirements
Candidates should possess prior experience with an object-oriented programming language, such as Java, C++, C#, Smalltalk, or PHP5.
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.
