Course Outline
- Introduction to the Android operating system
- System architecture and NDK integration
- Understanding the Dalvik Virtual Machine
- Utilizing the Android SDK and associated tooling
- Configuring Eclipse IDE with the ADT plugin
- Working with the Android Emulator
- Core components: Activities, Services, Content Providers, and Broadcast Listeners
- Implementing intents and intent filters
- Structural analysis of Android applications
- Configuring the Android manifest file
- Managing application permissions
- Managing activities and user interfaces
- Designing views and layouts
- Integrating widgets
- Implementing event-driven logic
- Handling lists and data adapters
- Creating menus and dialog interfaces
- Data persistence and SQLite databases
- Implementing Content Providers
- Leveraging device sensors
- Building location-aware applications
- Interacting with the Telephony API
- Implementing Broadcast Receivers
- Handling system-level broadcasts
- Retrieving remote network content
- Multi-threading strategies in Android
- Optimizing for application responsiveness
- Deployment and publishing to Google Play
Requirements
Candidates should possess prior experience with object-oriented programming languages, including but not limited to 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.
