Course Outline
- Fundamentals of the Android ecosystem
- System architecture and the Native Development Kit (NDK)
- Understanding the Dalvik Virtual Machine
- The Android SDK ecosystem and associated toolsets
- Integration with Eclipse IDE and the Android Development Toolkit
- Utilizing the Android Emulator for testing
- Core components: Activities, Services, Content Providers, and Broadcast Listeners
- Implementing intents and intent filters for component interaction
- Structural analysis of Android applications
- Configuration via the Android manifest
- Managing application permissions
- Managing application flow and user interfaces through activities
- Designing views and layout structures
- Implementing UI widgets
- Handling user events
- Managing lists and adapter patterns
- Creating menus and dialog boxes
- Data persistence using SQLite
- Implementing and consuming Content Providers
- Leveraging on-device sensors
- Building location-aware applications
- Interfacing with the Telephony API
- Implementing Broadcast Receivers
- Processing system-level broadcasts
- Fetching remote data over the network
- Utilizing multithreading within the Android framework
- Engineering high-performance and responsive applications
- Strategies for distributing apps on Google Play
Requirements
Applicants should possess a foundational understanding of object-oriented programming languages, 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.
