Course Outline
- Introduction to the Android system architecture
- Architectural layers and the NDK
- The Dalvik Virtual Machine
- The Android SDK and associated development tools
- Eclipse IDE and the ADT plugin
- Utilising the Android Emulator
- Understanding Activities, Services, Content Providers, and Broadcast Listeners
- Implementing intents and intent filters
- Analysing Android application structure
- Configuring the Android manifest file
- Managing app permissions
- Managing activities and user interfaces
- Designing views and layouts
- Incorporating widgets
- Implementing event handling mechanisms
- Utilising lists and adapters
- Creating menus and dialogs
- Data access strategies and SQLite integration
- Working with content providers
- Leveraging device sensors
- Developing location-based applications
- Interfacing with the Telephony API
- Implementing Broadcast Receivers
- Handling System Broadcasts
- Accessing network-based content
- Managing threads in Android
- Building responsive user experiences
- Publishing 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.
