Course Outline
- Introduction to the Android operating system
- System architecture layers and the Native Development Kit (NDK)
- Insights into the Dalvik Virtual Machine
- Exploring the Android SDK and associated development utilities
- Utilizing Eclipse IDE with the Android Development Tools (ADT)
- Interacting with the Android Emulator
- Core components: Activities, Services, Content Providers, and Broadcast Receivers
- Implementing intents and intent filters
- Dissecting the structure of an Android application
- Managing the Android manifest file
- Configuring application permissions
- Designing user interfaces through activities
- Structuring views and layouts
- Integrating widgets
- Processing user events
- Implementing lists and adapters
- Creating menus and dialog boxes
- Handling data persistence with SQLite
- Implementing Content Providers
- Leveraging device sensors
- Building location-aware applications
- Utilizing the Telephony API
- Working with Broadcast Receivers
- Handling system-level broadcasts
- Fetching network-based resources
- Managing threading within Android
- Ensuring application responsiveness
- Deploying applications to Google Play
Requirements
Familiarity with at least one object-oriented programming language, such as Java, C++, C#, Smalltalk, or PHP5, is required.
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.
