Google Android Programming Essentials


Course dates:

29th Mar 2009 - 29th Mar 2009
11th Jun 2009 - 11th Jun 2009
10th Nov 2009 - 10th Nov 2009

Price:

£220


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Open your mind to the endless possibilities and opportunities for creating connections, engagement and transformation for your business. Use cost-effective, measurable, accountable and mass personalised global digital marketing, with the first complete mobile phone software stack presented by Linux.

Understand what Android is, without the hype

Create Android user interface (activities)

Design and build a simple mobile application

Google Android is the first
complete, open and free mobile stack for mobile devices including an operating
system, middleware and key applications. Take a look a this exciting new
platform and learn abut some of the in and outs of developing rich mobile
applications using Android

Read more about Google Android Programming with an interview from tutor Patrick Ingham at http://www.opensourceforbusiness.co.uk/news/patrick-ingham-google-androi....

Recommended for:

Mobile phone application developers who want to see Android in action and begin to learn how to develop their own software. You should have basic level Java experience and knowledge of XML. Experience of working with Development Environments will be helpful.

You will learn how to:

Set up an Android Development Enviroment with Eclipse

Create and structure UI using XML

Integrate data structures into Interface Widgets

Use Intents and Activities 

Publish and Android Application 

 

Other people who have done this course say:

"It was an insightful, thought provoking and forward thinking course. Very informative and engaging, a perfect introduction to Android and Mobile phone applications programming in general!" Moshin 2009

Course outline:

Day 1

Lesson

Description

1

Introduction

Android overview

Android OS configuration and architecture

What Android allows application to do

2

Developing UI

Learn the basic widgets

Learn about the basic containers or laying out widgets

XML interface design

3

Intents and Activities

Introduction to intents and their role

What intents activities respond to by deafault

How to invoke another activity from your main one

4

Publishing Android App

Uploading and downloading apps

Working with the G1 phone (Hands-on Use)