Course Description

Language of Instruction:English|Category: Java: IT & Computers

Mobile App Store revenues will triple from last year to $15 billion in 2011 and keep growing to an astounding $58 billion by 2014. ~Gartner Research

How much can an Android Developer earn per month? How about $13000 per month?

The Android platform is poised to take the mobile market by storm. A big reason is portability: you can use Android to build apps that work across multiple devices.

Use your Java skills to build mobile applications for the exciting new Android platform. In this dynamic 5-week course, you'll quickly get up to speed on the basics of Android development as you build a working app from concept to completion. You'll also learn how to use Eclipse IDE and the Android SDK to develop and debug Android applications.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Build resizeable user interfaces
• Build sophisticated applications using multiple activities
• Communicate between and within Android applications using Intents
• Create Services to represent behind the scenes aspects of your application
• Set up text input from the hardware or software keyboard
• Display scrolling lists and grids with custom layouts
• Learn to properly handle rotation
• Parse and display XML from RESTful web services
• Use AsyncTask to background long running work
• Display context menus and search dialogs with the hardware search and menu buttons
• Listen and react to touch events
• Take pictures and store them with the Camera
• Persist your application’s data using SQLite

Why should you enroll in this course:

• You will learn how to build Android apps for yourself or your business
• Building Android apps will increase exposure and incoming traffic for your business website
• Earn money as an entrepreneur with your app through in-app advertising
• Increase your employability by learning the hottest skill in the market

What’s in the course:

• 8 LIVE interactive classes
• Access to class recordings once the class is over
• Course videos, files and documents you can download
• All classes will be conducted in a 1 hour slot, Mondays to Friday, 6 pm - 9 pm

Course outline:

• Development Tools Using Eclipse, ADT, and the simulator
• Simple Android Activity Create a simple Android Activity using some basic view widgets
• Layout Specifying user interfaces in XML and interfacing with layouts in code
• AdapterViews Using Adapters to display custom ListViews and other AdapterViews
• Multiple Activities Create and coordinate multiple activities for multiscreen applications
• Rotation Learn about the Activity lifecycle, how to handle rotation and other configuration changes
• Options and Context Menus Display and interact with menus
• File System Read and write to the file system to save persistent Activity state
• Camera Taking and saving pictures –Touch Events Listening to touch events
• Dialogs Creating alert dialogs and custom dialogs
• GridView Displaying images in a grid –Search Showing and responding to the system search dialog
• HTTP Client and XML Fetch and parse XML data from web services
• Multithreading Using AsyncTask and Handlers to manage background tasks
• Services Using Services for behind the scenes tasks
• Unit Testing Use mock objects to test classes
• BroadcastIntents Use BroadcastIntents to communicate between Activities
• Notifications Send notifications to the status bar
• WebView Use WebView to include web content in Activities
• Location Use location service to track current location
• Custom View Subclass Creating custom view subclasses to customize drawing Advanced ListView Creating ListViews with different kinds of rows
• SQLite Using SQLite to save persistent application data

About the teacher:

Thomas Woodfin

Thomas Woodfin has been teaching programmers on how to build Mobile (Android and iPhone) and Facebook apps for 3 years now. His teaching style is based on the Socratic method. Thomas holds a Master’s Degree from University of Connecticut and a Bachelors degree from University of California, Berkeley. He also holds a Business Certificate from Columbia University. Thomas runs a Mobile and Facebook Apps development training company in New York.