Course Description
Language of Instruction:English|Category: Computer Applications: IT & Computers; Blogging and Social Media: Business & Professional
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. This 6-week online course continues where part 1 of Developing Android Applications with Java left off. You'll learn hands-on how to build an Android Twitter App - how to use OAuth, access the Twitter APIs, and how to post photos to Twitter - as well as the ins and outs of Android's features. Did we hear you say, not another Twitter client? Well, you can never have too many Twitter clients, as the market has already proven. We'll use a very comprehensive and useful library called twitter4j to do the heavy lifting for us, but there will be plenty of lifting left to do. We'll walk you through setting up sign ins, creating a public timeline, making sure your app is responsive and giving it style to stand out from the flock. Finally, for those times when 140 characters isn't enough, you'll extend your Twitter client to also post photos to the popular Twitpic image service. By the end of this course you will learn how to use Eclipse and the Android ADT plugin to develop and debug your own Twitter client for Android.
This course will be useful for:
- Entrepreneurs who want to get their hands on some programming practice
- Job seekers and graduates
- Programmers looking to add another skill to their portfolio
What’s included in this course:
- 6 LIVE online classes + access to class recordings
- Course timings: Classes will be held from Monday to Friday between 6 PM - 9 PM
- Course videos, files and documents you can download
About course instructor:
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.