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AD 101 | Android Quick Start for hobbyists

Duration: 3 days | Price: $3,500/person | Online course, instructor-led

Overview:

No prior Android development experience is required, only basic Java. Get up to speed with the basics as soon as possible, and create simple to moderately complex apps. The hands-on labs of this course will result in the creation of an app that you can use in your future projects, or show to your friends, or even publish to the Android Marketplace.

This course will teach you all about:

  • Android application lifecycle for Activity.
  • Creating custom buttons, backgrounds, and themes.
  • Creating various layouts using built in layout managers.
  • Using images and scaling images.
  • Creating menus.
  • Creating and customizing List Views.
  • Creating and customizing Map Views.

Prerequisites:

  • Experience in basic Java programming is required.
  • No experience in Android development is required.
  • You will need your own laptop running Win, Mac, Linux with approx. 250 MB of free disk space on c:\android.
  • Students seeking advance preparation for the course should visit: http://developerlife.com.

AD 201 | Android Comprehensive Professional Bootcamp

Duration: 5 days | Price: $5,000/person | Online or In-person course, instructor-led

Overview:

No prior Android development experience is required, only Java. Get up to speed with the basics as soon as possible, and create moderate to complex apps. By the end of the course, you will have created an app that you can use as a starting point for future projects, as well as show your management your newly develop skillset.

This course will teach you all about:

  • Activity, widget, and service lifecycle.
  • Testing, Performance tuning, and Scaling to large deployments.
  • Multithreading.
  • Networking and RPC.
  • Location, mapping & location-based services (eg: showtimes, wiki, weather, etc).
  • DPI independence & creating UIs for diverse display, form factor, input devices.
  • and much more.

Prerequisites:

  • Experience in Java programming is required.
  • No experience in Android development is required.
  • Experience developing graphical user interfaces in JavaSE will be helpful but is not required.
  • You will need your own laptop running Win, Mac, Linux with approx. 250 MB of free disk space on c:\android.
  • Students seeking advance preparation for the course should visit: http://developerlife.com.