Android App Development – Zero To HERO
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I have been on training courses with Academy Class for most Adobe CS software and recently the Android App Development – Firstly the welcome there is always warm, with really friendly and helpful staff and instructors. The facilities are everything you need, with a choice of Mac or PC. The tuition is considered and logical, covering as much as you can reasonably take in within the given course duration. I'm truly grateful for the efforts of the people from Academy Class. I can't recommend them highly enough.
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I had a fundamental comprehension of the subject, yet the course was drawn nearer in the correct way and was helpful for me and the others that went to. I certainly turned out with more information of the subject and feel a great deal more positive about moving toward what I do.
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I undertook the Android essentials course which was seven days in length and truly incredible for becoming more acquainted with the fundamentals of the Android stage. The teacher was inviting, proficient and exceptionally supportive. I am unquestionably considering backpedaling to do the iPhone one.
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The course explains what Android™ is and how it compares to other mobile environments, the setup of the Android Eclipse-based development tools, the Android SDK, all essential features, as well as the advanced capabilities and APIs such as background services, accelerometers, graphics, and GPS. This complete hands-on course encourages students to learn by building increasingly more sophisticated and meaningful mobile applications for Android phones. By the end of the course, each participant will build their own complete Android application incorporating most of the key aspects of the platform.
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About this course
Day 1 – Introducing Android
Day 2 – Architecting an Application
Day 3 – Working with the Hardware
Day 4 – Building Data Driven Applications
Day 5 – Preparing, Testing, and Publishing
This course is designed for software developers interested in designing, creating, deploying, and testing applications for the Android mobile phone platform. It is valuable to both novices and gurus, who already have experience in developing mobile applications for other platforms.
Basic Java programming skills, or equivalent OOP language experience.
Reviews
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I have been on training courses with Academy Class for most Adobe CS software and recently the Android App Development – Firstly the welcome there is always warm, with really friendly and helpful staff and instructors. The facilities are everything you need, with a choice of Mac or PC. The tuition is considered and logical, covering as much as you can reasonably take in within the given course duration. I'm truly grateful for the efforts of the people from Academy Class. I can't recommend them highly enough.
← | →
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I had a fundamental comprehension of the subject, yet the course was drawn nearer in the correct way and was helpful for me and the others that went to. I certainly turned out with more information of the subject and feel a great deal more positive about moving toward what I do.
← | →
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I undertook the Android essentials course which was seven days in length and truly incredible for becoming more acquainted with the fundamentals of the Android stage. The teacher was inviting, proficient and exceptionally supportive. I am unquestionably considering backpedaling to do the iPhone one.
← | →
Course rating
Recommended
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Philip G
Gina Amron .
Pamela Johnstone .
Ernest Fakudze
This centre's achievements
All courses are up to date
The average rating is higher than 3.7
More than 50 reviews in the last 12 months
This centre has featured on Emagister for 16 years
Subjects
- IT Development
- Testing
- Layout
- Android App
- Development
- APIs
- Material
- Animation
- Rendering
- Exporting
- Hardware
- Modelling
- 4DGraphics
- Zero To HERO
- Patterns
Course programme
Introducing Android
- Installing and configuring the SDK and tools
- The SDK components and the Android emulator
- Creating our first Android project
- The architecture of a project
- Separation of our layout and code
- Putting together a basic layout
- Adding image resources
- Text input and IME types
- Testing the application in the emulator and on device
- Modifying the icons to “brand” the application
- Explicit and implicit intents, and simple forward/back navigation
- Adding a splash screen
- Introducing lists and resource based XML
Architecting an Application
- Driving lists with more complex data
- Customising list item display
- Revisiting intents to produce a master-detail relationship
- Building a tab-based application
- Alert dialogs and toast
- Video and the media player
- Web views and links
- The mapping components and marking your destination
- Revealing content with the ViewFlipper
- Configuring custom menus
Working with the Hardware
- Finding out where you are – location
- Working out where you’re going – compass
- Which way is up – accelerometer and gyroscope
- Proximity and light detection
- Touch, pressure and gestures
- Near field communication
- Bluetooth and networking
- Utilising the network with HTTPClient
Building Data Driven Applications
- Introducing content providers
- Downloading and parsing data
- Getting to grips with SQLite
- Building a data-driven application
- Revisiting the branding of our application
- Layout XML and changing orientation
- Filtering the data and refreshing the view
- Broadcast receivers and notifications
- Custom list adapters and tags
- Loading images dynamically
- Interaction and toast
Preparing, Testing & Publishing
- Getting our application ready for publishing
- Signing the application
- Deploying to the device via the command-line
- Testing on the device
- Android Market and the new Amazon Appstore for Android
- Putting our application live
- Downloading the application
- Removing the application from the market
Android App Development – Zero To HERO