Android Workshop
Tuesday, 9:00 AM MDT - Cotton Creek
Spend a day learning how to develop native apps on the world's most popular smartphone platform. You'll get hands on experience developing a native Android app that will use most of the major components available in the framework.
The workshop will be taught using Android Studio with the new Gradle build system.
Use Android Activites to create the User Interface. Learn how to run background services. Create broadcast receivers to react to changes in the phones state. You'll even learn how to interact with the location services and display Google maps.
We'll take a deep dive into the details. You'll write code to interact with Android's built-in SQLite database. You'll add logging to your app and you'll even learn how to do unit testing in the Android environment.
Leave the class with hands-on skills and a working application that will be ready to publish to the Android Market.
Don't miss out on this excellent opportunity. Register now!
Please install Android Studio before arriving at the workshop.
Workshop Requirements
This session is a workshop. Please come prepared.
Important Note
We'll be using Android Studio for this workshop.
Required Software
Java (if you don't have it)
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/java-archive-downloads-javase6-419409.html#jdk-6u45-oth-JPRAndroid Studio
The website has version 0.8.14 - which can be upgraded to 1.0 once you install it.
http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.htmlAndroid SDK
Note: The SDK is a separate download from the Android Studio Bundle
Click on the link for “GET THE SDK FOR AN EXISTING IDE” to download the SDK
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.htmlLabs
Download all files
http://goo.gl/RjItQn
To make the best use of our time during the one day tutorial, it is very helpful if you can have the IDE installed
and working by the time class starts.
SDK Downloads
Also, make sure that you have installed the most recent versions of the following components using the SDK manager:
Tools
Android SDK Tool
Android SDK Platform-tools
Android SDK Build-toolsAndroid 4.4.2 (API 19)
Documentation for Android SDK
SDK Platform
Intel x86 Atom System Image
Source for Android SDKExtras
Android Support Repository
Android Support Library
Google Repository
Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator
Test the Install
Try to complete the first lab in the file “labs/Lab02-1.pdf”
Note: The Android labs must be run on an emulator or a real device. The most time consuming part of the workshop is getting the emulator running. Try to set up a working emulator before arriving.
Contact Info
Please feel free to contact me with any setup questions:
jamesharmon@gmail.com
About James Harmon
James is an experienced Java developer and has spent a majority of his career building large-scale online applications at Accenture and at several Web-centric consulting firms. He now specializes in training Android developers to be more productive by using the latest frameworks and techniques.
Jim has provided training and consulting for Fortune 500 companies and large private and governmental organizations including Motorola and the Blue Cross. He lectures extensively throughout the United States and Canada.
Jim is also the author of “Dojo: Using the Dojo JavaScript Library to Build Ajax Applications”.
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