Android Workshop
Tuesday, 9:00 AM MDT - WINDSOR
Learn Android development from the ground up. We’ll start with the SDK and the Android Studio IDE and build, test, and deploy applications on both emulators and physical devices.
Several examples will be provided that cover a range of topics from basic activities to the SQLite database to accessing RESTful web services.
Workshop Requirements
This session is a workshop. Please come prepared.
If you wish to code along with the demonstrations, please have a laptop (any OS is acceptable) and download:
Android Studio, along with the SDK (https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html)
Java Development Kit, version 6 or 7. The software works on JDK 8. Specific details are found on the download page for Android Studio.
About Kenneth Kousen
Ken Kousen is a Java Champion, several time JavaOne Rock Star, and a Grails Rock Star. He is the author of the Pragmatic Library books “Mockito Made Clear” and “Help Your Boss Help You,” the O'Reilly books “Kotlin Cookbook”, “Modern Java Recipes”, and “Gradle Recipes for Android”, and the Manning book “Making Java Groovy”. He also has recorded over a dozen video courses for the O'Reilly Learning Platform, covering topics related to Android, Spring, Java, Groovy, Grails, and Gradle.
His academic background include BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I. He is currently President of Kousen IT, Inc., based in Connecticut.
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