Android mobile application development

Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. Cool apps that surprise and delight mobile users—built by developers like you—are a huge part of the Android vision. In this presentation we will explore many examples of android.

The Android SDK provides the tools and APIs necessary to begin developing applications that run on Android-powered devices. Cool apps that surprise and delight mobile users—built by developers like you—are a huge part of the Android vision. Google has also participated in the Android Market by offering several applications for its services. These applications include Google Voice for the Google Voice service, Scoreboard for following sports, Sky Map for watching stars, Finance for their finance service, Maps Editor for their MyMaps service, Places Directory for their Local Search, Google Goggles that searches by image, and My Tracks, a jogging application. Android phones that include the 'Google Experience' also have Google Search, Google Calendar, Google Maps, Google Navigation and Gmail integrated. In this workshop we will explore many examples of android.

This workshop will provide clear understanding how to build cool applications using Android, which will surprise and delight mobile users. We will explore following areas of android application development:

• Android Architecture • Android Activities and intents • Explore application resources, Views, Widgets, and Layouts • Data and Storage APIs : SQLLite • Developing Cool Application and making it ready as a product • Mobile Development Process • Selling Your Android Application: Making Money

About Rohit Bhardwaj

Rohit Bhardwaj is a Principal Software Engineer at Kronos Incorporated and has fifteen years of extensive experience in architecture, design and agile development. Rohit is an expert in application development in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), REST, Cloud Computing, RIA, Android, Web Services and SOAPUI. Rohit is Sun Certified Java developer for Java 1.5 Platform. Rohit did his Masters in Computer Science from Boston University and Harvard University. He can be reached at rbhardwaj@kronos.com or using Twitter at rbhardwaj1

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