James Harmon
Android Trainer and Consultant
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”.
Presentations
Android Workshop
9:00 AM MDT
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.
Android for Tablets
1:30 PM MDT
Update: We'll be using Android Studio and Gradle for this workshop
The smartphone has been the current platform of choice for Android development but we are now in the “year of the tablet” and it is time to upgrade your skills. Even though you think you know Android programming, you still need to learn the unique techniques for developing for tablet.
We'll analyse the UI patterns important on tablets (like Action Bars). And you'll learn how to use the specialized classes (like Fragments) that were created especially for tablets.
The following topics are included in this presentation:
The Tablet Marketplace
Tablet UI design
Optimizing layouts for larger screens
Dips, Sips and pixels
Action Bars
Fragments
Side Navigation
3rd Party Libraries
Android for Tablets
3:15 PM MDT
Update: We'll be using Android Studio and Gradle for this workshop
The smartphone has been the current platform of choice for Android development but we are now in the “year of the tablet” and it is time to upgrade your skills. Even though you think you know Android programming, you still need to learn the unique techniques for developing for tablet.
We'll analyse the UI patterns important on tablets (like Action Bars). And you'll learn how to use the specialized classes (like Fragments) that were created especially for tablets.
The following topics are included in this presentation:
The Tablet Marketplace
Tablet UI design
Optimizing layouts for larger screens
Dips, Sips and pixels
Action Bars
Fragments
Side Navigation
3rd Party Libraries