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Introduction to Mobile Application Development using Android 

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Overview

Learn the basics of mobile application development using Android as the platform.

Duration

14 hours

Mode of learning

Online

Schedule type

Self paced

Difficulty level

Beginner

Credential

Certificate

Future job roles

CTFL, Senior Software Engineer

Introduction to Mobile Application Development using Android
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Highlights

  • Earn a Certificate of completion from Erasmus University Rotterdam on successful course completion
  • Offered by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • Earn a professional certificate upon successful completion
  • 36% started a new career after completing this course
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Introduction to Mobile Application Development using Android
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edX 
Course details

What are the course deliverables?
  • Describe the basic components of an Android application.
  • Define the lifecycle methods of Android application components.
  • Describe the basics of event handling in Android.
  • Describe the basics of graphics and multimedia support in Android.
  • Demonstrate basic skills of using an integrated development environment (Android Studio) and Android Software Development Kit (SDK) for implementing Android applications.
  • Demonstrate through a simple application the understanding of the basic concepts of Android.
More about this course
  • Join us on a gentle journey through the mobile application development landscape, using Android as the platform. Along the way we will learn to use Android Studio, the integrated development environment (IDE) for Android apps. This course is intended for students who have some prior programming experience. The course will introduce you to the basics of the Android platform, Android application components, Activities and their lifecycle, UI design, Multimedia, 2D graphics and networking support in Android.

Introduction to Mobile Application Development using Android
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Curriculum

Week 1 : The Android Platform: Introduction to the Android platform and the Android Studio IDE, Android components, Activities

Week 2: User Interface Design: Intents, Activity lifecycle, UI Design: Widgets and Layouts, UI Events, Event Listeners

Week 3: Graphics Support in Android: Drawables, Basics of Material Design, 2D graphics: Canvas/Drawing using a view

Week 4: Multimedia in Android: Audio playback and MediaPlayer, SoundPool

Week 5: Networking support: Basics of networking in Android, AsyncTask, HttpURLConnection

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Other: The course is interestingly taught and is fairly well detailed. Took this course a while ago but thankfully its learnings have stayed. The only thing that bugged me was peer reviews. Otherwise its a great course with a great teacher.
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