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Instructor

Guy Cole

Guy Cole is a former UC Extension instructor w/years of classroom experience. He is also a freelance designer/developer and an author of several Android and iPhone applications (search for "digiburo" within the Android market or iTunes App Store). Guy's extensive bio includes companies such as Cray Research, Cisco Systems, Wells Fargo Bank, Barclays Global Investments, Motorola, DHL Airways and many smaller, less well known companies. Guy completed a BSCS from San Diego State and holds multiple industry certifications. You will thoroughly enjoy both his clear presentation style as well as his keen sense of humor!

Course Objectives

By the completion of the course you should be able to:

• Build and deploy your own Android applications.
• Understand how Android applications operate – application lifecycle, configuration files, intents, and activities.
• Have a good working knowledge of Android UI – components, layouts, event handling, and screen orientation.
• Have a solid understanding of threading, message queues and notifications.
• Have a working experience with database access API and CRUD operations.
• Have a practical experience with Location based services – Location Manager, GPS, and MapView.
• Develop a live Android application that serves as a working example of the topics covered in class.
• Understand Android networking capabilities, including Java Sockets, Java XML, and JSON.
• Understand the concepts of and have working examples of NDK, Text-to-speech and telephony API.

Course Location

What’s Required

To obtain the maximum return on your training investment it is necessary to have a laptop which can compile and exercise the supplied material. It is also useful (but not required) to bring an Android device and appropriate cable so you can exercise applications on live hardware.

Pre-requisites

You must have a hands-on experience with Java programming language. If you don’t have one, we recommend enrolling in the Java for Android course, which is generally scheduled immediately prior to this course.

What’s Included

• Course slides, notes and labs in printed and/or electronic format
• Continental breakfast, lunch, beverages and refreshments

Price

$995.00 USD

We accept payments by credit card (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover), by PayPal, or by purchase order.

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This session is no longer open for registration. For the alternative course dates please go to the course page or contact us if you cannot find the date that works for you.