Interested in developing applications for the world’s fastest-growing family of smartphones?  Want to expand your job possibilities?  Ready to become an entrepreneur in the mobile industry?  Want to contribute to the world of open source?

Course Description

This course will teach you how to write Android applications using Java and the Android SDK. The goal is to get you through the learning curve of Android development: to give you the confidence and knowledge you need to jump into the mobile industry.

Topics we will cover include:

• The Android framework
• Application structure
• Eclipse & debugging
• UI, events, resources
• Activity, Service, Broadcast Receiver
• Intent messaging
• Security & permissions

This course is designed especially for MultiUni by Trần Vũ Tất Bình.

Schedule

This schedule may change at any time.

January 6 – 8

• Wed: 1&2. Introduce and install SDK, do “Hello World”, application structure, event handling. Discuss in G-Android forum.
  IT120-1. Giới thiệu về Android SDK
  IT120-2. Bắt đầu với Hello World
• Fri: 3. UI Design with layout, listview, listactivity. Discuss in G-Android forum.
  IT120-3. Thiết kế giao diện trên Android

January 11 – 15

• Mon: 4. Activity, Intent messaging.  Discuss in G-Android forum.
  IT120-4. Activity Trong Android
• Wed: 5. BroadcastReceivers. Discuss in G-Android forum.
  IT120-5. Broadcast Receiver
• Fri: 6&7. Service, media. Discuss in G-Android forum.
  IT120-6. Service

January 18 – 22

• Mon: 8. Asynchronous processing, alarms, notifications. Discuss in G-Android forum.
  IT120-8. Xử lý bất đông bộ
• App Widgets
• Do the “weather forecast” application
• Discussion about ideas and problems

Logistics

How?

This course is organized as a series of lectures and live coding sessions.  Students are encouraged but not required to follow along on their laptops during class and on their computers at home.  Classes will be in Vietnamese.

When?

Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays 7:30PM – 9:00 PM
from January 6 to January 22, 2010 (maybe January 25, 2010)

Where?

FPT-Aptech (sponsor for this course, but not affiliated with MultiUni)
46 Nguyen Van Thu, Q1, TP.HCM

Who’s teaching?

Trần Vũ Tất Bình - Android evangelist and passionate developer for over a year

How much?

Free

How to register?

» Apply here

How you can help

• Email this web page to your friends, or invite them to the Facebook Event for IT120.
• Post the flyer online or as hardcopy.

Sponsors for this course

(Sponsors are not affiliated with MultiUni which is an independent community-run organization)

Binh himself ☺