Java

Description The mobile app development has seen significant growth in the recent past, mainly due to the current computational power of modern tablets and mobile phones. The development of mobile applications brings a set of different challenges to the developer, such as where the application will run (hardware specifications) and how is the application performance when running (OS specifications).

Description This course gives a fundamental introduction to Java development of apps for the Android platform. The following topics will be introduced: The four fundamental Android components (activities, services, content providers and broadcast receivers) and intents Designing user interfaces using layouts and resources Working with files and databases on a mobile device The Android life cycles and thread model Using built-in camera, sensors and libraries/tasks e.