Monday, August 17, 2015

MOOC Courses about Android Mobile Application Programming

An excellent free on-going introductory course to Android Apps Programming. It's a five-week course, and just starts the fourth week. The pace is medium. The conceptual explanation is blended with app illustrations, and is very easy to follow. It will be an ideal starting point for people interested to learn Android apps programming.

Course topics:
  • Android platform and the Android Studio IDE
  • Android components, Activities and their lifecycle, Intents 
  • UI Design: Widgets and Layouts, UI Events, Event Listeners
  • 2D graphics: Canvas/Drawing using a view 
  • Multimedia: Audio playback and MediaPlayer
  • Network support: AsyncTask, HttpURLConnection

A college-style introductory course to Android Mobile Programming. It's a four-week course, and will start a new run in September 2, 2015. The pace is pretty fast. The professor's lectures focus on conceptual explanation only. The programming part is covered in the homework. There are tons of concepts been introduced in a very short time, so it is not very easy to follow. However, the professor gives you very complete picture of the Android mobile programming. As you replay the videos a few times, you will enjoy the thoroughness of these videos. It will be a great place for people interested to learn the framework of Android apps programming.

Course topics:
  • Android Platform and Android Development Environment
  • Application fundamentals, activity classes, activity lifecycle and reconfiguration
  • Intent classes, permissions, and the fragment Classes
  • User interface classes

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