The document outlines the Android Study Jams initiative, which offers community-organized workshops for hands-on learning in Android app development using Kotlin. It details the curriculum, prerequisites, and skills students will acquire, including creating their first app and working with databases. Participants can earn badges, receive certificates, and gain exposure by showcasing their apps on social media.

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Android Jam 2021 - 2022
By GDSC TCET

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Why Android
Development

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Why Android Development
1. Huge device market share
1. Easier Entry to market
1. Job opportunity
1. Good community and resource to grow.
1. Lower Deployment cost
And many more…….

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Why Kotlin
Kotlin is a cross-platform, statically typed,general-purpose
programming language with typed interface.
Introduced by JetBrains in 2010.
It is free, open-source and and used by over 5.8 million
developer world wide.

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1.Concise
2.Interoperability
3.Feature-rich
4. Null Safety
5. Less error-prone
6.Coroutines
Features of Kotlin

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What are Android Study Jams?
Android Study Jams are community-organized study groups
for people to do hands-on learning for Android app development.
Sessions focused specifically on learning how to build Android apps
without prior Android experience.

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Android Jam
Pre-requisites
Android Basics in Kotlin Course
● Basic computer literacy
● Basic math skills
● Basic Knowledge of Object
orientated Programming.
Curriculum used

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What will you learn?
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1 Introduction to Kotlin
Create your first
Android app
Build a basic layout
Add a button to an app
Learn to code in Kotlin, a modern programming
language that helps developers be more productive.
Learn to create and run your first Android app in
Android Studio.
Learn the basics of layouts in Android by creating your
very own birthday card app!
Learn how to use classes, objects, and conditionals to
create an interactive dice roller app.
Badges
Earn badges
at the end of each
pathway!
Android Basics

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What will you learn?
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5 Get user input
Display a scrollable
list
Learn how to get user input within an app by building a
tip calculator app.
Learn how to display a list of text and images in an
app.
Badges
Android Basics
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Navigate between
screens
Add another screen to your app by adding a second
activity.
8
Intro to Navigation
Component
Learn how the Jetpack Navigation component makes
it easier to manage navigation within your app.

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What will you learn?
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9 Architecture
Components
Advanced
navigation examples
Learn good app architecture principles by building a
game app to unscramble words.
Combine what you’ve learned so far in a more
advanced app that demonstrates navigating
between multiple screens.
Badges
Android Basics
11 Coroutines Write code for more advanced and complex
Android apps.
12 Get and display data from
the internet
Retrieve and display images over the internet with
HTTP and REST.

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What will you learn?
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13 Introduction to SQL,
Room, and Flow
Use Room for data
persistence
Learn the basics of reading and manipulating data with
SQL, and how to create and use relational databases in
an Android app with the Room library.
Use the Room library to allow your apps to read
and write from a database.
Badges
Android Basics
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Learn when and how to use WorkManager, an API that
handles background work that needs to run regardless
of whether the application process is still running.
Schedule tasks with
WorkManager

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Opportunity From Android Study Jam
Basics Building of android apps
With android kotlin course
Solve a real life problem
- develop a collection of simple apps.
Get guidance to
optimise and deploy on Google Play
Opportunity to certify yourself
- start your android development journey

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Advantage of Android Study jam
1. Virtual badges on Google Developers profile
2. Certificate of Completion
3. Selected apps will be showcased in blog format or on social media
4. Scholarship for Associate android developer certificate
5. Mentorship from Google about your app

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Journey For Student
1
Introduction Learn basic
Kotlin
start to Learn
Android basic
Connect your
app to internet
add database to
your app
start contributing
opensource
OR
Make your own
app

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