The document discusses an upcoming Android training workshop in the Philippines. It notes that the market for Android mobile applications is huge and growing rapidly. The workshop aims to teach Android development skills to attendees in an efficient manner through a combination of prepared materials, coding exercises, and reinforcement of key concepts. The workshop will cover introductory and advanced Android topics over multiple days and provide downloadable code samples. The goal is for attendees to learn Android development skills as quickly as possible through this hands-on, structured training approach.

2. Android + Training
+ Philippines

3. The job market for mobile applications is
already huge and is growing at an
enormous pace. People are using their
mobile devices more than they are using
their notebook or desktop computers,
and Android based devices are being
launched frequently.

4. As of May 2012, the number of apps that
have been created and released for the
android platform is
over 500,000 (source: DISTIMO: Google
Android Market). Considering that the
Google Playstore started late in 2008, in
a little over four years, there has been an
explosion of mobile apps.

5. While IOS enjoyed an early lead in terms of
number of apps, the IOS dominance is
no longer secured (source:TechCrunch:
Android overtakes IOS ...). It is plain to
see that the momentum of mobile apps
development is rapidly increasing. This
creates a demand for programmers on
the android platform. Excellent
opportunities await those who are early
and ready into this growing market.

6. There are many ways to learn android, you can
read lots of books voraciously then practice;
you can keep on reading tutorials available on
the internet then practice; you can attend
meetings of the local user groups, then
practice; you can sign-up for workshops
(hopefully this one) then practice some more.
A combination of one, some or all of these
things will ramp up your skills on android
development but the fastest way is to attend a
workshop because the materials have been
prepared coherently and designed
thoughtfully so that you can progress in a
methodical and time-efficient way.

7. The learning material was painstakingly
and carefully put together in a way that
will let YOU grow into the direction of skill,
the quickest possible time. The course
material was written using the following
philosophies:

8. Use of vocabulary - You need to be able
to talk about the things you are learning
and working on---either with your fellow
attendees or co-workers or people within
your on-line group. By stressing
vocabulary your mental handle on the
concepts increase rapidly

9. Cut the cruft, amplify what's important - The
more esoteric parts of android
programming has been downplayed.
The material focused on key areas that
are rich in concept and low on (less
important) code acrobatics

10. Idea recursion - some concepts are more
difficult than others. Some take time to
sink in. These more difficult concepts are
repeated throughout the workshop so
that they maybe reinforced and YOU
can remember them more effectively

11. Think like a programmer - To write a
program, YOU need to understand how
the algorithms works, see them in action
and debug them. The workshop will
force you to go through this workflow

12. The code samples used in the course
material will be available for download
as zipped files. They will also be publicly
available either via git or google-code
hosting so you can pull them into your
dev environment either via git or svn.

13. Course
contents

14. Introduction to the platform

15.  Key ConceptsBuilding blocks of an
Anroid app
 Android Activities
 Android Intents
 Android Broadcast Receivers
 Android Content Providers
 Android Services

16. Tools and other dev
instruments

17.  Programming basicsCreating basic user
interfaces - Using views and view groups
 Build Event driven apps
 Apps life cycle
 Learn Tabs and TabsActivity
 Use Android Intents (Implicit and Explicit)
 Handle screen rotations
 Icons
 Building menus

18.  Beyond basicsDatabase programming
(SQLite)
 Using logcat and adb for testing and
debugging
 Threads and AsyncTask
 Alerts
 Network programming
 2D and basic animation
 Using the camera
 Linkify
 Using the Preferences

19.  Which API level will we use
 We will use API level 8 (Froyo) and 9
(Gingerbread). As of 2.July.2012
Gingerbread and Froyo are the most
dominant versions of android in the user's
hands; 64% and 17% respectively.

20. Respectfully Submitted to
Prof. Erwin M. Globio, MSIT