Android Programming Codecamp

Please register at www.ctjava.org for this meeting.

Android is becoming a popular platform for building mobile applications. The workshop is made of two parts. In the first part of the workshop, you are going to build a few simple Android applications. The goal of this part is to get you exposed to all the steps involved in building Android applications. In the second part, you are going to explore other key concepts of Android programming such as - "UI Adapter", "Activity", and "Intent" to the point we have time

The attendees are expected to come with their laptops with Android development tools pre-installed as described in http://www.javapassion.com/tmp/android_stepbystep/#Exercise_0 Attendees are also expected to download the hands-on lab zip files that are available from the "Android programming" course website before coming to the codecamp.

Speaker

Sang Shin is the founder and chief instructor at JavaPassion.com, a popular learning site for Java developers. Before founding JavaPassion.com, he was the lead Java technology architect and evangelist at Sun Microsystems. He frequently gives talks on various Java technologies such as Java EE, Java SE, Web application frameworks, Web services and SOA technologies to worldwide developer audience. He also gives talks on "Ruby on Rails", JavaFX, and MySQL. As an adjunct professor, he also teaches software engineering courses in Brandeis university whenever he finds time. He currently teaches "J2EE programming (with Passion!)", "Ajax programming (with Passion!)", "Web services and SOA programming", "Ruby, JRuby, and Rails Development (with Passion!)", and "JavaFX programming (with passion!)" online courses. These online courses can be taken through http://www.javapassion.com. He is the co-author of the Advanced Computer that was published by University of Maryland in 2005