Android Certified Associate Developer (ACAD)

5-Day Instructor-Led Course | HRDF SBL-KHAS Claimable!

Android Developer Certification Overview

The Android Developer Certification workshop is a hands-on guide to designing and building mobile applications using Google’s Android open-source platform. The course explains what Android is, the Android SDK, all essential features, as well as the advanced capabilities and APIs such as background services and notifications. This complete hands-on workshop encourages participants to learn by building a real-life working application, which can serve as a basis for their future Android projects. By the end of the course, each participant will have a complete functional Android application incorporating most of the key features of the platform. Best of all, graduates who pass the examination will gain a globally recognized certification that will be a definitive step on your path to a career as a competent Android developer.

Learning Outcomes

Build your own applications for Android mobile phones
Understand how Android applications work, Android application components, manifest, and Intent
Design Android applications with compelling user interfaces by using and creating your own layouts using external resources
Use Android Web APIs for accessing Web Services such as Twitter, etc., in background services.
Take advantage of Android APIs for data storage and retrieval via user preferences, files and local databases.
Utilize the powerful Android APIs on maps, speech, Medias and hardware to build complex applications
Debug, test and deploy your own applications on Google Play Store

Who Should Attend & Prerequisites:

This workshop is intended for software developers interested in developing applications for Android mobile phones supporting popular Android versions. Prerequisites: All participants should know the fundamentals of object oriented programming using JAVA, and be familiar with basic Java SE 1.8++ (classes, control flow statements, instantiation, inheritance, initialization, assignment, method overloading & overriding, etc).

Course Outline

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN: DAILY SCHEDULE

Day 1

Overview
Different Roles in large scale Mobile application projects
Mobile App Development Lifecycle
Design Phase
Development Phase
Testing
Deployment

What is Android?
Android Architecture
Android Version and Distribution
Knowledge Check

System requirements
Workflow
Demo Development Environment Setup
Unpacking SDK ADT Bundle
Installing and Updating SDK
Creating AVD
Connecting a Mobile Device
Knowledge Check
Lab Activity 1

Demo App Development
Assigning ID
Size, Padding and Margins
Project Structure
Android Activity
Activity Life Cycle
Knowledge Check
Lab Activity 2
First App Source Code

UI layout
Android Common Layout
Demo Layouts and Widgets Manipulation
Knowledge Check

OnClickListener
Image View
ImageButton
EditText
CheckBox
Flipper
Knowledge Check
Lab Activity 3

Day 2

Selection Widgets
Adapter
ListView
Spinner
GridView
HorizontalScrollView
AutoCompleteTextView
Knowledge Check
Lab Activity 4

Toast
Custom Toast
Dialog
Notification
Knowledge Check
Lab Activity 5

Day 3

Option Menu and Action Bar
Context Menu
Knowledge Check

Passing Data
Sharing using Intent
Sharing using Intent chooser
Sharing with specific package
Knowledge Check
Lab Activity 6

Material Theme
List & Cards
Snackbar
TabLayout
Recycleview
Cardview

WebView
HttpGet
HttpPost
HttpURLConnection
Using Volley
Knowledge Check

Shared Preferences
File Resources
SQLite Database
Knowledge Check
Lab Activity 7

Day 4

Location
Map
GeoCoding
Reverse GeoCoding
Knowledge Check

Text to Speech
Speech Recognizer
Knowledge Check
Lab Activity 8

Motion Event
Multi Touch

Media Player
Media Recorder
Image Capture
Video Capture

Day 5

Accelerometer
Proximity
Gyroscope

Making a Call
Sending SMS
Telephony State

Registering
Signing
Application Version
Package naming
Google Play
3rd Party Market

Monetization Model
Premium
Freemium
Subscription
Ads

FAQ

YOUR QUESTIONS, ANSWERED.

You bet it is! Our Certification Body for this course is iTrain Asia Pte Ltd, the region's top Certifications Tech Provider headquartered in Singapore, with branch offices in Malaysia and Indonesia. Our Mobile Certification Trainings, in particular, are endorsed by Info-communications Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA) under Critical Infocomm Technology Resource Programme Plus (CITREP+), and mapped to Singapore National Infocomm Competency Framework (NICF) standards.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

Build your own applications for Android mobile phones.
Understand how Android applications work, Android application components, manifest, and Intent.
Design Android applications with compelling user interfaces by using and creating your own layouts using external resources.
Use Android Web APIs for assessing Web Services such as Twitter etc. in background services
Take advantage of Android APIs for data storage and retrieval via user preferences, files and local databases.
Utilize the powerful Android API on maps, speech, medias and hardware to build complex applications
Debug, test and deploy your own applications on Google Play Store.

This is a 5-day course at an instructor-led training centre. The ACAD Certification Exam Duration is 2 Hours, consisting of 50 Multiple Choice Questions, with a Passing Score of 70%. You will receive a professional ACAD Certification upon Passing the Exam.

This course is targeted for Software Developers and Designers interested in developing applications for Android mobile phones supporting popular Android versions.

All participants should know the fundamentals of object-oriented programming using JAVA, candidate should be familiar with basic Java SE 1.8++ (classes, control flow statements, instantiation, inheritance, initialization, assignment, method overloading and overriding, etc.).

Mac machines are provided for iTrain students. However participants can also use their own computers as long as it’s installed with the necessary applications.