Android UG 5 Agenda Android news from the

Android UG - #5 Agenda: • Android news from the last month • Introduction to Android • The surgery

Android happenings in Nov • Lollipop arrived on my Nexus 5 • Early adopters of Lollipop had issues http: //www. bbc. com/news/technology-30116319 • Nokia announced the N 1 – a new Android tablet http: //www. bbc. com/news/technology-30096603 / http: //n 1. nokia. com/en# • New messenger app http: //androidcommunity. com/google-rolls-out-new-messenger-app 20141113/ • Motorola already releasing updates for Material Design http: //www. talkandroid. com/227397 -motorola-updates-gallery-and-cameraapps-with-material-design/

Android – Starting off Good things to have: - Pc or mac - Android SDK (https: //developer. android. com/sdk/index. html? hl=i) - Java (JDK) - An IDE – Android Studio, Intellij, Eclipse, Netbeans - Time - Direction - Perhaps a bit of Java experience

Android – Starting off Good places to start – there are loads of places (outside of this UG) Online resources: https: //developer. android. com/training/index. html http: //stackoverflow. com/ http: //www. vogella. com/tutorials/android. html Online courses: Udacity (No need to pay – “Access course materials” gives you free access): https: //www. udacity. com/course/ud 853 (Android course by Google) https: //www. udacity. com/course/ud 849 (Andoid UX course by Android) Coursera https: //www. coursera. org/course/android (Good detailed intro course) Part of a specialization (Get verified certificates and do final project to prove / aid in understanding) First of three courses. Second dives deeper into concurrency, communication and security. Third delves into cloud services. Books: Big. Nerd. Ranch (also do i. OS) - http: //www. bignerdranch. com/we-write/androidprogramming. html

Introduction to simple app - Going one step further than ‘hello world’ - Assume you have the SDK, and IDE etc and a little Java experience Requirements: - An app that has a login screen - Once a user is logged in the app should show a new screen with an exciting picture – and the user’s name in the title of the screen