Droidcon India 2012

This will be a crash course into the basics of android application development and is aimed to get people started with app development using the android SDK.

Outline

This will be a crash course into the basics of android application development. The following topics will be covered:

• What is Android?
• Basic android application building blocks
• How to get started with android application development?
• A simple hello world app and a simple currency converter

Requirements

• A laptop (duh!) with sufficient electric charge!
• An installed copy of the Android SDK
• Eclipse with the ADT plugin

Speaker bio

Soham has been part of the android ecosystem in Bangalore for some time now and he’s also a co-organiser of the Bangalore Android User Group. He is fanatic about design and spends 90% of his time aligning views one dp at a time.

He is also the co-founder of Triveous and the co-author of Sky Recorder (search the play store)

Links

• Make sure you install the android SDK before you come: http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/index.html

Slides

https://speakerdeck.com/soham/android-application-development-a-crash-course