{"id":6810,"date":"2015-02-02T20:40:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T20:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itnigblog.live-website.com\/?p=6810"},"modified":"2020-06-11T13:22:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T13:22:58","slug":"what-is-the-catdroid-android-fundamentals-study-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itnig.net\/blog\/what-is-the-catdroid-android-fundamentals-study-jam\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Catdroid Android Fundamentals Study Jam?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, February 10 begins the FREE\u00a0Catdroid Android Study Jam<\/strong>\u00a0at itnig. During 7 weeks, 20 developers will meet in our offices to learn together, solve questions and go through the main issues of the Udacity course \u201cDeveloping Android Apps\u200a\u2014\u200aAndroid Fundamentals<\/strong>\u201d by Google.<\/p>\n

Although these developers are truly beginners on Android, they should have at least 3 years of programming experience in Java or another object-oriented programming language (for example: C++, Objective C or Python).<\/p>\n

For knowing a bit more about this supervised study group we have talked with\u00a0Sergi Mart\u00ednez<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Android Developer and tutor of this Android study jam.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Question: What is a study jam and how it works?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Answer:<\/strong>\u00a0The Study Jams are an initiative from Google to create global groups run by local communities. This is the first one we do in Barcelona and it will be about the Udacity Android Fundamentals course. The idea is to run 7 study sessions during the course in order to review the topics of every lesson and help students build their own app during the course. So, students watch a Lesson by themselves, and then, we review it in the local session and review how to apply this knowledge into their own application.<\/p>\n

Q: What is Catdroid?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A:<\/strong>\u00a0Catdroid is a community of Android lovers, fans, developers, designers and users created 4 years ago with the objective of creating events, speeches, courses and all kind of activities + helping each other when having questions or issues about the Android topic. The idea is to create something from the community to the community.<\/p>\n

Q: And what is the Catdroid Android Fundamentals course about?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A:<\/strong>\u00a0This is the Catdroid instance of this course. The courses are normally held by the official Google Developers Groups (GDG\u2019s). But after talking with Google people they offered us to run our own study jam in parallel with the guys from the GDG Barcelona. The idea is to open more opportunities to the people of the community, no matter who organizes the jam.<\/p>\n

Q:<\/strong>\u00a0Why is this course relevant nowadays?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A:<\/strong>\u00a0Mobile development is one of the most growing industries nowadays, and it\u2019s not a temporary thing. A lot of developers are looking for a way to recycle themselves into the mobile world. Taking a course like this is an excellent opportunity to make this move. If we only had something like this when we started, our last four years would have been much much easier.<\/p>\n

Q: What will people learn during this course?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A:<\/strong>\u00a0People will learn how to make a complete application from scratch. We will review the most important issues to start working on the Android development world. Besides, the course is focused not only on learning things, but also on how and where to look for information when needed.<\/p>\n

Q: What practical skills can people expect to have upon completion of this course?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A:<\/strong>\u00a0Starting from the most basic concepts, they will be able to create some advanced UI, use external REST services to take information, local databases to cache this information and how to sync this information to save battery and data, among many other things. And it will work in phones and tablets.<\/p>\n

Q: Who is this course recommended for? What should be the background \/ relevant experience of the attendees?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A:<\/strong>\u00a0This course is for developers who want to introduce themselves into the Android development world. Experience in object oriented development is required. If you are experienced in Java, this is the best option, but people coming from languages like C# or Objective-C shouldn\u2019t have any problem, they only will need to review some things. The course is also perfect for professional developers who want to push their careers forward or for computer science\u2019s students who want to start learning Android development.<\/p>\n

Q: Main takeaways of this course:<\/strong><\/p>\n