Climbing the mobile ladder

This is an introductory talk on how to get started as an Android/Mobile app developer and the various opportunities available for Android/Mobile app developers.

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1. Etornam Sunu Bright Software Engineer, Origma Technologies @_regnex Climbing the mobile ladder
2. Meetups University of Professional Studies, Accra 2013-2015 Dip (ITM) About Me Ecotel Technologies Software Engineer 2018-2019 Origma Technologies Software Engineer 2016- to date Public Speaking Accra Institute of Technology 2015-2018 Bsc (IT)
3. What I’ve developed
5. Android 101
6. 2.5+ billion devices 10 versions 11 years
8. • UI/UX • Tooling Android Development Core Principles • Architecture • Hardware
9. UI/UX
10. Building interfaces for humans • Working closely with design systems and teams • Adopt latest technologies (Material design) • Working with touch and gestures
11. Architectures
12. Architectures • MVP, MVVM, MV* • Jetpack Libraries • Testing
13. Tooling
14. Tooling • Android Studio • Working with Gradle - Android Devops • CI/CD pipelines
15. Hardware
16. Sensors and Hardware • Accelerometer/Rotation sensors • Bluetooth connection • Camera
19. Kotlin • Modern and Concise Programming Language • Highly popular in Android Community • First class support for Android
20. Going Beyond Android Cross Platform and Multi Platform
21. Flutter Kotlin Multiplatform
22. Dart
23. Kotlin
24. Getting there Building a career
25. Learning • Learn Kotlin • Develop a reading habit. (AndroidWeekly, ProAndroidDev, MindOrks) • Explore frameworks and other platforms • Harness power of e-learning
26. Being ready for Job/Interview • Stay up to date • Be clear on basics of Android • Build your own app and upload on play store
27. Contribution and Community • Attend Meetups • Contribute back to open source libraries • Build a network
28. Resources Codelabs https://bit.ly/2U02Gz7 Udacity https://www.udacity.com/
29. Etornam Sunu Bright Software Engineer, Origma Technologies Twitter: @_regnex Linkedin: in/etornam-sunu/ Thank You!