(November 2008) Android Phone

Following the success of the iPhone, a consortium of 34 major companies developed open standards for phone and mobile devices. The open sourced software platform is known as Android. The first product T-Mobile G1 became available on Oct 22, 2008. Because of the momentum created by these companies, there is high demand for applications running on this platform (for example, the $10M Android Developer Challenge offered by Google).

In addition to our existing iPhone course, UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley also offers a new course on ´Developing Applications for Android Mobile Devices´ beginning in March 2009. The open standards are based on Linux and Java libraries. For students interested in becoming a developer in this emerging field, we offer strong and complete curricula on Linux programming and Administration and Java programming. For students who are already equipped with the basics, this course will get you started writing applications (in our lab) and have fun with those versatile mobile devices.