VESIT: Building Apps For Android in Kotlin
Talk details
Title: Building apps for Android in Kotlin
Date: 8th August 2020
Platform: Google Meet
Institute: Vivekanand Education Society’s Institute of Technology
Location: Online
Attendees: 170 + Students from Department of Computer Engineering
Patrons: Dr.(Mrs). Nupur Giri, Head of department, Computer Engineering
From Codecell: Mr. Prashant Kanade, Mr. Richard Joseph
Coordinators: Mr.SujitKumar Singh, Ms.Tina Chandwani, Mr.Amit Chhabria, Mr.Rohan Gosalkar, Mr.Arnav Bagchi, Mr.Kunal Kotkar, Mr.Sanket Jangle, Mr.Sahil Rajpal
Hon: Shri. B.L. Boolani (President VES), Dr.(Mrs) J.M. Nair (Principal), Dr.(Mrs) M. Vijayalakshmi (Vice Principal)
Abstract
With a day one session on introduction to Kotlin the students are prepared to explore the world of Android Development. This talk is a live workshop where students build a small app for Android using Android Studio and Kotlin.
Coverage
- Overview of modern day apps
- Lists are important!
- What we are building today?
- App Architecture
- Views and Activities
- Preparing the data using lists and data class
- Views and XML editor in Android Studio
- Working with Gradle
- Code, Split and Design section in Studio 4.0
- Building Views and UI
- Android X and Jetpack libraries
- Developer resources from official Android Developers references
- Recycler Views and ViewHolders
- Running an app, using logcat to debug
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Results
Concluding the two-day workshop and talks, students were able to build their very first app using Kotlin. We explored how to work with Android Studio and learnt the basic building blocks of an Android app. The institute distributed certificates of participation to the students who attended.
Acknowledgements
I was honored to be welcomed at a prestigious institute like VESIT to speak and teach the students. This would not have been possible without the efforts of the team at CodeCell who organized the session. Special thanks to Mr.Sujitkumar Singh who was patient enough to follow this through over the last six months since February 2020 for planning this event. My humble thanks and gratitude to the faculty at VESIT and to the students who participated in the session. Talks and workshops like these enable and empower students with the right direction to their path on becoming tomorrow’s successful app developers!