Mobile Development Series of Courses

Get the LG Urbane Android Wear watch with the Android Wear Programming course

Not an iPhone user but a die-hard Android user? Then you should look at Android Wear programming. In the upcoming Android Wear Programming course, you will get the LG Urbane Android Wear watch together with the course!

Course Fee

S$1297 (nett; no GST)

If your company is sponsoring you for the training, your company can enjoy 400% tax deductions/ allowances and/or 60% cash payout for investment in innovation and productivity improvements under the Productivity and Innovation Credit (PIC) scheme. For more details, check out the Productivity and Innovation Credit page. 

Schedules

Start Date	End Date	Details	Category
Thu Jul 02 2015	Thu Jul 02 2015	PDF
Wed Sep 09 2015 CONFIRMED	Wed Sep 09 2015	PDF

Venue

Bayview Hotel Singapore
30 Bencoolen Street
Singapore 189621  

If your company requires in-house training, you can contact us to customize the topics to meet your training requirements. We train worldwide! We have conducted customized classes in the United States, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Thailand.

Android Wear Programming - 18 March 2015 (CONFIRMED)

The year 2015 is the year of the Wearables! If you are an Android developer, the natural progression would be to next develop for the Android Wear - a smart watch running on Android that acts as an extension of your Android device. Come and join us in this upcoming course and learn how to write connected and native Android Wear apps.

The course comes with an Android Wear watch and participants are welcome to bring it back at the end of the training. 

Course Fee

S$1097 (nett; no GST)

If your company is sponsoring you for the training, your company can enjoy 400% tax deductions/ allowances and/or 60% cash payout for investment in innovation and productivity improvements under the Productivity and Innovation Credit (PIC) scheme. For more details, check out the Productivity and Innovation Credit page. 

Schedules

Start Date	End Date	Details	Category
Fri Jan 30 2015	Fri Jan 30 2015	PDF
Wed Mar 18 2015 CONFIRMED	Wed Mar 18 2015	PDF

Venue

Bayview Hotel Singapore
30 Bencoolen Street
Singapore 189621  

If your company requires in-house training, you can contact us to customize the topics to meet your training requirements. We train worldwide! We have conducted customized classes in the United States, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Thailand. 

AND302 - Developing NFC Apps

NFC (Near Field Communication) is one of the most under-used features of Android. Despite its usefulness, a lot of users are unaware of the power of NFC and how to use it to enhance the user experience. In this case, you will learn what NFC is, how to create apps that reads and writes information to tags, and how to automate your daily tasks using NFC. In addition, you will also learn ho
w to exchange data between Android devices using Android Beam.

Course Fee

S$699 (nett; no GST)

If your company is sponsoring you for the training, your company can enjoy 400% tax deductions/ allowances and/or 60% cash payout for investment in innovation and productivity improvements under the Productivity and Innovation Credit (PIC) scheme. For more details, check out the Productivity and Innovation Credit page. 

Schedules

Start Date	End Date	Details	Category
Fri Jan 09 2015	Fri Jan 09 2015	PDF
Mon Feb 23 2015	Mon Feb 23 2015	PDF
Thu Apr 09 2015	Thu Apr 09 2015	PDF

Venue

Bayview Hotel Singapore
30 Bencoolen Street
Singapore 189621

Comparing Pebble and Android Wear

A number of readers have wrote in to ask me how does Android Wear compare to Pebble. Here is a list of items that I have compiled which I hope would be useful for those of you wanting to choose a wearable platform to develop for.

Note that this is a work-in-progress and I welcome your feedbacks if any of the items listed here is inaccurate. I will update it as more information is made available. 

	Android Wear	Pebble
	Android Wear is a modified version of the Android OS adapted for wearable devices sich as watches. The primary function of Android Wear is as an extension of your Android device – displaying notifications and allowing users to interact with the device through voice navigation on the wearable device.	The Pebble is a smart watch that allows you to write apps that run on the watch as well as on your mobile device. It displays notifications from your device. Pebble also allows companion apps running on the mobile devices to provide additional functionalities to the apps running on the Pebble watch.
Availability	Devices such as Moto 360 and LG G watches have been announced; availability not known yet	Pebble and Pebble Steel
Manufacturer support	Motorola, LG, Asus, HTC, Samsung, and more	Pebble
Interaction with users	Voice control and touch screen	Four buttons – Up, Select, Down, and Back
Device Network connectivity	Classic Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy (LE)	Classic Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy (LE)
Hardware Features	Not clear at this moment	Accelerometer, ambient light sensor, magnetometer
Standalone apps	Not available in the Developer Preview release	Yes, watchface apps and watch apps can run standalone on the watch
Companion apps on the mobile device	Android Wear devices require apps on the mobile device to send notifications to it	Companion apps on the mobile device can send notifications as well as provide additional functionalities such as Web services access, location-based services, etc
Connection to mobile device	Requires connection to a Android device	Optional; connection to a mobile device is only required for the installation of watchfaces and watch apps;
Color Screen	Yes	No, only black and white support
Touch Screen	Yes	No
Platform support	Android only	iOS and Android
Supports notifications	Yes. The primarily function of Android Wear is to display notifications from the Android device	Yes. Displays notifications from the iOS and Android device
SDK	Android Wear Developer Preview + Android SDK	Pebble SDK
Programming language support	Java	C (native apps), Javascript, Objective C and Java (Pebble Mobile apps)
Smartphone compatibility	Works with Android 4.3 and above devices. At this moment, Android Wear can only connect to phone devices; but Google has announced that the Android Wear Developer Preview release will be updated to support non-phone devices as well	Works with iOS 6.0 and newer and Android 4.0 and newer devices

Announcing the details of the Pebble Programming course

I am super excited to announce the details of the first Pebble Programming course held in Singapore. Here is the synopsis of the course and the dates:

Pebble Watch included in course fee!

In this 2-day workshop, you will learn the fundamentals of programming the Pebble watch. You will learn the difference between a Watchapp and a WatchFace app, and how to develop compelling Watchapps and WatchFace apps that you can install onto your own Pebble Watch. You will also learn how to write iOS and Android apps that interact with your apps on the Pebble watch. 

Topics

Setting up the Pebble SDK

WatchApp vs. WatchFace apps

Hello, Pebble World!

A Quick Introduction to the C Programming Language

Anatomy of a Pebble App

    Header Files

    Static and global variables

    Metadata

    Windows

    Layers

    Initializing the UI of the app

    De-initializing the app

Building User Interfaces

    Event Handlers

    Click Handlers

    Timer Handlers

    Navigating Windows

    Simple Animations

Persisting Data

    Writing to persistent storage

    Reading from persistent storage

    Deleting a key from persistent storage

Using the Pebble Accelerometer

    Using the Accelerometer Service

    Registering for Tap events

Integrating with Mobile Apps

    Using the PebbleKit for iOS and Android

    Connecting to your Pebble

    Obtaining information on Pebble

    Communicating with a Pebble app

    Launching and Killing your Pebble app

    Sending and Receiving messages
Integrating with JavaScript
    How to get your Pebble App to communicate with your JavaScript code running on the Pebble Mobile App on your mobile device
    Passing messages from Pebble to JavaScript
    Passing messages from JavaScript to Pebble

    Launching configuration page to let users customize your Pebble app

What you need to bring for the course?

    a. Need to bring along a Mac for the course

    b. Bring along your iOS or Android device

Time and Dates

9am to 5pm:

* 6-7 Jan 2014 (Mon-Tue)

* 6-7 Feb 2014 (Thu-Fri)

* 10-11 Mar 2014 (Mon-Tue)

Fees

* S$1,295 (nett; no GST) 

* Course fee includes a Pebble Watch (US$150)

Venue

Bayview Hotel Singapore

30 Bencoolen Street 

Singapore 189621

Application Form

Download Application Form here.