Course Overview

Many startup ventures depend on technological tools such as Android Apps to deliver their services, mainly through smart phones. Knowledge on how to develop android based apps for smart phones gives budding entrepreneurs a definite advantage as they will be able to build rapid prototypes to test their business ideas.

Entrepreneurs are risk-takers who build and run their own businesses. They solve common problems in the society, encouraged, at first, by the opportunities presented to them. These opportunity-driven people come up with ideas for solving problems in the best way possible.

Thus, a short course that imparts knowledge in building android based apps for smartphones will be valuable to those who seek to build startup ventures. Kotlin is Google’s preferred language for Android app development. it is a crossplatform, statically typed, general-purpose programming language with type inference. Code is written in Kotlin often means much less code, less code to type, test, and maintain. This course encourages students to learn the basics of Kotlin to create mobile apps and embedded systems in a very efficient manner using Kotlin rather than Java.

Through this course participants will learn how to design and build effective applications that are aligned with the business objectives of their start-up. By the end of the course the participants will be able to

1 Design, develop, and deploy mobile apps on Android devices to support your start-up 2 Develop responsive user interfaces that take into different aspects of mobile devices into account 3. Choose and use the most suitable technologies to support entrepreneurial activities. .