Android system development training in Toulouse

Training session in Toulouse, South of France

Toulouse

Free Electrons organizes a training session on Android system development in Toulouse, south of France, on Jun. 18-21, 2013.

See the other public sessions that we organize, in the same and in other locations. We can also organize a session at your own company, if enough people are interested.

Objectives and target audience

Android robotThis course targets engineers who need to develop embedded systems with Google Android. In four days, through theory and practical labs, the course makes you familiar with compiling and booting Android, with adapting Android to support a new embedded board (assuming that it is already supported by the Linux kernel), and with building a real system through accessing specific hardware, customizing the filesystem and using debugging techniques.

At the end of this course, you will be ready to install and customize Android on your own hardware.

Outline

Here are the main topics that we cover:

  • training desktopIntroduction to Android
  • Android source code and compiling
  • Linux kernel, configuration, compiling and booting
  • Bootloaders for Android
  • Android changes to the Linux kernel
  • Supporting new hardware
  • Development and debugging with ADB
  • Android’s build system
  • The Android filesystem
  • Android native layer and calling a C program from Android
  • Android framework and applications
  • Application development
  • The apk standard
  • System customization
  • Advise and resources

See the detailed agenda.

Training materials

All the training materials we use during this course are freely available. Before the session, you can then check that they correspond to your needs.

By the way, you can also see evaluations from previous sessions. In the same way we are transparent with our training materials, we share all the evaluations that we collect, not only the good ones.

Practical labs

Devkit8000 board from EmbestEach lecture in our course is followed by a practical implementation, representing 50% to 60% of the whole course time. Labs are performed on an embedded ARM board (Devkit8000 embedded board from Embest), with an ARM Cortex A8 processor and an LCD with touchscreen, on which you will progressively implement your own Android system.

The electronic board is yours to keep at the end of the session. Even long after the course, this allows you to continue to learn and experiment using a well known working base. You can even use your board and what you created during the course to develop your own prototypes.

The Devkit8000 board is very powerful and have very complete connectivity. It has a touchscreen LCD and is also very compact. This board will allow you to develop all kinds of mobile multimedia system prototypes. You will even be able to use it as a lightweight desktop or server!

Prerequisites

Participants should be familiar with the UNIX or Linux command line interface. Those who aren’t should do some self training using our training materials on this topic). Without being absolutely necessary, this will make them more productive in your practical labs.

Participants should also be familiar with programming in the C and Java languages.

Address

Training roomThis training session will take place at the Pullman Toulouse Centre hotel, 84, allées Jean Jaurès, 31000 Toulouse, France‎, France, phone: +33 561 102 310, GPS: N 43° 36′ 31.37” E 1° 27′ 12.83′. This hôtel is located in the Toulouse city center, near the central train station and near the Jaurès subway station. If you come from far away, you will find plenty of accommodation options in multiple hotels in the area.

You can reach Toulouse:

  • By plane. The Toulouse Blagnac airport has good connections with Europe’s main hub airports. In particular, there is an Air France flight to an from Paris every 30 minutes. EasyJet also offers cheap flights to Toulouse.0 minutes sur Air France. Easyjet propose également des vols aux tarifs avantageux. A shuttle connects the airport to the city center (within walking distance from the hotel) every 20 minutes.
  • By train. There are direct trains from Paris (5 hours), Bordeaux (2 hours), Montpellier (2 hours) and Lyon (5 hours)

Schedule

This course is from Monday to Thursday (4 days), from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm. If some participants have to leave earlier on the last day, we can make sure that all key lectures and labs are complete by 4:00 pm on that day.

Cost

The training cost is 1890 € per person for 4 days.

This includes the embedded board with a touchscreen display and its basic accessories (power supply, serial cable), with a value of about 280 €.

This rate includes the course, laptop rental, lunch as well as morning and afternoon breaks. Each participant walks away with his own electronic board. For more details about our rates, see this page.

Note that dinner, breakfast, accommodation, and traveling costs are not included in our price. Each participant will have to pay for such expenses by themselves.

Registration

Contact us at . It is recommended to register early, to enjoy our discount rates.

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