Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering of Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurgaon, organized a two days workshop on “ANDROID” from 19th-20th February 2013 in collaboration with Blue Eminence Technology, New Delhi in association with IIT-BHU.
Total 52 students from various branches (ECS, CSE, IT and ECE) of our college and from other colleges like KIIT College of Engg. participated in the workshop. The goal of the Android Workshop is to get any interested student get started with Android programming. It is geared towards students who would like to learn what it takes to get started with programming their first Android applications.
Convener of the workshop Prof. Swati Jha briefed the participants on the opportunities in Android field .She told that Android is the world’s most widely used smart phone platform. It is a Linux based operating system designed primarily for touch screen mobile devices such as smart phones and tablet computers. She added that Android is an open source and Google releases the code under the Apache License. This open source code and permissive licensing allows the software to be freely modified and distributed by device manufactures, wireless carriers and enthusiast developers. Android also has an additional application on televisions and games consoles.
Trainers from Blue Eminence Mr. Devesh Wadhwa, Senior Research Engineer and Mr. Abhinav Saini, Research Engineer started with introduction to JAVA and XML followed by ANDROID architecture overview and setup of Android Development Environment which consisted of a short description on the four layers which are Application, Application Manager, Library and the Driver. After that the participants were introduced to the fundamentals of Android Applications, Building Blocks, Activating and Shutting down components. They were also introduced to the difference between Linux and Linux Kernel on which Android works.
Hands on experience on Android Programming was given. Projects like Layout Application, GPS Output, Touch screen Application, SMS Manager Application and Log Output were covered up.
There was a competition at the end of the workshop in which programming skills of the students was tested. Winners of which shall gain direct entry to IIT BHU’s TECHNEX-2013 and will be given training free of cost for 6 Hrs. for the same by Blue Eminence experts.
During the closing ceremony of the two day program, student coordinators Anshul Patro and Sukhwinder Kaur briefed the guests on the events covered up in the two days. Certificate of participation was distributed by our Principal Prof. (Dr.) B. M. K. Prasad. Top five performers of the competition were given Certificate of Merit .The program ended with Vote of Thanks by class coordinator Vijay Kumar Arora.
The Winners were: Saumya Rastogi, Amit Gupta, Yatin Sachdeva, Jitin, Apporv Sharma, Vipul Asri, Saurabh Rastogi, Gaurav Gautam, Bhavesh, Surbhi, Shalini, Tanya and Anshul Patro.
