Contribute to the mobile market with Android Bootcamp in Germany, January 18-22, 2010

Big Nerd Ranch Europe, premier provider of week-long, intensive training classes for web and mobile developers, system administrators and programmers, is starting off the year 2010 with its first Android Bootcamp in Europe. The intensive five-day class is scheduled for January 18 - 22, 2010 at Kloster Eberbach, a quiet, historic setting free of distraction near Frankfurt, Germany. Android Bootcamp is taught by one of the top names in the mobile development industry: Mark Murphy.

When Google announced it was entering the mobile device market with Android, developers got excited. Really excited. The partnership between Google and T-Mobile has spurred top-tier mobile device manufacturers to start developing devices for Android, setting the stage for Android to become a dominant mobile application platform. Based in Java, Android boasts an open architecture with an open source foundation that stands out from other mobile development platforms, with untapped potential for software development. For entrepreneurs wanting to tap that potential, Big Nerd Ranch is now offering its Android Bootcamp, for the first time in Europe.

Android instructor Mark Murphy is founder of CommonsWare and author of "The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development" and "The Busy Coder's Guide to Advanced Android Development". The ebook version of the book was released in 2008 and has become a top-selling guide to Android programming. Mark Murphy has more than 25 years experience as a development trainer and consultant, building real-world applications for top companies. He is a frequent contributor to the Android support Google Groups.

"Android is significantly different from any other mobile development platform or Java-based environment," said Mark Murphy. "This class will immerse you in the Android platform, leveraging your existing Java expertise, so you walk away able to build Android GUIs and related components. You will not only learn the basics of setting up activities and UI widgets, but the advanced capabilities that make Android compelling, such as GPS, mapping, Web service access, and on-device search."

Mark draws upon his extensive mobile development experience and leverages students' existing Java expertise to immerse students in the Android platform and guide them in building sophisticated Android GUIs and components. By the end of the week, students attending the class will be able to:

• Create professional Android user interfaces using XML
• Connect Android applications to the Internet, embed browsers into applications and create database-driven applications
• Utilize content providers to publish data to Android applications and communicate with other applications to use their data
• Use services to build long-running Android processes
• Integrate advanced Android features like mapping, search, and location-based (GPS) services into applications

Class students apply for the early bird fee and save Euro 200 when signing up before December 11, 2009.