DevSummer 2020
WHAT WAS IT ALL ABOUT?
The SMP was held by the club convenor of batch 2019-2020, Nishant Kumar. It was proposed with an aim to build a strong foundation and impart skills of Android Development to fellow teammates and growing developers.
The SMP was one with ample hands-on time and experience and was a big success seeing the participation of many club members ranging from all SIGs of the club. In response to the participation, a Github repository was created in the FARC organization for guidance, instructions, and submission of assignments that were given.
Sessions were conducted on every week for 1 - hours containing a detailed demonstration as well as a QnA session. A usual session would be the mentor explaining 1 to 2 core concepts a day. The teaching was followed by a guided assignment that was submitted on a FARC Github repo.
Nishant would thenreview the assignments, discuss what we could improve and applaud any exceptional effort put in by someone. The assignments were thoroughly checked and posted on the group enabling healthy communication and interaction between fellow participants.
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Intro to Android Studio IDE
The first step to creating any android application in Android Studio is to first get familiar with the IDE. We explored all the functionality and workings of the application and even tried to create one as an assignment.02.
XML Structure of Views
After getting a good grasp on the IDE, we were exposed to the structuing and the coding segment of an android application and how it is made to perform various tasks. After the session, we were assigned to create a login application.03.
Applying functionality
Finally, coming to the last session, we were introduced to Postman which allowed us to tweak into the GUI and cloud functionalities of our application. Furthermore, we were assigned to create a weather application utlising evereything we learnt in the SMP.Snipets of the event
With each new session, the difficulty of assignments grew, so as to enable everyone to get a complete picture of app development. The response met with the standards of the assignments as it saw some creative and unique UI implementation on mobile platforms.
