Hi all! Summer is a great time of the year. Google I/O, Mobius and AppsConf have come to an end, and many students have already closed or are about to finish their sessions, everyone is ready to exhale and enjoy the warmth and sun.
But not us!
We have been preparing for this moment long and hard, trying to complete our work and projects, to gain strength in order to finally return to you with the news: Android Academy is returning to Moscow.
UPD from 5.07: Friends, registration is full and closed. But the lectures will definitely be posted on subscribe and wait for the video. And in there will be announcements of future lectures, subscribe so as not to miss the next one!
And under the cut we will tell you what awaits you this year.
A new stage of the Android Academy mobile development school starts July 25, at Avito's office, at 19:00. We already last summer, and now we want to share our plans for this year.
The new course is called Advanced, and in it we will tell you things that, from our point of view, every competent specialist needs to know.
Why are we even doing this?
I think all of you know the feeling of satisfaction when you give 100% and look at the result of your work. And it's doubly nice when you give it your all and the result doesn't go to the table, doesn't become just another KPI. When this result slightly, but improved something that is important to you. It is important for us to develop the android community in Russia so that there are more developers who understand the importance of communicating with each other and know where they can go to exchange experience and knowledge. This is important, because not everyone has mentors or senior comrades who can help them develop.
Personally, I still really like to help other people understand something new. I am very fascinated by the process of cognition, and helping others understand something, I hear questions that I would not ask myself. I have to put into words what I think I know. It helps to find weak points and understand what I really know and what I don't.
In addition, it was wildly interesting to watch how people grow up, what they are interested in, just to communicate and make friends. It was very cool when my students got a job at Yandex, and I am very proud of them. But besides this, I am proud of everyone who was with us, came to lectures, participated in the hackathon. We all did a great job together, and it's a great joy to be part of such a powerful team.
And the best part is that it's not just us. Here are some of the feedback we collected after the lectures:
Everything is so cool that you can't even believe it!
The course is excellent! Maximum useful information for a limited period of time. It is especially valuable that the relevance of the information was brought up right in real time (the same transition to androidx, for example), and they did not talk about some already outdated technologies (and if they did, it was only for general information, and warning about their obsolescence or imperfection ).
Thanks again to everyone for the course! And I look forward to its continuation :)
We look forward to more lectures from you.
You are just super! Everything is very cool, I never cease to admire your altruism and energy. Thank you very much for being you.
Of course, not everything is so rosy, we also have useful critical feedback, which we will try to take into account this year. In particular, let's add more interactive (:
If last year you wanted to participate, but for some reason could not, then this year there is a chance to try again! But keep in mind that this year the course will be more difficult, and in order to benefit, you need to already understand android to some extent.
What awaits you
This year the course will consist of 6 lectures of 1.5 hours every 2-3 weeks. Based on the results of heated discussions, the compilation of tables by importance / interest and a survey of students from last year, we have chosen the following topics for the course program.
- advanced multithreading
- Optimizations
- Advanced & Secure Networking
- advanced architecture
- DI: How to and why
- Android Internals
Unlike last year's course, there will be no homework, but there will be more interactive during the lectures themselves - questions not only from you, but also from the lecturers to you, small tests to control yourself, discussions.
When
The course will run from mid-July to the end of October. For the first three lectures, Avito again invites us to his place, and we will tell about the locations of the second half of the course in the process.
All lectures are held offline, but our communication does not end there - there is a place for participants to communicate online. This year we decided to move to Telegram, and we are open for you и .
For whom
The Advanced Year course will be more specialized than Fundamentals, and we will go into depth about things that are important to know as a developing developer.
Therefore, we expect from you that:
- you have already written one or more of your applications or work as a junior and want to develop further,
- you know what architecture is in programming, what it is for, you know why and how to divide architecture into layers,
- or you have taken the Android Fundamentals course and want to continue learning.
Who we are
Jonathan Levin, monday.com
Startup to the core. Founder of the Global Android Academy and community leader. Jonathan leads mobile development at fast growing startup monday.com. In the past, he led a start-up in the field of genetics and before that he was an Android Tech Lead at Gett almost from the beginning. She loves to speak all over the world and share her knowledge in the field of entrepreneurship, mobile development and life in general 😉
Alexey Bykov, Revolut
Engaged in android development since 2016. Currently an android developer at Revolut. Often attends thematic conferences and meetings, sometimes as a speaker. He is a member of the program committee of the AppsConf conference.
Alexander Blinov, HeadHunter
Head of the android direction in the Headhunter group of companies. Editor and host of the Android Dev Podcast. Engaged in Android development since 2011. He has made presentations at many conferences, including Mobius, Dump, Droidcon Moscow, Appsconf, Mosdroid, Devfests in various cities of Russia.
For Alexander, the development of the team, the company and the android community is very important. He says to himself that every day he wakes up with the thought: “What can I improve today?”.
Dmitry Movchan, Kaspersky
Has been developing for Android since 2016, graduated from the Moscow State Technical University. Bauman and the two-year program "System Architect" in the Technopark from Mail.ru. At the moment, he is the developer of antivirus for Android at Kaspersky (Kaspersky Internet Security for Android). Lately I have been interested in speaking, among which there are speeches at Mobius, AppsConf, Kaspersky Android Night conferences.
Alena Manyukhina, Yandex
I have been developing for Android since 2015. In 2016, I graduated from the School of Mobile Development at Yandex, where I have been working since then in the Avto.ru team. In 2017-18 participated in SMR as a mentor and lecturer, and last year I had the opportunity to join the Android Academy team in the same roles. What attracted me to the Academy was the drive, the same as I had at WMR, only for more people! This is very cool.
Pavel Strelchenko, HeadHunter
Developing for Android since 2015. In hh.ru, he is engaged in the support of the main applications, as well as the development of internal tools. Interested in developing plug-ins for Android Studio, application architecture, neural networks.
Sergey Garbar, Go Lama
Developing for Android since 2013. For a long time he worked in outsourcing companies, now he is engaged in product development at golama (applications for clients and couriers). I started with desktop applications in Java (yes, there are such ones too!), but one day I decided to write a “reminder” application for Android for myself and could not stop.
How to join
Registration available . If you are already familiar with android development and ready to learn more, or want to test how well you know topics from the program, or just want to have a good time in the developer community, we are waiting for you at the Academy!
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Source: habr.com