Level: Introductory to Intermediate

Ted Neward

Director, Developer Relations

Smartsheet.com

In this session, we're going to go over just enough Java to get the .NET developer up to speed on what programming for Android is like: the language, the virtual machine, the toolchain, the ecosystem, and most of all, the Android APIs.

Even if you're using Xamarin/MonoDroid to build an Android application, there's still a lot of "Java"-ness there that has to be understood and dealt with, starting the Android documentation platform. In this session, we're going to go over just enough Java to get the .NET developer up to speed on what programming for Android is like: the language, the virtual machine, the toolchain, the ecosystem, and most of all, the Android APIs.