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Date: 23 Jan 2014 18:51
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   Brian Paul posted: "Android BootCamp part of Mobile BootCamp Tanzania,
is an initiative and the startup started by young developers who are
passionate mobile application development and its impacts to the community.
The idea is to train youth on mobile application developmen"    Respond to
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Brian Paul <http://tanzict.or.tz/author/brompo/>

*Android BootCamp* part of *Mobile BootCamp Tanzania*, is an initiative and
the startup started by young developers who are passionate mobile
application development and its impacts to the community. The idea is to *train
youth on mobile application development* in form of phases which includes
two phases. First phase is beginners stage where we expose youth in most of
the features in android development and the second phase the intermediate
phase where youth will get to create and develop android apps with android
database and remote database.

[image: Participants of the Bootcamp]

Participants of the Bootcamp

This year Mobile BootCamp Tanzania together with Buni Hub we have conducted
the five days training from 13th to 17th January 2014. It was such an
eventful experience see youth from different places growing and become
inspired in android mobile application development.

During the training we have gone through number of concepts not just
android applications programming part. *We started with the overview of the
entire training and develop our first android application (Not Hello World)*.
Show some inspirational videos and there i saw their eagerness to learn
more rise.

[image: Participants having a discussion during the training]

Participants having a discussion during the training

We went through implementation of different android features, cover some
concepts on user interface design where i get to see students interface
change from that day in terms of colors they use kind of icons and features
they implement all that to try increase “*User Experience*” on their apps,
other than that students got the chance to visit different apps store and
open an account on samsung apps store where they will use to publish their
mobile apps.

*Up to the last day student were able to create 3 complete mobile
applications(compiled for the training)* with alot of android feature and
learn about procedures and standards required to publish android
applications, learn mobile entrepreneurship and mobile application
monetization strategies and the challenges that Africa is facing.

[image: Georgia, one of the trainers, explaining a concept during the
training]

Georgia, one of the trainers, explaining a concept during the training

The training was over after five days of being full informed about the
android application development and mobile world, then we receive feedback
from students

The crucial and very interesting feedback was to conduct another training
that will cover the advanced part of android application development like
interact with android database and remote database for android
applications. This kind of feedback tells us two things, one the people we
have trained do have interest in android application development and two
the group will like to stick together create apps from what they have learn
and afterwards go to the advance stage of the training.

The venue was super great,the arrangement, the freedom of creativity, the
commitment from Buni Innovation Space (Brian and Jumanne) and the
commitment from student themselves. We have achieved what we’ve planned and
more and for that we are grateful.

[image: Dennis closing of the bootcamp]

Dennis closing of the bootcamp

One of the Feedback one of participants was

The training was awesome!!! The Instructor was really intending to teach
android development for beginners.
The logical flow of programming make it easier to be understood and
followed.
Programming became fun!!!  The reasons as to why errors/ bugs happened to
the codes and the way they were handled was perfectly make sense (even to
the beginners of programming). Time management was perfect!!! Though not
all features have been implemented but the ones were well done!
The instructor was really passionate / tolerant (am not sure because he
knew that we were beginners....)
That's it.
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another participant said

it was great.. but sadly we couldn't cover the backend connectivity as
database and other things but.. it was awesome.. i understood all the basic
things in creating apps which is important... so yeah thanks alot but we
want more advance training... thank you

  *Brian Paul <http://tanzict.or.tz/author/brompo/>* | January 23, 2014 at
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