Meetings

Intro to Android

Roberto C. Serrano

Tuesday July 14th 2009 at 7:00pm
Wheaton, Illinois Institute of Technology - Rice Campus, Room 103

Abstract

  • Introduction to the Android Environment
  • Introduction to the Android OS
  • The Basic elements of an Android Application:
  • - Introduction to an Android activity
    - Layouts
    - The manifest.xml
    - Intents

    Bio

    Roberto C. Serrano is a software engineer with Motorola's Android Platform team focusing on multimedia and graphics. In addition to this role, he is a developer advocate for the Android platform team, and a long time open source advocate. In this capacity, he was responsible for some the past open source chicago events, such as Flourish 2007 and 08, and the Android Meet up during the 2009 edition of Flourish. Nowadays, in his current capacity as a developer advocate with Motorola, he is focusing on getting the Chicago Androids Group jump-started.

    Getting to the meeting

    The next SIG meeting of UniForum Chicago will be:

            IIT Rice Campus
            Room 103
            201 East Loop Road
            Wheaton, IL 60187-8489
    
    Directions to IIT - Rice Campus in Wheaton
    The 19-acre campus is located just northeast of the intersection of Naperville and Butterfield roads in sou th Wheaton's Danada development. The campus is three miles west of the Butterfield Road interchange of the N orth-South Tollway (I-355) and two miles north of the Naperville Road interchange of the East-West Tollway ( I-88).

    From the North or South: From I-355 (North-South Tollway), exit westbound at Rt.56/Butterfield Road and proceed west 3 1/2 miles on B utterfield Road to East Loop Road. Turn right onto East Loop Road (Phillip's 66 Gas Station on the corner); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road, behind Cozymel's. Park in the Student parking lot behind the building. Room 103 is the first room inside the north enterance.

    From the I-294 (Tri-State Tollway), take the I-88 (East-West Tollway) westbound and follow directions "From the East or West" below.

    From the East or West: From I-88 (East-West Tollway), take the Naperville Road exit. At the traffic light, turn left onto Naperville Road and continue north for 1\275 miles to Rt. 56/Butterfield Road. Turn right onto Rt. 56/Butterfield Road and proceed 1/4 mile to the first traffic light (East Loop Road). Turn left on to East Loop Road, ( Phillip's 66 Gas station on the corner); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road, behind Cozymel's. Park in the Student parking lot behind the building.

    Room 103 is the first room inside the north enterance.


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