“Building a Simple App for Android” Workshop

Last year, my GSAC team held our first Android Workshop entitled “Building a Simple App for Android” exactly on Monday, April 6th 2014 at Indomaret point. It was located beside of Campus J1 of Gunadarma University. The workshop was free and opened to all of student of Gunadarma University. The instructor of this workshop was me as GSA Gunadarma accompanied with Ai Nenden Triana as speaker of GSAC Community. The workshop participants numbered 16 (sixteen) persons who came from various study program such as Informatics Engineering (TI), Informatics Management (MI), Information System (SI), and Computer System (SK). We also invited BUC (Bekasi Urban City) team as our media partner of this workshop. They covered all our activities when the workshop was ongoing. This workshop was our last event which held by GSA (Google Student Ambassador) Gunadarma batch 2013-2014.

The workshop material was steps how to build own simple Android apps using Eclipse SDK (Software Developer Kit) integrated with Android ADT. The App would have one input from text box with many output consisted of Text, Dialogue, Toast, Text-to-Speech Voice, and share the input text by other apps. The app could be run either on their phone or on their PC simulator. We were not only studying the program’s code, but also studying how to use “string” in Android that would facilitate us if they wanted to translate the app’s text into other language, modified the app’s interface by “.xml” editing, and configured any Activity in Android Manifest. The goal of this workshop besides promoting Android as Google products, we also expected through this workshop the participants could get their alternative reference for their science report (PI) especially for student class 3 from TI, SI, and MI program.

As our first workshop, it must be hard. We faced some obstacles due to lack preparation. We had insufficient time because it was held for two half hour only (2 pm to 4.30 pm). Moreover, Mostly participant are really beginner of Android programming (evidently, most participants came from class 1 and 2). So, many time was wasted just for installing and telling them about basic of Android (Basically derived from Java programming).  Although it was so hard, we felt so glad because all participants finally understood with basic manipulation of Android programming. It would be our valuable experience in preparing to hold any educative event in next time. We would like to say biggest thanks to GSAC team as the workshop committee and BUC team as our media partner. We never forget appreciating the participant’s attendance to our workshop. So, we gave the workshop material to them directly through flashdisk and gave them electronic certificate to their email later. 

If you interest and want to get this workshop material, you can download it here. If you want to see our workshop activity, you can see it here. I hope this material can help you to understand and more interesting about basic Android programming. Thanks for coming.