February 2012: HOLLAND9 PROVIDES ADVANCED ANDROID TRAINING FOR GARMIN'S ANDROID DEVELOPERS.
Amsterdam – The Netherlands, February 2012. Holland9 provides advanced training for Android developer team at Garmin, providing them with best practices on a wide range of Android advanced topics.
Holland9 provides Garmin with training to develop new Android products of the future. Using up-to-date course material Holland9 covered a range of techniques and APIs, all aimed at improving the professional-quality Android applications, ranging from low-level hardware access to proper techniques for packaging code for reuse and distribution. The employees attending this course have come away with a solid understanding of how to make Android applications that have the polish necessary to compete in the marketplace, from GUI “special effects” through seamless integration with built-in Android applications.
"Our team was extremely satisfied with the 3-day training, the items about Fragments and Memory management are examples of topics which really help our team improve current Android products,” said Olaf Wessler, Product Manager at Garmin. "During the training we had a code review in which 2 particular problems were solved instantly, we had been struggling with them for ages,” Wessler added.
Over a period of three days hard work several crucial topics have been dealt with including: Memory management (Avoiding memory leaks, Using weak references, Tracking memory allocation, Using MAT to detect potential memory leaks, Optimizing bitmap loading), Multiple screen resolution support (RelativeLayout, dp and sp, Using fragments), Layout adjustment best practices (best practices for resolution independence, Existing code review (sample "bad code" to review and put into an smart Android architecture, Android "horror" stories or the "don'ts" in Android development), Optimizing Eclipse (Using JAR files, Library projects).
Holland9 has created 2 new courses aimed at improving existing Android products and architectures that are directly responsive to the training needs of Garmin and the entire IT service industry, said Jorik Bremer, CEO & Founder of Holland9. "The competencies achieved by these courses will enable Android teams to develop new innovative Android products and services that will keep the leadership of the IT service industry for this critical segment of the world's mobile future where it currently is,” said Bremer.
About Garmin
Since its inception in 1989 by Gary Burrell and Dr. Min Kao, Garmin has evolved as the leading, worldwide provider of navigation, communication and information devices and applications, most of which are enabled by GPS technology. Garmin designs, develops, manufactures and markets a diverse line of user-friendly handheld portable and fixed-mount products for the auto, mobile, outdoor, fitness, marine and general aviation markets.
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