As planned in earlier meetups finally we GDG Kathmandu and Mobile Nepal (Mobile Social Networking Nepal) together with Nepal Open Source Klub organized an one day workshop on Android Development. The workshop guided android enthusiast and beginners to move one step up and ahead in the field.

Date: Saturday - August 25th 1 PM Onwards (1PM - 5PM)
Venue: GPA (Global Peace Association) Nepal In front of Nepal Academy Hall, Kamaladi

Schedule:

12:50 - 13:00 - Registration
13:00 - 13:30 - Introduction to android development : Presentation
13:30 - 15:30 - Training Session - sdk setup, android history, using
eclipse ADK
15:30 - 16:00 - Refreshment
16:00 - 16:30 - Local developer's perspective in Android Development -
how to publish apps, easiest way to pay play store fee, play store
analytics for apps, how to handle user feedback, developers
perspective in app development
16:30 - 17:00 - Local enterprise experience in Android Development -
reaching users, marketing apps, how to solve local problems with
mobile apps, enterprise experience

Participants: 60

It was awesome event. Participant were able to understand overall scenario/picture of android apps development in Nepal and get ideas from starting their own apps development to deploying in Google Play Store along with ideas on how to reach customers/market.

Speakers:

Richan Shrestha CEO @ Nepways Pvt Ltd

chandra man shrestha Senior Software Engineer @ Verisk IT | Kathmandu

anish shrestha Programmer @ Nepzilla Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Samrakchan Ghimire Android (Java) Programmer @ Gorato

Ritesh Bhattarai Android Developer @ Freelance

Training Code. Fork it.
https://github.com/samrakchan/HelloNepal

Other Sample Android projects for reference:

ClientDetail - Code Prepared for keeping customers detail, Demonstrates use
of SQLite and exporting database to SD Card
https://github.com/samrakchan/ClientDetails

Yatayat - Code Prepared for Yatayat project - Demonstrates use of JSON
https://github.com/iPrayag/Yatayat

Presentation:

Developer's perspective on Android apps development (app : Nepal Load
Shedding Schedule):
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jwCMGQtfoh5sU6fNxaliAIbz-eEij...

Enterprise Experience Sharing ( app : nLocate )
https://docs.google.com/open?id=1-BYpqW87VmFEXY8vApSOnBwX79NuG6tYg0Wa...

Few snaps from the event:

Please check Android Workshop Google+ Event more pictures & participants info: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/104003514155874791868/events/cvj6l8j2qk8urs7v0sr7a07ala0

Most of all it’s great to see such enthusiasm in participants to get started in Android Application development. Glad we could bridge the gap in some extent. To all of those whom we couldn’t register to the event, we will be hosting series of android trainings / workshops in future and your presence will be our priority. Thanks a lot for such an overwhelming response.

- Bhupal Sapkota, Community Manager, GDG Kathmandu, http://gplus.to/bhu1st