Engineering Maintainable Android Apps
Vanderbilt University · View on Coursera ↗
Taught by Dr. Douglas C. Schmidt, Michael Walker, Dr. Jules White
Computer Science
About the course
Engineering Maintainable Android Apps, which is a 4 week MOOC that shows by example various methods for engineering maintainable Android apps, including test-driven development methods and how to develop/run unit tests using JUnit and Robotium (or equivalent automated testing frameworks for Android), as well as how to successfully apply common Java/Android software patterns to improve the extensibility and clarity of Android apps. Students will work on the appropriate automated unit quizzes, bas
The dissent
The most-upvoted critical review (2 votes, 1.0★).
“The course doesn't contain any useful information. Course also is obsolete. This is not a course about development for android. This course consist from some theory about android global.”
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