In the country of diversity Google revealed a slew of initiatives for educating and certifying students as well as programmers as part of its Android skilling programme. This programme aims to offer training to 2,000,000 mobile application developers in India.
The ILT programme on Android Fundamentals is going to be available across private and public universities & training institutes of National Skill Development Corporation.
Today, Android dominates the world market for mobile OS and competes with Apple that even invests in enabling the developers to make mobile apps for iOS.
Google's Vice President of Product Management, Caesar Sengupta, said “India is expected to have the largest developer population globally, overtaking the US, by 2018, with 4 million developers, but only 25% are building for mobile today. We believe India is uniquely placed to innovate and shape the Internet experience of billions of users who are and will come online on the mobile platform.”
In-person training module integrated into course curriculum is going to be introduced in 2016 itself without any extra fee. It is going to be made available for free on National Programme On Technology Enhanced Learning platform, which is an initiative of IITs & Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, as part of its online mobile computing course. This is to be started on July 18.
This move of Google came after Apple planned to open up a development accelerator in Bangalore for providing specialised support to the iOS developers. The American multinational technology company has in fact tied up with Koenig, Edureka, Simplilearn, Manipal Global,UpGrad and Udacity, among others, which is going to operate as certified Android training partners in the country.
The programme is hoped to be offered in about two thousands universities training almost four thousand faculty for reaching more than 2 lakh 50 thousand students per year. Google is going to offer training to their trainers & update Android courseware for preparing the students for Android certification as well as a career in the field of Android development.
Google will even open-source all the fundamental practicals & courseware of Android developer and make everything available to everyone without taking any charge. Sengupta said, “We want to contribute to the Skill India initiative and help make India the global leader in mobile app development.”
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