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If you’ve ever hit performance issues that affect your app’s usability, this course will teach you how to identify and diagnose your performance problems. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to perform exploratory tests, run profiling tools, use outputs to navigate to problematic code, and design a plan of attack to mitigate poor performance. You’ll also gain a higher level of understanding about how program code and the Android platform interact, which will help you optimize for performance in the future.
Syllabus
Lesson 0: Welcome!
An introduction to the course content and structure.Lesson 1: Render
How to identify and diagnose the key performance problems that come with drawing to the screen.Lesson 2: Compute and Memory
Understand how code is executed in your program, and how to handle the performance problems associated with compute and memory.Lesson 3: Battery
How to detect and diagnose battery problems, and why it matters to your users.Instructors
- Colt McAnlis - Colt McAnlis is a Developer Advocate at Google focusing on Performance and Gaming; Before that, he was a graphics programmer in the games industry working at Blizzard, Microsoft, and Petroglyph. He’s been an Adjunct Professor at SMU Guildhall, a UDACITY instructor, and a Book Author. Recently, he’s been teaching Android Devs the Zen of Performance. When he's not working with developers, Colt spends his time preparing for an invasion of giant ants from outer space. You can follow him on G+ (+Colt McAnlis) or Twitter (@duhroach)
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Google is a company founded on 4 September 1998 in the Google garage in Silicon Valley, California, by Larry Page and Sergueï Brin, creators of the Google search engine.
The company made its name primarily through the monopolistic position of its search engine, which faced competition first from AltaVista and then from Yahoo! and Bing. It has since made a number of acquisitions and developments, and today owns a number of noteworthy software products and websites, including YouTube, the Android operating system for mobile phones, and other services such as Google Earth, Google Maps and Google Play.
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Udacity is a for-profit educational organization founded by Sebastian Thrun, David Stavens, and Mike Sokolsky offering massive open online courses (MOOCs). According to Thrun, the origin of the name Udacity comes from the company's desire to be "audacious for you, the student". While it originally focused on offering university-style courses, it now focuses more on vocational courses for professionals.
