With its vision to help make India a global hub of high-quality mobile developers, Google has launched the Android skilling programme in India that will aim to train two million mobile developers by unveiling a slew of initiatives to skill up, educate, and certify millions of students in android development.
This is a specially designed instructor led training programme on Android Fundamentals and will be made available across public and private universities and training institutes of the National Skill Development Corporation of India. The in-person training module integrated into the course curriculum will be introduced within this calendar year at no additional fee. The Android Fundamentals course will also be available, free of charge, on NPTEl (an initiative of the IITs and IISc) as part of its online Mobile Computing course starting July 18, 2016.
Google has also tied up with training partners like Edureka, Koenig, Manipal Global, Simplilearn, Udacity and UpGrad who will operate as authorized Android training partners in India.
Google announced the launch of its globally recognised job-oriented Associate Android Developer Certification — a performance-based exam that will help successful candidates to get an entry-level android developer jobs in the Industry. After training, aspiring candidates can log on to the google developer training website and take the certification exam priced at Rs6,500.