In order to boost the government’s Skill India initiative, on Monday, technology giant Google launched its Android Skilling and Certification programme. This was done with the intention of making the country a global hub of high quality mobile app developers. In this programme, by offering a slew of initiatives to train and certify talented students and developers in Android development they plan to train two million mobile developers. Find out how you can join the programme here.
Reporters in New Delhi were told by Caesar Sengupta, the Vice President and Product Management at Google, that with nearly four million developers, India is expected to have the largest developer population globally by 2018. But today, only 25 percent of them are building for mobile. He added that 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.
To provide an in-person training to students in universities, an instructor led training programme on Android fundamentals has been launched by Google. Starting from July 18, this course will be available free of charge on NTPEL which is an initiative of IITs and IISc as part of its online Mobile Computing course, along with all public and private universities and training institutes of the National Skill Development Corporation of India. To prepare students for Android certification, Google has tied up with training partners like Edureka, Koenig, Manipal Global, Simplilearn, Udacity and UpGrad who will operate in India as authorized Android training partners to help Google train the trainers and update Android courseware. Sengupta also said that by building a world-class curriculum and making it easily accessible to the students, we want to contribute to the Skill India initiative and make India the global leader in mobile app development.
