Student.
Anyone able to find good course on mobile application development.(1/2 - 1 year type not 3years)(not those 2-3days type)?
Which faculty are you currently in ? Computer science ? Mobile application development is a specialize form of computer science application, so you still need to be a full fledge computer science developer if you want to be good in it.
If you are already a computer science student, then I will say you already have what it takes to self-study on it. You just need more information like which platform, which language to learn, what is the approach to develop and deploy.
For Android, the platform and requirements are pretty simple, Eclipse, the Android Development Kit (with the simulator), and android device and you are ready. You just need to read up on various literatures on how Android works and what API there are to control the phone. Also on the development guidelines, interface design so forth.
For Apple iOS, it's abit more involving. You need to have a mac to start with, that's if you don't want to go into a pretty advance setup with gcc toolchain. Next you also need to sign up with the Apple development programme if you wanted to actually deploy into a real iOS device. If not, all you are restricted to, is the iOS simulator running on your mac.
There are quite a number of confusing certificates deployment procedures you need to setup on your XCode environment, which has slightly different procedure throughout the history of Xcode. You also need to learn the language that Apple iOS is using for mobile development, the interface design guidelines and how to deploy.
Course.... never came across. Most of these are self-learnt by alot of developers. They are normally quite expensive too. There are not really any surprises to it if you are a keen follower of technology.
On the other hand, if you are not a computer science student, then go and fulfil a 3/4 years computer science course before you embark in anything on serious programming or technology development.
