Google targets to train developers in India on its Android platform

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Technical giant Google wants to train more than 2 million developers in India on its Android platform in next three years. India, which has about one million people working on solutions for the Android mobile platform, is poised to become home to about 4 million developers by 2018, making it the world’s largest developer base.
Caesar Sengupta, who is Google Vice President Product Management, told reporters, “India is expected to have the largest developer population worldly, overtaking the US, by 2018, with four million developers. But today only 25 per cent of developers are building for mobile’’. The in-person training module integrated into the course curriculum will be introduced within this calendar year by these partners. Google Head of Developer Training Peter Lubbers said the company aims to train about 2 million people in the next three years. The training is available for both students as well as mid-career developers, he added. Google’s global rival, Apple, is also making heavy investments in India to push its iOS mobile platform. In May, it announced setting up a software laboratory in Bengaluru to support startups and developers working on its iOS platform. It had said Apple’s team will work with developers on best practices, help them hone their skills and transform the design, quality and performance of their apps on iOS platform. Lubbers said Google has partnered universities like Amity University, Lovely Professional University, GD Goenka University and Rayat Bahra University among others for its initiative. It has also partnered training organisations like Edureka, Koenig, Manipal Global, Simplilearn, Udacity and UpGrad, who will operate as Authorised Android Training Partners in India. “We are also training the trainers to update their Android courseware to prepare students for the Android Certification and a career in Android development...We expect to train about 4,000 faculty members,” Lubbers said. Google has also launched a job-oriented Associate Android Developer Certification, a performance-based exam that will help successful candidates get entry-level Android developer jobs. After training, candidates can log on to the Google Developer training website and take the certification exam for Rs 6,500.
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