The objective of this course is to provide students with the tools and skills needed to build mobile pplications, using the Android platform. The course starts with an introduction to Java programming environment and moves forward with creating stateful web services using Java and developing mobile applications consuming web services via the Android platform. Upon successful completion of this course, students are expected to design, code and implement applications on mobile and hand-held devices with limited resources; understand web services; manage messaging with HTTP; and deploy/consume web services residing on Java Application Servers.