In this section we will cover both the skills needed as well as the technical spec required 1
to be able to follow this course 2
As for your setup you do not require a heavy duty with high specs 3
But since we will be developing an app and running android emulators on our machine 4
there are some thing we need to consider. 5
In order to follow the complete course in an ideal scenario you would work in a dedicated machine 6
Virtual Machines are extremely popular 7
and will actually work 90% of the course. In some instances however 8
You may encounter issues particularly when you are using an Android Emulator. 9
If you run an emulator on an VM it will not work or if it will work it will 10
be extremely slow. 11
If you have no other option but to work on a VM, do not worry you will still be able to cover most 12
of the course. Just keep in mind especially when using an emulator, that if something does not work it is probably 13
due to VM emulator 14
issues. That being said the parts involving emulators are minimal 15
and you can always follow the videos to see the tools in action 16
In our case we set up a very low spec machine. 17
Even 4GB of RAM would suffice, however in terms of performance the more the better. 18
Emulators are a bit heavy on storage so keep that in mind. 19
We are talking a few GB of storage per emulator. 20
In terms of OS we will be conducting most of the course across different Platforms 21
Namely Linux and Windows. The tools we will work with 22
are either Java of python based and are therefore multi-platform. We will be 23
conducting the labs setup sections on a Kali Linux machine just because it is the least straight forward in 24
terms of installation steps for the tools so we can show the worst case scenario. In the case of windows you will probably 25
be dealing with wizards 26
or single line installation commands. You will notice that in some cases 27
we will be switching 28
between windows and linux, partly for convenience but also to show that the tools work similarly across platforms 29
Now as for the skills required by the participants 30
We deigned the course with the assumption that the student 31
is not to familiar with Android, this means that it is an introductory and we do not require any 32
particular knowledge or skills. We do however assume the student has some basic IT knowledge.