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