A Short Term Training Program on

Mobile Application Development At VGEC Chandkheda, Sponsored By GTU

20th -24th June, 2011

Gujarat Technological University has always supported the latest trends in industry and tried

to implement those in benefit of the students. To take this a step forward Honourable Vice

Chancellor Dr.Akshai Aggarwal the visionary man, has set up a state level board for mobile and

wireless technology and under the activity of this board a state level program on mobile application

development was organized at Vishwakarma Government Engineering College, Chandkheda. Forum

Nokia Finland, Singapore and Bangalore took keen interest to support this activity and provided

Nokia technology experts to deliver the session on how to develop mobile application in various

platforms. The program was planned to expose participants with every technology platforms and

there were session on Symbian OS, Google’s Android and Apple’s iPhone platform. Target group for

the STTP were engineers from IT, Computer, EC and IC branches. Around 100 students and 50 faculty

members across Gujarat participated in the five day programme.

The STTP was inaugurated by Honourable Vice Chancellor Dr. Akshai Aggarwal. First day

session was delivered by Forum Nokia Technology Expert Mr. Balagopal KS on “Mobile Application

Development Using Java”. The session was followed by hands-on practice in laboratory. Second day

included presentations by Mr. Nitin Srivastava, Forum Nokia Technology Expert. Mr. Nitin Srivastava

demonstrated role of Qt platform in current mobile eco-system. On third day, Mr. Bharat D Sharma,

Director, Fortune Infocom Ltd discussed Google’s android OS for mobile devices. Fourth Day of STTP

was full of activities. Prof. Kiran Trivedi, Associate Professor, S. S. Engineering College, Bhavnagar

guided the participants on filing patent of their ideas/innovations and “Integration of Electronics

with Mobile Applications”. Prof. Mehul Jajal Assistant Professor, S. S. Engineering College, Bhavnagar

took a session “on rapid application development with Python for Symbian”. Mr. Chintan Umraliya,

Lecturer, Dr. J. N. Mehta Government Polytechnic, Amreli introduces “Web Runtime Widgets”

platform for developing web applications with nice UI. On the final day of STTP Mr.Gargi Das,

Software Engineer, Infostretch Solutions, explained mobile application development for Apple

iPhone OS.

Students as well as faculty members gained knowledge on the vast field of mobile

application development on different platforms. Nokia offered to set up Device Lab at Gujarat

Technological University for students to test their projects. Nokia also offered projects for final year

students as a submission of application in Ovi Store. Nokia invited the participants to enter the

global competition for developers, and set up a special category for participants in the contest.

GTU Registrar Dr. G.P. Vadodaria and Prof. M. R. Patel, Principal, VGEC Chandkheda

distributed certificates to the participants. Prof. Uday Trivedi and Prof. S. D. Panchal, VGEC

Chandkheda and his team took keen interest in organizing the STTP arranging facilities for

participants.

Group Photo

STTP Photos