This workshop is designed to teach young researchers the basic application development skills that they can use to design research prototypes. Knowledge of the JAVA programming language is not assumed in this workshop. Therefore, this workshop will start with a quick introduction to JAVA for C++ programmers. Our young researchers will then begin learning android application development skills and hopefully pick up essentials of the JAVA programming language along the way.  They will develop a simple representative  application every week and piece them together to design a complete networked application at the end of the workshop.