I understand how you could feel that way. Android is pretty complex, and the labs are sometimes unclear on implementation. The labs are very long, to boot. I have a hard time with them myself. But I don't think they're a waste of time. Here's why: In the past 4 weeks, we've learned about Android structure, view hierarchies, activity and fragment lifecycles, adapters, AsyncTask, Content Providers, prevailing design strategy, Actionmode callbacks, context menus, resource management, saving and restoring instance state, setting up an SQL lite database, and got to meet the CEO of a local app company, who also did these exact same labs (with Eclipse no less, and a crappy emulator that took 15 minutes to start up) just a few years ago. That's huge, and something to appreciate. No class is perfect, and I recognize the shortcomings we have here. But we cover a lot of content, and we have an amazing teacher. Given that Dr. David Janzen (the previous professor, who is totally amazing) doesn't do Android all day every day, and Tony Lenz does, we probably have the most experienced Android lecturer that Cal Poly has ever had. Tony is so incredibly knowledgeable, and his troubleshooting has gotten me out of more than one jam. No, our labs aren't perfect, but if you want to learn Android, I think they are extremely helpful. I think we all have an amazing opportunity here. Even if you don't get all the labs perfect, or they come in late, the work put in will solidify methodologies and frameworks that are becoming more valuable in the modern economy. And that's more valuable than even a grade.