Android Application
Duration: Five days
development Course
The courses consists 31 modules covering all major topics of
Android programming, sufficient for participant to develop and
deploy an applet to any Android marketplace. The training is of
full 5 days -consist of lectures, guided workshop and self
exercises.
Android Training Modules
1) The Basics: An introduction to the major components of
an Android application, what tools and languages one
uses to make an Android application, and what an
Android activity looks like.
2) Simple GUIs, Part One: How to create a user interface
using layout XML files, how to use fields, labels, and
buttons, and how to organize them into rows and
columns on-screen.
3) Simple GUIs, Part Two: How to organize widgets in
other forms, and how to use checkboxes and radio
buttons.
4) Development Tools: How to use the Dalvik Debug
Monitor System (DDMS) to inspect error logs,
manipulate files on the emulator, and simulate
incoming calls and GPS fixes. Also, how to use the
Hierarchy Viewer to inspect a running activity's user
interface, to isolate problems and ensure the user
interface meets designer specifications.
5) Selection Widgets: How to use adapters to convert data
collections into rows in a list, how Android operates
with or without the use of a touch-screen, and how to
use “spinners” (dropdown selection lists).
6) Fancy Lists: How to make rows in a list involve multiple
pieces of data, and then how to do that efficiently,
without wasting memory or CPU time.
7) Fancy Widgets: How to collect dates and times from
users, how to implement user interfaces with tabs, and
how to otherwise put more information in an activity
than can fit on a single screen.
8) Menus and Messages: How to set up option menus
(launched via the hardware MENU button), how to set
up context menus (launched via a long-tap on a user
interface element), how to display dialog boxes, and
how to display short message “toasts” on-screen.
9) Threads: How Android works with operating system
threads, how to allow a background thread and
foreground thread to work together to update a user
interface, and how to indicate to the user that
background processing is ongoing (“progress
indicators”).
10) The Activity Lifecycle: What causes activities to be
created and destroyed; what you should do when
Course Title: Android Application development course
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activities are created and destroyed; when activities are
paused, stopped, started, and resumed (and what to do
in those cases); and how to save your user interface
state in case the activity is being ejected from RAM due
to low memory conditions.
11) Resources: How non-Java assets (e.g., images) are
packaged in an Android application, how to externalize
and internationalize strings, and how to declare
multiple layouts or draw able to accommodate multiple
screen sizes and densities.
12) Databases: What SQLite is and how it relates to
Android, how to create a database and update its
schema when the application is updated, how to query
the database, how to manipulate the contents of the
database, and how to use transactions with the
database.
13) Using Multiple Activities: Why you may wish to use
more than one activity to manage your application's
user interface, how to add a second (or subsequent)
activity to your application, how to launch other
activities in your application, and how to integrate
activities from the Android operating system (e.g.,
browser, map) into your application.
14) Preferences and Files: How to store user preferences in
Android and where they reside on the device, how to
collect user preferences from the user via the standard
Android preference user interface, and the limitations
on reading and writing files using standard Java file I/O
operations.
15) Rotation Events: What happens by default when the
user changes the screen orientation from portrait to
landscape, how to maintain activity state when the
orientation is changed, how to block orientation
changes, and how to have the orientation change
always be triggered by the accelerometer.
16) Using HttpClient: How to access the Internet from your
Android application, how to call out to Web services
using the HttpClient library, and how to parse XML or
JSON data that the Web services might return.
17) Creating Services: What roles services play in an
Android application, how to add a service to your
application, and how to define what that service will do.
18) Using Services: How to start or bind to a service, what
the difference is between starting and binding to a
service, and how to allow the service to asynchronously
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21) Location Tracking: What sources of location data are
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available in Android, how to request that Android notify
you when the device moves, and how you and the user
can collaborate to determine the best possible source
of location data available based on user criteria.
22) Maps: Options for integrating maps into an Android
application, how to integrate Google Maps into an
activity's user interface, how to control what the map is
displaying, and how to highlight points of interest on a
map.
23) Media: How to play back audio and video on an Android
device, what media formats are supported, and what
limitations Android places on streaming media
playback.
24) Camera/Sensors: How to set up picture preview with
the camera, how to take a picture with the camera, how
to find out what direction the device is pointing, and
how to detect device movement in three dimensions.
25) App Widgets: What an app widget is, how to define a
new app widget, and how to control what an app
widget looks like on the user's home screen.
26) Advanced App Widgets: How to control when the app
widget gets updated, how to launch activities from an
app widget, how to collect configuration settings from
the user for an app widget, and how to support multiple
copies of an app widget for the same user.
27) Testing: What JUnit is and how it is used outside of
Android, how to run JUnit test suites in an Android
emulator, how Android extended JUnit to support GUI
testing, and the usage of the “test monkey” for
simulating random user input.
28) Production Applications: How to digitally sign Android
applications, how to prepare an application for
distribution, how to upload an application to the
Android Market, and how to distribute an Android
application outside of the Android Market.
29) Making Money at Mobile: Recommendations on how
to choose an application to build and how you should
go about promoting it, and other business models to
consider beyond selling individual applications to
individual users.
30) Android Beyond Java: Other ways to create Android
applications without using Java (e.g. HTML5), what the
Native Development Kit is and why you would use it,
and how to integrate scripting languages into an
Android application.
31) Other Mobile Platforms: Comparison of application
development on iPhone, Windows Phone, Blackberry,
Symbian, WebOS, and Android.