Course Description | Course Outline | Software Development | IT Training

Chapter 1. Introduction to Android

• What is Android?
• What are the advantages of the Android platform?
• A survey of manufacturers and carriers offering Android.
• Current market statistics for device sales and applications available.

Chapter 2. Setting up a Development Environment

• What tools do we need?
• Downloading the SDK
• Downloading the Android platform
• What version of Android to develop for?
• Installing Eclipse plug-in.
• Basic development and testing workflow.
• Debugging applications.

Chapter 3. The Android Architecture

• Key features of Android
  • Dalvik VM
  • 2D graphics library
  • 3D graphics using OpenGL ES
  • Web browser
  • GSM telephony
  • GPS
  • Accelerometer
  • Development SDK
  • SQLite
• The architecture
• The libraries
  • System C Library
  • Media library
  • Surface manager
  • LibWebCore
  • 2D graphics (SGL) and 3D graphics (OpenGL ES).
  • FreeType
  • SQLite
• The Linux kernel
• The application process model
• The thread model
• VM sharing by applications
• Secure access to application files

Chapter 4. Application Fundamentals

• Key components of an application
  • Activities
  • Services
  • Broadcast receivers
  • Content providers
• Understanding intents
• The manifest file
• Activities and tasks
• Activity lifecycle
• Service lifecycle
• Broadcast receiver lifecycle

Chapter 5. Basics of UI Development

• Views
• Widgets
• View groups
• The view hierarchy
• Basic layout using API
• Handling widget events
• Basic widgets
  • Button
  • Checkbox
  • RadioButton, RadioGroup
  • TextView
  • EditText
  • ProgressWindow
• Showing notification messages
  • Alert dialog
  • Progress dialog
  • Toast notification
  • Status bar notification

Chapter 6. Advanced UI Development

• Declaring layout in XML
• Loading XML layout
• Layout parameters
• Advanced layout options
  • TableLayout
  • FrameLayout
  • Gallery
  • RelativeLayout
  • ScrollView
• Advanced widgets
  • ViedoView
  • TabWidget
  • Spinner
  • SlidingDrawer
  • ListView
  • GridView
  • Date and time picker
• Data binding with AdapterView

Chapter 7. Custom UI Development

• Adding widgets to alert dialog
• Custom dialog design using XML or API
• Building custom views or widgets

Chapter 8. Localization and Resource Management

• What is localization?
• When should you localize applications?
• Externalizing text and image resources
• Using text and image resources

Chapter 9. Data Storage

• Preferences
• Internal and external storage
• SQLite data storage

Chapter 10. The Networking API

• The architecture of thin client application
• Using the java.net package
• Using the android.net package
• Communication data format
  • Plain text
  • XML

Chapter 11. Graphics Programming

• 2D Graphics API details
• 3D Graphics API details

Chapter 12. Multimedia

• Audio and Video playback
• Playing JET content
• Audio capture

Chapter 13. Testing and Performance Tuning

• The testing framework
• The testing API
• Testing the UI
• Profiling applications
• Detecting excessive CPU and memory usage

Chapter 14. Publishing Your Application

• Signing your application
• Versioning the application
• Building the application package
• Publishing on Android Market