Duration

5 days

Overview

This workshop is a hands-on guide to designing and building mobile applications using Google's Android open-source platform. The course explains what Android is, the Android SDK, all essential features, as well as the advanced capabilities and APIs such as background services and notifications. This complete hands-on workshop encourages participants to learn by building a real-life working application, which can serve as a basis for their future Android projects. By the end of the course, each participant will have a complete functional Android application incorporating most of the key features of the platform.

Target audience

This workshop is intended for software developers interested in developing applications for Android mobile phones supporting popular Android versions.

Prerequisites

All participants should know the fundamental of object oriented programming using JAVA, candidate should be familiar with basic Java SE 1.7++ (classes, control flow statements, instantiation, inheritance, initialization, assignment, method overloading and overriding etc).

Objectives

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

Build your own applications for Android mobile phones.
Understand how Android applications work, Android application components, manifest, and Intent.
Design Android applications with compelling user interfaces by using and creating your own layouts using external resources.
Use Android Web APIs for assessing Web Services such as Twitter etc. in background services
Take advantage of Android APIs for data storage and retrieval via user preferences, files and local databases.
Utilize the powerful Android API on maps, speech, medias and hardware to build complex applications
Debug, test and deploy your own applications on Google Play Store.

Course Outline

Guidance Introduction (Day1)

What is Android?
Android Architecture
Android Version and Distribution
Knowledge Check

Android Development Environment

System requirements
Workflow
Demo Development Environment Setup
Unpacking SDK ADT Bundle
Installing and Updating SDK
Creating AVD
Connecting a Mobile Device
Knowledge Check
Lab Activity 1

Android App Development

Demo App Development
Assigning ID
Size, Padding and Margins
Project Structure
Android Activity
Activity Life Cycle
Knowledge Check
Lab Activity 2
First App Source Code

Android UI

UI layout
Android Common Layout#
Demo Layouts and Widgets Manipulation
Knowledge Check

Handling UI Widgets Input Events

OnClickListener
Image View
ImageButton
EditText
CheckBox
Flipper
Knowledge Check
Lab Activity 3

Widgets (Day2)

Selection Widgets
Adapter
ListView
Spinner
GridView
Gallery
HorizontalScrollView
AutoCompleteTextView
Knowledge Check
Lab Activity 4

Toast, Dialogs and Notifications

Toast
Custom Toast
Dialog
Notification
Knowledge Check
Lab Activity 5

Other User Interface (Day3)

Option Menu and Action Bar
Context Menu
Knowledge Check

Intent

Passing Data
Sharing using Intent
Sharing using Intent chooser
Sharing with specific package
Knowledge Check
Lab Activity 6

Asynctask Internet Connection

WebView
HttpGet
HttpPost
HttpURLConnection
Knowledge Check

Persistent application data

Shared Preferences
File Resources
SQLite Database
Knowledge Check
Lab Activity 7

Location Service (Day4)

Location
Map
GeoCoding
Reverse GeoCoding
Knowledge Check

Speech

Text to Speech
Speech Recognizer
Knowledge Check
Lab Activity

Multitouch

Motion Event
Multi Touch

Media

Media Player
Media Recorder
Image Capture
Video Capture

Sensor (Day5)

Accelerometer
Proximity
Gyroscope

Vibration Telephony

Making a Call
Sending SMS
Telephony State

Publishing

Registering
Signing
Application Version
Package naming
Google Play
3rd Party Market

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.