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.
Day 1
Guidance Introduction
- 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
Day 2
Widgets
- 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
Day 3
Other User Interface
- 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
Day 4
Location Service
- 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
Day 5
Sensor
- 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.