Duration

5 days

AUDIENCE

This course is designed for Programmers, Software Developers or anyone who are interested in designing, creating, deploying and testing applications for the Android mobile phone platform

PREREQUISITES

Computer Programming experience (any language) is required to get the most benefit from this training

METHODOLOGY

This program will be conducted with interactive lectures, PowerPoint presentation, discussion and practical exercise

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Learn to design and build mobile applications with hands-on guide using Google's Android™ open-source platform.

By the end of the course, you will be able to

Design and build your own complete Android application incorporating most of the key aspects of the platform.
Explain the differences between Android™ and other mobile development environments
Understand how Android™ applications work, their life cycle, manifest, Intents, and using external resources

MODULES

Introduction

Open Handset Alliance
Android Platform
What’s New
Android 4.x
Architecture
Kernel
Libraries
Dalvik Virtual Machine
Application Framework
Android Startup
Android Runtime
Runtime Features

Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

Android SDK
Eclipse & ADT Plug-in
Android SDK Manager
Eclipse IDE and Debugger

Android Development Tool (ADT)

Android Emulator and Virtual Devices(AVD)
Android Emulator
Android Debug Bridge(ADB)
Dalvik Debug Monitor Service(DDMS)

My First Project

Simple Android Project
Anatomy of Android Project
Creating your first Simple Android Project

Under The Hood

Introduction

Physical Structure of an Android Application
Introduction to Application Components
Activity
Service
Content Provider
Broadcast Receiver
Application Life Cycle
Inside the Manifest

Activities

Activities and View
Activities in-Depth
Creating & Registering Activities
Launching Activities
Activity and Data Flow
Returning Data back from Activity

Intents

Explicit vs Implicit Intents
Android provided Intents
Intent Routing

Resources

Resources Architecture in Android
Res Folder
Android Asset Packaging Tool
Various Resources Types
RAW Resources
Assets vs Resources
Effective Resource Management

UI/UX

Introduction & Overview
View Architecture in Android
View, ViewGroup, Layout & Widget o Layouts
Linear
Table
Frame
Relative
Grid
Common Widgets
ImageView
WebView
Using the Android Hierarchy Viewer

Adapters

Introduction to Adapters
Built-in Adapters
WritingCustomAdapters
ListView
ListActivity
GridView

Fragments

Introduction to Fragments
Life-cycle of Fragments
Creating Fragments
Fragment Manager and Transaction
Fragment Backstack

Action Bar

Anatomy of ActionBar
Action Items
Handling Action Items

Events and Gestures

Touch Events
Motion Events
Handling Touch Events
Gestures

Service

Services Application Component
Service Runtime
Implementing a Local Service
Registering a Local Service
IntentService

Broadcast Receivers

Creating Broadcast Receiver
Listening for Broadcasts
Narrow Broadcast Receiver

SQLite

Introduction to SQLite
SQLite Classes in Android SDK
SQLite Helper Classes
CRUD Operations

Background Work

Why Threading?
Loopers
Java Threading
AsyncTask
Handlers
Messages & Runnables
Loaders

Multimedia

Playing Audio/Video
Recording Audio/Video
Camera
Intent based Camera

Web Services

SOAP Web Service
RESTful Web Service
JSON

Google Maps

Location Service
Location Listener
Intents
Geocoder
Google Maps API

Native Development Kit

Introduction to NDK
SDK vs NDK
Setting up Eclipse for Native Development
Building C/C++ Projects using ndkbuild
Android.mk
Java JNI Basic
Creating JNI Wrappers

Profiling

Eclipse Memory Analyzer
TraceView
systrace
Memory Usage – Dos and Don’ts

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