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Android

Course outline

5 days
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Duration

5 days

Objectives

  • Understand the Android OS architecture.
  • Install and use appropriate tools for Android development, including IDE, device emulator, and profiling tools.
  • Understand the Android application architecture, including the roles of the task stack, activities, and services.
  • Build user interfaces with fragments, views, form widgets, text input, lists, tables, and more.
  • Use advanced UI widgets for scrolling, tabbing, and layout control.
  • Present menus via the Android action bar and handle menu selections.
  • Store application data on the mobile device, in internal or external storage locations.
  • Support user-specific preferences using the Android Preferences API.

Course Outline

  • The Android Operating System
  • Mobile Form Factors
  • Versions of Android
  • Applications and APK Files
  • Process Architecture
  • The Role of Java
  • Hello, Dalvik
  • What's In, What's Out
  • Services
  • User Interface
  • Memory and Storage
  • Operating-System Services
  • Inter-Process Communication
  • Android Development
  • The Android SDK
  • The SDK and AVD Managers
  • Configuring the Emulator
  • Eclipse
  • Resources
  • APK Files
  • Build Process
  • The R Class
  • Assets
  • The Dalvik Debug Monitor Server
  • The Android Debugger (adb)
  • Command Shells
  • The Android Log and LogCat
  • Ant
  • Applications
  • Activities and Fragments
  • Activity Lifecycle
  • The onCreate Method
  • Layouts and Views
  • The findViewById Method
  • Tasks and the "Back Stack"
  • Intents and Results
  • startActivity and Related Methods
  • Custom Application Classes
  • Shared Application State
  • User Interface Design
  • XML Layouts
  • Layout Parameters
  • The Box Model
  • Gravity
  • The LayoutInflater Service
  • The <LinearLayout>
  • The <RelativeLayout>
  • Views and Adapters
  • Form Widgets
  • Fragments and Multi-Form Design
  • The Fragments API
  • Fragment Lifecycle
  • Relationship Between Activity and Fragment
  • Possible Cardinalities
  • Communication between Activity and Fragment
  • Fragment Arguments
  • Callback Interfaces
  • Designing for Multiple Form Factors
  • Fragments on the Back Stack
  • Views, Adapters, and Dialogs
  • Styles and Themes
  • <include> and <merge>
  • View Orientation
  • Adapters
  • Dialog Fragments
  • Showing and Managing Dialogs
  • Using AlertDialog
  • Working with Text
  • The <TextView>
  • The <EditText>
  • Input Methods
  • Input Types: Phone, E-mail, Date, Time ...
  • DatePicker and TimePicker
  • Date- and Time-Picking Dialogs
  • Providing Auto-Completion
  • Using the Clipboard
  • Linkification
  • Working with Lists
  • AdapterView and Subclasses
  • Adapter and Subinterfaces
  • ListView and ListAdapter
  • ListFragment
  • Spinner and SpinnerAdapter
  • Handling Item Selection
  • Custom Adapters
  • ExpandableListView and ExpandableListAdapter
  • Working with Tables
  • The <TableLayout> and <TableRow>
  • Defining Table Cells
  • Static Table Layouts
  • Dynamic Tables
  • Binding Data
  • Using a Template Row
  • Managing IDs
  • Graphics and Low-Level Events
  • Drawing on a Canvas
  • The Paint Object
  • Handling Size and Orientation Changes
  • Handling Touch Events
  • Working with Drawables
  • Shape Drawables
  • Bitmap Drawables
  • 9-Patch Bitmaps
  • Custom Drawables
  • The Drawing Cache and Working with Bitmaps
  • Menus and the Action Bar
  • Options and Context Menus
  • The Action Bar
  • Menu Resources
  • The MenuInflater Service
  • The <Menu>
  • The Menu and MenuItem Classes
  • Handling Menu Selections
  • The Escape from switch/case!
  • Using a Dispatch Map
  • Building Menus Dynamically
  • Local Storage
  • The Android File System
  • Internal Storage
  • File Formats
  • Parsing JSON
  • Storage and the Application Lifecycle
  • External Storage
  • Private Storage vs. Public Media
  • Permissions
  • Checking for Availability
  • Preferences
  • Preferences Resources
  • The PreferencesFragment
  • The PreferencesManager
  • Reading Preferences

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