Android Development

Android Training Course

Introduction to Android

• Overview of Android

• Java Editions and comparison with Android

• Android Apps – Design, Vendor, Behavioral Classification

Android Architecture Overview

• Android Architecture

• Application Frameworks

• Android Libraries, Run time, Dalvik Virtual Machine

Setup of Android Development Environment

• System Requirements

• Java, Eclipse and Android SDK Installation

• Android SDK  and Tools

• Android Virtual Devices & Device Definitions

Your Android Application

• Android Application Design

• Using PhotoShop for Graphic Designing

• Android Application Wireframes (screens)

Your First Android Application

• Creating Android Application

• Creating Configurations

• Testing the app: AVD, Active Device

• Android Project Structure and Manifest file

Publishing to the Play Store

• Release process and Release build of Android Application

• Signing the .apk file

• Preparing the Store Listing page

• Content Rating

• Distributing the Application

• Merchant Registration for Paid Applications

Activities

• About XML – approach to design layouts

• Views and Layouts

• View properties

• Linear Layout vs. Relative Layout vs. Frame Layout vs. Absolute Layout

• Localization of UI

• Best practices for targeting various form factors: phone, tablet, TV

• Best practices when working designing Android UI

Android Testing

• Creating a Test Project for Android project

• Working with Test Packages

• Writing test cases

Fragments

• Designing fragments

• Fragments life cycle

• Fragment management and integration

User Interfaces

• Creating the Activity

• XML versus Java UI

• Selection Widgets, Using fonts

• Common UI components

• Handling UI events: a bit about listeners

Advanced UI

• Adapters

• Complex UI components

• Menus and Dialogs

• Tabbed Activities

• Navigation Drawer

• Animations

• Create activity layouts programmatically

• Testing and optimizing UI

Android Material Design

• What is material ?

• Material properties and Styling / Animations

• Material Patterns

Resources

• Overview of Android Resources

• Creating Resources

• Using Resources

• Drawable Resources

• Animation Resources

Broadcast Receivers

• Broadcast receiver usage patterns: when and why to use them

• Implementing a broadcast receiver

• Registering a broadcast receiver via the manifest file and Programmatically

Background Services

• Overview of Android services

• Service lifecycle

• Declaring a service

• Registering a service

• Starting and stopping a service

• Threads and other concurrency considerations with services

• Bound versus unbound services

• Remote versus local services

Intents

• Working with Intents

• Explicit and implicit intents

• Using Intents as messaging objects

• Intents to start components expecting results

Storing and Retrieving Data

• Storage Model selection criteria

• Shared preferences

• Internal Storage – Files

• External Storage – SD Card

• Testing the created files, tools

SQLite Database

• Introducing SQLite

• SQLiteOpenHelper and creating a database

• Opening and closing a database

• Working with cursors

• Inserts, updates, and deletes

Native Content Providers

• Content provider types

• Searching for content

• Adding, changing, and removing content

• Native Android Content Providers

• Accessing Contact Book, Calendar

Custom Content Providers

• Custom Content Provider classes

• Publishing content providers

Web Services

• Understanding Web Services

• Web Services Architecture

• Building Server side components

• Publishing web services

• REST based web services

• Accessing Web Services

• Integrating Web Services with mobile client

• Overview of networking

• Checking the network status and web service status

• Working with HTTP to access the web services

Parsing, Parsers

• Document Object Model ( DOM )

• Simple API for XML ( SAX )

• JavaScript Object Notation ( JSON )

• Parsing XML and JSON

Location Based Services

• Using Location Manager, Location Provider

• GPS and Network based tracking

• Testing the application using KML files

• Simulation of the locations on the active device

• Location Listeners and Proximity Alerts

Integrating Google Maps

• API Version 2 of Google Maps

• User Interface – MapFragments

• API key generation

• Registrations in the manifest file

• Google Map, Camera Positions

• Adding Markers, Circles, Polylines

• Google Maps Directions API

Telephony

• Telephony background

• Accessing telephony information

• Monitoring data activity and connectivity

• Working with messaging SMS

Multimedia in Android

• Playing Audio & Video

• Recording Audio & Video

• Customizing Camera & Capturing Photos

• Voice Recognition

• Text To Speech

Bluetooth

• Controlling local Bluetooth device

• Discovering and bonding with Bluetooth devices

• Managing Bluetooth connections

• Communicating with Bluetooth

Social Networking Integrations

• Facebook Integration

Debugging  and Testing Android Apps

• Logcat

• Debugger

• Traceview

• HierarchyViewer

• Monkey Runner

• UIAutomator