Android Apps Development

Android Apps Development

This course includes some fundamental core courses

Course Outline

• MODULE - 1: Introducing the Android Platform

  • Establishing the development environment
  • Analyzing components of the architecture

• MODULE - 2: Leveraging Application Fundamentals

  Building mobile applications

  • Creating activities to process user input
  • Implementing views to build the User Interface (UI)
  • Packaging applications for deployment
  • Developing unit tests

  Supporting asynchronous behavior

  • Performing background tasks with services
  • Communicating with intents

• MODULE - 3: Creating User Interfaces

  Selecting visual components

  • Building the layout
  • Connecting a view to an activity
  • Positioning form elements

  Working with resource declarations

  • Declaring component definitions and layouts
  • Handling multiple screen resolutions
  • Localizing applications

• MODULE - 4: Processing User Input

  Communicating with the user

  • Creating and displaying Toast
  • Generating status bar notifications
  • Logging key application events

  Interacting with the UI

  • Responding to user input events
  • Launching activities with intents
  • Writing Java event handlers
  • Generating context and option menus

  Managing the activity life cycle

  • Integrating with the Android system
  • Persisting data in response to notifications

• MODULE - 5: Persisting Application Data

  Selecting storage options

  • Contrasting internal and external storage locations
  • Saving application configuration with SharedPreferences

  Manipulating the SQLite database

  • Executing queries to locate information
  • Specifying column selections with projections

  Consuming and creating content providers

  • Accessing shared data resources
  • Addressing content providers with URIs

• MODULE - 6: Maintaining System Responsiveness

  Avoiding Application Not Responding (ANR) errors

  • Unloading the UI thread
  • Designing for asynchronous execution

  Building background services

  • Launching IntentServices
  • Declaring services in the manifest

• MODULE - 7: Exchanging Data over the Internet

  Interacting with server-side applications

  • Synchronizing Android devices with servers
  • Communicating via HTTP clients

  Developing clients for web services

  • Connecting to RESTful services
  • Creating and parsing JSON

• MODULE - 8: Enhancing the User Experience

  Incorporating the Action Bar

  • Manipulating objects with drag and drop
  • Supporting orientation and multiple screen resolutions with resources
  • Combining fragments into a multi-pane UI

  Leveraging geolocation and mapping capabilities

  • Plotting positions on Google Maps
  • Establishing location through GPS, Cell-ID and WiFi