Android Development
Course Description
Learn the skills to develop an advanced level Android mobile application and discover the tools you can use, including Android Studio, and take the first step on your journey to becoming an Android developer!
Course Duration: 3 Months
Classes: 5 Days In a Week
Timing: Morning / Evening
Introduction To Mobile Apps
- I. Why we Need Mobile Apps
II. Different Kinds of Mobile Apps
III. Briefly about Android
Introduction Android
-
I. History Behind Android Development
II. What is Android?
III. Pre-requisites to learn Android
IV. Brief Discussion on Java Programming
Android Architecture
-
I. Overview of Android Stack
II. Android Features
III. Introduction to OS layers
Deep Overview in Android Stack
-
I. Linux Kernel
II. Libraries
III. Android Runtime
IV. Application Framework
V. Dalvik VM
Installing Android Machine
-
I. Configuring Android Stack
II. Creating Eclipse Environment
III. Integrating Android with Eclipse IDE
IV. Exploring Eclipse IDE
Creating First Android Application
-
I. Creating Android Project
II. Debugging Application through DDMS
III. setting up environment
IV. AVD Creation
V. Executing Project on Android Screen
Android Components
-
I. Activities
II. Services
III. Broadcast Receivers
IV. Content Providers
Hello World App
-
I. Creating your first project
II. The manifest file
III. Layout resource
IV. Running your app on Emulator
Building UI with Activities
-
I. Activities
II. Views, layouts and Common UI components
III. Creating UI through code and XML
IV. Activity lifecycle
V. Intents
VI. Communicating data among Activities
Advanced UI
-
I. Selection components (GridView, ListView, Spinner )
II. Adapters, Custom Adapters
III. Complex UI components
IV. Building UI for performance
V. Menus
VI. Creating custom and compound Views
Notifications
-
I. Toast, Custom Toast
II. Dialogs
III. Status bar Notifications
Multithreading
-
I. Using Java Multithreading classes
II. AsyncTask
III. Handler
IV. Post
V. Writing an animated game
Styles And Themes
-
I. Creating and Applying simple Style
II. Inheriting built-in Style and User-defined style
III. Using Styles as themes
Resources and Assets
-
I. Android Resource
II. Using resources in XML and code
III. Localization
IV. Handling Runtime configuration changes
The Intent, Intent Filters, and Broadcast Receivers
-
I. Role of filters
II. Intent-matching rules
III. Filters in your manifest
IV. Filters in dynamic Broadcast Receivers
V. Creating Broadcast receiver
Receiving System Broadcast
-
VI. Understanding Broadcast action, category, and data
VII. Registering Broadcast receiver through the code and through XML
VIII. Sending Broadcast
Data Storage
-
I. Shared Preferences
II. Android File System
III. Internal storage
IV. External storage
V. SQLite
Networks
-
a. IntroducingSQLite
b. SQLiteOpenHelper and creating a database
c. Opening and closing database
d. Working with cursors Inserts, updates, and deletes
VI. Network
Content Providers
-
I. Accessing built-in content providers
II. Content provider MIME types
III. Searching for content
IV. Adding, changing, and removing content
V. Creating content provider
VI. Working with content files
Services
-
I. Overview of services in Android
II. Implementing a Service
III. Service lifecycle
IV. Inter-Process Communication (AIDL Services)
Multimedia in Android
-
I. Multimedia Supported audio formats
II. Simple media playback
III. Supported video formats
IV. Simple video playback
Location Based Services and Google Maps
-
I. Using Location-Based Services
II. Finding a current location and listening for changes in location
III. Proximity alerts
IV. Working with Google Maps
i. Showing google map in an Activity
ii. Map Overlays
iii. Itemized overlays
iv. Geocoder
v. Displaying route on a map
Web Services and WebView
-
I. Consuming web services
II. Receiving HTTP Response (XML, JSON )
III. Parsing JSON and XML
IV. Using WebView
Sensors
-
I. How Sensors work
II. Using Orientation and Accelerometer sensors
III. Best practices for performance
WiFi
-
I. Monitoring and managing Internet connectivity
II. Managing active connections
III. Managing WiFi networks
Telephony Services
-
I. Making calls
II. Monitoring data connectivity and activity
III. Accessing phone properties and status
IV. Controlling the phone
V. Sending messages
Camera
-
I. Taking pictures
II. Media Recorder
III. Rendering previews
Bluetooth
-
I. Controlling local Bluetooth device
II. Discovering and bonding with Bluetooth devices
III. Managing Bluetooth connections
IV. Communicating with Bluetooth
Android Application Deployment
-
I. Android Application Deployment on a device with Linux and Windows
II. Android Application Deployment on Android Market
Course Info
This course is specially planned for those students who are new to programming, and want to learn how to build advance level Android applications. There are no prerequisite or any programming experience to start this course. If you’re a user of any smartphone and well aware of mobile applications like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn then you’re our perfect target student! What you’ll learn • Learn different skills to plan, design and pattern your mobile apps before writing any code • Thoroughly understand the App life cycle and its main components • Create a graphical user interface (GUI) • Implement a custom application theme • Define a Recycler View item list • Implement menu-based or drawer navigation • Integrate code from an external support library • Schedule a time-sensitive task using alarms • Schedule a background task using Job Scheduler • Designing and building a functional Android application • Debugging Android applications using different tools and plugins • Setting up and understanding your Android Development Environment • Register and publishing on Play Store