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Intermediate Android Development Training in Minnetonka, Minnesota

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What you'll learn

This intermediate-level course flows directly from Introduction to Android Development, to guide students through an exploration of some of the more sophisticated capabilities of the Android OS and to empower them to build polished Android applications, activities, and services. Like its precursor, this course focuses on practical concerns faced by the corporate IT developer. The primary case-study application connects popular mobile features such as maps and multimedia with a RESTful web service and a JPA persistence tier that connects to a fully-worked enterprise database (15 tables, 998 rows). The mobile side of the application includes 47 Java classes and 8 distinct activities. Supporting applications provide overlapping exercise in key techniques such as using asynchronous tasks, communicating with external applications, and error-handling.

Prerequisites

Introductory knowledge of Android programming is required.

Course Outline

Chapter 1. Database Storage

SQLite
The SQLiteDatabase Class
The SQLiteOpenHelper Class
Installing Databases
The query Methods
Using Cursors
Database Updates

Chapter 2. Networking and Web Services

java.net
android.net
Apache HttpClient
Consuming RESTful Web Services
Building URLs
Parsing JSON
Parsing XML
Connected Applications
Offline Operation and Server Synchronization

Chapter 3. Asynchronous Tasks

The UI Thread
Background Tasks
Loopers and Handlers
Using AsyncTask
Using ProgressDialog
Error Handling

Chapter 4. Services

The Roles of Services
Invoking a Service
Do's and Don'ts
Communication with the Application
Communication with Activities
Sending Notifications
Pending Intents
Downloaders
Polling Web Services

Chapter 5. Inter-Process Communication

Breaking Out
Using the Clipboard
Linkifying Text
Implicit Intents
Invoking Built-In Applications and Services
Accepting Implicit Intents
Passing Data
MIME Types

Chapter 6. Multimedia

Playing Sounds
Haptic Feedback (Vibrating)
Managing Images
Storage and Retrieval
Invoking the Camera
Invoking the Media Recorder
Gallery and other Image Views

Chapter 7. Location Services and Maps

Location Services
Location Notifications
The Google Maps API
License Terms and Maps API Keys
Map View and Map Activity Classes
Configuring a Map
Controlling a Map
Events
Projections
Map Overlays
Item Overlays
Custom Overlays

Chapter 8. Publishing

The App Market
Preparing Your App
Debug vs. Release Builds
Signing an APK File
Publishing Your Application
Application Metadata
Updates and Support

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