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Introduction to Android Training in Woodbury, Minnesota
This course is intended for experienced developers who wish to learn how to develop applications for the Android operating system from Google.
What you'll learn
This course is intended for experienced developers who wish to learn how to develop applications for the Android operating system from Google. Students will build various small example app, service, and widget projects and also work up larger case-study applications involving various UI-design techniques. We work primarily with Android 2.3, but also look ahead to some features and development styles for Android 3.x and 4.0.
While this is an introductory course, we make a point of focusing 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.
This course paves the way for see Course 252, Intermediate Android Development, which covers network, inter-process communication, media, maps and location, and more. For a faster-paced course that runs from introductory to intermediate level, you might also consider Course 255, Android Development.
Prerequisites
Java programming experience is required.
Course Outline
Chapter 1. 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
Chapter 2. 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
Chapter 3. Applications
- Activities
- 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
- Centralized Flow Control
Chapter 4. User Interface Design
- XML Layouts
- Layout Parameters
- The Box Model
- Gravity
- The LayoutInflater Service
- The <LinearLayout>
- The <RelativeLayout>
- Views and Adapters
- Form Widgets
Chapter 5. Views, Adapters, and Dialogs
- Styles and Themes
- <include> and <merge>
- View Orientation
- Adapters
- Dialogs
- onCreateDialog and Related Methods
- Using AlertDialog
- Fragments and Designing for Tablets
- Phone/Tablet Portability
Chapter 6. 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
Chapter 7. Working with Lists
- AdapterView and Subclasses
- Adapter and Subinterfaces
- ListView and ListAdapter
- Spinner and SpinnerAdapter
- Handling Item Selection
- Custom Adapters
- ExpandableListView and ExpandableListAdapter
Chapter 8. Working with Tables
- The <TableLayout> and <TableRow>
- Defining Table Cells
- Static Table Layouts
- Dynamic Tables
- Binding Data
- Using a Template Row
- Managing IDs
Chapter 9. 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
Chapter 10. Menus
- Menus and Views
- Menu Resources
- The MenuInflater Service
- The Options Menu
- The Context Menu
- The <Menu>
- The Menu and MenuItem Classes
- The onOptionsItemSelected and onContextItemSelected Methods
- Handling Menu Selections
- The Escape from switch/case!
- Using a Dispatch Map
- Building Menus Dynamically
Chapter 11. Local Storage
- The Android File System
- Internal Storage
- File Formats
- Parsing JSON
- The openFileInput and openFileOutput Methods
- Storage and the Application Lifecycle
- External Storage
- Private Storage vs. Public Media
- Permissions
- Checking for Availability
- getExternalStorageDir and Related Methods
- API Level Differences
- Preferences
- Preferences Resources
- The PreferencesActivity
- The PreferencesManager
- Reading Preferences
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