1. Vision for future
Developing Android Applications with Java
Course Description:
With the backing of Google, Verizon, and other companies, the Android platform
is poised to take the mobile market by storm. One of the big reasons is portability:
now you can build apps that will work across several devices.
Course Overview:
 Effectively build professional mobile business applications using Java and
the Android SDK
 Create intuitive, reliable software using activities, services and intents
 Design engaging user Interfaces that work seamlessly with a range of
phones and tablets
 Store and retrieve data with content providers and the SQLite database
 Integrate Android applications with enterprise Web and location-based
services
 Sign and publish completed programs in the Android Market for
widespread distribution
Course Benefits:
 Use your Java skills to build apps with Eclipse and the Android SDK
 Build a working task manager application that tracks things to do and places
to go
 Learn about Android controls, forms, and dialogs
 Link your app to a local database to make a user's data persistent
 Improve user experience by taking advantage of Android features
 Make your app location-aware, and tie your tasks to map views
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2. Vision for future
Who Should Take This Course?
 Java developers who want to create Android apps
 Developers with extensive experience with Object-Oriented Programming
(such as C#) who can pick up Java basics quickly
 Developers with Eclipse experience
Curriculum
Chapter1: Introducing the Android Platform
 Defining device characteristics
 Exploring the Android Market
 Establishing the development environment
 ADT plugin
 Java
 SDK
 Emulator
 Analyzing components of the architecture
Chapter2: Leveraging Application Fundamentals
 Building mobile applications
 Exposing the lifecycle events
 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
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 Communicating with Intents
Chapter3: Creating User Interfaces
 Selecting visual components
 Assessing available widgets
 Building the layout
 Connecting a view to an activity
 Positioning form elements
 Working with resource declarations
 Declaring component definitions and layouts
 Internationalizing applications
 Handling multiple screen resolutions
 Exploiting dynamic resource generation
Chapter4: Processing User Input
 Communicating with the user
 Creating and displaying Toast
 Generating status bar notifications
 Collecting confirmation with dialogs
 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 lifecycle
 Integrating with the Android system
 Persisting data in response to notifications
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Chapter5: Persisting Application Data
 Selecting storage options
 Contrasting internal and external storage locations
 Saving application configuration with Shared Preferences
 Manipulating the SQLite database
 Executing queries to locate information
 Specifying column aliases with projections
 Retrieving data with cursors
 Consuming and creating content providers
 Accessing shared data resources
 Addressing content providers with URIs
 Binding to UI components
Chapter6: Maintaining System Responsiveness
 Avoiding Application Not Responding (ANR) errors
 Unloading the UI thread
 Designing for asynchronous execution
 Building background services
 Launching Intent Services
 Declaring services in the manifest
Chapter7: Exchanging Data over the Internet
 Interacting with server-side applications
 Synchronizing Android devices with servers
 HTTP requests
 Socket communications
 Developing clients for Web services
 Connecting to Restful services
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 Creating and parsing JSON
Chapter8: Enhancing the User Experience
 Working with tablets
 Developing for the Honeycomb platform
 Manipulating objects with drag and drop
 Optimizing applications for high screen resolution
 Combining fragments into a multilane UI
 Leveraging geolocation and mapping capabilities
 Plotting positions on Google maps
 Establishing location through GPS, Cell-ID and WiFi
Chapter9: Publishing Applications
 Specifying required permissions
 Versioning, packaging and signing software
 Uploading to the Android Market
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