Android

Android is unlike any other mobile development platform or Java-based environment. Android Bootcamp will immerse students in the Android platform, leveraging their existing Java expertise, and allowing them to walk away from the class ready to build Android GUIs and related components.

On the first morning of class you will write your first Android Activities. Through the rest of the week you will be progressively introduced to more and more of what Android has to offer - services, multitouch, and system search services. You will apply this knowledge with working code every step of the way. Be ready to work hard and learn a lot in this intensive, hands-on, five day introduction to programming with the Android platform.

What You’ll Learn

Upon completion of Android, the student will be able to:

Android Bootcamp

• Use Eclipse and the Android ADT plugin to develop and debug Android applications
• Build resizeable user interfaces
• Build sophisticated applications using multiple activities
• Communicate between and within Android applications using Intents
• Create Services to represent behind the scenes aspects of your application
• Set up text input from the hardware or software keyboard
• Display scrolling lists and grids with custom layouts
• Learn to properly handle rotation
• Parse and display XML from RESTful web services
• Use AsyncTask to background long running work
• Display context menus and search dialogs with the hardware search and menu buttons
• Listen and react to touch events
• Take pictures and store them with the Camera
• Persist your application's data using SQLite

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Development Tools	Using Eclipse, ADT, and the simulator
Simple Android Activity	Create a simple Android Activity using some basic view widgets
Layout	Specifying user interfaces in XML and interfacing with layouts in code
AdapterViews	Using Adapters to display custom ListViews and other AdapterViews
Multiple Activities	Create and coordinate multiple activities for multiscreen applications
Rotation	Learn about the Activity lifecycle, how to handle rotation and other configuration changes
Options and Context Menus	Display and interact with menus
File System	Read and write to the file system to save persistent Activity state
Camera	Taking and saving pictures
Touch Events	Listening to touch events
Dialogs	Creating alert dialogs and custom dialogs
GridView	Displaying images in a grid
Search	Showing and responding to the system search dialog
HTTPClient and XML	Fetch and parse XML data from web services
Multithreading	Using AsyncTask and Handlers to manage background tasks
Services	Using Services for behind the scenes tasks
Unit Testing	Use mock objects to test classes
BroadcastIntents	Use BroadcastIntents to communicate between Activities
Notifications	Send notifications to the status bar
WebView	Use WebView to include web content in Activities
Location	Use location service to track current location
Custom View Subclass	Creating custom view subclasses to customize drawing
Advanced ListView	Creating ListViews with different kinds of rows
SQLite	Using SQLite to save persistent application data

Requirements

A working knowledge of Java is expected.

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