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 flexible user interfaces for multiple devices
• 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, search dialogs, action bars, and other android interface idioms
• Listen and react to touch events
• Take pictures and store them with the Camera
• Persist your application's data using SQLite
• Use fragments for a modern, stable application architecture
• Draw your own custom views
• Display locations and paths in a map

Section	Contents

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Development Tools	Using Eclipse, ADT, and the emulator
Simple Android Activity	Create a simple Android Activity using some basic view widgets
Layouts and Widgets	Learn how Android layout and XML works
AdapterViews	Using Adapters to display custom ListViews and other AdapterViews
Multiple Activities	Activity startup and communication using Intents, the Back Stack
Rotation	Learn about the Activity lifecycle, how rotation and other configuration changes work
Options and Context Menus	Display and interact with menus
File System	Read and write to the file system to save persistent Activity state
Camera	Creating a custom Camera interface to take and save your own pictures
Touch Events	Listening to touch events
Dialogs	Creating alert dialogs and custom dialogs
GridView	Displaying images in a grid
Search	Basics of the Android search API
HTTPClient and XML	Fetch and parse XML data from web services
Multithreading	Android threading model and common idioms for background work
Local Services	Working behind the scenes
Unit Testing	Use mock objects to test classes
BroadcastIntents	Subscribing to local and OS events
Notifications	Communicating to the user from a service
WebView	Use WebView to include web content
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	Persistent storage with SQLiteDatabase, SQLiteOpenHelper
Audio	Play audio files using MediaPlayer
Resources	Integrating images and text into your app with the resource system
Basic Fragments	Use fragments to save runtime controller information
Fragments with Views	Use fragments as controllers for the entire user interface
Debugging	Using DDMS, LogCat, and the Eclipse debugger effectively
AdapterViews	Display large amounts of scrolling data with ListView and a custom Adapter
Menus and the Action Bar	Display option menus, context menus, and the Action Bar with menus
File System	Read and write to the file system to save persistent state
Implicit Intents	Open ended with fulfillment in Android
Touch Events	Responding to touch events
Dialog and Dialog Fragments	Creating alert dialogs and displaying them in DialogFragments
Intent Resolution	Getting hands on with how intents are resolved to activities
HTTP Networking	Connecting to the internet
XML Web Services	Download and parse XML from a web service
Shared Preferences	Persistent storage of small bits of data
Custom Permissions	How to keep a secret in Android
Drawing and Canvas	Drawing graphics in a custom view
Maps	Google Maps API, map overlays
Advanced Fragments	Using multiple fragments, fragment back stack

Requirements

A working knowledge of Java is expected.

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