Android Course

  

 ANDROID COURSE                          Duration: 60 Hours

Introduction to Android                                    

v  What is Android?

v  Setting up development environment

v  Dalvik Virtual Machine & .apk file extension

v  Fundamentals : 

·         Basic Building blocks – Activities, Services, Broadcast Receivers & Content providers

·          UI Components- Views & notifications

·         Components for communication -Intents & Intent Filters

v  Android API levels(versions & version names)

Application Structure

v  AndroidManifest.xml

·         uses-permission & uses-sdk

·         Activity/services/receiver declarations

v  Resources & R.java

v  Assets

v  Values – strings.xml

v  Layouts & Drawable Resources

v  Activities and Activity lifecycle

v  First sample Application

v Deploying sample application on a real device

Emulator-Android Virtual Device

v  Launching emulator

v  Editing emulator settings

v  Emulator shortcuts

v  Logcat usage

v  Introduction to DDMS

v  File explorer

v  Second App :- (switching between activities)

·         Develop an app for demonstrating the communication between Intents

Intents

v  Explicit Intents

v  Implicit intents

UI Design

v  Text Fields

v  Layouts

·         Relative Layout, Table Layout, Frame Layout, Linear Layout

v  Nested layouts

v  Time and Date

v  Images and media

v  Composite

v  Alert Dialogs & Toast

v  Popup

Styles & Themes

v  styles.xml file

v  colors.xml file- declaring colors and drawables

v  Drawable resources for shapes, gradients(selectors)

·         Shapes drawables

·         State drawables

·         Transition drawables

v  Style attribute in layout file

v  Applying themes via code and manifest file

SQLite Programming

v  SQLiteOpenHelper

v  SQLiteDatabase

v  Cursor

v  Content providers

Linkify

v  Web URLs, Email address, text, map address, phone numbers

v  Match Filter & Transform Filter

v  Examples

Adapters and Widgets

v  Adapters

v  Example - Efficient Adapter

v  ListView and ListActivity

v  Custom listview

v  GridView using adapters

v  Gallery using adapters

Notifications

v  Broadcast Receivers

v  Services and notifications

v  Toast

v  Alarms

Custom Components

v  Custom Toast

v  Custom dialogs

v  Custom Tabs

v  Custom animated popup panels

Advanced

v  Live Folders

v  Using sdcards – Reading and writing

v  XML Parsing

v  JSON Parsing

v  Maps via intent and MapActivity

v  GPS, Location based Services

v  Accessing Phone services(Call, SMS, MMS)

v  Sensors

v  Using Wi-Fi & Bluetooth

v  Action bar tabs and custom views on Action bars

v  Fragments