Android Application Development

This is a comprehensive 4-day (with WDA funding) Android Development and programming course conducted in Singapore that provides the required knowledge and skills to design and build a complete Android™ application. It delivers an extensive training on the main Android API components and its interactions.

At course completion, the participant will be able to:

• Design and build a complete Android application.
• Debug and maintain Android applications using different tools and plugins.
• Thoroughly understand the life-cycle of an Android application and its main components.
• Use external resources, manifest files, intents and adapters
• Developing Android Network Connection and File I/O.
• Understand and use all Android persistent storage techniques: Preferences, files, databases, and content providers.
• Connecting, Saving and Retrieving Data using Android Storage: SQLite,
• Use Android’s background processing techniques.
• Publishing Android Application to Google PlayStore

• Introduction
• Creating an Android Project
• Within Eclipse
• From Command line
• Running Your Application
• Running you project on the emulator
• Components of an Android application
• Application Life-cycle
• Modifying created project
• Change activity’s name

• Android Software Layers
• Linux kernel
• C/C++ Libraries
• Android Runtime
• Application Framework
• Application layer
• Android Libraries
• The Android Manifest File
• Structure of the Manifest File
• Android SDK Tools
• Activity life-cycle through Java
• Create an Activity

• Using Views
• Adding a View to your application
• List Views and List Activity
• Using a ListActivity
• Adding ListView
• Add Event to List Items

• Introduction
• Intents
• Explicit Intents
• Implicit Intents
• Native Android Actions
• Data Transfer
• Intent to Call Activities
• Direct calls
• Sub-activities: Calling Activities for Results
• Register an IntentFilter

• Introduction
• Different Uses of Customized Views
• Modify Existing Views
• Step by Step
• What is in onDraw()
• The full picture

• Dialogs
• Dialog sub-classes
• Creating dialogs with user-defined layout
• Activities with Dialog Theme
• Toasts

• Introduction
• Menus
• Building a menu from Java code
• Building a menu from a resource file
• Handle Select Events
• Sub-menus
• Context Menus
• Handling Context Menu Selection
• Application layer
• Android Libraries
• The Android Manifest File
• Structure of the Manifest File
• Android SDK Tools
• Activity life-cycle through Java
• Create an Activity
• Additional Menu Item options
• Checkboxes and Radio Buttons
• Shortcut Keys
• Condensed Titles
• Menu Item Click Listener
• Intents
• WebView

• Android Storage Options
• Shared Preferences
• Internal Storage
• SQLite Databases
• Network Connection
• Connecting to the internet
• File I/O
• Including files as resources
• Shared Preferences
• Retrieving Shared Preferences
• Save activity state

• Introduction
• SQLite in your application
• SQLite library
• SQLiteOpenHelper
• SQLiteDatabase
• Cursors
• Databases in Android
• Native Android Content Providers

• Creating a notification
• Notification actions
• Example: NotificationManager

• Preparing for Publishing
• Digital Signing and Version Control
• Deploying Android APK Files
• Publishing on the Android Playstore