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Course Outline
Android System Architecture and Operating Environment
- Discussion of the Android system's overall architecture (Linux kernel, core libraries, JVM, etc.)
- Setting up the development environment (Eclipse + Android SDK). Debugging methods and an overview of tools such as adb, draw9patch, DDMS, and the emulator.
- The activity lifecycle. Implementation and performance analysis of onCreate, onStart, onResume, onPause, and onDestroy methods.
- Designing Android data structures (src directories, res, AndroidManifest.xml file, permissions).
- Rules for creating layouts. Examples of Linear, Frame, Table, and RelativeLayout implementations.
- Loading layouts from XML files and programmatically within the application. The Gravity class.
- Creating menus and dialogs. Implementation and event handling for menu classes and classes that inherit from Dialog.
Supporting Graphics and Touch Interfaces
- Overview and implementation of methods in the View class and drawables.
- Gestures – processing touch events. Implementation of the onTouchEvent method.
- Implementation of basic UI 'building blocks' for Android apps, including TextView, Button, Checkbox, ListView, etc.
- Implementation of the Notification class.
Accessing Other Activities and Background Services; Multithreading
- Overview of the Intent class and its functionality.
- Launching other activities. Implementation of startActivity() and onActivityResult() methods.
- Starting and communicating with background services. Discussion and implementation of Service class methods.
- Broadcasts.
- Threads and Multithreading. Implementation of the AsyncTask class.
- Synchronization. Implementation of synchronized blocks and methods.
Location Services
- Basic theoretical information about GPS, WGS84, and digital maps (Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, Bing Maps, etc.).
- Handling GPS events. Implementation of LocationListener class methods.
- Plotting icons and objects on a map.
- Extracting coordinates from map clicks.
Additional Topics
- Storing application settings on the device. The Preference class.
- Accessing remote network services. Implementation of HttpPost and HttpGet classes.
- Parsing XML and JSON data structures. Reading and writing files on the device.
- SQLite database management.
- Sensors, Cameras, and OpenGL.
Requirements
Introduction to Programming in Java (knowledge of concepts such as classes, attributes, methods, inheritance, interfaces, overloading, etc.)
28 Hours
Testimonials (2)
I really enjoyed our learning and experimenting with kotlin multiplatform.
Renzo Olivares Macias - Google
Course - Android Development
Trainer was willing to explore additional problems in dagger.
