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Course Outline
Android System Architecture and Operating Environment
- Overview of the Android system architecture (Linux kernel, core libraries, JVM, etc.)
- Setting up the development environment (Eclipse + Android SDK). Program debugging techniques. Discussion of tools such as adb, draw9patch, DDMS, and the emulator.
- Activity lifecycle: implementation and performance analysis of onCreate, onStart, onResume, onPause, and onDestroy methods.
- Android data structure design (src directories, res, AndroidManifest.xml file, permissions).
- Layout creation rules. Examples of Linear, Frame, Table, and RelativeLayout implementations.
- Loading layouts from XML files and programmatically within the application. Use of the Gravity class.
- Creating menus and dialogs. Implementation and event handling for menu classes and dialog-inheriting classes.
Graphics Support and Touch Interface
- Review and implementation of View class methods and drawable resources.
- Gestures: touch event processing. Implementation of TouchEvent class methods.
- Implementation of fundamental UI components in Android applications. Classes such as TextView, Button, Checkbox, ListView, and others.
- Implementation of the Notification class.
Accessing Other Activities, Background Services, and Multithreading
- Overview of the Intent class and its functionality.
- Launching other activities. Implementation of the 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.
- Synchronisation: implementation of synchronised blocks and synchronised methods.
Location Services
- Basic theoretical information on GPS, WGS84, and digital maps (Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, Bing Maps, etc.).
- Handling GPS events. Implementation of LocationListener class methods.
- Rendering icons and objects on maps.
- Extracting coordinates from map clicks.
Additional Topics
- Device-based settings storage using the Preferences 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 and ContentProvider.
- Sensors, cameras, and OpenGL.
Requirements
Introduction to Programming in Java (understanding 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.
