Android App Development

Modules / Chapter

Module 1: JAVA Concepts

• Lessons:
• OOPs Concepts
• Inheritance in detail
• Exception handling
• Packages & interfaces
• JVM & .jar file extension
• Collections – HashTable,Vector,,List, ArrayList, HashMap
• Multi threading(Thread class & Runnable Interface)

Module 2: SQL

• Lessons:
• DML & DDL Queries in brief
• Introduction to Android

Module 3: What is Android?

• Lessons:
• Setting up development environment
• Dalvik Virtual Machine & .apk file extension

Module 4: Fundamentals

• Lessons:
• Basic Building blocks – Activities,Services,Broadcast Receivers & Content Providers
• UI Components- Views & notifications
• Components for communication -Intents & Intent Filters
• Android API levels(versions & version names)

Module 5: Application Structure(in detail)

• Lessons:
• AndroidManifest.xml
• uses-permission & uses-sdk
• Activity/services/receiver declarations
• Resources & R.java
• Assets
• Android Training Course Syllabus
• Values – strings.xml
• Layouts & Draw able Resources
• Activities and Activity lifecycle
• First sample Application
• Deploying sample application on a real device

Module 6: Emulator-Android Virtual Device

• Lessons:
• Launching emulator
• Editing emulator settings
• Emulator shortcut
• Logcat usage
• Introduction to DDMS
• File explorer
• Second App :- (switching between activities)
• Develop an app for demonstrating the communication between Intents

Module 7: Basic UI design

• Lessons:
• Form widgets
• Text Fields
• Layouts
• RelativeLayout ,TableLayout, FrameLayout, LinearLayout
• Nested layouts
• dip,dp,sip,sp] versus px Examples

Module 8: Preferences

• Lessons:
• SharedPreferences
• Preferences from xml
• Examples

Module 9: Menu

• Lessons:
• Option menu
• Context menu
• Sub menu
• Android Training Course Syllabus
• menu from xml
• menu via code
• Examples

Module 10: Intents (in detail)

• Lessons:
• Explicit Intents
• Implicit intents
• Examples

Module 11: UI design

• Lessons:
• Time and Date
• Images and media
• Composite
• AlertDialogs& Toast
• Popup
• Examples

Module 12: Tabs and TabActivity

• Lessons:
• Examples

Module 13: Styles & Themes

• Lessons:
• styles.xml
• colors.xml- declaring colors and drawables
• Drawable resources for shapes,gradients(selectors)
• Shapes drawables
• State drawables
• Transition drawables
• 9 Patch drawables
• style attribute in layout file
• Applying themes via code and manifest file Examples

Module 14: SQLite Programming

• Lessons:
• SQLite Programming
• Android Training Course Syllabus
• SQLiteOpenHelper
• SQLiteDatabse
• Cursor
• Content providers
• Defining and using content providers
• Example- Sharing database among two different applications using content providers
• Reading and updating Contacts
• Reading bookmarks
• Example : - Develop an App to demonstrate database usage. CRUD operations must be implemented. Final details should be viewed in GridView as well as in ListView. - Do the same application with database operations in a single class(As a Model class) and do the CRUD operations with this class object.
  

Module 15: Android Debug Bridge(adb) tool

Module 16: Links

• Lessons:
• Web URLs,Emailaddress,text,mapaddress,phone numbers MatchFilter&TransformFilter Examples
• Adapters and Widgtes

Module 17: Adapters

• Lessons:
• ArrayAdapters
• BaseAdapters
• Example - Efficient Adapter
• ListView and ListActivity
• Custom listview
• GridView using adapters
• Gallery using adapters
• Examples Android Training Course Syllabus

Module 18: Notifications

• Lessons:
• Broadcast Receivers
• Services and notifications
• Toast
• Alarms
• Examples

Module 19: Custom components

• Lessons:
• Custom Toast
• Custom dialogs
• Custom Tabs
• Custom animated popup panels
• Other components Examples

Module 20: Threads

• Lessons:
• Threads running on UI thread(runOnUiThread)
• Worker thread
• Handlers & Runnable
• AsynTask(in detail)Examples

Module 21: Advanced

• Lessons:
• Live Folders
• Using sdcards – Reading and writing
• XML Parsing
• JSON Parsing
• Including external libraries in our application
• Maps via intent and MapActivity
• GPS,Location based Services
• Accessing Phone services(Call,SMS,MMS)
• Network connectivity services
• Sensors
• Using Wifi& Bluetooth
• Action bar tabs and custom views on Action bars
• Introduction to fragments

Module 22: Side Menu

• Lessons:
• ViewPagerIndicator
• Circle view pager indicator
• Tab view pager indicator
• Line page indicator

Module 12: Assignment

• Lessons:
• Publish the Application to Google after Development 
• The idea of publishing android application to Google play.