Android App Development

Android is without a doubt THE biggest mobile platform in the world, with over 80% market share and over billions of devices running Android. 

Android devices are getting more efficient and affordable, so the already significant market share could grow. And there are no signs of a slowdown in the need for capable app developers. So if you’re hoping to pick up this skill set for professional purposes, this is a fantastic time to do so.

Course Content:

• Introduction to Android
  • What is Android?
  • Pre-requisites to learn Android
  • Installation process
• Android Architecture (Overview)
  • Linux Kernel
  • Android Runtime
  • Application Framework
  • DalvikVM
• Creating, Running and Debugging First Android Application
  • Creating Android Project
  • Introduction to ADB: Android Debug Bridge
  • Executing Project on Android Screen
  • Debugging an Android Application
• Android Components (Overview)
  • Activities
  • Services
  • Broadcast Receivers
  • Content Providers
  • The Manifest File
• Building UI with Activities
  • Activities
  • Activity lifecycle
  • View & ViewGroup, layouts and Common UI components
  • Creating UI through code and XML
• Intents and Intent Filters
  • What is an intent
  • Intent types: Implicit and Explicit with example
  • Communicating data among Activities using Intent
  • Forcing an app chooser
• Advanced UI & Fragments
  • Selection components (GridView, ListViews, Spinner)
  • Adapters, Custom Adapters
  • Creating a Fragment class, Adding Fragment
  • Replace One Fragment with Another
  • Communication between Fragments
• Notifications
  • Toast, Custom Toast
  • Alert Dialogs
  • Status bar Notifications
• Android Menu
  • Option Menu
  • Context Menu
  • Popup Menu
• Camera
  • Taking & saving pictures
  • Setting those picture as wallpaper
• Telephony API
  • Telephony Manager
  • Making Phone Call
  • Send SMS
• Data Storage
  • Shared Preferences
  • Internal Storage
  • External Storage
• Introducing SQLite
  • SQLiteOpenHelper and creating a database
  • Working with cursors inserts, updates and deletes
• Services
  • Overview of services in Android
  • Different types of services:
  • Scheduled Service (Android 5.0, API level 21)
  • Started Service
  • Bound Service
• Location Based Services & Google Maps
  • Using Location Based Services
  • Finding current Location and listening for changes in location
  • Showing google map in an activity
• Web Services and WebView
  • Receiving HTTP Response(XML, JSON)
  • Parsing JSON and XML
  • Using WebView