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Course Outline
Android System Architecture and Operating Environment
- Overview of Android's overall system architecture, including the Linux kernel, core libraries, and JVM.
- Setting up the development environment (Eclipse + Android SDK). Debugging techniques. Overview 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, and 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 dialogue-inheriting classes.
Graphics Support and Touch Interface
- Review and implementation of View class methods and drawables.
- Handling touch events and gestures. Implementation of the TouchEvent class methods.
- Implementing basic UI building blocks for Android applications, 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
- Fundamental theoretical information on GPS, WGS84, and digital maps (Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, Bing Maps, etc.).
- Handling GPS events. Implementation of LocationListener class methods.
- Drawing icons and objects on the map.
- Extracting coordinates from map clicks.
Additional Topics
- Device-stored application settings. 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 Content Manager.
- Sensors, Cameras, and OpenGL.
Requirements
Introduction to Programming in Java (including knowledge of class, attribute, method, inheritance, interfaces, overloading, and related concepts)
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.
