Android Application Development

Session -1: Introduction to Android
A little Background about mobile technologies,
Overview of Android - An Open Platform for Mobile development
Open Handset Alliance, What does Android run On – Android Internals?
Why to use Android for mobile development?

Session – 2: Developing for Android: My First Android Application
How to setup Android Development Environment,
Android development Framework - Android-SDK, Eclipse
Emulators – What is an Emulator / Android AVD ?, Creating & setting up custom Android emulator
Android Project Framework, My First Android Application

Session – 3: Android Activities and UI Design
Understanding Intent, Activity, Activity Life cycle and Manifest
Creating Application and new Activities, Expressions and Flow control, Android Manifest
Simple UI -Layouts and Layout properties, Fundamental Android UI Design
Introducing Layouts, Creating new Layouts Drawable Resources
Resolution and density independence (px,dip,dp,sip,sp), XML Introduction to GUI objects viz.
Push Button, Text / Labels , EditText, ToggleButton , WeightSum, Padding,Layout Weight

Session – 4 : Advanced UI Programming
Event driven Programming in Android (Text Edit, Button clicked etc.), Creating a splash screen
Event driven Programming in Android, Android Activity Life cycle
Creating threads for gaming requirement, Understanding the Exception handler

Session – 5: Toast, Menu, Dialog, List and Adapters
What is Menu?, Custom Vs. System Menus
Creating and Using Handset menu Button (Hardware)
What are Android Themes. What is Dialog? How to create an Alter Dialog?
What is Toast in Android?, List & Adapters, Manifest.xml File Update

Session – 6: Multimedia Programming using Android
Multimedia audio formats - Creating and Playing
Multimedia audio formats - Kill / Releasing (Memory Management)
How to associate audio in any application, How to associate video playback with an event

Session – 7: Database - SQLite IntroducingSQLite, SQLiteOpenHelper and creating a database
Opening and closing a database, Working with cursors Inserts, updates, and deletes

Session – 8 : Location Based Services and Google Maps
Using Location Based Services
Working with Google Maps

Session – 9: Notifications
Notification Manager,Pending Intent,Notifications (Show and Cancel)

Session – 10: How to develop your own custom made Web browser
How to use WebView object in XML,Permission for using the Internet
Methods for associated with ‘Go’, ‘Back’, ‘Forward’ etc.

Session – 11: Android Development using other Tools
Other ways to Develop Android Applications
Graphics / Game development using Adobe CS5.5 Flash
How to render .apk file from Adobe Flash

Session – 12: Testing and Debugging Android Application
Role and Use of Dalvik Debug Monitor Server (DDMS)
How to debug android application
Use of Step Filters, Breakpoints, Suspend and Resume
How to use LogCat (Verbose, Debug, Info, Warn, Error, Assert)
Use of Perspectives

Session – 13: Installation of .apk
How to install .apk into your Android Mobile.