ANDROID

Duration 4 Weeks

Week 1   

Introduction to Android

§  Android Architecture

§  Android Installation

§  Android Manifest File

§  Android Activities and Lifecycle

§  Hello World

§  Android Versions

Android User Interface

§  Views

§  Layouts

§  Menus and Dialogs

§  Common UI Classes

§  Styles

§  Drawable Resources

§  Handling User Events

§  Binding data

§  Toasts

Animations    

§  Theory of animation, XML, and Java

§  Translation animations

§  Alpha animations

§  Animation sets

Pillars of Android

§  Intent

§  Services

§  Content Providers

§  Broad Cast Receivers

§  Handlers

Android Test Project 1

Week 2    

Android Multimedia

§  Playing Audio and Video

§  Recording Audio and Video

§  Camera

Telephony and SMS

§  Making calls 

§  Monitoring data connectivity and activity 

§  Accessing phone properties and status 

§  Controlling the phone 

Persistence in Android

§  Preferences

§  Accessing Internal Files system

§  Accessing SD cards

§  Introduction to SQLite

§  SQLiteOpenHelper and creating a database

§  Opening and closing a database

§  Working with cursors

§  Inserts, updates, and delete 

Content Providers

§  Content Provider MIME Types

§  Creating Custom Content Providers

Notifications

§  Role of notifications

§  Raising a notification

§  Augmenting notifications via hardware

§  Reacting to selected notifications

§  Handling multiple notification-worthy events

Android Test Project 2 

Week 3    

Services & Broadcast Receivers

§  Overview of services in Android

§  Implementing a Service

§  Service lifecycle

§  What are Broadcast Receivers

§  Implementing broadcast receiver

§  System broadcasts and how to use them

Intent Filters

§  Role of Intent Filters

§  Intent- Matching rules

§  Filters in Manifest

Networking

§  Working with web services

§  Best practices

System Events & Alarm Manager

§  Connectivity Status

§  Battery Status

§  Alarm Manager

§  Wake Locks

Android Test Project 3

Week 4

Location Services

§  Working with the Location Manager

§  Working with Google Maps extensions

Sensors

§  How Sensors work

§  Using Sensor & Sensor Manager

§  Listening to Sensor readings

§  Best practices for performance

Bluetooth & Wifi

§  Controlling local Bluetooth device 

§  Discovering and bonding with Bluetooth devices 

§  Managing Bluetooth connections 

§  Managing & Monitoring WiFi

Android Text to Speech Engine

Searches

§  Integrate global (Web) search into your application

§  Enable your application for local search

§  Tie into the Quick Search Box

Android Test Project 4