99x-training

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Syllabus

Knowing your basics

• Downloading the SDKs, setting up the development environment and tools
• Overview of the Android systems architecture
• Application life-cycle
• The Android Version and API Levels
• Building blocks: Activities, Intents, Services, Broadcast Receivers, Content Providers
• Android permission models
• Setting up your first Virtual Device.

Hello Android!

• Writing your first application and launching it on a Virtual Device
• Setting up your phone/tablet for debugging
• The anatomy of an Android application
• UI components overview
• Overview of the Android Manifest file
• Logging and debugging
• Working with multiple device form factors and screen densities
• An introduction to the resource loading framework
• Introduction to 9-patch image resources
• Internationalization and string resources
• Life-cycle methods and handling configuration changes
• Introducing the Dalvik Debug Monitor Server (DDMS)

A closer look at Activities and Intents

• Types of activities
• Passing parameters via Intents
• Interacting with other activities on the system.

ListViews and Adapters

• ArrayAdapter and BaseAdapters
• Designing Custom Listviews
• Dealing with performance issues

Working with BroadcastReceivers

• Introduction
• Registering to be notified: via manifest and via code

Services

• Introduction to Service base class, life-cycle methods
• Background and Foreground services
• Avoiding the "forever service" anti-pattern: Introduction to AlarmService

Threading

• An introduction to Android’s threading model
• Application Not Responding (ANR) or: Why you never ever block the UI thread
• Handlers and AsyncTask
• Threading and device configuration changes

Network Services

• Introducing the Apache HttpClient libraries
• Parsing JSON

Power Management

• Android's power management model
• Staying awake: Introduction to WakeLocks
• Types of wake locks, acquiring and releasing them.

Working with databases

• Introduction to persistent storage: Working with SQLite.
• SqliteHelpers
• Working with Cursors
• Binding cursors to Listviews via CursorAdapter

Shared Preferences

• Introduction to Android's shared preference framework
• Building preference UIs and working with PrefereceActivity

Taking to Sensors

• Classes of supported sensors
• Introduction to the SensorManager service
• Dealing with performance issues
• Talking to the Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Ambient Light and Proximity sensors

Geolocation and GeoCoding

• Location sensors: GPS, Cell Triangulation and Wi-Fi Triangulation
• Introduction to LocationManager services
• Dealing with performance issues
• Figuring out where you are: Geolocation and GeoCoding

Packaging and distributing your application

• Generating signing keys and signing your application
• Setting up 1-click build using Apache Ant
• Publishing to Google Play (The App Store Formerly Known As Google Market)
• Alternatives to Google Play