Introduction to Android

• Overview of Android
• Java Editions and comparison with Android
• Android Apps – Design, Vendor, Behavioral Classification

Android Architecture Overview

• Android Architecture
• Application Frameworks
• Android Libraries, Run time, Dalvik Virtual Machine

Setup of Android Development Environment

• System Requirements
• Java, Eclipse and Android SDK Installation
• Android SDK  and Tools
• Android Virtual Devices & Device Definitions

Your Android Application

• Android Application Design
• Using PhotoShop for Graphic Designing
• Android Application Wireframes (screens)

Your First Android Application

• Creating Android Application
• Creating Configurations
• Testing the app: AVD, Active Device
• Android Project Structure and Manifest file

Publishing to the Play Store

• Release process and Release build of Android Application
• Signing the .apk file
• Preparing the Store Listing page
• Content Rating
• Distributing the Application
• Merchant Registration for Paid Applications

Activities

• About XML – approach to design layouts
• Views and Layouts
• View properties
• Linear Layout vs. Relative Layout vs. Frame Layout vs. Absolute Layout
• Localization of UI
• Best practices for targeting various form factors: phone, tablet, TV
• Best practices when working designing Android UI

Android Testing

• Creating a Test Project for Android project
• Working with Test Packages
• Writing test cases

Fragments

• Designing fragments
• Fragments life cycle
• Fragment management and integration

User Interfaces

• Creating the Activity
• XML versus Java UI
• Selection Widgets, Using fonts
• Common UI components
• Handling UI events: a bit about listeners

Advanced UI

• Adapters
• Complex UI components
• Menus and Dialogs
• Tabbed Activities
• Navigation Drawer
• Animations
• Create activity layouts programmatically
• Testing and optimizing UI

Android Material Design

• What is material ?
• Material properties and Styling / Animations
• Material Patterns

Resources

• Overview of Android Resources
• Creating Resources
• Using Resources
• Drawable Resources
• Animation Resources

Broadcast Receivers

• Broadcast receiver usage patterns: when and why to use them
• Implementing a broadcast receiver
• Registering a broadcast receiver via the manifest file and Programmatically

Background Services

• Overview of Android services
• Service lifecycle
• Declaring a service
• Registering a service
• Starting and stopping a service
• Threads and other concurrency considerations with services
• Bound versus unbound services
• Remote versus local services

Intents

• Working with Intents
• Explicit and implicit intents
• Using Intents as messaging objects
• Intents to start components expecting results

Storing and Retrieving Data

• Storage Model selection criteria
• Shared preferences
• Internal Storage – Files
• External Storage – SD Card
• Testing the created files, tools

SQLite Database

• Introducing SQLite
• SQLiteOpenHelper and creating a database
• Opening and closing a database
• Working with cursors
• Inserts, updates, and deletes

Native Content Providers

• Content provider types
• Searching for content
• Adding, changing, and removing content
• Native Android Content Providers
• Accessing Contact Book, Calendar

Custom Content Providers

• Custom Content Provider classes
• Publishing content providers

Web Services

• Understanding Web Services
• Web Services Architecture
• Building Server side components
• Publishing web services
• REST based web services
• Accessing Web Services
• Integrating Web Services with mobile client
• Overview of networking
• Checking the network status and web service status
• Working with HTTP to access the web services

Parsing, Parsers

• Document Object Model ( DOM )
• Simple API for XML ( SAX )
• JavaScript Object Notation ( JSON )
• Parsing XML and JSON

Location Based Services

• Using Location Manager, Location Provider
• GPS and Network based tracking
• Testing the application using KML files
• Simulation of the locations on the active device
• Location Listeners and Proximity Alerts

Integrating Google Maps

• API Version 2 of Google Maps
• User Interface – MapFragments
• API key generation
• Registrations in the manifest file
• Google Map, Camera Positions
• Adding Markers, Circles, Polylines
• Google Maps Directions API

Telephony

• Telephony background
• Accessing telephony information
• Monitoring data activity and connectivity
• Working with messaging SMS

Multimedia in Android

• Playing Audio & Video
• Recording Audio & Video
• Customizing Camera & Capturing Photos
• Voice Recognition
• Text To Speech

Bluetooth

• Controlling local Bluetooth device
• Discovering and bonding with Bluetooth devices
• Managing Bluetooth connections
• Communicating with Bluetooth

Social Networking Integrations

• Facebook Integration

Debugging  and Testing Android Apps

• Logcat
• Debugger
• Traceview
• HierarchyViewer
• Monkey Runner
• UIAutomator