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Android Application Development - Course Outline

The document outlines a 10 lesson course on Android application development. It covers topics like creating Android projects, activities, intents, custom views, dialogs, menus, storage options, SQLite, notifications and more.

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Android Application Development - Course Outline

The document outlines a 10 lesson course on Android application development. It covers topics like creating Android projects, activities, intents, custom views, dialogs, menus, storage options, SQLite, notifications and more.

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Android Application Development

Course Outline:
Lesson 1: Hello Android Framework

Introduction
Creating an Android Project
Within Eclipse
From Command line
Running Your Application
Running you project on the emulator
Components of an Android application
Application Life-cycle
Modifying created project
Change activitys name

Lesson 2: Android SDK Tools and Activity Class

Android Software Layers


Linux kernel
C/C++ Libraries
Android Runtime
Application Framework
Application layer
Android Libraries
The Android Manifest File
Structure of the Manifest File
Android SDK Tools
Activity life-cycle through Java
Create an Activity
Methods to remember

Lesson 3: ListActivity and ListView

Introduction
Views
Using Views
Adding a View to your application
List Views and List Activity
Using a ListActivity
Adding ListView
Add Event to List Items
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Summary
Methods to remember

Lesson 4: Intents and Intent filters

Introduction
Intents
Explicit Intents
Implicit Intents
Native Android Actions
Data Transfer
Intent to Call Activities
Direct calls
Sub-activities: Calling Activities for Results
Register an IntentFilter
Methods to remember

Lesson 5: Custom Views

Introduction
Different Uses of Customized Views
Modify Existing Views
Step by Step
What is in onDraw()
The full picture

Lesson 6: Dialogs and Toasts

Dialogs
Dialog sub-classes
Creating dialogs with user-defined layout
Activities with Dialog Theme
Toasts
Methods to remember

Lesson 7: More UI - Options Menu, Context Menu, and WebView

Introduction
Menus
Building a menu from Java code
Building a menu from a resource file
Handle Select Events
Sub-menus
Context Menus
Handling Context Menu Selection
Additional Menu Item options
Checkboxes and Radio Buttons
Shortcut Keys
Condensed Titles
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Menu Item Click Listener


Intents
WebView
Methods to remember
Practical Exercise

Lesson 8: Android Storage: Network, File I/O, and SharedPreferences

Android Storage Options


Shared Preferences
Internal Storage
SQLite Databases
Network Connection
Connecting to the internet
File I/O
Including files as resources
Shared Preferences
Retrieving Shared Preferences
Save activity state

Lesson 9: Android Storage: SQLite and Content Providers

Introduction
SQLite in your application
SQLite library
SQLiteOpenHelper
SQLiteDatabase
Cursors
Databases in Android
Native Android Content Providers
Methods to remember

Lesson 10: Android Notifications

Introduction
Creating a notification
Notification actions
Example: NotificationManager
Summary

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