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Contents

● Welcome to our new Advanced Android Development

course
● What will you learn in this course?

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 Introduction

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Next steps in the Android developer journey

Android Developer Fundamentals Advanced Android Development

Take off on your journey to Now go deeper into advanced
becoming an Android app developer Android development concepts
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Who is the audience for this course?

● Java programmers who have basic knowledge of

building Android apps
● Preferred: Developers who have taken the Android
Developer Fundamentals course

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About the course

● Takes you to the next level of Android development

● Intended to be an instructor-led course
● All materials are available online
● Self-motivated learners can work through practicals on
their own

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Materials
● Concepts guide
● Practicals
● Slides
● Source code in GitHub
● Everything is available online
● Released under Creative Commons License

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Step-by-step practicals

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Concepts guides

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Slide decks

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Source code for sample apps in GitHub

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Course structure
● Course is divided into units
● Each unit is independent of other units
You choose:
● Teach the whole course
● Teach specific units
● Add units to your existing Android dev curriculum

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What does the course cover?
● Unit 1: Expand the user experience
● Unit 2: Make your apps fast and small
● Unit 3: Make your apps accessible
● Unit 4: Add geo features to your apps
● Unit 5: Advanced graphics and views
● More units coming in early 2018, including media playback
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 Unit 1
Expand the user experience

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Expand the user experience
In Android Developer Fundamentals you learned how to use
layouts to display activities.
Now learn about fragments, widgets, and sensors to improve
the experience your users have with your app.

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Lesson 1.1 Fragments
Learn that a fragment:
● Represents a section of a UI
● Can be reused
● Is created statically in XML
or dynamically in code
Build an app:
● Use a fragment to get user
feedback
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1.2 Communicating with fragments
Learn how to:
● Send data to and from
fragments
● Implement master/detail
layout for wide screens
Build an app:
● Use fragment to show
song details
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2.1 App widgets
Learn how to:
● Implement a widget for your app
● Make the widget respond to user actions

Build an app:
● App widget updates automatically and on
demand

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3.1 Working with sensor data
Learn how to:
● Get available sensors
● Register listeners for sensor data
● React to incoming sensor data
Build apps:
● Display all available sensors
● Display data from light and proximity
sensors
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3.2 Sensor-based orientation
Learn about:
● Accelerometer and magnetometer
● Sensor coordinate systems

Build an app:
● Display shapes to show angles and
orientation detected by accelerometer and
magnetometer
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 Unit 2
Performance: Make your apps fast and small

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Make your apps fast and small
What is good app performance, and why does it matter?

Learn how to keep your app fast and small so your users stay
engaged. Use tools to measure performance and identify how
to improve it.

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4.1 Performance: Rendering and layout
Learn about:
● How layout and drawing affects your
app's performance
● Tools to detect performance problems

Do: Overdraw is drawing one

● Use tools to analyze drawing pixel on top of another
performance
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4.2 Performance: Memory
Learn about:
● Memory leaks
● The Memory Profiler tool

Do:
● Use the Memory Profiler tool

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4.3 Network, battery, image performance
Learn about:
● Text and image performance
● What affects battery drain
● Network best practices
Do:
● Run the Network Profiler tool
● Use battery visualization tools
● Convert images to WebP format
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 Unit 3
Unit 3: Make your apps accessible

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Make your apps accessible
Make your apps accessible to users with varying abilities, and
in different languages and locales.

Accessible apps reach more users.

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5.1 Languages and layouts
Learn how to:
● Support different languages

Build an app:
● Use Translations Editor to add
translations
● Add support for right-to-left
languages

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5.2 Locales
Learn about:
● Locales
● Formatting dates, times,
numbers, currencies
Build an app:
● Show date, quantity, and price 6 of August?
of candy in the user's locale
8 of June?
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6.1 Accessibility
Learn about:
● Accessibility features in Android
● Best practices for making accessible apps

Do:
● Explore accessibility features on your device
● Use Google Talkback
● Test your app's accessibility

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 Unit 4
Add geo features to your app

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Add geo features to your apps
Did you know that you can add many of the features provided
by Google Maps to the Android apps you build?

This unit shows how to detect and show the user's location,
show nearby places, and insert maps into your apps.

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7.1 Location
Learn how to:
● Get the device's location
● Get address from longitude and latitude
● Update the location

Build an app:
● Update the user's location as they walk

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8.1 Places API
Learn how to:
● Use Places in your app

Build an app:
● Show a list of nearby places
● Update UI depending on kind of place

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9.1 Add a Google Map to your app
Learn about:
● Integrating Google Maps in your app
● Map types and styles
● Markers and points of interest
Build an app:
● Add map types and markers
● Style your map
● Enable location tracking and Street View
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 Unit 5

Advanced graphics and views

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Advanced graphics and views
Android Studio comes with lots of predefined views, from
buttons to seek bars. You can customize their appearance
with attributes and use drawables for customized
backgrounds.
But sometimes you want even more control over the way your
UI elements are rendered.
This unit teaches advanced graphics and views to help you
draw exactly the UI elements you have in mind.
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10.1 Custom views
Learn about:
● Custom views — when, why, how

Build an app:
● Create a custom TextEdit view
● Create a custom fan-controller view

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11.1 Canvas
Learn about:
● Canvas, Paint
● Clipping regions
● Responding to button clicks
Build an app:
● Simple canvas app
● Let user draw sketches
● Canvas with different clipping regions
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11.2 SurfaceView
Learn how to:
● Use SurfaceView to perform drawing
operations outside the main thread

Build an app:
● Search for an Android robot hiding in
the dark

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12.1 Animation
Learn about:
● Different kinds of animation in Android
● Creating property animators
● Use AnimatorSets to play multiple
animations

Build an app:
● Animate a circle expanding and shrinking
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Where is everything?

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Google Developers Training website
● To find all the materials for the course go to:
developers.google.com/training
● Go to COURSES tab

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Choose the course
In the left hand menu, choose
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