Android Developer Beginner

Course details

Interested in learning how to make Android apps? Learn Android programming with our training course series. Introduction to Android Programming and Advanced Android Programming make it easy and efficient to learn Android development.

This Android training course is designed to quickly get you up to speed how to make Android apps for Android devices. This Android development-training course will teach you the basis of the Android platform and the application life cycle. You will be able to write simple GUI applications, use built-in widgets and components, work with the database to store data locally, and much more by the end of this Android training course.

Course Objectives:

As a result of taking this Android training course, you will be able to:

• Explain the differences between Android™ and other mobile development environments.
• Understand how Android™ applications work, their life cycle, manifest, intents, and using external resources.
• Design and develop useful Android™ applications with compelling user interfaces by using, extending, and creating your own layouts and Views and using Menus.
• Take advantage of Android's APIs for data storage, retrieval, user preferences, files, databases, and content providers.
• Tap into location-based services, geocoder,compass sensors, and create rich map-based applications.
• Utilize the power of background services, threads, and notifications.
• Use Android's communication APIs for SMS, telephony, network management, and Internet resources (HTTP).
• Secure, tune, package, and deploy Android™ applications.

 Android Beginner Course Outline :

•       Android Overview and History 
- How it all got started
- Why Android is different (and important)
- Open Source framework

•       Android Stack 
- Overview of the stack
- Linux kernel
- Native libraries
- DalvikApp framework
- Apps

•       SDK Overview
- Platforms
- Tools
- Versions

•       Android Development Tools -ADT: 
-AVD
-ADB
-DDMS

•       Introduction to Android and Mobile Devices: Dalvik VM
- Create and run Android Virtual Device
- Testing apps

•       Introduction to Android Programming 
   - Hello World App
   - Creating your first project
   - The manifest file
   - Layout resource
   - Running your app on emulator

•       Create layouts

•       Basic Android User Interface
- XML versus Java UI
- Dips and sps
- Views and layouts
- Common UI components
- Handling user events

•       Main Building Blocks
- Activities
- Activity lifecycle
- Intents
- Services
- Content Providers
- Broadcast Receivers

•       Communicating Between Activities

•       Menus
- Options Menu
- Extended Menu
    - Context Menu

•       Configuration Changes

•       Settings/Preferences Page in android

•       Android System Overview
- File System
- Preferences
- Notifications
- Security model

•       Workshop: Examples, Projects, Testing (5 Hours)

•       Database Management in Android:
  - SQL Database
  - Introducing SQLite
  - SQLiteOpenHelper and creating a database
  - Opening and closing a database
  - Working with cursors
  - Inserts, updates, and deletes
  - Project example