Android

Course details

This Android Course from Open Vision is considered one of the most developed courses in Egypt. This course is the right choice for you if you want to write Android applications. It’s not just another android course, with Open Vision you’ll work in this course practically and develop Android application all the way during the course. Learn how to develop application for the most open source platform. By the end of this course you’ll be able to work as Android app developer, develop application on Android operating systems that work on both smart phone and tablets and also publish your apps on Android market.

Topics

Introduction to Android Development

• Android History and Apps market
• Android Application Building Blocks
• Development and Debugging Tools (Adb, DDMS , ..)

Building Application User interface :

• Activities and UI widgets
• The View class
• Managing and using Layouts
• Building UI with Fragments
• Menus and Dialogs
• Building UI for tablets

Using and managing resources

• Building your app with different languages
• Supporting different screen sizes
• Supporting multiple graphics and images for different resolutions and densities
• Different types of resources

Adapter Views

• List Views
• Grid Views
• Custom Adapters

Intents and Intent Filters

• Multiple Activities
• Starting other apps
• Making other apps run your app

Using Built-in APIs

• Making and receiving calls
• Sending and Handling SMSes
• Capturing and sharing images using Camera

Broadcast Receivers

• Broadcast intents
• Broadcast Receivers and intent filters

Advanced User Interface:

• Advanced User Interface with Fragments
• Communication between fragments
• Tabs Layout, Swiping Screens, Drawer and Sliding Menus Layouts

Background Processes and Services:

• Threads and Services
• Sending Data between Services and UI components
• AsyncTask ,Downloading and Caching Images

Consuming Web Services:

• REST VS SOAP Web Services
• JSON & Consuming Web Services

Data and Storage:

• Saving persistent data
• Shared preferences
• File System , SDCard
• Database (SQLite)
• Content Providers