Dexterity
Android App Development
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JAVA CONCEPTS
OOPs Concepts
Exception handling
Packages & interfaces
JVM & jar file extension
SQL
DML & DDL Queries in brief
INTRODUCTION TO ANDROID
What is Android?
Setting up development environment
Dalvik Virtual Machine & .apk file extension
Fundamentals:
Basic Building blocks
UI Components
Components for communication
APPLICATION STRUCTURE (In detail)
AndroidManifest.xml
uses-permission & uses-sdk
Resources & R.java of Assets
Layouts & Drawable Resources
Activities and Activity lifecycle
First sample Application
EMULATOR-ANDROID VIRTUAL DEVICE
Launching emulator
Editing emulator settings
Emulator shortcuts
Logcat usage
Introduction to DDMS
Second App (switching between activities) – Develop an app for demonstrating the communication between Intents
BASIC UI DESIGN
Form widgets
Text Fields
Layouts
[dip, dp, sip, sp] versus px
Examples
PREFERENCES
Shared Preferences
Preferences from xml
Examples
MENU
Option menu
Context menu
Sub menu
menu from xml
menu via code
Examples
INTENTS (In detail)
Explicit Intents
Implicit intents
Examples
UI DESIGN
Time and Date
Images and media
Composite
AlertDialogs & Toast
Popup
Examples
TABS AND TAB ACTIVITY
Examples
STYLES & THEMES
styles.xml
drawable resources for shapes, gradients (selectors)
style attribute in layout file
Applying themes via code and manifest file
Examples
CONTENT PROVIDERS
SQLite Programming
SQLiteOpenHelper
SQLite database
Cursor
Reading and updating Contacts
Reading bookmarks
Example: Develop an App to demonstrate database usage. CRUD operations must be implemented. Final details should be viewed in GridView as well as in ListView.
LINKIFY
Web URLs, Email address, text, map address, phone numbers
MatchFilter & TransformFilter
Examples
ADAPTERS AND WIDGETS
Adapters
ArrayAdapters
BaseAdapters
Custom listview
ListView and ListActivity
GridView using adapters
Gallery using adapters
Examples
NOTIFICATIONS
Broadcast Receivers
Services and notifications
Toast
Alarms
Examples
CUSTOM COMPONENTS
Custom Tabs
Custom animated popup panels
Other components
Examples
THREADS
Threads running on UI thread (runOnUiThread)
Worker thread
Handlers & Runnable
AsynTask (in detail)
ExampleS
ADVANCED
Live Folders
Using sdcards
XML Parsing
JSON Parsing
Maps, GPS, Location based Services
Accessing Phone services (Call, SMS, MMS)
Network connectivity services
Sensors
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