Courses

Introduction to Android Operating System, history of Android, the various versions of Android and their features, the Android Architecture, introduction to app market, Android runtime, the Android Development Environment

Learning about the various components of Android, the application lifecycle, Android manifest, the various Android resources, dimension, image and color resources, resource reference syntax, studying Android View and View Group, the concept of Android buttons, check box, radio button

Introduction to Android layout manager, the various layouts like table, relative, linear, frame and learning about themes

Introduction to Android intents, the implicit and explicit intents, learning about built-in intent actions, invoking of activity, data passing and learning about pending intents.

• An overview of Android menus, creation and deployment of menus, responding to menus through listeners and options item selected, deploying sub menus, working with context menus, using XML files for menu creation, responding to such menus, XML menu resource file inflating, response to XML-based menu

Understanding how services work in Android, the service life cycle, the types of services like bound and unbounded services, the distinction between them, creation of service in Android

Android broadcast receiver, registering the broadcast receiver, deploying Broadcast () method for broadcasting message, broadcast message listening, using manifest file for registering a receiver, understanding Android notification, creation of notification and working with context menu

Understanding the Android preference management, introduction to preference manager, creation and working with preferences, the most common shared preferences, reading of preference values, saving and retrieving preference using code

Introduction to SQLite database, understanding how it works in Android, storing internally and externally, database creation using SQL Helper, working with records – creating, updating, reading and deleting records

Learning about content providers, the concepts, storing data in Android, creation of content provider

Introduction to Android location framework, integrating Google Maps into application, steps for Google Maps API V2

Android location-based services, geo-location, the location API, extracting the location using GPS, registering for location listener, adding permissions to manifest file

Learning about Android hardware component integration into applications, sensors, working with sensor manager, camera applications, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi integration

Understanding the services of telephony and SMS and deploying it into Android applications

Introduction to the multimedia features in Android, the various media components like video, audio, animation, visual graphics, learning to work with various services like audio and video recording, frame by frame animation, defining frames to be animated, animation layout, learning about basic Tween animation in Android

Learning about Web Service, the various components and features of Web Services in Android

Debugging Android applications, introduction to the various debugging tools, learning to export the app to the Google Play Store, registering for the Google Play Store

Project – Google Maps

Problem Statement – This project is involved with integrating of Google Map services into the Android application, adding of marker, firing of event and showing of location. It involves the following:

Install Google Play Services, create a Google Map project, get a Google Maps API key, Add the key to your key.