Android Overview and History

• Mobile Application Development
• Why Android is different and important
• Android Overview

Android Stack

• Overview of the stack
• Linux kernel
• Native libraries
• Dalvik Virtual Machine
• App framework
• Applications

SDK Overview

• Platforms
• Tools
• Versions
• Installation
• Architecture

Hello World App

• Creating your first project
• The manifest file
• Layout resource
• Running your app on Emulator

Main Building Blocks

• Activities
• Activity lifecycle
• Intents
• Services
• Broadcast Receivers
• Content Providers

Intent Filters

• Role of filters
• Filters in your manifest
• Filters in dynamic Broadcast Receivers

Basic Android User Interface

• Ways of UI creation
• Views and layouts
• Common UI components
• Handling user events
• Types of Resources
• Accessing Resources in xml and Java
• Internationalization in Android

Advanced UI Components

• Selection components
• Complex UI components
• Menus and Dialogs
• Adapters
• Animations
• TweenAnimation
• FrameAnimation
• FrameAnimation with Audio

Fragments

• Working with Fragments

Adapters

• BaseAdapter
• ArrayAdapter

Android system Overview

• File System
• Preferences
• Notifications
• Security model
• Android Application Debugging

Data Storage

• SharedPreferences
• Internal Storage (Files)
• External Storage (SD Card)
• Database (SQLite)

SQL Database

• Introducing SQLite
• Creating a database
• SQLiteOpenHelper, SQLiteDatabase, SQLiteStatement.
• Opening and closing a database
• Working with database create, Insert, update, and delete.
• Working with Cursor

Basic Content Providers

• Content provider MIME types
• Searching for content
• Adding, changing, and removing content
• Working with content files

Services

• Overview of services in Android
• Implementing a Service
• Service lifecycle
• Introduction to AIDL

Broadcast Receivers

• What are BroadcastReceivers?
• Implementing broadcast receiver

Multimedia in Android

• Multimedia Supported audio and video formats
• Simple audio and video play
• Record Audio files
• Simple video playback

Location Services and GPS

• Working with the LocationManager
• MapActivity, MapView, Overlay, GeoPoint,
• MapController, LocationListener…etc
• Geocoding and Finding current location
• Working with Google Maps extensions

Telephony

• Making calls
• Monitoring data connectivity and activity
• Accessing phone properties and status
• Controlling the phone

Camera

• Taking pictures
• Rendering previews

Bluetooth

• Controlling local Bluetooth device
• Discovering and bonding with Bluetooth devices
• Managing Bluetooth connections
• Communicating with Bluetooth

Wi-Fi

• Monitoring and managing Internet connectivity
• Managing active connections
• Managing Wife

Sensors

• Introduction to sensors
• How Sensors working
• Sensor implementation Using
• SensorManager, SensorEventListener, SensorEvent.

Custom Components

• Custom Dialogs
• Custom Views
• Custom Adapter
• Custom ListView

Web Services & XML Parsing

• Xml parsing with different parsers
• SAX Parser
• DOM Parser
• XML Pull parser
• Overview of web services in Android
• Implementing a Web Service with Example

Development to deployment

• Dalvik debugging tool
• Handling multiple screen sizes
• Execute .apk into a Devices
• DDMS

SendingSMS
Receiving SMS