Android Hands-on Training With Job Placement

Android Developer Course Content

This course teaches how tdevelop Android applications. With more and more Android
devices (like mobile phones and tablets) flooding the market, there is a huge demand for
applications that run on these devices.

Anyone with the knowledge of Java language can learn how tdevelop Android
application in this course.

Course Duration

• 5 weeks course, 6 days per week, 1 hr a day, total 6 hours per week.
• Total Duration 25 hours.
• Free - DemTraining available for interested students

Basic JAVA Concepts

• OOPs Concepts
• Inheritance in detail
• Exception handling
• Packages & interfaces
• JVM & .jar file extension
• Multi threading (Thread class & Runnable Interface)

Introduction tAndroid

• What is Android?
• Setting up development environment
• Dalvik Virtual Machine & .apk file extension
• Fundamentals:
  • Basic Building blocks - Activities, Services, Broadcast Receivers & Content providers
  • UI Components - Views & notifications
  • Components for communication - Intents & Intent Filters
• Android API levels (versions & version names)

Application Structure (in detail)

• xml
• uses-permission & uses-sdk
• Resources & R.java
• 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 tDDMS
• 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
• Alert Dialogs & Toast
• Popup
• Examples

Tabs and Tab Activity

• Examples

Styles & Themes

• xml
• Drawable resources for shapes, gradients (selectors)
• style attribute in layout file
• Applying themes via code and manifest file
• Examples

Content Providers

• SQLite Programming
• SQLite Open Helper
• SQLite Database
• Cursor
• Reading and updating Contacts
• Reading bookmarks
• Examples

Develop an App tdemonstrate database usage. CRUD operations must be implemented.

Final details should be viewed in Grid View as well as in List View.

Adapters and Widgets

• Adapters:
  • Array Adapters
  • Base Adapters
• ListView and ListActivity
• Custom listview
• Grandview using adapters
• Gallery using adapters
• Examples

Notifications

• Broadcast Receivers
• Services and notifications
• Toast
• Alarms
• 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