Android App Development Essentials eLearning

Course Outline

The Development of Android Applications

• Define Android and identify its development history and uses in the information age
• Describe the software stack elements of the Linux kernel, Android runtime, and associated libraries
• Describe the software stack elements of the application framework and default applications
• Describe the official IDE for Android applications and identify the system requirements for using it
• Install Java SDK, Android SDK, and Android Studio
• Use and update the SDK manager
• Use menus and toolbars
• Search folders and file directories, and customize window layouts
• Use Gradle to configure and manage project builds
• Manipulate project settings for appearance, editor, and debugger features
• Create an app
• Describe the structure of an Android project
• Work with the Android manifest
• Create, configure, and use virtual devices
• Connect physical devices to Android Studio and run test
• Migrate Eclipse projects to Android Studio
• Import and configure existing projects into Android Studio
• Define activities and services
• Define broadcast receivers and content providers
• Describe the life cycle of activities
• Describe how apps are started and ended
• Debug code with logcat
• Debug code with breakpoints and variables
• Use Toast to display messages
• Export an app package
• Create an app and a virtual device, and export the app as a package

The Main Components of Android

• Create and launch activities
• Identify state changes when an app is paused and resumed
• Identify state changes when an app is stopped and restarted
• Stop and rebuild an activity
• Design layouts for activities
• Work with the layout design interface
• Define screens with layout resource files
• Identify units of measurements
• Construct linear layouts
• Build relative layouts
• Describe intents and their importance
• Work with explicit intents to start activities
• Use implicit intents to open activities
• Create a service project and layout files
• Add a service to a project
• Add a service to a main activity
• Register a service in Android manifest
• Describe broadcast receivers
• Register a broadcast receiver statically
• Register a broadcast receiver dynamically
• Handle system events with a broadcast receiver
• Create and declare a content provider
• Implement the content provider class
• Use insert, query, and onCreate methods
• Use update, delete, and getType methods
• Create an activity, a service, a broadcast receiver, and a content provider

User Interfaces, Controls, and Fragments

• Describe the user interface class
• Define and use Android styles
• Work with themes
• Create a scrollable text display
• Create an app with material design
• Use styles to customize material design
• Use fragments to layout screens
• Create fragments
• Work with Android market fragmentation
• Create a custom launcher icon
• Work with buttons and text boxes
• Work with passwords
• Work with checkboxes
• Work with radio buttons
• Work with toggle buttons and ratings bar
• Use date picker control
• Use time picker control
• Use progress bar
• Use prompt dialog
• Add items to options menu
• Display items in action bar
• Manage action bar at runtime
• Use image view to display images
• Display drawable images
• Use assets folder to load images
• Manipulate user interfaces, controls, and fragments

Designing, Creating, and Manipulating Android Databases

• Describe the different types of storage options in Android
• Define preferences in Android
• Define local databases in Android
• Define external databases in Android
• Describe SQLite databases in Android
• Describe private and shared preferences
• Create activities for shared preferences
• Use activities with shared preferences
• Use Java code to define preferences
• Work with event listeners for shared preferences
• Create and write files for internal storage
• Read files into internal storage
• Create JSON data files
• Read JSON data files
• Create method to write data into external storage
• Create method to read data from external storage
• Describe parsing XML data in Android
• Use onCreate method for XMLPullParser
• Create class to handle XML data
• Define a schema and contract
• Create a database using a SQL helper
• Insert data into SQLite databases
• Read data into SQLite databases
• Create CRUD layout and java class files
• Update records in SQLite database
• Delete records in SQLite database
• Work with different types of Android databases

New Features of Android 7

• Detail the behavior changes in the latest version of Android
• Provide a high-level overview of multi-window support in Android N apps
• Create an app that utilizes multiple windows
• Implement activities in multiple windows in an app
• Describe the process for testing a multi-window app in Android
• Demonstrate how to trigger picture in picture in an Android app
• Identify the improvements made to notification in Android
• Recognize how to use direct reply notifications
• Describe bundled notifications and identify when and how they should be used
• Use style resources to create custom notification text
• Describe how to use the ConnectivityManager class to interact with a user’s Data Saver preferences
• Describe the key features and APIs used for Android TV recording
• Use key attestation to retrieve and verify a hardware-backed key pair
• Customize an app’s network security settings using the Network Security Config feature
• Describe how the ICU4J APIs can be used in Android
• List and describe the supported Java 8 language features and APIs
• Describe how Android for Work facilitates the enterprise use of Android
• Use scoped directory access to work with external storage
• Review the key features and enhancements introduced by Android 7