Introduction to Android

• Why Android?

• Android Run Time

• Android Studio

• Introduction to Gradle

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

• AndroidManifest.xml

• uses-permission

• Activity/services/receiver declarations

• Resources & R.java

• Layouts & Drawable Resources

• Activities and Activity lifecycle

Emulator

• Launching emulator

• Editing emulator settings

• Emulator shortcuts

• Logcat usage

• Introduction to Android Device Monitor (ADM)

• File explorer

Intents

• Explicit Intents

• Implicit intents

Basic UI design, Styles & Themes

• Form widgets

• Text Fields

• Layouts

o RelativeLayout ,TableLayout, FrameLayout,

  LinearLayout, Nested layouts

o [dip,dp,sip,sp] versus px

o styles.xml

o drawable resources for shapes,gradients(selectors)

o Style attribute in layout file

• Applying themes via code and manifest file

• AlertDialogs & Toast

• Time and Date

• Images and media

Adapters

• ArrayAdapters

• BaseAdapters

• ListView and ListActivity

• Custom listview

• GridView using adapters

• Gallery using adapters

• Android Session and Session management 

Content Providers

• SQL

• DML & DDL Queries in brief

• SQLiteDatabse

• SQLiteOpenHelper

• Cursor

• SQLite Programming

• Reading and updating Contacts

• Android Debug Bridge(adb) tool

• Broadcast Receivers

Fragments

• Introduction to fragments

• Fragments Life Cycle

• Fragments in Activity

• Google Maps V2 using Fragments

• Develop Fragment based UI designs (Fragment Tabs,ListView etc)

• Location based Services

• GPS

• Geocoding

• Network connectivity services

• Sensors(Accelerometer, Gyroscope).

• Using Wi-Fi& Bluetooth.

• Google Cloud Messaging for Android.

• App Widgets

• Services