Cross Train to Android Training Course

Overview

-The Android Framework

-Dalvik & Linux

-Principles

Getting it all up and Running

-Eclipse and the ADK

-Using the DDMS debugger

Core Android – The Concepts

-The Manifest

-Widgets

-Activities - the basic types

-Intents

-Services

-Content Providers & SQLite

-Broadcast Receivers

-The Application Context

Essential Internals

-Bundles and Intents

-The Activity Lifecycle

-Notifications

-Alarms

The User Interface

-What Android has to offer – Widgets & Views in detail

-Program vs Declarative

-XML – Layouts of all kinds

-Styles & Stateful Drawables

-AlertDialogs & Menus

-The AppWidget

Events and Event Handling

-Short Tpuch and Long Touch

-Context Menus

-Other Events

-Handling Gestures

A First Practical Project

-Preferences

-Files and Databases

-Lists, Adapters and ListViews

-Services & Broadcast Receivers

-Using Other Apps From Your Own

Threading

-The UI thread

-Background threads

-Async task

-Handlers and Loopers - Custom Pipeline Threads

Local Persistence - SQLite in depth

-DBHelper

-Content Providers

-The Android File System

Exception Handling

-Custom Exception Handlers

-Uncaught Exceptions

Consuming Web Services – SOAP and REST

-kSOAP2

-rest.org

-JSON

-XML

Location Based Services

-GPS service

-Mapping

-Phone Location Services

-Phone Orientation

-Augmented Reality Applications

Graphics

-SurfaceView

-OpenGL

-Graphics2D

-Using the Camera

-Signature Capture

Media Framework
-Audio & Video

Best Practice and Open Source add-ons

-Using Custom Base Classes

-CommonsWare Additions

-Application Deployment - The Market and Signing