Android App Development

• What is Android?
• Setting up development environment
• Dalvik Virtual Machine

• Basic Building blocks – Activities,Services,Broadcast Receivers & Content providers
• UI Components – Views
• Components for communication -Intents & Intent Filters
• Android API levels (versions & version names)

• AndroidManifest.xml
• uses-permission & uses-sdk
• Resources & R.java
• Assets
• Layouts & Drawable Resources
• Activities and Activity lifecycle
• First sample Application

• Launching emulator
• Editing emulator settings
• Logcat usage
• Introduction to DDMS
• Second App:- (switching between activities)

• Form widgets
• Text Fields
• Layouts
• dp,px
• Examples

• SharedPreferences
• Preferences from xml
• Examples

• SQLite Programming
• SQLiteOpenHelper
• SQLiteDatabse

Adapters:-

• ArrayAdapters
• BaseAdapters
• ListView and ListActivity

• Broadcast Receivers
• Services and notifications
• Toast

• XML Parsing
• JSON Parsing
• Maps, GPS, Location based Services
• Accessing Phone services (Call, SMS)