Monday 21 April 2014

android concepts

·         OOPs Concepts
·         Packages & interfaces
·         JVM & .jar file extension

Chapter 2: SQL
·         DML & DDL Queries in brief

Chapter 3: Introduction to Android
·         What is Android? And Advantages
·         Setting up development environment
·         Dalvik Virtual Machine & .apk file extension
·         Fundamentals:
a. Basic Building blocks - Activities,Services,Broadcast Receivers & Content providers
b. UI Components - Views & notifications
c. Components for communication -Intents & Intent Filters
·         Android API levels (versions & version names)

Chapter 4: Application Structure (in detail)
·         AndroidManifest.xml
·         uses-permission & uses-sdk
·         Resources & R.java
·         Assets
·         Layouts & Drawable Resources
·         Activities and Activity lifecycle
First sample Application

Chapter 5: Emulator-Android Virtual Device
·         Launching emulator
·         Editing emulator settings
·         Emulator shortcuts
·         Logcat usage
·         Introduction to DDMS
·         Second App:- (switching between activities)
Develop an app for demonstrating the communication between Intents

Chapter 6: Basic UI design
·         Form widgets
·         Text Fields
·         Layouts
·         [dip, dp, sip, sp] versus px
·         Examples
Chapter 7: Preferences
·         SharedPreferences
·         Preferences from xml
·         Examples

Chapter 8: Menu
·         Option menu
·         Context menu
·         Sub menu
·         menu from xml
·         menu via code
·         Examples

Chapter 9: Intents (in detail)
·         Explicit Intents
·         Implicit intents
·         Examples
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   Chapter 10: UI design
·         Time and Date
·         Images and media
·         Composite
·         AlertDialogs & Toast
·         Popup
·         Examples

Chapter 11: Tabs and Tab Activity
·         Examples

Chapter 12: Styles & Themes
·         styles.xml
·         drawable resources for shapes, gradients (selectors)
·         style attribute in layout file
·         Applying themes via code and manifest file
·         Examples

Chapter 13: Content Providers
SQLite Programming
·         SQLiteOpenHelper
·         SQLiteDatabse
·         Cursor
·         Reading and updating Contacts
·         Reading bookmarks
·         Example :
Develop an App to demonstrate database usage. CRUD operations must be implemented.
Final details should be viewed in GridView as well as in ListView.

Chapter 14: Android Debug Bridge (adb) tool

Chapter 15: Linkify
·         Web URLs, Email address, text, map address, phone numbers
·         MatchFilter & TransformFilter
·         Examples
Chapter 16: Adapters and Widgtes
·         Adapters:-
a. ArrayAdapters
b. BaseAdapters
·         ListView and ListActivity
·         Custom listview
·         GridView using adapters
·         Gallery using adapters
·         Examples

Chapter 17: Notifications
·         Broadcast Receivers
·         Services and notifications
·         Toast
Toast method
·         Alarms
·         Examples

Chapter 18: Custom components
·         Custom Tabs
·         Custom animated popup panels
·         Other components
·         Examples

Chapter 19: Threads
·         Threads running on UI thread (runOnUiThread)
·         Worker thread
·         Handlers & Runnable
·         AsynTask (in detail)
·         Examples

Chapter 20: Advanced
·         Live Folders
·         Using sdcards
·         XML Parsing
·         JSON Parsing
·         Maps, GPS, Location based Services
·         Accessing Phone services (Call, SMS, MMS)
·         Network connectivity services

·         Sensors