Duration

Course Duration - Around 8 weeks

Why Android?

Open Source

Customizable User Interface

Low Investment & High ROI

Multiple Sales Channels

Easy to Adopt

Android Overview and History

How it all got started

Why Android is different (and important)

Android Stack

Overview of the stack

Linux kernel

Native libraries

Dalvik VM

Application framework

Android Components

Creating your first project

The manifest file

Layout resource

Running your app on Emulator

Building UI with Activities

Activities

Views, layouts and Common UI components

Creating UI through code and XML

Activity lifecycle

Intents

Communicating data among Activities

Advanced UI

String Concatenation

Substring

String Comparison

String : What and Why?

Methods of String class

StringBuffer class

StringBuilder class

toString method

Notifications

Toast, Custom Toast

Dialogs

Status bar Notifications

Multithreading

Using Java Mutithreading classes

AsyncTask

Handler

Post

Writing an animated game

Styles And Themes

Creating and Applying simple Style

Inheriting built-in Style and User defined style

Using Styles as themes

Resources and Assets

Android Resource

Using resources in XML and code

Localization

Handling Runtime configuration changes

Fragments

Introduction to Fragments

How to use fragments through code and xml

Fragment life cycle

Creating fragments with and without UI

Inter fragment data communication

Using built in fragment

Intent, Intent Filters and Broadcast Receivers

Role of filters

Intent-matching rules

Filters in your manifest

Filters in dynamic Broadcast Receivers

Creating Broadcast receiver

Receiving System Broadcast

Understanding Broadcast action, category and data

Registering Broadcast receiver through code and through XML

Sending Broadcast

Data Storage

Shared Preferences

Android File System

Internal storage

External storage

SQLite

IntroducingSQLite

SQLiteOpenHelper and creating a database

Opening and closing adatabase

Working with cursors Inserts, updates, and deletes

Network

Content Providers

Accessing built in content providers

Content provider MIME types

Searching for content

Adding, changing, and removing content

Creating content provider

Working with content files

Multimedia in Android

Multimedia Supported audio formats

Simple media playback

Supported video formats

Simple video playback

Location Based Services and Google Maps

Using Location Based Services

Finding current location and listening for changes in location

Proximity alerts

Working with Google Maps

Showing google map in an Activity

Using Map Fragment and MapView

Customizing maps

Working with map marker

Custom Markers and Info Windows

Drawing on the map

Interacting with the map

Geocoder

Displaying route on map

Street View using street view panorama

Web Services and WebView

Understanding HTTP request response model

Consuming web services

Receiving HTTP Response (XML, JSON )

Parsing JSON and XML

Using WebView

Sensors

How Sensors work

Using Orientation and Accelerometer sensors

Best practices for performance

WiFi

Monitoring and managing Internet connectivity

Managing active connections

Managing WiFi networks

Telephony Services

Making calls

Monitoring data connectivity and activity

Accessing phone properties and status

Controlling the phone

Sending messages

Camera

Taking pictures

Media Recorder

Rendering previews

Bluetooth

Controlling local Bluetooth device

Discovering and bonding with Bluetooth devices

Managing Bluetooth connections

Communicating with Bluetooth

Advanced Android

Google Volley Networking Library

Material Design

Runtime Permissions

Memory Profiling

Android Application Deployment

Android Application Deployment on device with Linux and Windows

Android Application Deployment on Android Market

Services

Overview of services in Android

Implementing a Service

Service lifecycle

Inter Process Communication (AIDL Services)