Course Android DeveloperLC-ANDROID-COMPLETE

Programming in Java

1. Fundamentals
   • a review of the object-oriented programming paradigm: classes, interfaces, inheritance;
   • a complete Java syntax and instruction reference guide (excluding inner classes);
   • naming conventions (Sun conventions);
   • practical consequences of duck typing and static typing:
     • using factories,
   • application structure and compilation; loading classes, Classloaders and CLASSPATH. Packets, code organization.
   • IDE: using Eclipse
2. Advanced Java topics
   • generic types;
   • handling exceptions;
   • inner classes;
   • overloading, autoboxing, wrappers;
   • class initialization, constructors, static and non-static initialization blocks;
   • enumeration;
   • annotations;
3. Multithreaded programming:
   • basic concepts: Thread, Runnable;
   • blocking, synchronization;
   • an introduction to java.util.concurrent;
4. The standard library:
   • collections in Java:
     • all collection interfaces,
     • common implementations,
     • algorithms;
   • input and output:
     • streams, readers/writers, decorators;
     • communicating via HTTP, URLs.

Programming for Android

1. Necessary information about Android programming environment, compatibility issues between versions (API levels) and deploying/publishing of applications.
2. Development kit configuration (device emulator and an actual device).
3. The structure of an android application:
   • Activities, Intents, Services;
   • Content Provider;
   • Broadcast Receiver;
   • application context;
   • data: where and how to store which data;
4. Creating UI:
   • object-oriented GUI architecture: View, Group, Layout, Widget;
   • Dynamic GUI rendering;
   • GUI as a static resource;
   • events and event handling;
   • options and context menu;
5. Resources:
   • adding resource to an application;
   • drawable resources: density and resolution, scaling;
6. Data handling
   • web services and HTTP;
   • parsing well-structured text, text-parsing API (for XML, JSON);
   • adapters (Adapter, AdapterView), GUI binding to data;
7. Dynamic graphics – canvas:
   • SurfaceView, SurfaceHolder;
   • graphics, animations and multithreading.
8. Using phone capabilities:
   • sound;
   • permissions, manifest;
   • accelerometer;
   • accessing local files.
9. Using all of the phone’s capabilities:
   • camera, video camera;
   • sound recording;
   • GPS, compass;
   • filesystem and SD card handling;
   • texting.
10. Data handling:
    • Internal SQL database:
      • SQlite peculiarities;
      • using cursors;
      • binding database data to GUI.
    • preferences
    • serializing context.
11. Advanced graphics topics:
    • using mapcontroller (including own layers);
    • introduction to 3D graphics (OpenGL ES):
      • handling hardware, declarations in the manifest (including, e.g., texture compression);
      • fundamentals of 3D graphical processing: matrices, surfaces, vertices;
      • projection, scene, initial configuration;
      • shaders;
12. System integration:
    • custom ContentProvier;
    • user notifications;
    • custom Services and Intents;
    • custom BroadcastReceiver.
13. Background applications and threading:
    • managing locks;
    • Alarm Manager, BootReceiver;
    • Handlers, inter-thread communication.