Course Details

Android programming training

Course description

Learn how to make Android apps that will teach you the fundamentals. In Introduction to Mobile Application Development using Android, a 6-week, self-paced course from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, students will get introduced to the Android platform, Android SDK tools and Android Studio, the development environment used to create Android apps. Learn about mobile UI design, graphics, multimedia, network support and event handling. The course is part of a professional Android certificate program that focuses on using the Java programming language to develop Android applications.

Course outline

Unit 1 – Introduction to Java and Android

• Android Stack Introduction.
• Installing Android and creating first app on emulator
• Android Architecture and building blocks
• Android App build process.
• Java overview– Data types, Loops, Conditionals and Operators
• Android UI– resources, themes, threads etc
• Debugging in android
• Assignments on Java Classes, Objects, Methods, Instances etc
• Activities, Receivers, Adapters and Providers
• Telephony System Architecture of Android

Unit 2 – Systems Programming and JNI Concepts

• Introduction to System programming in Android
• Java interface
• Native library implementation
• Building the sample native library
• Using native functions in Java code
• Security and Permissions.

Unit 3 - Android Graphics and Multimedia

• Basic Graphics - Input Handling,  Audio / Video playback
• Assignments on playing audio and playing video
• Accessing Files system, SD Cards
• SQLite overview, Data Binding, Content Provider
• Assignments and exposure to Lab infrastructure
• UI design aspects of Apps
• Gestures/touch/click handling
• Instantiate UI elements at runtime
• Views and Interacting with views

Unit 4 – 3D graphics in OpenGL and Android Widget

• OpenGL Introduction
• Using Threads and Models
• Texture in OpenGL
• Making a application in OpenGL
• Other standard views in Android
• Android Widget Development

Unit 5 – Android Networking

• Accessing the Internet
• Using Web services
• Using Java and Java Script
• Location Sensing
• Client Server Programming
• Working with XML/JSON
• SMS

Unit 6 – Complete App Development

• Developing live App and modules
• Exposure to development on Phones/Tablets/Set top    box.
• Developing custom launchers and skins.
• Full software lifecycle exposure from requirement to  market launch.
• Applications utilizing location and maps