Developing Applications for Android^™ Devices: Hands-On

Course 2771 • 4 Days

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You Will Learn How To

Effectively build professional mobile business applications using Java and the Android SDK
Create intuitive, reliable software using activities, services and intents
Design engaging user Interfaces that work seamlessly with a range of phones and tablets
Store and retrieve data with content providers and the SQLite database
Integrate Android applications with enterprise web and location-based services
Sign and publish completed programs in the Android Market for widespread distribution

Course Benefits

Faced with a rapidly evolving mobile environment, organisations are responding to the need for innovative content and service delivery. The Android open source platform offers compatibility with a wide range of devices, providing global access to the mobile market. In this course, you learn to build on your existing Java knowledge to deliver robust business applications for Android phones and tablets and integrate them with enterprise systems.

Who Should Attend

Java programmers who are new to Android development and need to create professional mobile applications. Knowledge of Java at the level of Course 471, "Java Programming Comprehensive Introduction", or equivalent experience is assumed.

Hands-On Training

Extensive hands-on exercises, centred around an evolving case study, provide you with practical experience developing Android applications. Exercises include:

Creating an Android application from scratch
Building the UI using the ADT Visual Designer
Adding event handling to the Graphical User Interface
Integrating applications with the SQLite database
Developing a content provider and binding to a list
Leveraging Honeycomb to create tablet applications
Packaging applications for publication

Course Content

Introducing the Android Platform

Defining device characteristics
Exploring the Android Market
Establishing the development environment
ADT plugin
Java
SDK
Emulator
Analysing components of the architecture

Leveraging Application Fundamentals

Building mobile applications

Exposing the lifecycle events
Creating activities to process user input
Implementing views to build the User Interface (UI)
Packaging applications for deployment
Developing unit tests

Supporting asynchronous behaviour

Performing background tasks with services
Communicating with Intents

Creating User Interfaces

Selecting visual components

Assessing available widgets
Building the layout
Connecting a view to an activity
Positioning form elements

Working with resource declarations

Declaring component definitions and layouts
Internationalising applications
Handling multiple screen resolutions
Exploiting dynamic resource generation

Processing User Input

Communicating with the user

Creating and displaying Toast
Generating status bar notifications
Collecting confirmation with dialogs

Interacting with the UI

Responding to user input events
Launching activities with intents
Writing Java event handlers
Generating context and option menus

Managing the activity lifecycle

Integrating with the Android system
Persisting data in response to notifications

Persisting Application Data

Selecting storage options

Contrasting internal and external storage locations
Saving application configuration with SharedPreferences

Manipulating the SQLite database

Executing queries to locate information
Specifying column selections with projections
Retrieving data with cursors

Consuming and creating content providers

Accessing shared data resources
Binding to UI components
Addressing content providers with URIs

Maintaining System Responsiveness

Avoiding Application Not Responding (ANR) errors

Unloading the UI thread
Designing for asynchronous execution

Building background services

Launching IntentServices
Declaring services in the manifest

Exchanging Data over the Internet

Interacting with server-side applications

Synchronising Android devices with servers
HTTP requests
Socket communications

Developing clients for web services

Connecting to RESTful services
Creating and parsing JSON

Enhancing the User Experience

Working with tablets

Developing for the Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich platforms
Manipulating objects with drag and drop
Optimising applications for high screen resolution
Combining fragments into a multipane UI

Leveraging geolocation and mapping capabilities

Plotting positions on Google maps
Establishing location through GPS, Cell-ID and WiFi

Publishing Applications

Specifying required permissions
Versioning, packaging and signing software
Uploading to the Android Market

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Course Dates

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12 - 15 Jun	London enrol
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26 - 29 Mar	London enrol
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10 - 13 Jul	Washington, DC enrol*
7 - 10 Aug	New York enrol*
21 - 24 Aug	Washington, DC enrol*

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Developing Applications for Android™ Devices: Hands-On