Full Day Hands-On with Android

Lecture 1

• What is Android?
• What is Open Handset Alliance?
• All layers of android with architectural information.
• Android market in world.
• What is API Level?
• Important aspects while coding with android.
• Android Basic Components and their behavior.
• Process and Security in android.
• Synchronization with different working threads.
• What is Activity?
• Activity Lifecycle as async code.
• What are Services?

Lecture 2

• What are Layouts and Widgets?
• Working with various layouts: Linear, Relative, Table, Frame.
• Working with various Widgets: Text-View, Edit-Text, Buttons, Image-Views, and Scroll View etc.
• Practicing Layout Nesting's on various Layouts.
• What is Weight-sum and Gravity?
• Designing an Activity.
• What is Manifest File?
• Registering the Activity in Manifest File.
• What are Intents?
• Types of Intents: Explicit and Implicit.
• Starting another Activity using both types of Intents.
• What is Bundle?
• Sending Data from one Activity to another.
• What is Toast?
• What is Dialog and Alert-Dialog?
• What is action-bar Notification?

Lecture 3

• Getting started with Google map v2.
• Difference between v2 and v3.
• Way of using async for Google map and handle on map ready.
• Working criteria of security server and fact behind keys.
• Show current location on v2.
• Zooming and animating on v2.
• Read about markers and define our custom marker.
• Location Services
• Interesting facts about fused location API.
• Geo-fencing areas to get additional metadata.

Lecture 4

• What are Sensors?
• Different Types of Sensors
• Hardware Sensors
• Software Sensors
• What is Sensor Manager?
• Working with Context Sensors.
• Working with Google awareness API to get more accurate metadata.