Introduction to Android

What is Android?
Setting up development environment
Dalvik Virtual Machine & .apk file extension
Fundamentals
Basic Building blocks
UI Components – Views & notifications
Components for communication -Intents & Intent Filters
Android API levels (versions & version names)
Android in Application Structure (in detail)

AndroidManifest.xml
uses-permission & uses-sdk
Resources & R.java
Assets
Layouts & Drawable Resources
Activities and Activity lifecycle
First sample Application
Android in Emulator-Android Virtual Device

Launching emulator
Editing emulator settings
Emulator shortcuts
Logcat usage
Introduction to DDMS
Android in Basic UI design

Form widgets
Text Fields
Layouts
[dip, dp, sip, sp] versus px
Examples
Android in Preferences

Shared Preferences
Preferences from xml
Examples
Android in Menu

Option menu
Context menu
Sub menu
menu from xml
menu via code
Examples
Android in Intents (in detail)

Explicit Intents
Implicit intents
Examples
Android in UI design

Time and Date
Images and media
Composite
AlertDialogs & Toast
Popup
Examples
Android in Tabs and Tab Activity

Tabs
Tab Activity
Examples
Android in Styles & Themes

Styles.xml
drawable resources for shapes, gradients (selectors) using XML
( To design background view using XML)
style attribute in layout file
Applying themes via code and manifest file
Examples
Android in Content Providers

SQLite Programming
SQLiteOpenHelper
SQLiteDatabse
Cursor
Reading and updating Contacts
Reading bookmarks
Example
Android in Linkify

Web URLs, Email address, text, map address, phone numbers
Match Filter & Transform Filter
Examples
Android in Adapters and Widgtes

Adapters
Array Adapters
Base Adapters
ListView and ListActivity
Custom listview
GridView using adapters
Gallery using adapters
Examples
Android in Notifications

Broadcast Receivers
Services and notifications
Toast
Alarms
Examples
Android in Custom components

Custom Tabs
Custom animated popup panels
Other components
Examples
Android in Threads

Threads running on UI thread (run On UiThread)
Worker thread
Handlers & Runnable
AsynTask
Examples
Android in Advanced

Live Folders
Using sdcards
XML Parsing
JSON Parsing
Maps, GPS, Location based Services
Accessing Phone services (Call, SMS, MMS)
Network connectivity services
Sensors
Third Party Api(Google map, Facebook, Google+, Twitter,GCM)