Android Application Development

Getting Started with Android Programming

What is Android?

Obtaining the Required Tools

Creating Your First Android Application

Anatomy of an Android Application

Activities, Fragments, and Intents

Understanding Activities

Linking Activities Using Intents

Fragments

Calling Built-In Applications Using Intents

Displaying Notifications

Getting to Know the Android User Interface

Understanding the Components of a Screen

Adapting to Display Orientation

Managing Changes to Screen Orientation

Utilizing the Action Bar

Creating the User Interface Programmatically

Listening for UI Notifications

Designing Your User Interface with Views

Using Basic Views

Using Picker Views

Using List Views to Display Long Lists

Understanding Specialized Fragments

Displaying Pictures and Menus with Views

Using Image Views to Display Pictures

Using Menus with Views

Some Additional Views

Data Persistence

Saving and Loading User Preferences

Persisting Data to Files

Creating and Using Databases

Content Providers

Sharing Data in Android

Using a Content Provider

Creating Your Own Content Providers

Using the Content Provider

Messaging

SMS Messaging

Sending E-mail

Location-Based Services

Displaying Maps

Getting Location Data

Monitoring a Location

Project – Building a Location Tracker

Networking

Consuming Web Services Using HTTP

Consuming JSON Services

Sockets Programming

Developing Android Services

Creating Your Own Services

Establishing Communication between a Service and an Activity

Binding Activities to Services

Understanding Threading

Publishing Android Applications

Preparing for Publishing

Deploying APK Files