Course Overview

This Android training course takes a comprehensive look at the Android architecture to build and deploy applications for Android. Starting with the installation of the developer tools and Android SDK, the course covers how to build the user interface, work with local data, integrate data from the accelerometer, GPS and other sensors, and deploy finished applications to the Android Market.

Course Prerequisites

Basic Knowledge of Java Programming Language is required.

Outline

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Build your first app

• Android Studio and Hello World
  • Your first interactive UI
  • The layout editor
  • Text and scrolling views
• Learn to help yourself

Activities and intents

• Activities and intents
• Activity lifecycle and state
• Implicit intents

Testing, debugging, and using support libraries

• The debugger
• Unit tests
• Support libraries

User experience

User interaction

• Clickable images
• Input controls
• Menus and pickers
• User navigation
• RecyclerView

Delightful user experience

• Drawables, styles, and themes
• Cards and colors
• Adaptive layouts

Testing your UI

• Espresso for UI testing

Working in the background

Background tasks

• AsyncTask
• AsyncTask and AsyncTaskLoader
• Broadcast receivers

Alarms and schedulers

• Notifications
• The alarm manager
• JobScheduler

Saving user data

Preferences and settings

• Shared preferences
• App settings

Storing data with Room

• Part A: Room, LiveData, and ViewModel
• Part B: Deleting data from a Room database

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