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C 315 COURSE SYLLABUS
obile Application Development using Android
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University of San Jose - Recoletos
Basak Campus, Cebu City, Philippines
OVERVIEW:
he course is for designing and building mobile applications using Android™ open-source platform. It will
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be a combination of lecture and laboratory course which will help the student understand the philosophy
of developing for Android™ through its main application development building blocks and their interaction
with one another.
his course encourages students to learn by building increasingly more sophisticated and meaningful
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mobile applications for Android™.
y the end of the course, each participant will build their own complete Android application incorporating
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most of the key aspects of the platform. Typically, we build a Twitter app for Android, but there are other
choices depending on participants' interests.
rofessor:Jerome R. Locson
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Office:CICCT, 3rd floor, Building 1, USJR, BasakCampus, Cebu City
Office Hours:9AM-5PM
Consultation Hours:MWF - 1PM-3PM; TTH - 10AM-12PM
Email:jerome.locson@usjr.edu.ph
Phone:(32) 678-0987 local 12345
Course Website:http://goo.gl/XfzNA
COURSE OUTLINE
Chapter 1: JAVA Concepts
● OOPs Concepts
● Inheritance in detail
● Exception handling
● Packages & interfaces
● JVM & .jar file extension
● Multi threading (Thread class & Runnable Interface)
Chapter 2: SQL
● DML & DDL Queries in brief
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Chapter 3: Introduction to Android
● What is Android?
● Setting up development environment
● Dalvik Virtual Machine & .apk file extension
● Fundamentals:
○ Basic Building blocks - Activities,Services,Broadcast Receivers & Content providers
○ UI Components - Views & notifications
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omponents for communication -Intents & Intent Filters o Android API levels (versions &
version names)
Chapter 4: Application Structure (in detail)
● AndroidManifest.xml
● uses-permission & uses-sdk
● Resources & R.java o Assets
● Layouts & Drawable Resources
● Activities and Activity lifecycle
● First sample Application
Chapter 5: Emulator-Android Virtual Device
● Launching emulator
● Editing emulator settings
● Emulator shortcuts
● Logcat usage
● Introduction to DDMS
● Second App:- (switching between activities) - Develop an app for demonstrating the
communication between Intents
Chapter 6: Basic UI design
● Form widgets
● Text Fields
● Layouts
● [dip, dp, sip, sp] versus px
● Examples
Chapter 7: Preferences
● SharedPreferences
● Preferences from xml
● Examples
Chapter 8: Menu
● Option menu
● Context menu
● Sub menu
● menu from xml
● menu via code
● Examples
Chapter 9: Intents (in detail)
● Explicit Intents
● Implicit intents
● Examples
Chapter 10: UI design
● Time and Date
● Images and media
● omposite
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● AlertDialogs & Toast
● Popup
● Examples
Chapter 11: Tabs and Tab Activity
● Examples
Chapter 12: Styles & Themes
● styles.xml
● drawable resources for shapes, gradients (selectors)
● style attribute in layout file
● Applying themes via code and manifest file
● Examples
Chapter 13: Content Providers
● SQLite Programming
● SQLiteOpenHelper
● SQLiteDatabse
● Cursor
● Reading and updating Contacts
● Reading bookmarks
● Example : Develop an App to demonstrate database usage. CRUD operations must be
implemented. Final details should be viewed in GridView as well as in ListView.
Chapter 14: Android Debug Bridge (adb) tool
Chapter 15: Linkify
● Web URLs, Email address, text, map address, phone numbers
● MatchFilter & TransformFilter
● Examples
Chapter 16: Adapters and Widgtes
● Adapters
○ ArrayAdapters
○ BaseAdapters
○ ListView and ListActivity
○ Custom listview
○ GridView using adapters
○ Gallery using adapters
○ Examples
Chapter 17: Notifications
● Broadcast Receivers
● Services and notifications
● Toast
● Alarms
● Examples
Chapter 18: Custom components
● Custom Tabs
● Custom animated popup panels
● Other components
● Examples
Chapter 19: Threads
● Threads running on UI thread (runOnUiThread)
● Worker thread
● Handlers & Runnable
● AsynTask (in detail)
● Examples
Chapter 20: Advanced
● Live Folders
● Using sdcards
● XML Parsing
● JSON Parsing
● Maps, GPS, Location based Services
● Accessing Phone services (Call, SMS, MMS)
● Network connectivity services
● Sensors
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