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Course Summary

Introduction to programming for the Android platform course is designed to quickly get you up to speed with writing apps for Android devices. You will learn the basics of Android platform. You will get to understand the application lifecycle. By the end of the course, you will be able to write simple GUI applications, use built-in widgets and components, work with the database to store data locally, and much more. This is a perfect course to get started with Android programming.

Upon completion of this course, we suggest you take Advanced Android training, or take both courses together as Android Bootcamp.

Duration

3 days.

Audience

Intro

Basic Java programming skills, or equivalent OOP language experience.

Instructors

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Marko founded Marakana back in 2001 to help underprivileged youth, minorities, and inner-city kids learn web technologies and get ahead in life. So Marakana emerged with goal of helping people get better at what they do professionally, focused on open source software training.

Learning Android by O'Reilly Marko is the developer of Marakana Android Training series. He has taught Android for companies such as Sony-Ericsson, Qualcomm, Ericsson Canada, and many others. Marko is a co-founder of San Francisco Android Users Group and regularly teaches Android Bootcamp at Marakana.

Marko is author of upcoming Learning Android book published by O'Reilly Media. This book is based on Android Bootcamp and incorporates best learning practices for new developers to start creating applications for this exciting open source mobile platform.

In 2006 Marko Gargenta published "PHP and MySQL By Example", a collection on PHP examples. The book was published by Prentice Hall, world's largest technology publisher and has been also translated to Spanish.

Marko Gargenta obtained his Bachelor of Mathematics Degree from University of Waterloo (Canada's MIT) and has been developing in Java since 1996. He lives in San Francisco, California.

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Additional Notes

Android Meetup Organized by Marakana

SF Android Users GroupMarakana team organizes and runs the San Francisco Android Users' Group - an interactive group of Android developers. In our monthly meetings, we discuss Android landscape from both technology and business angles. We often have great presentations by industry experts, group discussions, as well as hands-on sessions. If you are in San Francisco Bay Area, we encourage you to join the group and meet other Android developers.

Trademark Notice

Android is a trademark of Google Inc. Use of this trademark is subject to Google Permissions.

Outline

Android Overview and History

  • How it all got started
  • Why Android is different (and important)

Android Stack

  • Overview of the stack
  • Linux kernel
  • Native libraries
  • Dalvik
  • App framework
  • Apps

SDK Overview

  • Platforms
  • Tools
  • Versions

Hello World App

  • Creating your first project
  • The manifest file
  • Layout resource
  • Running your app on Emulator

Main Building Blocks

  • Activities
  • Activity lifecycle
  • Intents
  • Services
  • Content Providers
  • Broadcast Receivers

Basic Android User Interface

  • XML versus Java UI
  • Dips and sps
  • Views and layouts
  • Common UI components
  • Handling user events

Android System Overview

  • File System
  • Preferences
  • Notifications
  • Security model

Advanced UI

  • Selection components
  • Adapters
  • Complex UI components
  • Building UI for performance
  • Menus and Dialogs
  • Graphics & animations

Multimedia in Android

  • Multimedia Supported audio formats 
  • Simple media playback 
  • Supported video formats 
  • Simple video playback

SQL Database

  • Introducing SQLite 
  • SQLiteOpenHelper and creating a database 
  • Opening and closing a database 
  • Working with cursors Inserts, updates, and deletes

Basic Content Providers

  • Content provider MIME types
  • Searching for content
  • Adding, changing, and removing content
  • Working with content files


Course Testimonials

Good presentation; Great course to start development for Android!

- Cloakware