Android & IOS Application Development Course Syllabus

Getting Started

• Overview of Android and Android SDK
• Getting to know your Android development environment
• Writing your first Android application
• Running and debugging your application
• Working with Android simulator
• Test your application on device

Android Applications - The Big Picture:

• Android architecture
• Android application model
• Overview of Android application building blocks
• Application design guidelines
• Application lifecycle

Building User Interface:

• Overview of Android's view structure
• Android built-in layouts
• Defining a layout in XML
• Android built-in Views
• Event handling
• Building custom views and layouts

Building Android Applications:

• AndroidManifest.xml file - the control file
• Building activities
• Building intents
• Building and using services
• Notifications
• Building and using content providers

Data Stores:

• Overview of storing, retrieving, and exposing data
• Preferences
• Files
• SQLite Databases
• ContentProviders
• Data access over the network

Android Security Model:

• Overview of Android security architecture
• Signing application packages
• User IDs and access control
• Using, declaring and enforcing permissions
• URI permissions

Resources and I18N:

• Overview of resources in Android
• Creating resources
• Using resources
• Drawable resources
• Animation resources
• Using resources for different languages

Android Media API:

• Playing audio/video
• Media recording

Building Location Based Applications:

• Where am I
• LocationManager
• Integrate with GoogleMap

Interprocess Communication with AIDL:

• Overview of Android Interface Definition Language (AIDL)
• Defining the interface
• Implementing an interface
• Exposing the interface
• Invoking IPC methods Parameter passing