Android application development, 4th semester elective

• Introduction to the course
• The necessary software
• Android Activities
• Android Intents

• Head First: Chapter 1 Diving In
• Slides
• Head First: Chapter 2 Building Interactive Apps
• Slides (Activity)
• Head First: Chapter 3 Multiple Activities and Intents [we'll finish Intents next week]
• Video
  • lynda.com Android Studio First Look
  • thenewboston Android App Development - Beginners, video 1-10

• Download and install Android Studio https://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/index.html?pkg=studio
  The installation might take some time: Do some reading while you wait.
• After installation you must download one or more SDK's.
  I use SDK 4.4. If you have an Android phone, go as highs as your Android versions allows.
• You must download one or more Android emulators.
  The emulators might require you to change BIOS settings.
• Create your first Android application
• Solution to problems with the emulators keyboard
• Problem: The emulator is too tall for your screen. Solution | Telnet on Windows7 64 bit

Activities

• Beer Adviser, go through the example from Head First, chapter 2:
  Make the project and run it on your phone or emulator.
• Collect words, first version
• Calculator, first version

Uploading apps to your phone can be done in many ways.

• Connect your phone to the computer using a cable, Head First Android, page 105
  • Phone: Change configuration to enable USB debugging
  • Computer: Install a driver to communicate with your phone (may [not] be necessary)
    
• Slow: Use DropBox: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3595433/move-app-to-phone Go to "Use Dropbox"

• Android Intents (continued)
• Activity Lifecycle

• Head First: Chapter 3 Multiple Activities and Intents [Intents, continued from last week]
  
• Intents (slides)
• Example: IntentsSimple
• Example: IntentsWithData
• Example: IntentsForBuiltInApps
• Videos
  • thenewboston Android App Development, video 35-36
• Head First: Chapter 4 The Activity Lifecycle
• Activity Life Cycle (slides)
• Example: LifecycleDemo

• Add your contant information to ums.easj.dk (mobile number) and fronter.com (e-mail, etc.)
• Forward your email from Office 365 (name@edu.easj.dk)
• Messenger, go through the example from Head First, chapter : Make the project and run it on your phone or emulator.
• Personal information, first version
• Collect words, another version
• Intents, personal information, another version
• Intents, data back and forth

• The user interface

• Head First: Chapter 5 The User Interface
• User interfaces (Slides)
• Best Practices for Android User Interfaces, RapidValue 2014: Section 11 Naming Conventions for ID and Resources
• Example: ClickEventHandling
• tutorialspoint Android Login Screen Tutorial, an example using RelativeLayout
• Example (landscape layout): IntentsForBuiltInApps
• ScreenSizeExample
• Example ProgrammedLayout

• Calculator: The four basic arithmetical
• View presentations
• Calculator, more buttons and better layout
• Changing screen orientation means loss of state
• Different layouts for portrait and landscape orientation: Take one of your existing applications (maybe one of your simple calculators) and add an extra layout XML file for landscape orientation.
• POP 2.0 Prototyping on Paper, try it!

• The user interface (continued)
• Gesture detection: Swipe, etc.
• List Views and Adapters

• Videos
  • thenewboston Android App Development - Beginners, video 11-20
• Extra: Android Developers: User interface developer guide
• Extra: Android Developers: Android Design
• Videos
  • thenewboston Android App Development - Beginners, video 11-20
• Gesture detection (slides) example
• Google: Gesture Patterns
• Head First: Chapter 6 List View and Adapters
• How to Create a Custom ListView
• ListView and Adapters (slides)
• Examples: StarBuzzListExample | TeacherListExample

• Programmatic user interface
• Gesture detection: Swipe etc.
• ListView and ArrayAdapter
• Extra: Try to add data to a Spinner using a ListAdapter

• Networking: REST etc.

• Networking (Slides)
• Examples: SocketUsingTask, HttpUrlConnectionExample, RestJsonService, RestXmlService, Bookstore REST (New Version: HttpHelper class updated to work witht he Catches REST API)
• Head First: Chapter 12 Cursors and AsyncTasks, the AcyncTask part only, page 530-539
• Videos
  • thenewboston Android Application Development, video 147-159

• REST JSON simple
• REST JSON List of Articles
• REST Bookstore PUT
• Extra: Use GSon to parse JSON
• Mandatory assignment

• Fragments

• Head First: Chapter 7 Fragments
• Extra: Head First: Chapter 8 Nested Fragments
• Slides (fragments)
• Example: FragmentExampleDateTime (event handling in fragment + activity)
• Example: FragmentAddDynamically (with parameter)
• Example: WorkoutFragment (from Head First)
• Example: DialogFragmentExample
• Videos
  • thenewboston Android App Development - Beginners, video 23-25

• DialogFragment: Adding a Neutral button
• Extra: Try this tutorial Multi-pane development ... with Fragments
• Mandatory assignment

• Data Persistence: Preferences
• Content providers
• Cursors and CursorAdapters

• Preferences (Slides)
• Examples:
  • ActionbarMenuExample
  • LoginPreferenceExample
  • UsingPreferences
• Videos
  • thenewboston Android App Development - Beginners, video 65-66
  • thenewboston Android Application Development, video 98-100 + 111-124
• Head First: Content Providers, page 665
• Content providers (Slides)
• Example: ContactsContentProvider
• Head First: Chapter 12 Cursors and AsyncTasks

• Mandatory assignment

• Location based services

• Google Developers The Google Maps Geocoding API
• Slides (locations)
• Examples (location): LocationManagerExample | GeocoderExample | IntentsForBuiltInApps

• Geocoding: Refactor to run in the background
• Google Maps: Create a Google Maps Application (template in Android Studio)
  Modify to center and zoom to current position.
  Modify to add a marker with the address of the current position.
  

• MONDAY last chance to email me the idea for your individual synopsis
• Sensors

• Slides (sensors)
• Examples (sensors): ProximitySensorExample | SensorExample

• Mandatory assignment
  

• Mandatory assignment

• Your solution to the mandatory assignments must presented to me this week. Detailed plan to be announced later.
• Thursday: Presentation of your solutions to the mandatory assignment to the 7th semester students (they have made a similar application in a different programming language).

• Mandatory assignment

• Mandatory assignment

• Your solution to the mandatory assignments must presented to me this week. Detailed plan to be announced later.

• Mandatory assignment

• Project: Specialization in ONE of your electives
  

• The report must be handed in no later than Wednesday 21 December 2016 11:00AM

• Elective exam

• Internship starts