Developing applications for Android

Learn how to develop an app with Android. Getting to know the programs and environments to develop it and the necessary steps until its publications and later market launch.

Topics

• Introduction

  • What is Android?

  • Android SDK Installation, Android Studio, Eclipse and ADT

  • The APK files

  • Emulators and phisycal devices

  • XML file and AndroidManifest.xml

  • Sign APK and distribution

• Applications

  • Application characteristics

  • Activities

  • Activities life cycle

  • Intents

• Generation user interfaces

  • Layouts y views

  • ViewGroups

  • Advanced views

  • Screens resolutions

  • ListView y Adapters

  • How to handle an event

  • Styles and themes

• Menu, Dialogs and Notifications

  • Contextual menu

  • Menu items, submenu and contextual menu

  • Dialogs

  • Toasts

  • Notifications

• Data persistancy and content providers

  • Preferences and screen states

  • Files

  • Android SQLite

  • Content providers

Graphics and 2D, 3D Animations
• Background services

  • How to execute

  • Local and remote services

  • Threads and AsyncTask

• Sensors

  • Camera photo

  • Network conection and bluetooth

  • Location services

  • Sensor Manager, how to: accelerometer, orientation

  • Vibration

App Widgets and Live Folders
Publishing an app
Google APIS
Native code with Android NDK
testing Android apps
• How to acces remote services

  • HTTP / SOAP / Rest Requests

  • Processing XML / JSON

Frameworks to develop apps