Android Syllabus

Chapter 1: JAVA Concepts

OOPS Prgramming

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)

Chapter 3: Introduction to Android

What is Android?

Setting up development environment

Dalvik Virtual Machine & .apk file extension

Fundamentals:

a. Basic Building blocks - Activities,Services,Broadcast Receivers & Content providers

b. UI Components - Views & notifications

c. Components for communication -Intents & Intent Filters

Android API levels (versions & version names)

Chapter 4: Application Structure (in detail)

AndroidManifest.xml

uses-permission & uses-sdk

Resources & R.java

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

Examples

Chapter 9: Intents (in detail)

Explicit Intents

Implicit intents

Examples

Chapter 10: UI design

Time and Date

Images and media

Composite

AlertDialogs & Toast

Popup

Examples

Chapter 11: Advanced UI Programming

Event driven Programming in Android (Text Edit, Button clicked etc.)

Creating a splash screen

Event driven Programming in Android

Android Activity Lifecycle

Creating threads for gaming requirement

Understanding the Exception handler

Download

Chapter 12: Multimedia Programming using Android

Multimedia audio formats - Creating and Playing

Multimedia audio formats - Kill / Releasing (Memory Management)

How to associate audio in any application

How to associate video playback with an event

Chapter 13: SQLite Programming

SQLite Programming

SQLiteOpenHelper

SQLiteDatabse

Content providers

Defining and using content providers

Reading and updating Contacts

Example

Chapter 14: Android Debug Bridge (adb) tool

Chapter 15: Chapter 15: Linkify

Web URLs, Email address, text, map address, phone numbers

MatchFilter & TransformFilter

Examplesw

Chapter 16: Adapters and Widgtes

Adapters:a. ArrayAdapters b. 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 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

JSON Parsing

Location Based Services and Google Maps

Using Location Based Services

Working with Google Maps

Accessing Phone services (Call, SMS, MMS)

Network connectivity services

Chapter 21: Publishing Android Applications

Preparing for Publishing

Versioning

Digitally Signing Your Android Applications

Deploying APK Files

Using the adb exe Tool

Using a Web Server

Publishing on the Android Market

Creating a Developer Profle

Submitting Your Apps

Interview Preparation

Personal Interview

Group Discussion