Location

Community Services & Continuing Education - Alexandria

Objectives

• - Delving extensively into Android adapters and file I/O.- Having a solid understanding of threading, message queues and notifications.- Having a working experience with database access API and CRUD operations using SQLLite database.- Having a practical experience with Location based services Location Manager, GPS, and MapView.- Understanding Java Sockets, Java XML, and JSON.- Understanding the concepts of and have working examples of NDK, Text-to-speech and telephony API.

Outcomes

By successfully completing this course, Students will be able to :-• Store app-specific information in SQLite databases.• Make remote connections using HTTP, XML, and JSON, and take advantage of mapping and other web services.• Implement background work as asynchronous tasks.• Implement Android services for asynchronous notification, and integrate these services with applications.• Invoke external applications and services using implicit intents.• Manage audio, photo, and video content, and integrate built-in media applications in your own Android applications.• Integrate map views into your application, and provide custom overlays of map markers and other information.• Publish to app markets.

Course Contents

• Database Storage- SQLite- The SQLiteDatabase Class- The SQLiteOpenHelper Class- Installing Databases- The query Methods- Using Cursors- Database Updates• Networking - java.net- android.net- Apache HttpClient- Consuming RESTful Web Services- Building URLs- Parsing JSON- Parsing XML- Connected Applications- Offline Operation and Server Synchronization• Asynchronous Tasks- The UI Thread- Background Tasks- Loopers and Handlers- Using AsyncTask- Using ProgressDialog- Error Handling• Services- The Roles of Services- Invoking a Service- Do's and Don'ts- Communication with the Application- Communication with Activities- Sending Notifications- Pending Intents- Downloaders- Polling Web Services- Inter-Process Communication- Breaking Out- Using the Clipboard- Linkifying Text- Implicit Intents- Invoking Built-In Applications and Services- Accepting Implicit Intents- Passing Data- MIME Types• Multimedia- Playing Sounds- Haptic Feedback (Vibrating)