Expand your mobile app reach through this Android application development and programming training. Android's open-source platform offers compatibility with a wide range of devices, which provides global access to the mobile market. Revolutionize your organization by delivering robust business applications for Android phones and tablets and integrating them with enterprise systems.
In the 4-day instructor-led Android programming training course, you learn to create intuitive, reliable software using activities, services, and intents; design user interfaces that work seamlessly with a range of phones and tablets; and manage data with content providers and the SQLite database.
Android Application Development & Programming Training Delivery Methods
Android Application Development & Programming Training Course Information
In this mobile software training, you will:
- Deliver robust mobile business applications and integrate them with enterprise systems.
- Create intuitive, reliable software using activities, services, and intents.
- Design UIs that work seamlessly with a range of phones and tablets.
- Integrate applications with enterprise web and location-based services.
Prerequisites
We recommend one year of practical, hands-on experience with Java at the level of Introduction to Java Programming Training is recommended. Additionally, attendees should have extensive experience with C# is acceptable in the absence of Java.
Android Application Course Outline
- Establishing the development environment
- Analyzing components of the architecture
Building mobile applications
- Creating activities to process user input
- Implementing views to build the User Interface (UI)
- Packaging applications for deployment
- Developing unit tests
Supporting asynchronous behavior
- Performing background tasks with services
- Communicating with intents
Selecting visual components
- Building the layout
- Connecting a view to an activity
- Positioning form elements
Working with resource declarations
- Declaring component definitions and layouts
- Handling multiple screen resolutions
- Localizing applications
Communicating with the user
- Creating and displaying Toast
- Generating status bar notifications
- Logging key application events
Interacting with the UI
- Responding to user input events
- Launching activities with intents
- Writing Java event handlers
- Generating context and option menus
Managing the activity life cycle
- Integrating with the Android system
- Persisting data in response to notifications
Selecting storage options
- Contrasting internal and external storage locations
- Saving application configuration with SharedPreferences
Manipulating the SQLite database
- Executing queries to locate information
- Specifying column selections with projections
Consuming and creating content providers
- Accessing shared data resources
- Addressing content providers with URIs
Avoiding Application Not Responding (ANR) errors
- Unloading the UI thread
- Designing for asynchronous execution
Building background services
- Launching IntentServices
- Declaring services in the manifest
Interacting with server-side applications
- Synchronizing Android devices with servers
- Communicating via HTTP clients
Developing clients for web services
- Connecting to RESTful services
- Creating and parsing JSON
Incorporating the Action Bar
- Manipulating objects with drag and drop
- Supporting orientation and multiple screen resolutions with resources
- Combining fragments into a multi-pane UI
Leveraging geolocation and mapping capabilities
- Plotting positions on Google Maps
- Establishing location through GPS, Cell-ID and WiFi