Creating applications on the Android platform

Platform Android is a popular operating system used primarily in mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, watches and TVs. The Android platform is currently one of the most popular in the world, thanks to its openness, flexibility, rich functionality and adaptability for both users and developers. This makes it popular with both consumers and the business community.

Introduction

• What is Android?
• Application development environment configurations.
• The toolkit for writing applications - Android SDK
• Java and Android

Building an application

• Creating and launching your first application
• Overview of Android Studio
• Apk file
• applicationId
• Installing the application
• AndroidManifest.xml
• Java code and resources
• Gradle build system
• Certificates
• versionName and versionCode
• Building application variants
• permissions
• debug and release
• adb

Resources

• types of resources
• directory structure
• resource qualifiers
• R class

Activities

• What is an Activity?
• Creating and running an Activity
• Activity lifecycle
• Activity Stack
• Intents
• Fragment

Content provider basics

• Downloading content using a Content Provider

UI design basics

• layouts - types and creation
• embedded elements: buttons, text boxes, etc.
• View class
• connection between View and Activity
• menu
• dialogs
• ListView and RecyclerView

Styles and themes

• creating and configuring styles

Processes and threads in Android

• ui thread
• ANR
• AsyncTask
• Services

UI advanced views

Message receivers

• uses of broadcast receivers

State saving

• files
• SharedPreferences
• SQLite

REST

• What is REST and JSON?
• communication with a REST server

Libraries

• picasso
• retrofit
• eventbus
• butterknife
• okhttp
• parse

Application distribution

• Google Play
• Crashlytics and error reporting