What you’ll learn
- Describe the basic components of an Android application
- Define the lifecycle methods of Android application components
- Describe the basics of event handling in Android
- Describe the basics of graphics and multimedia support in Android
- Demonstrate basic skills of using an integrated development environment (Android Studio) and Android Software Development Kit (SDK) for implementing Android applications
- Demonstrate through a simple application the understanding of the basic concepts of Android
Course Syllabus
Week 1: The Android Platform: Introduction to the Android platform and the Android Studio IDE, Android components, Activities
Week 2: User Interface Design: Intents, Activity lifecycle, UI Design: Widgets and Layouts, UI Events, Event Listeners
Week 3: Graphics Support in Android: Drawables, Basics of Material Design, 2D graphics: Canvas/Drawing using a view
Week 4: Multimedia in Android: Audio playback and MediaPlayer, SoundPool
Week 5: Networking support: Basics of networking in Android, AsyncTask, HttpURLConnection
Meet the instructor
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Jogesh K Muppala
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