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G2 Android Programming

Programming applications for the Android platform

Programming applications for the Android platform
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Objectives
  • Discover the Android system architecture.
  • Understand the Android SDK and NDK
  • Master Android application architecture
  • Master the main programming tasks with Android
    • designing user interfaces
    • data storage and retrieval
    • network communications...
  • Integrating your application in an Android system
    • calling system components
    • being callable by other components
Labs are conducted on i.MX6 or i.MX8 boards
We use the last open source version of Android, as available on the board.
Who should attend this course
  • Engineers that must create programs for the Android platform
Prerequisite
Course environment
  • Printed course material (in English).
  • A Linux or Windows PC and an Android target for each group of 2 trainees.
  • Documentation and exercise solutions.
First Day
Introduction
  • History
  • Overview
  • The Android system architecture
    • Android services
    • Android frameworks
Android application architecture
  • Structure of an Android Application
  • Android application components
    • Activity
    • Service
    • Broadcast receiver
    • Content provider
  • Manifest file
    • Application components declaration
    • Permissions
Exercise:  Hello world application
Activities and user interface
  • Activities life cycle
  • Activity callbacks
    • onCreate
    • onStart…
  • Intents and Intents filter
    • the Intent class
    • declaring Intent filters in manifest files
  • Activity invocation with and without results
    • startActivity
    • startActivityForResult
  • Tasks (activities stack) and navigation between activities
  • Resources
    • Strings
    • images
    • layouts...
  • Views
    • Buttons, labels and edition fields
    • View instantiation from a resource
  • Layouts
    • Layout kinds
    • Components properties related to layouts
  • Specialized views
    • ListView
    • Data binding (Adapter class and subclasses)
Exercise:  The simplified Notepad application
Second Day
User Interactions
  • User Input
    • Touch screen and keyboard
    • Software keyboard management
  • User notifications
    • Dialog box
    • Status Bar
    • Toast
    • The Search dialog (SearchManager)
  • Notifications and the Notification Manager
    • Notifications in the Status bar
    • Vibrating or flashing
  • Push notifications
Exercise:  Enhancing the Notepad application
  • User interface adaptation
    • Depending on the language
    • Depending on screen characteristics (dimensions, orientation …)
Exercise:  Bilingual Hello world (English-French)
Test and debug
  • Using the debugger from Eclipse
  • Logs
  • Unit testing
Advanced User Interface
  • User interface and multithreading
    • Accessing views from another thread
Exercise:  Multi-threaded user interface with buttons and progress bars
  • Custom control creation
    • By deriving directly the View class
    • By deriving an existing view
  • 2D Drawing
    • Canvas and Shapes
    • Drawing from the main thread
    • Drawing from another thread
  • Animations
Exercise:  Moving an image on the screen
Third day
The Fragment API
  • What is a fragment
  • The fragment lifecycle
    • Interaction with the Activity lifecycle
    • The fragment-specific lifecycle callbacks
  • Fragments and screen orientation
    • Using fragment to adapt to various screen sizes
    • Reacting to orientation changes
  • The various specialized fragments
    • List fragments
    • Dialog fragments
Exercise:  Adapting the Notepad application to varying screen sizes using fragments
The Android NDK
  • The Android NDK
    • Defining Java methods in C++
    • JNI for Android
    • Using SWIG
  • Integrating native code in a package
    • Using the NDK from Eclipse
    • Debugging native code
OpenGL/ES
  • OpenGL and OpenGL/ES
    • OpenGL/ES versions
    • Java Access to OpenGL/ES
    • Native access using the NDK
  • Base Concepts
    • Vertices and Triangles
    • Transformation
    • Drawing
  • OpenGL/ES 1.1
    • The OpenGL/ES 1.1 Pipeline
    • Projection and Camera View
  • OpenGL/ES 2.0
    • The OpenGL/ES 2.0 programmable pipeline
    • Vertex shaders
    • Fragment shaders
    • Applying transforms
  • Android OpenGL Setup
Exercise:  Creating an animated 3D view in OpenGL/ES (from Java and through the NDK)
Renderscript
  • The Android Renderscript layer
    • The Android framework renderscript API
    • The Reflected layer mapping renderscript code to Java classes
  • Renderscript code
    • The Renderscript C language
    • The renderscript compute engine
    • The deprecated renderscript graphics engine
Exercise:  Using Renderscript compute for transforming an image from color to black and white
Fourth Day
Services
  • Service declaration
  • Starting and stopping a service
  • RPC
    • Definition and implementation of an AIDL interface
    • Service binding and RPC invocation
  • The Android binder
Exercise:  Creation of an application service
  • System services
    • What is a system service
    • Static and context-dependent services
    • Structure of a system service
    • The ServiceManager process
  • Application Power Management
Exercise:  Use Android Power Management to prevent device getting asleep
Multimedia
  • Audio and video playback (MediaPlayer class)
  • Audio and video capture (MediaRecorder class)
Exercise:  Implementation of an mp3 playback service
Broadcast Receivers
  • Installing a Broadcast Receiver
    • Static creation of broadcast receivers
    • Dynamic instantiation and registration
  • Broadcasting intents
    • Normal broadcast
    • Ordered broadcast
  • Using PendingIntent in broadcast receivers
  • System broadcasted events
Exercise:  Implementation of a custom broadcast receiver
Network
  • Connections management
  • Sockets
  • HTTP requests
  • WebView control
  • Web Services
Exercise:  Socket communications
Exercise:  Displaying a web page with a WebView
Exercise:  Consuming a web service
Fifth Day
Data management
  • Storage
    • Shared preferences
    • Internal storage
    • External storage
    • SQLite
  • Content provider
    • Communication with a content provider
    • Implementing a content provider
Exercise:  MP3 file storage alongside author and album names in a SQLite table
Exercise:  Implementation of a content provider and a client to retrieve the MP3 files
Interacting with the platform
  • Contacts management
  • Sending and receiving emails
  • Placing a phone call
  • Camera, video and still Pictures
  • Main system events
  • Broadcasted events
Exercise:  Application to take a picture and send it to a contact
The Android Sensors
  • Sensors in Android
    • The sensor types
    • The Sensor Manager
    • Accessing Sensors
  • Framework Architecture
    • Sensor discovery
    • Sensor Calibration
Exercise:  Getting and displaying a sensor value (temperature...)
Bluetooth
  • Configuration
  • Device search
  • Services management (SDP)
  • RFCOMM sockets
Exercise:  Bluetooth chat
Location and Google Map API
  • Location
    • Location framework with cells, WIFI or GPS
    • The LocationManager class
  • Integrating Google Map API in an application
    • The MapView class
Exercise:  Using a MapView and displaying an image in it for points of interest
Duration
5 days
Cost
2660 € HT
Calendar
Session calendar

This course can be provided either remotely or in our Paris training center or, worldwide, on your premises.

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Last update of course schedule: 5 September 2022

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