GTU Android Programming - 3640015 (New syllabus)

Lecture Notes of Android Programming

GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

Master in Computer Application

Year II – (Semester-IV) (W.E.F. January 2017)

Subject Name: Android Programming

Subject Code: 3640015

UNIT: 1  [ Download Lecture PPT ]

• Introduction to ANDROID
• ANDROID SDK Features, 
• Introduction to Development Features
• Basics of ANDROID
• Developing for ANDROID, 
• developing for mobile and embedded devices, 
• ANDROID development tools
• Creating Applications using ANDROID
• Basics of an ANDROID application, introduction to manifest, 
• externalizing resources, 
• application lifecycle, 
• ANDROID activities

UNIT: 2  [ Download Lecture PPT ]

• Building user interfaces
• Introduction to layouts, 
• introduction to fragments, 
• creating new views, 
• introduction to adapters
• Intents and broadcast receivers
• Introduction to intents, 
• creating intents and 
• broadcast receivers 
• Using Internet resources
• Downloading and parsing internet resources, 
• using the download manager, 
• using internet services

UNIT: 3  [ Download Lecture PPT ]

• Files, saving state and preferences
• Creating, saving and retrieving shares preferences, 
• including static files as resources, 
• working with the file system
• Database and content providers
• Introducing ANDROID databases, 
• content values and cursors, 
• working with SQLite databases, 
• creating content providers, 
• using content providers, 
• native ANDROID content providers
• Working in background
• Introducing services, 
• using background threads, 
• using alarms

UNIT: 4  [ Download Lecture PPT ]

• Enhancing user experience
• Introduction and addition of action bar, 
• menus and dialogs, 
• drawables and gradients, 
• custom animations
• Hardware sensors
• Sensors and sensor manager, 
• monitoring devices’ movement and orientation
• Maps and location based services
• Using location based services, 
• selecting a location provider,
• finding your current location, 
• creating map based activities

UNIT: 5  [ Download Lecture PPT ]

• Audio, video and using the camera
• Playing audio and video, 
• manipulating raw audio, 
• using camera to take pictures, 
• recording video, 
• adding media to media store
• Telephony and SMS
• Hardware support for telephony API, 
• using telephony API, 
• introducing, how to send and receive SMS and MMS
• Monetizing, promoting and distributing the applications
• Signing and publishing applications, 
• distributing applications,
• introduction to monetizing applications