Android Course Content

Introduction 

a. Introduction to Mobile Operating systems
b. Manufacturer-built proprietary Operating systems
c. Third party proprietary Operating systems
d. Free &open source Operating systems

Android Programming Platform 

a. A Brief History of the Android Platform
b. Google and the Open Handset Aliance announce Android Open source Availability
c. Android Platform Versions-API Levels
d. Android Features
e. Android Architecture

Android SDK(Software Development Kit)

a. Emulator (Android Virtual Device)
b. Android Debug Bridge
c. Application Components
d. Preparing Development Environment &Creating  “Hello World”  Program
e. Settingup the Development Environment
f. Settingup the Android SDK
g. Installing Eclipse
h. A Quick Tour of Eclipse
i. Workspace
j. Hello World, Android Style
k. Creating Project
l. Creating an Android Virtual Device
m. Logcat & DDMS

        Manifest and Activities

a. Inside the Manifest
b. Structure of Manifest file File

Android Components

a. Activities
b. Services
c. Broadcast Receivers
d. Content Provider

File Features

a. Intent
b. Intent Filters
c. Icons & Labels
d. Permissions

  User Interface

a. User interface Layout
b. User interface Components
c. Basic Layouts
d. Attribute
e. ID
f. Layout Parameters
g. Size,Padding & Margins
h. Common Layouts
i. Handling Click Events

Layouts 

a. Linear Layout
b. Relative Layout
c. Absolute Layout
d. Frame Layout
e. Table Layout
f. Scroll View
g. ListView
h. GridView
i. Input Controls
j. Common Controls

Buttons & Views

a. Responding to Click Event
b. Using an OnClick Listener
c. Styling the Button
d. Text Fields
e. Checkbox
f. Radio Buttons
g. Spinner
h. Pickers

Notification & Toast

a.Creating a Simple Notification

b.Managing Notifications

c.Settingup a reguler Activity Pending Intent

d.Displaying Progress in a Notification

e.Custom Notification Layouts

Toast

f.   Positioning the toast

g.  Alert Dialogue

h. Progress Dialogue

Menus

a. Styles and themes
b. Style Properties
c. Applying Styles and themes to the UI

Data Storage

a. Shared Preferences
b. Internal Storage
c. External Storage
d. SQ Lite Databases
e. Network Connection

Maps Integration

a. Intro to Maps
b. Android location API
c. Location Manager and Provider
d. Security
e. Using Android location to API
f. Creating API Key
g. MapView

Animations & Graphics

a. Android animated GIF image example
b. Screenshot
c. Graphics

Web Services

a. JSON implementation
b. Rest full web services
c. Xml Parsing

Publishing Android application to the market