Android Application Development Lab

Activity 1: Introduction to Android Platform.

Concept:  Overview of android platform architecture. 

Practical:

a) Build & Simulate the first “HelloWorld” Application.

Activity 2: User Interface (UI) Development in Android.

Concept: Overview of different Layouts:

• Linear Layouts

• Grid Layouts

Concept: Introduction about Text Controls:

• TextView

• EditText

Practical:

 a) Add TextView to the LinearLayout.

b) Add TextView to the GridLayout.

Activity 3: Introduction to the range of UI Components.

Concept: Other UI components are:

• Buttons Controls

• Input Controls

Practical: 

a) Design layout to show working of button and input controls.

Activity 4: Make Interactive UI using Event Handling.

Concept:  Identify resources with IDs and programmatically change the Ids, onClick Attribute.

Practical:

 a) Add click behavior to a button (show a toast).

b) Change text of text View on button click.

Activity 5: Introduction to various Views.

Concept: 

• How to make activities scrollable?

• How to create a ListView in Android?

Practical: 

 a) Use a scroll view for text with minor changes in HTML formatting.

b) Create a listViewand also implement its onClick attribute.

Activity 6: Activities and Intents

Concept: Creating apps with multiple activities. Starting activities with both explicit and implicit intents. Sending data between activities. Understanding activity lifecycle.

Practical:

a) Create a new activity and layout 

b) Start the new activity from an existing activity with an explicit intent 

c) Pass user-entered information from one activity to the other

d) Pass information back to the main activity.

Activity 7: Overview of Menus

Concept: 

• Options menu.

• Adding menu items.

• Handling onClick from menus.

Practical:

a) Set up an options menu.

b) Add items to the option menu.

c) Add up navigation to the app bar.

d) Implement onClick for menus.

Activity 8: Implement Broadcast Receiver.

Concept: What is a Broadcast Receiver?

Practical: a) Create an app with a Broadcast Receiver.

Activity 9: Introduce Notifications 

Concept: What is a Notification? 

Practical:

a) Trigger a Notification.

b) Add Actions to your Notification.

Activity 10: Database Connectivity Using SOLlite.

Concept: 

• Overview of SQLite

• Querying (dev) Searching (user) databases

• Best practices for using databases in Android

Practical:

1.  Create an app that stores data in an SQL database.

Activity 11: Publishing your App

Concept: Understanding the ways of monetizing your App.

Practical: 

1. Publish your App to Google Play.