[ALUG] Mobile Application Development Course for Android Devices

[James Mmari]

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Mobile Application Development Course for Android Devices
Venue: Arusha Technical College
Date: 12-17, May, 2014
Fee: 80,000/=
Course Description
Study of fundamental concepts, design strategies, tools and APIs to create
advanced applications for mobile phones and occasionally connected mobile
devices. Topics include: design of mobile user interfaces, application
life-cycle, inter-process communication, content providers and mobile
application monetization strategies. The target computing environment may
change. Currently the course explores the Android Operating System and its
supporting SDK.
Student Outcomes
At the end of the course the student will be able to develop effective
native android mobile applications. The student will be able to create a
full, functional and complete android application at the end of the boot
camp, also the student will be able to monetize their applications and
publish them on the app stores.
1. Targeting android application. The Big Picture
Background and positioning of the Android platform, including comparisons
to other popular mobile platforms. After an introduction to the platform,
the balance of the first chapter introduces the high-level architecture of
Android applications and the operating system environment.
• Introducing Android
• Stacking up Android
• Booting Android development
• An Android application
• Summary
2. Android Development environment
Step-by-step development exercise teaching you the essence of using the
Android development environment, including the key tools and concepts for
building an application.
• The Android SDK
• Fitting the pieces together
• Building an Android application in Eclipse
• The Android Emulator
• Debugging, clean and run
• Set and Reset Environment perspective
• Summary
3. Android User interfaces:
Covers the fundamental Android UI components, including View and Layouts.
Introduces basic concepts such as handling external resources, dealing with
events, and the lifecycle of an Android application.
• Creating the Activity
• An Overview of User Interfaces
• Using XML Layouts
• Selection Widgets
• Android options Menus
• Using Fonts
• Dialog Boxes: Alert Dialog and Toast
• Android Input Dialogs
4. Intents and services
Expands on the concepts learned in chapter 3 and delves into the Android
Intent concept to demonstrate interaction between screens, activities, and
entire applications.
Working with Intent classes
• Overview of Intent types
• Connecting xml UI with java classes
• Transfer data between activity using intents
• Performing Inter-Process Communication
• Summary
5. Android data related Features
• Android lists
• Android tabs
• Android search
• Android splash screen
6. Putting it all together–the Field Service Application.
Develop a complete application including server communications, persistent
storage, multiple Activity navigation, menus, mapping, RSS services, etc.
• Field Service Application requirements
• Android application tour
• Android code
• Digging deeper into the code
• Summary
7. Mobile application monetization
• Paid application
• In app purchase
• Adverts
• Mobile application competitions and hackthon
8. Mobile application localization
Creating multi-lingual android applications
• Translating android applications
• Customizing android applications to global or local standard
9. Publishing android applications
• Exporting android applications
• Creating keys
• Opening accounts on the apps store
• Publishing requirements and procedures
Note: All the above android application concepts will be trained using 3
complete and full android applications. The class will get a chance to
develop those 3 apps from scratch.
10. Learning Resources
• Visit Android’s web site at developer.android.com
• Videos on Android at http://www.youtube.com/user/androiddevelopers
• Android Development Community http://www.anddev.org/
• Official Android Market http://www.android.com/market
• Marakana mobile boot camp

For those who wish to attend the course please send us sms to reserve a
seat on 0714689866 stating your full name, organization/school/college and
email address; complete the payment procedure by depositing the fee to the
following CRDB Bank Account:
Account Name: ATC PRODUCTION & CONSULTANCY, A/C No. 01J1099202800
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