CPIT 490 - Mobile Application Development

• Lecture and Lab Policy
• Word document
• Course Description - Updated 28th Sep 2016PDF document
• Gradesfile
• Word document
• Word document
• Sample Questions for your reference
• Android Testing - Video
• Code for Android Testing

Lecture Slides: Just follow https://developer.android.com/training/index.html

• Labs
• Week 1
• o Setting up Eclipse and Android Environment - BAAD Pg 20
  o Writing codes in HTML5 for location tracking
  o Use PhoneGap to develop an apk with the developed HTML5 location tracking code
  Lab 1: Setting up Eclipse and Android Environment
  cordova.jar
  Week 2
  o Understand Android Code life cycle - BAAD Pg 38
  o Introducing Dialog Window & Progress Box - BAAD Pg 42 & 47
  o Retrieve and learn about dex files
  o Use adb command to install and uninstall an application on the emulator/device and also check for logs
  o Learn the impact of manifest file on R.java
  Lab 2: Understanding Android Life Cycle
  Android Commands Tutorial Video
  DEX2JAR
  Week 3
  o Creating UI Programmatically (Pg 146) + views - Pg 168
  o Layouts and Orientations - Pg 130
  o Event Handling
  Lab 3: User Interface Design and Event Handling
  Week 4
  o Write a program to implement layout_gravity and layout_weight
  o Develop own styles and themes, Develop UI programmatically
  o Fix orientation; different layout files for orientation change
  Lab 4: Creating UI, Styles, Themes and Notifications PDF document
  Week 5
  o Intents - BAAD Pg 85
  o Intents with passing data and getting results
  o Linking Intents and getting results - BAAD Pg 53 & 59
  o Handling conflicts in intents - an intent is used to invoke two activities
  Lab 5: Intents PDF document
  Week 6
  o onRetainNonConfigurationInstance, getLastNonConfigurationInstance is deprecated. Use the new Fragment API setRetainInstance(boolean)
  o Write a program to implement onSaveInstanceState() and onRestoreInstanceState() methods
  Lab 6 - Intents and Applications
  Android Fragment Test Code zip archive
  Week 7
  o Database Bundling - BAAD Pg 286
  o Working on Database - BAAD Pg 274 & 279
  o Retrieve information and display them using ScrollView and ListView. Compare their differences once the list is longer than the height of the emulator/device
  Lab 7 Database and File Management
  Week 8
  o Connecting to Remote Database
  Lab 8 Remote Database Connectivity from Android PDF document
  Lab 8 - Android Code
   Android Remote Connectivity Video - Part 1
   Android Remote Connectivity Video - Part 2
•  Without JSON Video: Android To MySQL  Android Studio Code
  Week 9
  o Streaming Multimedia, from local and external sources
  Lab 9 Playing Multimedia in Mobile Device PDF document
  Vitamio Master Codes zip archive
  Week 10
  o Embedded Applicaitons
  o File System: Assets, Raw, Local, External
  o Creating Google API Account - BAAD Pg 352
  o Maps Navigation - BAAD Pg 364
  Lab 10 Embedded Applications and Location Management Applications PDF document  
  PDFViewer.jar file
  Week 11
  o Navigating map based on touch and geocoding + linking to an activity - BAAD Pg 371
  o Sending and receiving SMS - BAAD Pg 329
  o MediaPlayer with background threads
  Lab 11 Map Applications PDF document
• Lab 12 Navigation
  Week 12
  o WebView to display Webpages
  o Download the requested media via background thread and update a progress bar based on the download process
  Lab 13: Background Services PDF document
  Week 13
  o Shared Preferences (BAAD Pg 252 & 259)   o Internal Storage - BAAD Pg 263
  o Creating Service (BAAD Pg 430)  o Threads - BAAD Pg 458
  o Service Vs Intent Service (PAAD Ch9)  o Tasks - BAAD Pg 439 & 442
  o Invoke a service based on a receipt of a notification   o AsyncTask and updating the UI
  o Runnable Threads   o Content Providers - BAAD Pg 295
  o Creating and using our own Content Providers - BAAD Pg 305 & 314
  o Write an application to display contact details on a tabular format - The tabs are for each group of contacts
  o Contact retrieval (BAAD Pg 280)   o Handling HTTP Connections with threads
  o JSON (BAAD Pg 411)   o Application publishing (BAAD Pg 467)  o Learn about the lifecycle of a fragment
  o Fragments and Communications between them - Pg 81
  o Use Fragments to display two or three fragments at a time based on the width of the emulator/device
  o Fragments (BAAD Pg 98)   o Handle onAttached() and onDetach() in fragments. Also do variants of fragments
  o Animation from the newly created UI    o Tablayout with sherlock
  o Write an application to handle various predefined actions (ACTION_CALL & ACTION_BATTERY_LOW) using Intents
  o Use intents to invoke the Messaging or Browser or phone call panel
  o Creating menus and imageviews. o ImageView and Management of images
  
  • Code References
  • Codes for Practice - Adopted from Beginning Android 4 Application Development bookfile
  • Codes for Practice - Adopted from Luca Academic site
  • Codes for Practice - Adopted from Other sites
  • Codes for Practice - Adopted from Stanford Academic site
  • Codes for Practice - HTML5 adopted from MITfile
  • Codes for Practice - Java Primer adopted from MITfile
  • Codes for Practice - Android adopted from MIT
  • Codes for Practice - Android adopted from Android Developer Training Site 1
  • • Codes for Practice - Android adopted from Android Developer Training Site 2
  • Reference to sample codes provided
  • Reference for projects: http://www.cs.odu.edu/~nadeem/classes/cs495-F11/projects.htm