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Course Structure

  • Introduction to Mobile App Development
  • Native(Android SDK, iOS Native) V/S Hybrid (ReactJS, PhoneGap Cordova, Flutter) App Development
  • WhatsApp use case of erlang and performance issues
  • When to use Native and When to use Hybrid

A)

---------------------------------------------Introduction Phase------------------------------------------------

A1) XML (Screen Designing in Android)

  • Views Introduction (TextView, ImageView, EditText etc)
  • Introduction to XML
  • Attributes to basic (Legacy) Views (eg;- Wrap Content, Match Parent etc)
  • ViewGroups Part 1 (Linear Layout, Relative Layout)
  • Density Independent Pixels vs Size Independent Pixels
  • ViewGroups Part2 (Constraint Layout, Coordinator Layout, Grid Layout, FrameLayout etc)
  • Views Part 2 (RecyclerView, CardView ListView, ScrollView etc) Introduction

P1) Project:- EventCard Designing

A2) Basic Java + XML

  • Basic Java (Method Defiantion, Variable declaration, Classes, constructors, Objects etc)
  • Interfaces in Java
  • XML and Java Interaction (Resources in Android, findviewbyid etc)
  • Data Types, loops (If needed)
  • onClick attribute
  • onClickListener Intro

A3) Basic Android

  • Creating Toasts Part 1
  • Android Intent Introduction (Intent to gmail app, maps app, from one activity to another)
  • Style vs Theme
  • Debugging Basics

P2) PROJECT:- Single Screen App.

---------------------------------------------- End of Introduction Phase-------------------------------------------

B)

------------------------------------------- Working with Android Phase 2 (Beginner Phase)--------------------------- B1) Android-Activities

  • Activity Lifecycle and How To manage screen changes?
  • Intents (Explicit, Implicit, Passing Data, Parcelable)
  • Activities Tasks and Stacks (Launchmodes etc).
Core Java For Android Development
SUBMODULE Part- 1

- Inner Class and Anonymous Inner Class
- Overloading and Overriding
- Collection Framework in Java (List, Set, Map, Queue)

B2) Android-RecyclerView and ListViews

  • ArrayList
  • ListView+ArrayAdapter (OPTIONAL Now Mostly replaced by RecyclerView)
  • Advantages Of RecyclerView over ListView (Memory Overload Demo in Debugger)
  • Recycler View with Custom Adapter (EventHandling, BaseAdpter etc)

B3) Android-Fragments

  • Introduction to Fragments
  • Static vs Dynamic Addidtion Of Fragment
  • Fragment Lifecycle vs Activity Lifecycle
  • Fragments (Backstack)
  • Fragments (Implementation)
  • Callbacks in Fragments
  • Impact of Screen Orientation Changes in Fragment
  • Supporting Multiple Screen Layouts with the help of Fragments (Topic can be shifted to Later Phase)
Core Java For Android Development
SUBMODULE Part- 2

- Multithreading (Synchronization, Volatile etc)
- Concept Of Blank Final
- String Constant Pool, Difference Between String, String Buffer, String Builder
- Sterilization
- Java Generics

B4) Android UI- (Menu and Drawer, Dialogs)

  • Implementing Drawer and Menu in appbar.
  • Simple AlertDialog

B5) Android- AsyncTask (Will Continue in Networking)

  • UI thread/Main Thread
  • Looper and Handler
  • AsyncTask

B6) Android – Media Playback (Audio, Video, Webview) (Introduction)

  • Adding Mediaplayer
  • Mediaplayer States
  • Asynchronus Calling Methods
  • Audio Focus (Priority Assigning)
  • Implementation
  • Opening Websites in the Android App using Webview
  • Security issues with Webview (or Browser Intent vs WebView)

P3) PROJECT:- MultiScreen App

B7) Android-Permissions

  • Dangerous vs Normal Permissions
  • Declaring Permissions in Manifest
  • Managing Android Permissions at Runtime

B-2

B2 1) NETWORKING in Android (Important)

  • Introduction to API
  • JSON (Overview)
  • Parsing JSON in Android
  • HTTP Networking (get Post etc)
  • Opening a URL Connection
  • HTTP Request Codes
  • INPUTSTREAM BUFFERED READER
  • Throwing An Exception
  • HTTPURLConnection with Restful Web services.
  • Installing an HTTP response cache

B2 2) AsyncTask Loader o Limitation of AsyncTask o AsyncTask Loader o Loader Manager Callbacks o Loader vs Service Configuration Changes (They Survive Changes) o Loader Implementation

B3 3) Android UI Handling Empty State of The App

  • Working with ProgressViews - Checking Network State

P4) PROJECT:- NewsApp/Any API Fetching App

B-3

B3 1) ANDROID DATA PERSISTENCE (Can be covered before Networking As Well)

Core Java For Android Development
SUBMODULE Part- 3
- Singleton Design Pattern (Commonly Used For Retrofit)
- Java File Handling (File I/O)

B3 2) Android- Shared Preferences

  • Shared Preferences Contexts (For Strings, Objects as Well As Images
  • Preference Screen in Android UI

B3 3) Android File I/O same as Java File(I/O)

  • Image Storage and Retrival
  • Overview of Image Encodings (Mainly byte array conversion, base64 encoding)

B3 4) Android-SQLite

  • CRUD Operations
  • Android UI and SQLite Integration
  • SQLite + RecyclerView

B3 5) Android Room (Making SQLite Easier) / Architecture Components

  • Room + ViewModel + LiveData + RecyclerView (MVVM Architecture)

P4++) PROJECT:- Modify Earlier Project to use these

----------------------------------------------Beginner Phase End-------------------------------------------------

C)

-------------------- Working with Android Phase 3 (Developer Phase) ---------------------------------------------

C1) Android UI

  • Custom Dialog + Dialog and Interfaces
  • Custom Notification

C2) Content Providers

  • Designing and Matching Content URI’s
  • Insert Update Delete
  • getType and MIME type

C4) Third-Party Libraries and creating own Library

  • Using third Party library
  • Where to find libraries
  • Some Important Libraries like Glide, Picasso, Retrofit, GSON, Volley
  • Retrofit And Volley, Implementation
  • Glide implementation
  • Creating our own library
  • POJO Maker Tool

C5) Background Tasks

C5.1) Services:-

  • Sticky and Non-Sticky Services
  • Bound Services
  • Local and Remote Binding
  • Remote Binding Using Messenger
  • Bind to Remote Services

C 5.2) Broadcast Recievers:-

  • Introduction
  • Dynamic Registration Of Broadcast
  • Listening to custom intent broadcast
  • Changes to broadcast since android Oreo
  • Ordered Broadcast Recievers
  • Permissions
  • Local Broadcast Manager

C6) Using Sensors in Android

  • Using GPS/Gyroscope etc

C7) Android Places

  • Using Google Places API
  • Georeferencing
  • Tracking User

P5) MediaPlayer Contd. PROJECT:- MusicPlayer

C8) Widgets:-

  • Pending Intent, IntentService
  • Widgets UI

CBonus) Notifications in Android (Before and After Oreo)

--------------------------------------End of Phase 3 (Developer)-----------------------------------------------

D)

-----------------------------------Android with Firebase Phase 4 (Developer Extension)-------------------------

D1) Firebase Authentication

  • Firestore Database
  • Storage in Cloud Firebase
  • Cloud Messaging
  • In-App Messaging
  • Dynamic Links

D2) Firebase AdMob

  • Earning Money through Ads

D3) Firebase Machine Learning Kit:-

  • Face Recognition
  • Text Recognition
  • Barcode Scanning
  • Image Labelling
  • Landmark Recognition
  • Language ID

D4) Custom Machine Learning Models Using Firebase

  • Creating Custom Models on Tensorflow Lite
  • Integrating model with Firebase
  • Running On-Device Machine Learning on Android
  • Adding Offline Capibilities

---------------------------------------------------- End of Phase 4 (Firebase + Android)---------------------

E)

------------------------------- Advanced Android Development Phase 5 (Advanced) -----------------------------

E1) Writing Unit Tests For UI

  • Using Espresso for UI tests

E2) Gradle

  • Fundamentals for Java and Android
  • Advanced Android Builds
  • Few Special Topics

E3) Architecture Design Patterns for Mobile Development

  • MVP Architecture
  • MVVM Architecture
  • MVP vs MVVM

E4) DAGGER (Directed Acyclic Graph Dependencies)

  • Introduction to Dependency Injection
  • Dagger For Dependency Resolving
  • Understanding how Butterknife Works
  • Dagger1 vs Dagger
  • Dagger2 implementation.

-------------------------------------------------- End of Phase 5------------------------------------------

F)

-----------------------------------------Last Phase (Publising App to Play Store)---------------------

  • Getting and Understanding Google Play Developer Console
  • Preparing App For Release
  • Understanding Google Android Policy so that app do not get Rejected
  • Securing Source Code from using ProGuard and APK Signatures
  • Providing App Updates to users

-------------------------------------------- End Of Android Course -----------------------------------------------

Future Scope:- Introduction to Android Engineering with Root Level Modifications to Linux Kernel through Apps