Course: playlist, materials

Teachers: Simmi Anand, Lalit Singh Manral, Jocelyn Becker

Additional materials: Advanced Android Development,Associate Android Developer Certification

Component types:

• Activity is a single screen with a user interface
• Service performs long-running tasks in background
• Content provider manages shared set of data
• Broadcast receiver responds to system-wide announcements

Think of Android as a hotel:

• Your app is the guest
• The Android system is hotel manager
• Services are available when you request them (intents)
  • In the foreground (activities) such as registration
  • In the background (services) such as laundry
• Calls you when a package has arrived (broadcast receiver)
• Access the city's tour companies (content provider)

Android platform API version distribution

IntelliJIDEA keymap reference

Android roadmap

Project folders:

• manifests (Android Manifest file description of app read by the Android runtime)
• java (Java souce code packages)
• res (Resorces [XML] - layout, strings, images, audio files, dimensions, colors, ..)
• build.gradle (Gradle build files)

Run on a physical device:

• Turn on Developer Options:
  • Settings > About phone
  • Tap Build number seven times
• Turn on USB Debugging:
  • Settings > Developer Options > USB Debugging
• Connect phone to the computer with cable
• Windows/Linux additional setup:
  • Using hardware devices
• Windows drivers:
  • OEM USB drivers