• 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