Android Mobile Bootcamp Training

The bootcamp training website for android:
http://codepath.com/androidbootcamp

Getting Started

Totally new to Android? Start here.

• Setting up the Android Development Tools (Installation Slides)
• Architecture of Mobile Apps (Concept Slides)
• Developing our First App (Step-by-Step Todo App)

Structure

Exploring the foundations of app development:

• Android Directory Structure (Files and Folders for Android apps)
• Organizing your Source Files (Cleaning up your Apps)
• Using Resource Files (Understanding String Resources)

Views and Layouts

Exploring the gritty details of views, layout, styling and common UI patterns:

• Constructing View Layouts (How to layout views)
• Defining Views and their Attributes
• Working with Input Views (Spinner, RatingBar, etc)
• Working with the Soft Keyboard

Designing and Styling Views

• Drawables (and how to polish UI views)
• Animations (animating views, layouts, activities and more)
• Styles and Themes (consolidating view styles)
• Polishing a UI Tips and Tools
• Cloning a Login Screen Layout Guide (Creating attractive UIs, Q&A)

AdapterViews

• Using an ArrayAdapter with ListView (with custom list items)
• Implementing a Horizontal ListView Guide
• Endless Scrolling with AdapterViews
• Implementing Pull to Refresh Guide

Interaction and Navigation

Exploring how to allow user interaction and navigation within an app:

• View Event Listeners (Clicks, Key Presses, Updates)
• Navigating Activities with Intents (Communicating between Activities)
• Exploring the ActionBar (includes adding ActionItems)
• Displaying Toasts (Quick notices and includes custom views)
• Common Navigation Paradigms (i.e Tabs, Swipe-able Views, Pull-out Drawer)
• Extended ActionBar Guide (Split-bar, Custom ActionBar, etc)
• Common Implicit Intents (Making a Call, Sending a Text, Opening a URL)
• Gestures and Touch Events (Swipe, Shake, or Dragging Events)
• Navigation and Task Stacks (Controlling the behavior of the task stack)
• Sharing Content with Intents (and ShareActionProvider)

Networking, Models and Persistence

Diving into the networking, model and persistence layers for data-driven apps:

• Creating and Executing Async Tasks (Long-running Background Tasks)
• Handling ProgressBars (with Long-Running Tasks)
• Sending and Managing Network Requests (API Calls, Image Downloading)
• Persisting Data to the Device (Preferences, Files, SQLite, ORMs)
• Converting JSON to Models (JSON => Objects Deserialization)
• ActiveAndroid ORM References (and Q&A)
• Using Parcelable (Pass data fast between activities)
• Networking with the Volley Library

Fragments

Understanding how to build powerful and flexible views using Fragments:

• Creating and Using Fragments
• ActionBar Tabs with Fragments
• Fragment Navigation Drawer
• Using DialogFragment
• Flexible User Interfaces (with Fragments)
• ViewPager with FragmentPagerAdapter (Needs Attention)
• Settings with PreferenceFragment (Needs Attention)

Providers, Sensors and Components

Exploring sensors, data and components available via the Android SDK:

• Loading Contacts with Content Providers
• Using Hardware, Sensors and Device Data (Camera, Photo Roll, Location)
• Google Maps Fragment Guide (and Setup Genymotion)
• Creating Contact Providers (Needs Attention)
• Video and Audio Playback (Needs Attention)

Services

Digging into how to run background services or leverage Android system services:

• Starting Background Services (with ServiceIntent and Receivers)
• Notifications (Persistent Notices on the Dashboard)

Workflow Guides

Focused on issues like deployment, testing, dependency management, etc:

• Getting Started with Gradle
• Android Unit and Integration Testing (with Roboelectric and Robotium)
• Robolectric Installation for Unit Testing
• Must Have Libraries Guide
• Publishing to the Play Store (Slides)