Android App Development with Java

Course Outline

Syllabus

Course Material Repository Example Code Repository

Textbook: Murach's Android Programming 2nd Ed. by Joel Murach, 2015, Murach, ISBN 978-1-890774-93-6

Topics

1. Intro to App Development
2. Activity Lifecycle
3. Menus and Themes
4. Multiscreen Apps
5. Fragments
6. Asynch Tasks
7. List Views
8. SQLite Databases
9. Consuming Web Services
10. Geolocation

Intro to App Development

• Reading

  • Chapters 1–3 in Murach (Selected parts of 3?)
  • Kantar World Panel--iOS vs Android users
  • Statista—iOS vs. Android market share
  • Building a Responsive UI with ConstraintLayout

• Slides

  • Intro to Mobile App Development
  • Your First App: Creating the UI
  • Your First App: Writing the Code

• Examples

  • Rock, Paper, Scissors Game—Single Activity

• Lab Assignment Click counter—a single activity app

  • Lab 1: Instructions
  • Lab 1 Rubric

Activity Lifecycle

• Reading

  • Selected parts of Ch. 3 (lifecycle)?
  • Chapter 4 in Murach

• Slides

  • Your First App: Lifecycle and More
  • Your First App: Debugging

• Lab Assignment Single screen Pig game with just a portrait layout

  • Lab 2 Instructions
  • Dice images to use in the game: DieImages.zip
  • Example of a finished Pig game: zipped pig game apk
    Download this file, unzip it, then drag and drop the apk file onto your emulator to install it.
  • Lab 2 Rubric

Menus and Themes

• Textbook

• • Carey, Tutorial 2: Developing a Web Site

• Lecture Notes

• • Paths and Links
  • Image Maps - Not finished yet

• Example

• • Guide to South India

• Lab Assignment

• • Lab 3 Instructions
  • Lab 3 Rubric

Multiscreen Apps

• Textbook

• • Carey, Tutorial 3: Designing a Web Page with CSS

• Lecture Notes

• • Styling with CSS
  • Text Formatting, PseudoClasses

• Example

• • Guide to South India

• Lab Assignment

• • Lab 4 Instructions
  • Lab 4 Rubric

Fragments

• Lecture Notes

• • Publishing to a Web Server, Review
  • How to upload your site to citstudent

Getting Data from the Internet

(Reading XML files + Asynch Tasks)

• Textbook

• • Carey, Tutorial 4: Creating Page Layouts with CSS

• Lecture Notes

• • CSS Layout, Float Property
  • CSS Box Model, Positioining

• Example

• • Guide to South India
  • Float Demo

• Exercise

• • CSS f**loat and c**lear Properties

• Lab Assignment

• • Lab 5 Instructions
  • Lab 5 Rubric

List Views

• Textbook

• • Carey, Tutorial 5: Working with Tables and Columns

• Lecture Notes

• • Tables

• Example

• • Table Practice

• Lab Assignment

• • Lab 6 Instructions
  • Lab 6 Rubric

SQLite Databases

• Textbook

• • Carey, Tutorial 6: Creating a Web Form

• Lecture Notes

• • Forms - Part 1
  • Forms - Part 2

• Lab Assignment

• • Lab 7 Instructions
  • Lab 7 Rubric

Consuming Web Services

• Textbook

• • Carey, Tutorial 7: Designing a Multimedia Web Site

• Lecture Notes

• • Audio and Video for Web Sites
  • Embedding Multimedia Objects

• Lab Assignment

• • Lab 8 Instructions
  • Lab 8 Rubric

Geolocation

• Lecture Notes

• • TBD

• Term Project Assignment

• • Term Project Instructions
  • Term Project Code Review Form

Written by Brian Bird, summer 2019.