Android Smartphones and Tablets Fall 2014

Agenda

Android Smartphones and Tablets Week One Android background (PT) Buttons, switches, and sensors, oh my. (PT)

Android Background Many versions. 2.3 Gingerbread 3.0 Honeycomb 4.0 Ice cream sandwich Jellybean 4.4 Kitkat Android L (coming soon) Many manufacturers Samsung, HTC, Sony, Motorola, more Many models

Buttons, ports, and sensors, oh my Buttons ​ Home ​ Back ​ Menu ​ Power ​ Volume ​ Ports Usb Audio Hdmi ​ Sensors GPS Speaker Microphone Radios (CDMA, GSM, Wifi, Bluetooth, NFC, more)

Android Smartphones and Tablets Week Two Settings and Connections (PT)

Connections Accessible from Settings Connection types –Mobile (Phone and Data) 3G/4G –WiFi –Bluetooth –NFC –IR Airplane Mode

Android Smartphones and Tablets Week Three Home Screen and Applications and Widgets (PT)

Home Screen (aka Launcher) Applications –Phone –Messages –Camera –Folders (Calendar, Mail, etc.) –Internet –Play Store Widgets –Google Search –Time and Weather Other –Applications

Home Screen (aka Launcher) Application –Gallery –Camera –Folders –Internet –Play Store Widgets –Google Search –Time and Weather Other –Applications

Applications Stores –Play store –Amazon App Store –Sideloaded Adding to the Home screen –Long press to add

Widgets Some applications have Widgets Widgets are live updated applications Add to Launcher similar to Applications

Android Smartphones and Tablets Week Four Phone(P)

Phone Making and receiving a call Keypad Voice mail

Phone(cont) Making and receiving a call Volume settings Speakerphone Mute Add call

Phone (cont) Call logs Incoming, outgoing Calling from log

Phone (cont) Favorites

Phone (cont) Contacts Syncing from Google, Facebook Sorting Groups

Android Smartphones and Tablets Week Five Messages and (PT)

Messages (SMS,Text) Messaging Application Size Limits (160 characters) SMS vs MMS Sending and Receiving Deleting

Built-in – –Gmail POP –Keep mail on server? Imap Other clients?

Android Smartphones and Tablets Week Six Camera(PT)

Camera Photo and Video Setting the resolution Camera Modes –HDR –Sports –Panorama –More… Where are my pictures –On phone –On SDCard –In the cloud

Android Smartphones and Tablets Week Seven Internet, Facebook, Twitter (PT)

Internet (web) Surfing the WWW Built-in Browser, Chrome, Others Gestures –Scrolling, Zooming Bookmarks Tabs

Facebook Official Client –Can do most activities on phone/tablet –Can Sync your friends with your contacts on phone. –Can upload pictures directly. –Can get notifications of updates. Other Clients –Offer some additional features

Twitter Use official Twitter client Several third party clients available

Android Smartphones and Tablets Week Eight Games, GPS, and the News (PT)

Games Cards Board Role playing Puzzles Educational Many more…

GPS Navigation Google Maps and Navigation –Built-in –Excellent –Requires a GPS and Data signal Co-Pilot Sygic TomTom Garmin Waze Many more…

Reading the News Access the News via Dedicated Programs or RSS Local News Major News brokers (CNN, Fox, BBC, etc) RSS News Readers –Feedly –News+ –Flipboard

Android Smartphones and Tablets Week Nine Finances, Office Applications, Printing, More(PT)

Finances Bloomberg Banking Budgeting Expenses

Microsoft Office Apps Word processor Spreadsheets Powerpoint PDF

TV Remote Many programable and dedicated remotes available

Remote Control Control you home computer –Logmein –Splashtop –Teamviewer

Printing Google cloud printing Wireless printing –PrinterShare –Samsung print

Android Smartphones and Tablets Week Ten Personalization – Keyboards, Dialers, , Lockscreens (PT)

Personalization Keyboards –Swype –Swiftkey Dialers –K-9 Lockscreens

Android Smartphones and Tablets Week Eleven ADVANCED TOPICS – Danger Danger but Fun (PT)

Advanced Topics Rooting Xposed Recovery ROMs