2. Market Share

3. Market Share

4. Android Dev Basics Android apps are developed in Java and XML.
The hardest part of Android dev is coming up with the idea!

5. Android Dev Basics
Developed with Eclipse using Java SE Dev kit(JDK), Android SDK, and Android Development tools (ADT).
To test your application you can use either an Android virtual device (AVD) or any Android device.

6. Activities The basis of all Android Apps Each page is a new activity
Links to the GUI
Activities life cycle

7. Fragments Similar functionality to activities
Must be nested within an activity
Introduced in version 3.0
More useful on tablets
Good for when you want to display two different activities side by side.

8. GUI Defined in XML Three ways to construct the GUI
In code
At run time
Using a graphical interface
Several different common controls

9. GUI
The programmer must account for different sizes and densities of Android devices.
There is the ability to have different styles and themes

10. Data Several ways to store data
SQLite is the primary way to store data in Android
JSON is commonly used as well