1. Android Development Introduction to Android Development 2011/01/16
Copyright © 2010, 2011 by Lawrence Wong.
All Rights Reserved.

2. What is Android Open Platform for Mobile Development
Handsets, Tablets, Devices
Apps and services

3. Goals
Ecosystem
Platform
Tools
Run Simple Projects
Resources

4. Milestones Android Inc acquired by Google, July 2005
OHA, 5 November 2007
Android Market, 22 October 2008
T-Mobile G1, November 2008
Android Developer Challenge
Leading market share, December 2010

5. OHA
Google
Members
Almost all major Carriers, OEM.
Except NARMHP

6. Android Platform Android Stack Built upon Linux
Java, c/c++, JavaScript
vs iOS, Black Berry, WinPhone7, Symbian

7. Open Platform Open Source Royalty-free Free to branch and customize
No approval needed for Android Market
Free to download from multiple markets

8. Android and Java NOT JavaME Dalvik VM instead of JVM
- register-based vs stack-based
- more efficient and compact implementation.
Component Reuse through Intent

9. SDK setup * JDK 5/6 Eclipse Helios for Java ADT plugin SDK download
Platform Tools
AVD

10. Tools
* Link
IDE
adb
debugger
DDMS
monkey

11. Hello World
Real Example
Eclipse IDE, Debugger, DDMS
Emulator

12. Break
Continue at 1:00pm

13. Phone Setup for development * USD Drivers(Windows only)
Phone vs Emulator advantages
sensors, camera, telephony, speed,
Power drain, location

14. Application Native Apps and Web Apps apk file
1 Application ~ 1 Dalvik VM ~ 1 Linux Process

15. Parts of an Application
Android Manifest
R.java
res/
assets/

16. Activity Interacts with user in foreground Runs in UI thread
Presents window to user
Activity life cycle diagram
Managed by Android

17. Intents
Component reuse
Implicit Intents
Explicit Intents

18. Phone Call Example
Permissions
Implicit Intents

19. Service Life cycle diagram Long-running background operation
Supply functionality for other apps
Runs in main thread

20. Service Demo Example Plays music in background
Do not need user interaction once started

21. Tool: Debugger Stopping, Stepping through code Examine variable values
Logcat output

22. Tool: monkey
Stress testing your app
parameters

23. User Interfaces
Basic UI Elements
Layouts
Views

24. Layouts
Width
Height
LinearLayout
RelativeLayout

25. Views
TextView
EditText
ImageView
ListView

26. ToDo List Example
Project import
Run
Debug
Improve

27. Others MediaPlayer Content Provider Broadcast Receiver Adapter
Sqlite3 database

28. Statistics Apps on Android Market - 100000+
Platform versions percentages
Android Market Share

29. Resources developer.android.com android.git.kernel.org code.google.com
stackoverflow.com

30. Announcements Alameda Android Meetup App challenge
Android DevCamp March 4-6
Google I/O 2011, May 10-11

31. Goals recap
Ecosystem
Platform
Tools
Projects
Resources

32. System Requirements OS : Linux, Windows or Mac OS. Phone Requirements