Beginning Android Development

Lawrence Sing Wong

LawrenceSWong@gmail.commetawave.wordpress.com

Goals

Android Ecosystem Android Platform Hands-on Android Development Resources

Introduction

Android - An Open Platform for Mobile Development

Open Handset Alliance Android Stack Native Apps vs Web Apps

Open Platform for Mobile Development

Open Source Royalty-free : Free as in beer Free to fork : Free as in speech No approval needed for Android Market Free to download from multiple sources but..

OHA

Members Google NARMHP

Android Stack

Diagram Platform built upon Linux 1 process per application Java, c/c++ Vs iOS, WinPhone7, MeeGo, Symbian, Bada

Android and Java

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

Getting Started

Downloads Android SDK Features Hello World Example

IDE

Eclipse 3.5 Android ADT Plugin JDK 5.0/6.0 AVD setup Emulator

Hello World

New Project Android Manifest Activity R.java, main.xml, strings.xml, ...

Phone

How to setup for development Phone vs Emulator

Next examples

To-Do List Example Android Development Tools

Development Tools

Debugger DDMS adb

DDMS

Screen capture File structure Send messages to emulator

Command Line

adb command uninstall logcat

Applications and Activities

What makes an Android Application? Android Manifest Application Life Cycle

Activity

UI thread Presents window to user Life-cycle diagram Managed by Android

Intents

Introducing Intents Implicit Intents Explicit Intents Extras

Others

Service Broadcast Receiver Content Provider Adapter

User Interfaces

Basic UI Design Views Layouts

Markets

Android Market Share SDK versions and percentages Android Market Job Market

But which is the best..

OS? Linux, Win7 or Mac? Phone? http://www.google.com/phone/#

Resources

developer.android.com android.git.kernel.org code.google.com stackoverflow.com http://www.google.com/phone/#