Mobile Application Development, 4th semester, Weekly plan

This plan is subject to change! Read the plan often, but do not print the plan.

Week 35, 26.08-31.08

• Introduction to the course
• The necessary software
• Android Activities
• Android Intents

Readings

• Head First 1 Getting Started
• Slides (introduction)
• Head First 2 Building Interactive Apps
• Slides (Activity)
• Head First 3 Multiple Activities and Intents
• Android Notes for Professionals: 6.4 Starter Pattern, page 84-85
• Head First: How to log messages, page 743
• Intents (slides)
• Example: First Application ([almost] what I programmed during the lessons]
• Example: IntentsNoData
• Example: IntentWithData
• Example: IntentsWithDataBack
• Example: IntentsImplicit

Exercises

Getting ready

• Download and install Android Studio https://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/index.html?pkg=studio
  The installation might take some time: Do some reading while you wait.
• Phone: Put your phone in developer mode and enable USB debugging
• Emulator: Download one or more Android emulators.
  The emulators might require you to change BIOS settings (you cannot have Hyper-V running when you use the emulator)
• Problem: The emulator is too tall for your screen. Solution | Telnet on Windows7 64 bit

Activities

• Beer Adviser, go through the example from Head First, chapter 2:
  Make the project and run it on your phone or emulator.
• Collect words, first version | solution
• Calculator, first version | solution

Uploading apps to your phone can be done in many ways.

• Connect your phone to the computer using a cable, Head First Android, page 105

• Phone: Change configuration to enable USB debugging

Administration

• Add your contact information to ums.easj.dk (mobile number) and fronter.com (e-mail, etc.)
• Forward your e-mail from Office 365 (name@edu.easj.dk)

Intents

• Personal information, first version
• Collect words, another version
• Intents, personal information, another version
• Intents, data back and forth

• Messenger, go through the example from Head First, chapter 3: Make the project and run it on your phone or emulator.

Week 36, 02.09-06.09

• Intents, continued (data, implicit intents)
• Activity life cycle
• Views

Readings

• Head First 4 The Activity Lifecycle
• Activity Life Cycle (slides)
• Example: LifecycleDemo
• Head First 5 Views and View Groups
• User interfaces (Slides)
• Best Practices for Android User Interfaces, RapidValue 2014: Section 11 Naming Conventions for ID and Resources
• Example: ViewsExample
• Example: ClickEventHandling
• Example: SnackBarExample
• Example: DatePickerExample (using Dialog)
• tutorialspoint Android Login Screen Tutorial, an example using RelativeLayout
• Example: AutocompleteTextViewExample
• Example (landscape layout): IntentsImplicit | ClickEventHandling | ViewsExample
• Example ProgrammedLayout
• Extra: Android Developers: User interface developer guide
• Extra: Android Developers: Android Design

Exercises

User interface

• Calculator: The four basic arithmetical
• Calculator, more buttons and better layout.
  Note: This calculator should not be able to calculate! Only the layout matters.
• Changing screen orientation means loss of state
  Documentation: Android save state on orientation change
• Different layouts for portrait and landscape orientation: Take one of your existing applications (maybe one of your simple calculators) and add an extra layout XML file for landscape orientation.

Week 37, 09.09 - 13.09

• Tirsdag 10.09 12:15, Orientering om praktik ved Vibeke Sandau, praktik-koordinator
• Views, continued
• ListViews and Adapters

Readings

• Head First 7 ListViews and Adapters
• How to Create a Custom ListView
• ListViews and Adapters (slides)
• Examples: StarBuzzListExample | TeacherListExample
• Extra: RecyclerView (a more advanced ListView)

• Head First, chapter 13
• Example: RecyclerViewAnimalExample

Exercises

• ListView and ArrayAdapter
• Extra: Try to add data to a Spinner using a ListAdapter
• Google Firebase: Try some of the features, like authentication and NoSQL databases

Week 38, 16.09-20.09

• Preferences
• Support Libraries and App Bars
• Fragments
• Testing Android apps

Readings

• Head First, appendix v.7 Settings, page 867
• Android Notes For Professionals: 14 SharedPreferences
• Examples:

• LoginPreferenceExample
• PreferenceExample

• Data Persistence (Preferences etc) (Slides)
• Head First 8 Support Libraries and App Bars
• ActionBar (slides)
• Examples: AppBarExample (incl. Menu, AppCompat, etc.)
• Android Notes for Professionals: 16.1 Adding a Toolbar
• Head First 9 Fragments
• Head First 10 Nested Fragments
• Head First 11 Dynamic Fragments
• PreferenceFragment
• Slides (fragments)
• Example: FragmentDateTime (event handling in fragment + activity)
• Example: FragmentAddDynamically (with parameter)
• Example: WorkoutFragment (from Head First)
• Example: ScreenSizeExample
• Example: DialogFragmentExample
• Example: PreferenceExample
• Espresso (testing framework)
• UI testing Android apps (slides)
• Example: Collect Words | UI testing

Exercises

• Preferences: Ask the user about his/her favorite font size, and use this font size in the application. The font size must be stored using SharedPreference.
  Extra: Ask for favorite color, and use if as the background color.
• AppBar: Add an AppBar to one of your applications.
  The AppBar must have menu items, and ActionProviders and an "up button" if relevant.
• DialogFragment: Adding a Neutral button
• Extra: Try this tutorial Multi-pane development ... with Fragments
• UI Test your calculator (from the first week of the course)

Week 39, 23.09-27.09

• Networking: REST etc.
• AsyncTask

Readings

• Consuming REST services from Android (Slides)
• Examples: HttpUrlConnectionExample, SimpleRESTconsumer, RestJsonService, Bookstore REST, AutocompleteTextViewExample
• Head First 17 Cursors and AsyncTasks
• GSon (scroll down and read)

• Extra: Retrofit (Http client framework)

Exercises

• REST JSON simple
• REST JSON List of Articles
• REST Bookstore PUT
• Extra: Use GSon to parse JSON
• Gesture detection: Swipe etc.

Week 40, 30.09-04.10

Tuesday: No lessons according to the schedule!

Friday:

• Gesture detection: Swipe, etc.
• Location based services
• Permissions

Readings

• Gesture detection (slides)
• Example: GestureDetection
• Google: Gesture Patterns
• Google Developers The Google Maps Geocoding API
• Slides (locations)
• Examples (location): GeocoderExample | LocationManagerExample | FusedLocationExample
• Android App Permissions
• Android App Permissions (slides)
• Example: Permissions

Exercises

• Gesture detection: Swipe etc.
• Geo-coding: Refactor to run in the background

Week 41, 07.10-11.10

• Content providers
• Sensors
• Maps

Readings

• Content providers (Slides)
• Example: ContactsContentProvider
• Slides (sensors)
• Examples (sensors): ProximitySensorExample | SensorExample
• Maps Slides (locations), last slides
• Example: IntentsImplicit

Exercises

• Google Maps: Create a Google Maps Application (template in Android Studio)
  Modify to center and zoom to current position.
  Modify to add a marker with the address of the current position.

Week 42: Holidays, all week

Week 43, 21.10-25.10

• Individual project (synopsis): What is your subject? Fill out the form.
• Kotlin, another programming language for Android

Readings

• Kotlin and Android
• Kotlin The Programming Language
• Kotlin and Android (slides)
• Example: Calculator | Collect Words | Personal information

Exercises

• Re-program some of your applications with Kotlin.

Week 44, 28.10 - 01.11

• Xamarin
  Microsoft’s way of making cross platform applications using C# and Visual studio

Week 45, 04.11 - 08.11

• Working on the mandatory assignment
• If you are ready you can show me your solution to the mandatory assignment.

Week 46, 11.11 - 15.11

Last chance to show me your solution to the mandatory assignment.

Week 47-51, 17.11-20.12 Individual projekt

Friday 20.20, last chance to hand in your report.

Week 52 - 1, 23.12 - 03.01

Christmas + New Year + Exam preparation

Week 2, 06.02-10.02 Exams