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Android Crash Course Overview

This document provides an overview of the basics of Android development, including prerequisites, key components of the Android stack, common UI elements like activities and services, and how to handle events using listeners. It outlines topics for a crash course in Android 101, including activities, services, intents, layouts, models, array adapters, listeners, and debugging. The document encourages importing a sample project and completing a lab assignment to create a new activity with a list view to display data from a new API endpoint using provided code samples.

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Android Crash Course Overview

This document provides an overview of the basics of Android development, including prerequisites, key components of the Android stack, common UI elements like activities and services, and how to handle events using listeners. It outlines topics for a crash course in Android 101, including activities, services, intents, layouts, models, array adapters, listeners, and debugging. The document encourages importing a sample project and completing a lab assignment to create a new activity with a list view to display data from a new API endpoint using provided code samples.

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Android 101

Super Duper Crash Course


FTW

Prerequisites
Android Studio
https://developer.android.com/sdk/install
ing/studio.html

Java JDK
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/jav
a/javase/downloads/jdk7-downloads-188
0260.
htm

Open up Android Studio


Tools Android SDK Manager
Android SDK Build Tools 19.1 and 20

Disclaimer
I am not a Java geek
I am an Android and open source
geek
I do Java because of Angry Birds
And stickers

The Basics
Based on Linux
Android stack

Linux kernel
Libraries & runtime (dalvik, libstreaming,
libc)
Application framework (location
services, battery services, resource
manager)
Applications

Apps written using Java and XML

// TODO

Activities
Services
Intents
Layouts
Models
ArrayAdapters
Listeners
Debugging

Activities
The activity displays the layout and
provides the user interface

Services
Services run in the background, and
do not have a user interface
Example services
Location
Notifications
Downloads
Updates

Intents
An intent launches an activity
Can be launched from the Android
Manifest when app starts, OR from
within the app

Layouts
XML
The layout holds the UI components

Models
Class that represents an object
Has its own variables and
getter/setter functions
Example
Restaurant
id
name
address

ArrayAdapter<Restaurant>
Takes <Restaurant> data, and
adapts it to a ListView
See RestaurantAdapter in the example

Key components
getView
holder

Listeners
Used to notify the application of
specific events
Examples
onClick
onTouch
onLongClick
onKey

Debugging

Importing Your Project


VCS Checkout from Version Control
https://github.com/shortstack/CrashCourse.
git

Lab
Goal:
Create a new activity and layout with a ListView
Make new activity the default activity on launch

(hint: Android Manifest)

Add another API endpoint

(hint: Constants.java)

Create a model from new endpoint data


Add a service to get data from new endpoint
Using provided API helper classes, display list of
new endpoint data in ListView
http://shortstack.github.io/crashcourse/

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