IT Professional Curricula     Software Development Solution Area     Mobile Application Development     Android App Development Essentials

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Android applications are broken down into four main components: activities, services, content providers, and broadcast receivers. Approaching Android from these four components gives the developer the competitive edge to be a trendsetter in mobile application development. This course will give you the foundation to understand the basic elements of all Android Applications.

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Objectives

Managing the Activity Lifecycle start the course create and launch activities identify state changes when an app is paused and resumed identify state changes when an app is stopped and restarted stop and rebuild an activity Working with Layouts design layouts for activities work with the layout design interface define screens with layout resource files identify units of measurements construct linear layouts build relative layouts Working with Intents describe intents and their importance work with explicit intents to start activities use implicit intents to open activities Working with Services create a service project and layout files add a service to a project add a service to a main activity register a service in Android manifest Working with Broadcast Receivers describe broadcast receivers register a broadcast receiver statically register a broadcast receiver dynamically handle system events with a broadcast receiver Working with Content Providers create and declare a content provider implement the content provider class use insert, query, and onCreate methods use update, delete, and getType methods Practice: Using the Components of Android create an activity, a service, a broadcast receiver, and a content provider