A workshop on "Android Application Developement" for begineers.

1. Android Workshop
Explore, Learn and Design
By Sagar Patel

2. Why an EC fellow should develop app
• Embedded Engineer
• Hardware optimization for Application life
cycle
• Link between pure Hardware engineer and
pure IT engineer
• Entrepreneurs are focusing on Mobile
Application

3. Why should I go for Android?

4. Numbers
• Worldwide 700 million smartphones sold in
2012.
• 0.5 billion Smartphones belong to Android
with around 70% market share globally.

5. Where to look?

6. How android phone works?
Input
Touch
Output
View

7. Android MVC

8. Development
• I/O Interface or User Interface
XML Layout
• Database update
XML Resources
• Controller
Java Classes
• Layout between Java
Android Manifest file

9. Let’s Build First Application

10. Tools required
• Android SDK (Software Development Kit)
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
• ADT Plug In
http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/eclipseadt.html

11. Eclipse
• Start new project by File -> New -> Android
Application Project.
• Select the Appropriate API version and
package name for your project.
• Click on Next. Again click on next.
• Select the launcher icon if you want.
• For Activity select Blank Activity and click on
next and then finish.

12. What do all this file do?
• MainActivity
– Starting point of your application
– Responds to events, clicks and
switches between activities
• Layout Files
– GUI for your application
– Keeps Database
• Android Manifest
– Keeps track of Layouts and Java files
– It contains the permission for other
interfaces like camera, memory card,
Bluetooth, GPS, Internet Access.

13. Create an Android Virtual Device
• Click on AVD Icon :
• Windows -> AVD Manager -> New.

15. Android Phone can be used
(Much Faster)

16. Running your First App
• Click the project folder so that it is highlighted (very
important . You must run your app from here)
• Run as an Android App
• The app will install on your android virtual device
• Find your app name by clicking the apps icon and start
it

17. App on Emulator

18. Let’s Hack It
• Changing the Hello World by “Welcome
Developers”

19. Adding Interactions (Button)
• Button is used for input from User
• It is designed in XML
• Let’s Add button to start new Activity

20. Adding some Maths

21. Nice Job!!!
• Made our First Application.
• Test app on Virtual Device.
• Directly debug on mobile.

22. Acknowledgement
• Special Thanks for Prof. Akash Macwan
• Thanks to Prasann Shukla

23. Android Help
• Developer.android.com
• TheNewBoston open Source tutorials on
Android

24. Contact
• Mobile: +91 89054 50243
• Sagarpatel.9556@gmail.com
• Blog: Creat-Tricks.blogspot.com
• YT Channel : Sagar Patel

25. Thank You