The document outlines the agenda and topics covered in a 6-week training course on building mobile applications with Android. The training will cover the Android platform and tools, user interfaces, multiple activities, action bars, content providers, databases, services, receivers, advanced UI including lists and location services, and finally publishing applications. The goal is to provide students with the basics to effectively develop Android applications.

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Building Mobile
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Profile : RMS Software Technologies
• About us :
◦ Leading provider of Software solutions, System integration Services and
Professional Training
◦ Based in San Jose, CA & Mumbai, India started in 2012.
• Professional Courses :
◦ Expert Training team of 10 people who provide training in various leading
technologies like iPhone iOS, Android, Java, Big Data Hadoop, QA & Agile Scrum
Methodologies.
◦ Team of developers using AngularJS at the client projects.
◦ Focused on Interns and engineers looking to learn new exciting technologies.
• Track Record:
◦ We work with emerging technologies to create mobile applications, rich-client desktop
software, and large-scale systems (CRM, ERP).
◦ We create high quality solutions for hard problems, to help our customers thrive
◦ We can share this expertise with you developers, in the form of workshop style, hands-on
training classes.

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Course : Prerequisites and Equipment
• Prerequisites :
◦ Students should have significant experience with Java and done some
Java development in the past. No past experience of mobile development
is expected for attending the course.
• Equipment :
◦ Please use - Laptop (Windows, Linux, or Mac).
◦ Chrome (web browser).
◦ Android SDK installed in Eclipse.
◦ Text editor or Java-capable IDE like Eclipse.

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Training Agenda
Training Schedule & Agenda
Week 1 : Overview of Android™ Platform & Technology
Week 2 : Android User Interface
Week 3 : Handling Multiple Activities
Week 4 : Action Bars Content Providers
Week 5 : Working with Databases on Android Services & Receivers
Advanced UI Location
Exercise & Assignments
We believe this curriculum covers the basics well, and positions students to use
Android effectively and efficiently.

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Week 1 : Overview ofAndroid Platform & Technology
• Setting up Development Environment & Tools, including
Eclipse IDE
• Creating your First Android™ Application
• Running and Debugging your code
• Android™ developer tools
• Android Debug Bridge (ADB)
• Logcat
• Exercise & Assignments

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Week 1 : Android User Interface
• Create User Interface using XML or Inbuilt Layout Screen
• Views, View Hierarchy, Layout, Widgets
• UI Events
• Menus
• Styles and theme
• Exercise and Assignement

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Week 2: Handling Multiple Activities
• Creating an Activity
• Implementing a user interface
• Declaring the activity in the manifest
• Starting an Activity
• Starting an Activity for a Result
• Managing the Activity Lifecycle
• Implementing the lifecycle callbacks
• Saving activity state
• Handling configuration changes, Coordinating activities,
Intent Filters

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Week 3: Action Bars
• Adding the Action Bar
• Removing the action bar
• Adding Action Items
• Handling clicks on action items
• Navigating Up with the App Icon
• Adding an Action View
• Adding an Action Provider
• Styling the Action Bar

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Week 4: Content Providers
• Content Provider Basics
• The data model, URIs
• Querying a Content Provider
• Making the query
• What a query returns
• Reading retrieved data
• Modifying Data Adding records Adding new values
• Batch updating records Deleting a record
• Content URI Summary

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Week 5: Working with Databases on Android
• SQLite on Android™ SQL Basics Database Connectivity
• Data Binding Using ContentProvider Implementing
ContentProvider
• Exercise & Assignments
• Services & Receivers
• Overview Starting and Stopping Service Working with
Bound Service
• Running a Service in the Foreground Service Lifecycle
• What is Broadcast Receiver Lifecycle of a broadcast
receiver System broadcasts
• Automatically starting Services from a Receivers

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Week 6: Advanced UI
• Working with Lists Working with Adapters Various Adapter
Types
• Custom Adapters Listeners associated with advanced UI
• Location
• Obtaining User Location Challenges in Determining User
Location
• Requesting Location Updates Requesting User
Permissions
• Defining a Model for the Best Performance Common
application cases Tagging user-created content with a
location

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• Helping the user decide on where to go
• Providing Mock Location Data
• Exercise & Assignments
• Publishing Applications
• Android™ Market
• Signing applications and publishing
• Exercise & Assignments

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