phaller / swa-android

Android (Module A)

General idea: expand on material in Google Android tutorial.

Day 1

(One activity, one view)

• Development environment
  • Android studio
  • Debugging etc.
• Android GUI
  • Container, view, layout etc.
• Add button, button-click event
• Intro to XML (short)
  • Compiled using Gradle
• Resources
  • UI XML, constants, icons etc.
• Some UI components (for labs)
  • Show array
  • Select entry
  • Text area

Labs

• Exercise all introduced UI components
• Build UI for garage (OOD project)

Day 2

• List of useful GUI components (10-15 components)
• Examples: drop-down list, calendar, combobox, radio button, check box
• API reference
  • Example: how to find date picker
• Show snippet for each component
  • Lecture: show 3-4 components
• Labs: try out all of them

Day 3

• Multiple activities
• Life cycle, intent (camera, address book, ...)
  • Saving state of app (on-suspend event etc.)
• If time permits: security policy