Learn Android 4.0 Programming in Java

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Nuts and Bolts: The Basics of Android Programming

Lecture 1: Nuts and Bolts Introduction

Lecture 2: Setting Up Your System

Lecture 3: Creating An Emulator

Lecture 4: Hello World

Lecture 5: The EditText View

Lecture 6: Buttons And Linear Layouts

Lecture 7: Responding To Button Clicks

Lecture 8: Important Notes

Lecture 9: Debugging With DDMS And Logcat

Lecture 10: Saving Files To Internal Storage

Lecture 11: Reading Files From Internal Storage

Lecture 12: String Resources and Localization

Lecture 13: Creating Launcher Icons

Lecture 14: Running On Your Phone

Lecture 15: Saving Program Data: Preferences

Lecture 16: Toasts: Alerting the User

Lecture 17: Adding a New Activity

Lecture 18: Displaying Images with the ImageView View

Lecture 19: Getting Touch Coordinates

Lecture 20: Alert Dialogs

Lecture 21: The Event-Listener (aka Observer) Pattern

Lecture 22: Creating a Database

Lecture 23: Adding Data to a Database

Lecture 24: Retrieving Data from Databases

Lecture 25: Asynchronous Tasks: Running Stuff in the Background

Lecture 26: Verifying the Passpoints: Getting Return Values From Asynchronous Tasks

Lecture 27: Supporting Different Screen Resolutions

Lecture 28: Intents and Launching Activities

Lecture 29: Nesting ViewGroups

Lecture 30: Option Menus

Lecture 31: Passing Data to Activities

Lecture 32: Sub-Activites

Lecture 33: Taking Photos

Lecture 34: Saving and Displaying Photos

Lecture 35: List Views

Lecture 36: Dynamically Populating Lists

Lecture 37: Formatting List Items: Custom Adapters

Lecture 38: Using Icons in Views

Lecture 39: Styles and Themes

Lecture 40: Selectors

Lecture 41: Relative Layouts

Lecture 42: Browsing the Gallery

Lecture 43: Retrieving an Image from the Gallery

Lecture 44: The Activity Lifecycle and Saving Data

Lecture 45: Pre-Publication Checks

Lecture 46: Taking Screenshots of Your App

Lecture 47: Signing and Exporting Your App

Lecture 48: Publishing Your App

Chapter 2: More Useful Stuff

Lecture 1: Using 3rd Party APIs

Lecture 2: Action Bars

Lecture 3: Responding to Action Bar Menu Clicks

Chapter 3: Communication

Lecture 1: Downloading Text Data from the Internet

Lecture 2: Internet Communication Overview

Lecture 3: A Simple Server (Java Servlet) Program

Lecture 4: Sending Small Amounts of Data to a Server

Lecture 5: URL Escaping

Lecture 6: Introducing JSON with Twitter and The Onion

Lecture 7: Decoding JSON

Lecture 8: Encoding Data as JSON

Lecture 9: Responding to POST Requests in a Servlet

Lecture 10: Posting JSON Data to a Server

Chapter 4: Layout Techniques

Lecture 1: Introducing Fragments

Lecture 2: Using ListFragment to Display Lists

Lecture 3: Formatting Items in ListFragment

Lecture 4: Fragment Communication

Lecture 5: Managing Fragments

Chapter 5: Games and Animation

Lecture 1: Animation Introduction

Lecture 2: SurfaceView

Lecture 3: Images and Sound: POV Ray and Psycle

Lecture 4: Drawing Images

Lecture 5: Detecting Surface Changes

Lecture 6: The Animation Thread (Game Loop)

Lecture 7: The Game Class

Lecture 8: A Sprite Class

Lecture 9: Animating the Sprite

Lecture 10: Making the Ball Bounce

Lecture 11: Bring Out the GIMP: Autocropping

Lecture 12: Adding the Bats

Lecture 13: Randomising the Ball Position

Lecture 14: Controlling the Player's Bat (Touch Events)

Lecture 15: Simulating Intelligence

Lecture 16: Collision Detection

Lecture 17: Drawing Text

Lecture 18: Game States

Lecture 19: Playing a Sound

Lecture 20: Playing Multiple Sounds

Lecture 21: Adjusting the Volume

Chapter 6: Map Applications with Android V2 API

Lecture 1: Installing Google Play Services

Lecture 2: Creating and Signing a Map Application

Lecture 3: Getting the Map Demo Running

Lecture 4: Adding Markers to Maps

Chapter 7: Appendix 1: Source Code

Lecture 1: Nuts and Bolts Source Code

Lecture 2: Communication Source Code