Android: Using Backendless to save data in the cloud

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Who am I?

Lecture 2: What is covered in this course?

Chapter 2: Meet Backendless.com and adding the library to Android Studio

Lecture 1: Introduction to the Backendless.com website

Lecture 2: Setting up the Backendless API in Android Studio

Chapter 3: Creating a Login feature for our Contacts application

Lecture 1: Setting the colours to be used in the application (Material Design)

Lecture 2: Creating the Login Graphical User Interface

Lecture 3: Building the Create Account Graphical User Interface

Lecture 4: Coding the Create Account Activity Part 1

Lecture 5: Coding the Create Account Activity Part 2

Lecture 6: Coding the Login Activity

Lecture 7: Creating the Reset Password feature

Lecture 8: Creating a Loading screen when the application starts

Chapter 4: Writing and reading data to/from the Backendless cloud database

Lecture 1: Creating a custom class to use in Backendless cloud – Contact class

Lecture 2: Building the GUI for the ContactList Activity

Lecture 3: Building the GUI for the CreateContact activity

Lecture 4: Coding for the CreateContact activity

Lecture 5: Creating the Row Layout for the ListView

Lecture 6: Creating the ArrayAdapter class for the ListView of Contacts

Lecture 7: Retrieve contacts from Backendless and show them in the ListView

Lecture 8: The Logout button and handling click events in the ListView

Chapter 5: Updating and Deleting data from the Backendless cloud database

Lecture 1: Building the layout for the ContactInfo activity

Lecture 2: Coding for the Call, Mail and Edit buttons in the ContactInfo activity

Lecture 3: Create coding to change existing data online

Lecture 4: Create coding to delete an existing contact online

Lecture 5: Recap

Chapter 6: Backendless Notifications

Lecture 1: Setting up your application to work with notifications

Lecture 2: Sending your first Backendless notification

Lecture 3: Creating a custom Backendless notification – Part 1

Lecture 4: Creating a custom Backendless notification – Part 2

Lecture 5: Creating a custom Backendless notification – Part 3

Chapter 7: Backendless Geo Location

Lecture 1: Setting up your project to work with Backendless and Google Maps

Lecture 2: A quick look at the Backendless console for Geo Location

Lecture 3: Creating the layouts for the MainActivity and the MapActivity

Lecture 4: Coding the MainActivity

Lecture 5: Coding the MapsActivity – Part 1

Lecture 6: Running the app at this stage

Lecture 7: Coding the MapsActivity – Part 2

Lecture 8: Coding the MapsActivity – Part 3 (completing the MapsActivity)

Chapter 8: Resources for this course

Lecture 1: Resources folder as mentioned in the videos

Lecture 2: Complete Android Studio Project folder for the Contacts Application

Lecture 3: Basic calls to Backendless – Users

Lecture 4: Classes in Backendless

Lecture 5: CRUD – Create, Read, Update, Delete in Backendless

Lecture 6: Custom Notification Project Folder

Lecture 7: My Family complete project folder (Map application)

Chapter 9: Extras

Lecture 1: Explicit Intents Part 1

Lecture 2: Explicit Intents Part 2

Lecture 3: Implicit Intents

Lecture 4: SQLite

Lecture 5: Shared Preferences

Lecture 6: AsyncTask

Lecture 7: ListView Part 1

Lecture 8: ListView Part 2

Chapter 10: Backendless 4 (Newest Release of Backendless)

Lecture 1: Backendless 4 Intro

Lecture 2: Setting up application for Backendless 4

Lecture 3: User Service Backendless 4

Lecture 4: Create, Read, Update, Delete in Backendless 4

Lecture 5: Advanced Object Retrieval and Deletion in Backendless 4

Lecture 6: Push Notification Basics (Backendless 4)

Lecture 7: Advanced Push Notifications (Backendless 4)

Lecture 8: Codeless Programming from Backendless