Designing, Creating, and Manipulating Android Databases

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level

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Overview/Description
Databases maintain past and present information, which helps in predicting the future. Android has a unique set of database elements to perform all the essential skills of database manipulation. In this course, you will learn all the basics of manipulating Android databases and how they interact with applications.

Target Audience
This path is targeted toward individuals who are new to Android development and wish to create mobile applications by using the Android platform. A working knowledge of Java is essential.

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
2.2

Lesson Objectives

Designing, Creating, and Manipulating Android Databases

start the course

describe the different types of storage options in Android

define preferences in Android

define local databases in Android

define external databases in Android

describe SQLite databases in Android

describe private and shared preferences

create activities for shared preferences

use activities with shared preferences

use Java code to define preferences

work with event listeners for shared preferences

create and write files for internal storage

read files into internal storage

create JSON data files

read JSON data files

create method to write data into external storage

create method to read data from external storage

describe parsing XML data in Android

use onCreate method for XMLPullParser

create class to handle XML data

define a schema and contract

create a database using a SQL helper

insert data into SQLite databases

read data into SQLite databases

create CRUD layout and java class files

update records in SQLite database

delete records in SQLite database

work with different types of Android databases

Course Number:
sd_aade_a04_it_enus

Expertise Level
Beginner