Android For .NET Developers: Android OS


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


Overview/Description
The Android mobile platform has become extremely popular. Available on both flagship devices with high-specification hardware as well as budget handsets, it offers developers and consumers a large number of useful application program interfaces or APIs and features. In this course, you will learn to create a simple Android application and run it in an emulator. You will also learn some of the fundamentals and history of the Android platform.

Target Audience
Developers wishing to develop mobile applications that target Android and other platforms

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
3.0

Lesson Objectives

Android For .NET Developers: Android OS

  • start the course
  • describe the features of Android 4.0
  • describe the features of Android 4.1
  • describe the features of Android 4.4
  • describe the features of Android 5.0
  • describe the features of the current Android 6.0 beta
  • use Android to speak the written text
  • use Android to interpret written text from the spoken words
  • use the location services to determine device location
  • plot a position on Google Maps
  • make use of ContentProviders to access data
  • create a class to interface with the database
  • connect the ContentProvider to the application interface
  • handle the orientation of the device in your application
  • save state so that your program doesn't lose data when the user rotates the device
  • utilize the simple graphics and animations in your app
  • configure the permissions required by your application
  • specify the target architectures for your application
  • make use of services
  • use services to perform background tasks in your application
  • work with audio in your application
  • debug your application on Android hardware
  • obtain your app's cryptographic signature
  • access and use the debug log
  • profile your application for performance metrics
  • publish an application
  • set up an emulator that supports Google Play Services for use in demos in this section
  • view the debug log from an application to aid in troubleshooting

    • Course Number:
    sd_afdd_a02_it_enus

    Expertise Level
    Intermediate