Understanding Android Application Basics
Start learning the skills necessary to become a successful Android developer by developing your understanding of Android application development and the creation of interactive user experiences with Android Activities.
What you'll learn
The key to becoming a successful Android app developer is getting the basics right. Android is a component-based platform that has a different programming model than many other platforms. Understanding this component model, especially the familiar UI components known as Activities, is essential to success. In this course, Understanding Android Application Basics, you'll get a better understanding of the Android application basics. First, you'll start by deploying a simple Android application to become familiar with the environment. Next, you'll walk through the process of designing the user experience for a more involved application. Finally, using the Android Studio designer, you'll layout an interactive activity and connect it to Java code. Throughout the course you'll continue enhancing the app to become a multi-activity user experience that provides interactive editing features and proper Activity lifecycle management.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- What Is an Activity? 2m
- Activity UI 1m
- Layout Classes 2m
- Demo:Working with RelativeLayout 2m
- ConstraintLayout Class 4m
- Demo: Working with ConstraintLayout 10m
- Activity/Layout Relationship 4m
- Demo: Activity/Layout Relationship 4m
- Populating a Spinner 1m
- Demo: Populating a Spinner 8m
- Summary 2m
- Introduction 1m
- Activity Interaction 3m
- Creating the NoteListActivity 8m
- Handling ListView Selection with an Anonymous Class 3m
- Implementing Activity Interaction and Startup Behavior 12m
- Describing Operations with Intents 4m
- Reference Types as Intent Extras 3m
- Implementing Parcelalable 10m
- Passing the Selected Note Through an Intent 4m
- Handling an Intent and Displaying the Content 8m
- Handling New Note Creation 3m
- Summary 1m
- Introduction 1m
- Application Activity Relationship 4m
- Demo: Simplifying Activity Interaction Within the App 7m
- Late-binding Activities 4m
- Implicit Intents 3m
- Demo: Adding Email to Our App with an Implicit Intent 9m
- Activities with Results 2m
- Activity with Result Example 4m
- Application Experience and Tasks 4m
- Demo: Implementing Edit-in-Place for Note Changes 6m
- Demo: Implementing Note Change Cancellation 5m
- Summary 2m
About the author
Jim Wilson is president of JW Hedgehog, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in solutions for the Android, iOS, and Microsoft platforms. Jim has over 30 years of software engineering experience, with the past 15 years heavily focused on creating mobile device and location-based solutions. He has co-founded multiple software-related startups and has served in a consulting role at several more. After nearly a decade as a Microsoft Device Application Development MVP, Jim now focuses on developing A... more