Android for .NET Developers: 4 Understanding The Android Platform
This course delves into the unique features of the Android platform and how those features and the related components affect the way apps are created.
What you'll learn
This course delves into the unique features of the Android platform and how those features affect the way apps are created. The focus is on using techniques that embrace the Android platform’s capabilities and make your app function as a natural extension of the platform. We look in detail at the role of Context and how it affects your application. We explore background processing with Services and responding to changes in device state with Broadcast Receivers. Finally we examine notifications and how to use them to effectively provide information to the user and how to launch Activities directly from a notification message.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- Course Prerequisites and Expectations 2m
- Android's other Component Types 5m
- Process and Component Lifecyle 5m
- Context and Resource Management 7m
- Demo: Context and Resource Management 6m
- Associating Context with The Process Lifetime 2m
- Demo: Associating Context with The Process Lifetime 4m
- Application Object and Singletons 4m
- Summary 1m
- Introduction 1m
- Android's Busy Main Thread 2m
- Options for Keeping The Main Thread Responsive 2m
- StrictMode 4m
- Demo: StrictMode 3m
- AsynchTask 9m
- Demo: AsyncTask 9m
- Threads and Actvities 4m
- Loopers and Handlers 2m
- Demo: Offloading Work with A Looper 7m
- Demo: Sending A Message to A Handler 7m
- Demo: Executing A Runnable on A Handler 4m
- Summary 2m
- Introduction 1m
- Implementing Services 5m
- Demo: Implementing Services 12m
- On-demand Services 5m
- Demo: On-demand Services 3m
- IntentService 2m
- Demo: IntentService 3m
- Long-running Services 3m
- Demo: Long-running Services 11m
- Making Services Available to Other Processes 2m
- Demo: Making Services Available to Other Processes 4m
- Summary 4m
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