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Course Detail

Course Name Mobile Application Development
Course Code 18CA403
Program M. C. A., M. C. A. ( Offered at Mysuru Campus )
Semester Five
Credits Four
Year Taught 2018
Degree Postgraduate (PG)
School School of Arts and Sciences, School of Engineering
Campus Kochi, Mysuru, Amritapuri

Syllabus

Introduction: About Android, Pre-requisites to learn Android, Dalvik Virtual Machine & .apk file extension, Android API levels (versions & version names)

Android Java Basics: Getting started with Android development, project folder structure, simple programming, running project, generating build/APK of the app from Android Studio First application: Creating Android Project, Android Virtual Device Creation, Set up debugging environment, Workspace set up for development, Launching emulator, debugging on mobile devices.

Basic UI design: Basics about Views, Layouts, Drawable Resources, Input controls, Input Events, Toasts.

More UI Components: Layouts – GridView and ListView, Action bar, Adapters, Menus: Option menu, context menu, sub menu, Pickers – Date and Time, Spinners.

Activity and Fragment: Activity, Fragment, Activity Lifecycle and Fragment Lifecycle. Intents: Implicit Intents, Explicit intents, communicating data among Activities. Navigation Drawer: Panel that displays the app’s main navigation screens on the left edge of the screen

Android Notifications – Toast, Dialogs (TimePicker, DatePicker, Progress, Alert), Notification Manager and Push Notification

Introducing SQLite – SQLiteOpenHelper and creating a database – Opening and closing a database, Working with cursors Inserts, updates, and deletes.

Text Books

  1. Erik Hellman, Android Programming: Pushing the Limits, Wiley
  2. Pradeep Kothari,Android Application Development Black Book, Dreamtech Press, KLSI
  3. Head first Android Development.

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