MAP524/DPS924 Weekly Schedule

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Week Objectives and Tasks Notes Graded work
Week 1:
12,15 January
Introduction:
  • Course overview
  • Android overview
  • Development environment setup
  • First app, created manually.
Lecture 1 Lab 1
Week 2:
19,22 January
Introduction (continued):
  • Using a real device for development
  • Rooting and unlocking
  • More command-line tools
  • Android Studio
Lecture 2 Lab 2
Week 3:
26,29 January
Android Development Building Blocks
  • Introduction to: Activity, Intent, Service, Broadcast receiver, Event listeners and handlers, Layout, Fragment, Content provider, Menu, Resource, Notification, Preference, Application manifest, Application context
  • In more depth: Activity
Lecture 3 Lab 3
Week 4:
2, 5 February
Basic views:
  • Layouts: linear and relative. ScrollView.
  • Views: TextView, Button, CheckBox, RadioButton, EditText, ImageView, ProgressBar, NumberPicker
  • Fragments: overview
Lecture 4 Lab 4
Week 5:
9, 12 February
More complex views:
  • Adapter
  • ListView
  • Spinner
  • ContextMenu
Threads:
  • AsyncTask
Lecture 5 Lab 5
Week 6:
16, 19 February
SQLite
  • Creating and using an SQLite database in the commandline
  • SQLiteOpenHelper, SQLiteDatabase, Cursor
Lecture 6 Lab 6
Week 7:
23, 26 February
Networking
  • HTTP
  • Parsing XML
  • JSON
Lecture 7 Test review
Study Week
29 Feb - 6 March
    Assignment1
Week 8:
8, 11 March
Evaluation week Lab 7
Midterm Test
Week 9:
15, 18 March
Content providers Lecture 8 Lab 8
Week 10:
22 March
(Friday the 25th is a holiday)
Location services
  • Location APIs
  • Google Maps
Lecture 9 Lab 9
Week 11:
29 March, 1 April
Services
Broadcast receivers
Messaging:
  • SMS
  • Email
Lecture 10 Lab 10
Week 12:
5, 8 April
Cordova (Phonegap) Lecture 11 Bonus Lab
Assignment2
Week 13:
12, 15 April
Publishing Lecture 12 Exam review
Exam Week:
18 - 22 April