Android – Application Development II

• Work with background data and UI
• Network communication in android
• Integration with web services and applications (Google maps, Push notifications, Firebase Console)
• Advanced work with hardware in the device (sensors, modern location services FusedLocationAPI)
• Services, AIDL
• Broadcasts, Alarms, Widgets

• The course assumes knowledge and experience with programming in Kotlin at the level of the course [KOTLIN1]
• The course assumes knowledge and experience with programming on the Android platform at the level of the course [ANDROID1]

• Expert interpretation with practical examples, exercises on computers. The course is led by a lecturer with developer experience

• Presentation of the material discussed in printed or online form

Working with background data and UI

• Main Thread, Handler and Looper
• Threads and AsyncTask,TimerTask

Working with the network

• TCP/IP, HTTP
• Web services - Google Cloud Messaging and push notifications
• XML and JSON parsing and creation

Google Maps

• SDK settings
• API registration, use

Locations and sensors

• Device location via GPS and network
• Fused location API versus LocationManager
• Reading data from sensors and law

WebView component

• Using, calling methods on Java objects via JavaScript

Services

• started and bounded services
• IntentService and its usage
• Binding services and AIDL

Broadcast receivers

• Creation of a broadcast receiver and its use

Alarms

• Use of alarm
• Reset the alarm when the device starts
• setting the exact repeat alarm in the new SDKs

Notification

• Pending Intent
• Creating a notification in the system bar

Optional topics

• Desktop widgets
• Publication of applications, Google Play
• Audio and video

Something extra

• Parcelable vs. Serializable
• 9-patch, image caching
• Sparce array

Previous courses

Kotlin - Introduction into programming [KOTLIN1]

Android – Application Development I [ANDROID1]

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