Lars Vogel

Lars Vogel maintains the website http://www.vogella.de with many Android and Eclipse related tutorials and with more then 40 000 daily visitors. He works as an independent Android and Eclipse consultant and trainer.
He is a regular speaker at international conferences, as for example EclipseCon, Devoxx, Droidcon and O'Reilly's Android Open. Lars received in 2010 the "Eclipse Top Contributor Award

Android Development - 2 days workshop

Learn in 2 days all important concepts and techniques to develop Android apps. Lars Vogel is an experienced Android trainer and publishes popular Android tutorials on http://www.vogella.de.

Outline

Agenda Day 1

Architecture of Android

• Concept
• Devices, Emulator and Images
• Installation and usage of ADT
• Android Manifest
• Resources

Intents and Activity Communication

• Intents
• Activities / ActivityStack
• Views / Layouts
• Interaction with Buttons & Co
• ListView
• Concept

ListView

• Adapter
• ListActivity

File based Persistence

• Preferences
• Files, Access restrictions

Security

• Androids Security Concept
• Permissions / Uses Permissings

Network

• Apache HTTP Client
• REST
• JSON
• XML

Multitasking

• Multitasking and Network Access with AsyncTask
• Handler

Agenda Day 2

SQLite & ContentProvider

• Datenbank (SQLite)
• ContentProvider

Services, Receivers and Notifications

• Services
• Registration of a broadcast receiver
• Using Notifications
• Using Services

Screensizes and Canvas

• Screen sizes and densities
• Own Views with Canvas

Location Based Service Applikationen

• Location based Services
• Integration of Google Maps
• Karten-Overlays
• Geocoding / Reverse Geocoding
• Usage of GPS, Wifi, ...

Homescreen Widgets

• UI Restrictions, RemoteViews
• Widgets
• Refresh

Fortgeschrittene Themen

• Push Notification
• Server Storage

Deployment

• Deployment
• Markets
• Version Management