MAP524/DPS924 Weekly Schedule

Week	Objectives and Tasks	Notes	Graded work
Week 1: 6 July	Introduction: Course overview Android overview Development environment setup First app, created manually.	Lecture 1	Lab 1
Week 2: 7,9 July	Introduction (continued): Using a real device for development Rooting and unlocking More command-line tools Android Studio	Lecture 2	Lab 2
Week 3: 13 July	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: 14,16 July	Basic views: Layouts: linear and relative. ScrollView. Views: TextView, Button, CheckBox, RadioButton, EditText, ImageView, ProgressBar, NumberPicker Fragments: overview	Lecture 4	Lab 4
Week 5: 20 July	More complex views: Adapter ListView Spinner ContextMenu Threads: AsyncTask	Lecture 5	Lab 5
Week 6: 21,23 July	SQLite Creating and using an SQLite database in the commandline SQLiteOpenHelper, SQLiteDatabase, Cursor	Lecture 6	Lab 6
Week 7: 27 July	Networking HTTP Parsing XML JSON	Lecture 7	Lab 7
No Study Week
Week 8: 28,30 July	Content providers	Lecture Notes: bullet	Assignment 1, Midterm Test
Week 9: 3 August	Services	Lecture Notes: bullet	link
Week 10: 4,6 August	Location services Location APIs Google Maps	Lecture Notes: bullet	link
Week 11: 10 August	Messaging: SMS Email	Lecture Notes: bullet	link
Week 12: 11,13 August	Cordova (Phonegap)	Lecture Notes: bullet	link
Week 13: 17 August	Publishing	Lecture Notes: bullet	link
Exam Week: 17 - 21 August