MAP524/DPS924 Weekly Schedule

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