Course Outline

Overall Course Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

Describe the components of an Android application
Define the lifecycle methods of Android application components
Describe the basics of event handling in Android
Describe the basics of graphics, multimedia and networking support in Android
Demonstrate skills of using an integrated development environment (Android Studio) and Android Software Development Kit (SDK) for implementing Android applications
Demonstrate through a set of simple applications the understanding of the concepts of mobile application development

Week	Release Dates	Weekly Objectives	Due Dates
1	14 Nov 2016	Understand the various components of an Android application Design and implement an application in Android Studio and deploy it to an emulator or a mobile device Design a simple UI with some widgets and implement the code to respond to user’s interactions with the UI widgets	23 Jan 2017 23:59 (GMT +8)
2	14 Nov 2016	Design an app with multiple activities, and start one activity from another using intents Use more UI widgets like ListView and design a Custom ArrayAdapter for the ListView Design complex UI with layouts using RelativeLayout and LinearLayout	23 Jan 2017 23:59 (GMT +8)
3	14 Nov 2016	Design colorful UI employing colors, styles and themes Use some elements of Material design in your app UI Design a simple game using the 2D graphics support available in Android	23 Jan 2017 23:59 (GMT +8)
4	14 Nov 2016	Design the game using 2D graphics with SurfaceView Use MediaPlayer to provide background music for your game Use SoundPool class to produce sounds for the game	23 Jan 2017 23:59 (GMT +8)
5	14 Nov 2016	Make use of the GSon library to process JSon strings in your app Use an AsyncTask to offload processing to the background Connect to a server and download data Learn to use the Picasso image downloading library	23 Jan 2017 23:59 (GMT +8)