Suman's courses

Following are the quick links to upcoming classes:

• 01 - Basic Intro + Environment Setup + IDE + Hello World
• 02 - Activities + Intents + AndroidManifest.xml + Basic UI
• 03 - GridView + Preferences + Intent w/ data + FrameLayout
• 04 - ADB + Debugging + Managing UI on different devices
• 05 - Fragments
• 06 - Drawing-on-a-Canvas + ContextMenu + AlertDialog
• 07 - Service + Notification + Audio Playback
• 08 - Menu + AsyncTask + ProgressDialog + Permissions
• 09 - Camera + ExternalStorage + GoogleMaps + GPS/NetworkProvider + Publishing

Following is a basic overview of the topics that we plan to cover in this course:

• Overview
  • Introduction
  • Environment Setup
  • IDE
  • Hello World
• Fundamentals
  • Activities + Life Cycle
  • Fragments
  • Intents
  • Services
• User Interface
  • Views
  • Layouts
  • Dialogs
  • Menus, Context Menus
  • Basic UI Controls
  • 2D Graphics - Canvas, Bitmap
• Storage
  • Shared Preferences
  • External Storage
  • SQLite
• Multimedia
  • Camera
  • Audio Playback
• Location Based Services
  • Google Maps
  • GPS
  • WiFi triangulation
• Networking
  • HTTP
  • XML
  • JSON
• External APIs (FB, Dropbox, Twitter, etc.)

Following are some of the references which can help you getting started with Android programming:

1. Google Android Training
2. developer.android.com
3. Beginning Android 4 Application Development, Wei-Meng Lee
4. stackoverflow.com

If you've any questions, please feel free to shoot me an email at prakhar [at] cs [dot] wisc [dot] edu. I'll try to respond to you as soon as possible.