JNTUH Mobile Application Development Syllabi
JNTUH Mobile Application Development Syllabi
TECH IT
Course Objectives:
To demonstrate their understanding of the fundamentals of Android operating systems
To demonstrate their skills of using Android software development tools
To demonstrate their ability to develop software with reasonable complexity on
mobile platform
To demonstrate their ability to deploy software to mobile devices
To demonstrate their ability to debug programs running on mobile devices
UNIT - I
Introduction to Android Operating System: Android OS design and Features – Android
development framework, SDK features, Installing and running applications on Eclipse
platform, Creating AVDs, Types of Android applications, Best practices in Android
programming, Android tools
Android application components – Android Manifest file, Externalizing resources like
values, themes, layouts, Menus etc, Resources for different devices and languages, Runtime
Configuration Changes
Android Application Lifecycle – Activities, Activity lifecycle, activity states, monitoring
state changes
UNIT - II
Android User Interface: Measurements – Device and pixel density independent measuring
units. Layouts – Linear, Relative, Grid and Table Layouts.
User Interface (UI) Components – Editable and non editable Text Views, Buttons, Radio
and Toggle Buttons, Checkboxes, Spinners, Dialog and pickers.
Event Handling – Handling clicks or changes of various UI components.
Fragments – Creating fragments, Lifecycle of fragments, Fragment states, Adding fragments
to Activity, adding, removing and replacing fragments with fragment transactions, interfacing
between fragments and Activities, Multi-screen Activities
UNIT - III
Intents and Broadcasts: Intent – Using intents to launch Activities, Explicitly starting new
Activity, Implicit Intents, Passing data to Intents, Getting results from Activities, Native
Actions, using Intent to dial a number or to send SMS
Broadcast Receivers – Using Intent filters to service implicit Intents, Resolving Intent
filters, finding and using Intents received within an Activity
Notifications – Creating and Displaying notifications, Displaying Toasts
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UNIT - IV
Persistent Storage: Files – Using application specific folders and files, creating files,
reading data from files, listing contents of a directory Shared Preferences – Creating shared
preferences, saving and retrieving data using Shared Preference
Database – Introduction to SQLite database, creating and opening a database, creating tables,
inserting retrieving and deleting data, Registering Content Providers, Using content Providers
(insert, delete, retrieve and update)
UNIT - V
Advanced Topics: Alarms – Creating and using alarms.
Using Internet Resources – Connecting to internet resource, using download manager
Location Based Services – Finding Current Location and showing location on the Map,
updating location
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Professional Android 4 Application Development, Reto Meier, Wiley India, (Wrox) ,
2012
2. Android Application Development for Java Programmers, James C Sheusi, Cengage
Learning, 2013
REFERENCE:
1. Beginning Android 4 Application Development, Wei-Meng Lee, Wiley India (Wrox),
2013