Lectures

Week 1

1. Intro, class outline, setup
2. My first Android program
3. Data persistence
4. Activity life cycle

Week 2

4. Building user interfaces
5. User interface: fragments
6. Intents

Week 3

7. Broadcast recievers
8. SQLite database
9. Using built in apps

Week 4

10. Notifications
11. GPS and Google map I
12. GPS and Google maps II

Week 5

13. Services
14. Sensors
15. Classifiers

Week 6

16. App Engine I
17. App Engine 2
18. Media: audio, video

Week 7

19. Media: camera
20. Networking: Internet, WiFi
21. Networking: BlueTooth, NFC

Week 8

22. Telephony and SMS
23. Publishing apps
24. Publishing apps

Week 9 and 10

No classes, Dartmouth biorhythm project phase.

Programming Assignmnets

1. Simple UI
2. More complex UI
3. SQL Database
4. GPS and Google Maps
5. Activity Classification
6. App Engine

More detail

• P1 UI: profile (Activity, androidManifest, XML layout widgtes, SharedPreference)
• P2 More UI + activities + intents (Intents, Fragment, ActionBar, Tabs/Swipe, Dialogs – Camera)
• P3 Database (SQL Database, database adapter, ListActivity, different Dialogs)
• P4 Google maps and GPS (Google Maps API key, LocationManager, Services, Notification, broadcastReceievers, AsyncTask)
• P5 Activity classification (Accelerometer Sensor readings, Weka Classifier)
• P6 App engine