1. Android and Android Phones
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What is in this presentation?
• Why android?
• How to get started?
• “Deep” Dive
• How to Publish?
• Resources Available

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W Android?
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Open Market Place
• Instant publishing and feedback!
• You can create “ANYTHING”

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W Android?
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Background Applications
 Finally useful apps
• fBook notification
• Contextual based applications
• …yourapp.apk

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Why Android?
Develop on ANY platform
• Windows
• Linux
• Mac

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Why Android?
Not just on mobile!
• Netbooks
• MIDs
• Desktop Phone?

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How to get started?
Things to install
• Java Developers Kit(JDK)
• Eclipse or any other IDE
• Android SDK
• Android Developers Tool(ADT)

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“Deep” Dive
Applications in Java
 Import Java libraries
 Import Android libraries
• GUI
• Widgets
• Animation

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“DEEP” Dive
Activity Lifecycle
• Void onCREATE
• Void onStart()
• Void onRestart()
• Void onResume()

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• Void onPause()
• Void onStop()
• Void onDestroy()

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Application Fundamentals
 Activities (Application!= Activity)
• What the user see on the screen
• 1 app can have multiple activities
• Draw using xml and call by Activity.setContentView()
 Services
• Runs in background indefinitely
• E.g. music playback even when activity is stopped

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 Broadcast receivers
• Does nothing but receive and react to broadcast
announcements
• E.g. SMS receiver
 Content providers
• Data that can be accessed ny the application
• SQlite or any file system

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 Intent
• Intent object holds the content of the message
• E.g. intent is used when you want to start a new activity
and intent will carry the name of the activity and content
needed to be pass through
 Android Manifest
• Declaring the application’s components e.g. libraries
• Identifying any permissions the application expects to
be granted
• Mostly auto generated by ADT in Eclipse

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How to Publish?
Export and signing your app
• Export your app from Eclipse project
• Application will be exported as .apk
• Sign myapp.apk with Keytool and Jarsigner (within JDK)

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Publishing on Android Market
• Sign up as an Android Developer at
developer.android.com
• USD$25 sign up fee
• Upload and monitor

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Market Business Policies
• Payment -70% developer- 30% telco
• Currently paid apps in UK and US
• No obscene materials (porn etc)
• 24 hour return policy
• Dispute resolution handled by developer and
user directly
• Google has the right to remove application if
found of violation

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Resources
• Android Resources
 developer.android.com
• Open Source Codes for Android Application
 Code.google.com/hosting

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• Online tutorials
• Developers Group
 Google Group(Android Beginner, Developer,
Discuss)
 Codeandroid.org(Singapore Android Group)

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GUI XML Tool for Android
• DroidDraw
Hacking/Flashing Android ROMs
• XDA Developers
List of all application on Android Market
• http://www.cyrket.com/

20. Respectfully submitted to:
Prof. Erwin M. Globio, MSIT
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