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1. LESSON 1:
Describing the Android Platform
Thursday, August 1, 13
Instructor Notes:
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The students should have already completed the Preface of this course and have their Android Studio installed and set up.
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2. ANDROID STUDIO
What you get with Android Studio based on
IntelliJ IDEA
Highlights of IntelliJ
Highlights of Android Studio
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Full Java IDE
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On-device Developer Options
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Graphical UI Builders
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Develop on Hardware Devices
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Powerful Debugging
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Develop on Virtual Devices
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Native Development
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Testing
Thursday, August 1, 13
Instructor Notes:
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Let the students know that throughout the course, they will be building Android apps using the Android Studio development environment. Through this
process they will familiarize themselves with Android Studio.
After this slide, students will participate in a lab, to get oriented with the Android Studio.
Student Notes:
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The Android Studio package is a powerful package with a suite of tools to help you through developing for Android, including UI builders, virtual
Android device emulators, and a debugger.
This includes a visual UI designer, build system, debugger, USB support, and an emulator.
Again, it’s entirely possible to develop Android apps in other IDE’s. IntelliJ has Android, and there is a standalone download on the Android website for
compiling from the command line. For this course, we will be using Android Studio.
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3. LAB EXERCISE 1.1
Exploring Android Studio: Tasks
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Understanding the basic tools in Android
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Understanding the basic capabilities of ADT
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Task 1: Navigating Android Studio
Task 2: Experiencing the UI tools
Task 3: Connecting Hardware devices
Task 4: Connecting to Virtual devices
Task 5: Debugging
Task 6: Testing
Thursday, August 1, 13
Instructor Notes:
Tell the students to let you know as they complete each task, so they do not move forward in the lab until they’ve verified each task was done correctly.
Have the student check off each task as they complete it.
Switch to the Lab document.
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4. ANATOMY OF AN ANDROID APP
Applications (built-in & custom)
Application Framework
Libraries & Davlik Virtual Machine
Linux Kernel
Thursday, August 1, 13
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Instructor Notes:
You may provide an example, such as: The Contacts app (top layer), which may use the Activity Manager and Content Provider (Application framework),
are compiled into a readable file for the Davlik virtual machine to process and run.
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Student Notes:
Android is an open environment, which gives it an advantage over other operating systems which are based on proprietary software.
Android is based on Linux (shown in red).
The Android runtime is layered on top and includes core libraries that are necessary for your app, running a process virtual machine called Dalvik (shown
in green). This is the software that runs the apps on Android devices.
The Android class files are converted into compact DEX files (Dalvik Executable) before installation on a device, to conserve memory and processor
speed.
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