Slides from a presentation given at Web 2.0

1. Building Your First Android Experience
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Web 2.0 • Tony Hillerson

2. Tony Hillerson
Software Architect - EffectiveUI
Rails, Flex, Java
‣ Mobile
✦ iPhone and Android
http://thillerson.blogspot.com
http://twitter.com/thillerson
http://brightkite.com/people/thillerson
http://github.com/thillerson/first_android_experience/
http://slideshare.com/thillerson/first-android-experience
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3. Agenda
Introduction
Tour
Our First Project
Cooking with Android
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4. android
an•droid
noun Your plastic pal that’s
a robot with a human fun to be with!
appearance. - Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
- Encyclopedia Galactica
What’s an Android?
Operating System for Mobile Devices
HTC G1
SDK
Compiler, tools and IDE
Market
Free or paid
A Platform for your Applications
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5. Open Handset Alliance
http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/
Over 40 members
Device Manufacturers, Networks, Chipmakers, Software Companies, etc
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6. Open Source Framework
Open it! - http://source.android.com/
SDK - http://developer.android.com
IDE
Runs in Eclipse
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7. Platform
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8. Linux
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9. • Surface Manager
Native Libraries • 2D+3D Graphics (OpenGL) + Media
• SQLite
• Browser (webkit)
Linux
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10. Runtime + Dalvik VM • Lightweight Java VM
• Efficient Bytecode
Native Libraries
Linux
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11. • Activity Manager
Android Framework • Content Provider
• Location Manager
• Notification Manager
Runtime + Dalvik VM
Native Libraries
Linux
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12. • Contacts
System Apps • Phone Dialer
• E-mail
• Web Browser
Android Framework
Runtime + Dalvik VM
Native Libraries
Linux
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13. System Apps + Ur Appz
Android Framework
Runtime
Native Libraries
Linux
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14. Vocabulary
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15. Activity: A single screen.
Your app is made up of
one or more Activities
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16. Service: A task that can
be running while not
visible.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, iPhone.
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17. Intent: Code to
accomplish a verb, like
“call number” or “open
comic”. Facilitates app to
app communication.
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18. Content Provider: Data
and an API that any app
can access.
Android provides contact information
through a Content Provider.
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19. Resource: Text, pictures,
sound, etc. Everything is
broken out of the code
into a resource, which is
compiled into a class
called R
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20. Drawable: A bitmap or xml
definition of something
that can be drawn.
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21. Getting Android
http://developer.android.com
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22. Where to find Help
http://developer.android.com/community/index.html
Google’s Forums
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/
Dev’s Blog
http://developer.android.com/reference/packages.html
Docs
http://code.google.com/p/apps-for-android/
Sample Apps by Googlers
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23. A Tour
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24. Our First App
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25. Cooking with Android
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26. Pictures
Camera
Image Library
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27. Persistence
Settings
SQLite
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28. Location Location Location
LocationProvider
Geocoding
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29. Hiding Your Threads in UserTasks
Google’s UserTask
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30. Prettying Things Up
Styling common widgets
Themes
Digging into existing styles
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31. Reading the Source
SDK
Android source and Apps
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32. Your
Bob
Father
You
Thanks!
Tony Hillerson
http://slideshare.com/thillerson
http://github.com/thillerson
http://thillerson.blogspot.com
http://effectiveui.com
Twitter: thillerson
Brightkite: thillerson
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