Vladimir Kulyukin profesor del departamento de ciencias de la computación de la universidad del estado de Utah, ha puesto disponible de forma totalmente gratuita un completísimo curso sobre programación para Android. Cada tema del curso no sólo va acompañado con la correspondiente presentación, sino además con varios vídeos de demostración.
Este curso está dividido en las siguiente 14 clases:
- Lecture 01: Software Installation, Documentation and Coding Resources, Android OS, Components of Android Application, XML Primer
- Lecture 02: Developing for Mobile Devices (Best Practices), Developing for Android (Best Practices), User Interfaces, Views, Layouts, Code vs. XML
- Lecture 03:User Interfaces, Dynamic GUI Adjustment, Relative Layouts, Tabular Layouts, Application and Activity Lifetimes, Managing Multiple Activities within One Application
- Lecture 04: Adapter Design Pattern, Android Adapters, Android ArrayAdapters, Intents
- Lecture 05: Intent Broadcast, Intent Reception, Main Menus, Secondary Menus, Option Menus, Submenus, Context Menus, Menu Construction, Responding to Menu Events, Menu Setup
- Lecture 06: Resources, Custom Views, Custom ArrayAdapters, Internet Access from Android Applications
- Lecture 07: XML Parsing, Internet Access from Android Applications, Data Persistence through Files and SharedPreferences
- Lecture 08: Sharing SharedPreferences, Persisting UI States through SharedPreferences and Bundles, Data Persistence with Databases
- Lecture 09: SQLite, SQLite Database Adapters, SQLite Database Helpers, Universal Resource Identifiers, Representation State Transfers, Content Providers
- Lecture 10: Location-Based Services,
Obtaining Debug Certificates and Map API Keys, Emulator Setup for Location-Based Projects, Location Providers, KML Tutorial, Geocoding and Google Maps - No lecture on Nov. 08, 2011.
- Lecture 11: Multitasking, Development and Consumption of Services, Started (Local) Services, Bound (Remote) Services, Consumption of HTTP Services, Development of Started Services
- Lecture 12: Started IntentServices, Shared Agendas, Loopers and Handlers, Bound (Remote) Services, Android Interface Definition Language (AIDL)
- Lecture 13: Android Interface Definition Language (AIDL) and Bound Services, AIDL Complex Types, Speech Synthesis, Overcoming TTS Limitations through Phonetic Spelling, Overcoming TTS Limitations through Human Recordings, Teaching Android Applications to Speak Sanskrit and Russian
- Lecture 14: Touchscreens and Android Native Development Kit (NDK)
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