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7+ Hours of Video Instruction
Overview
Android App Development Fundamentals 2/e uses Paul Deitel's unique "app-driven" approach to get you up and running quickly with Google's popular Android SDK.
Description
The lessons in this LiveLesson were carefully designed to introduce you to key Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) and 4.4 (KitKat) features and APIs. You first learn how to install the Android Integrated Development Environment. You’ll then learn everything you need to start building Android apps–beginning with a test drive of the Doodlz app in lesson 1, then building your first app in lesson 2. By the time you reach Lesson 4, you’ll be creating a sophisticated Twitter-based app.
About the Instructor
Paul Deitel is the co-founder of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally recognized programming languages authoring, corporate-training and Internet business development organization. Paul and his father–Harvey Deitel–have written many international best-selling programming-language professional books and textbooks that millions of people worldwide have used to master C++, C, Java™, C#, Visual Basic®, Visual C++®, XML, Perl, Python, and Internet and web programming.
Skill Level
Beginner
What you Will Learn
Who Should Take this Course
Java Developers looking to learn Android Development skills
Course Requirements
A basic understanding of Java programming
Table of Contents
Before You Begin
This lesson shows you how to install Google's Android Integrated Development Environments (IDE).
Lesson 1: Test-Driving the Doodlz App (ADT Bundle Version)
This lesson shows you how to launch the ADT Bundle IDE (Eclipse-based IDE), how to import an existing project, and how to run the app in both the Android Virtual Device (AVD) and on a real device running Android.
Lesson 1: Test-Driving the Doodlz App (Android Studio Version)
This lesson shows you how to launch the Android Studio IDE (Google's preferred IDE), how to import an existing project, and how to run the app in both the Android Virtual Device (AVD) and on a real device running Android.
Lesson 2: Welcome App
This lesson shows you how to create a graphical user interface (GUI) visually and how to manipulate the GUI. You also learn about accessibility and internationalization.
Lesson 3: Tip Calculator App
In this lesson you learn to use various Android classes to create objects, call methods on those objects, define and call your own methods, and explore both inheritance and exception handling in Android.
Lesson 4: Twitter(R) Searches App
In this lesson you learn to use both ListView and ListActivity objects to create a scrollable list of items, how to use an image as a button, how to store and manipulate key-value pairs, how to use intents to launch the device's web browser, and how to display alerts and messages.
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