Wednesday 16 July 2014

New course by Udacity on programming Android apps

A new course is being offered on Udacity that teaches the fundamentals of Android app programming. 


The topics covered include:
  • Android Studio, Gradle, and debugging tools
  • User Interface and Layout managers
  • ListViews and Adapters
  • Threading and ASyncTask
  • HTTP requests on web APIs
  • Android Permission System
  • App navigation with Explicit Intents
  • Implicit Intents to incorporate 3rd-party apps
  • Share Intent and the Android sharing framework
  • Broadcast Intents and Broadcast Receivers
  • Activity lifecycle and background activity termination
  • SQLite databases and JUnit tests
  • Creating and using a Content Provider as an abstraction layer
  • Using Loaders to asynchronously load data
  • Creating Adapters to bind UI components to Content Providers
  • Fundamental Android design principles
  • Supporting localization and variable screen sizes
  • Optimizing tablet UIs using Fragments
  • Accessibility Features
  • Custom views
  • Background services and alarms to schedule background tasks
  • Efficient background data transfers with SyncAdapters
  • Rich notifications to interact with users

You can start learning by visiting the link below.
 https://www.udacity.com/course/ud853




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