Mobile Application

Development
with ANDROID

A.UMASHANKAR
06078115
 Agenda
• Mobile Application Development (MAD)
• Intro to Android platform
• Platform architecture
• Application Framework & API
• Application building blocks
• Development tools
• Hello Android
• Porting application to Mobile
Few reasons to go MAD. . .
• Smart Phones
– Internet access anywhere
– Social networking
– GPS and Google Maps
• Millions of mobile users
• Open standards
 Introduction to Android
• Open software platform for mobile development
• A complete stack – OS, Middleware,
Applications
• An Open Handset Alliance (OHA) project
• Powered by Linux operating system
• Fast application development in Java
• Open source under the Apache 2 license
 Android APIs
❑ android.util
❑ android.os
❑ android.graphics
❑ android.text
❑ android.database
❑ android.content
❑ android.view
❑ android.widget
❑ com.google.android.maps
android.app
❑ android.telephony
❑ android.webkit
Application building blocks
• Activity
• IntentReceiver
• Service
• ContentProvider
 Activities
• Typically correspond to one UI screen
• But, they can:
– Be faceless
– Be in a floating window
– Return a value
– Activity refers to (J)Frame in Swing
 Intents
• Think of Intents as a verb and object; a
description of what you want done
– E.g. VIEW, CALL, PLAY etc..
• System matches Intent with Activity that
can best provide the service
• Activities and IntentReceivers describe
what Intents they can service
 Intent Recievers
• Components that respond to broadcast
‘Intents’
• Way to respond to external notification or
alarms
• Apps can invent and broadcast their own
Intent
 Services
• Faceless components that run in the
background
– E.g. music player, network download etc…
 ContentProviders
• Enables sharing of data across
applications
– E.g. address book, photo gallery
• Provides uniform APIs for:
– querying
– delete, update and insert.
• Content is represented by URI and MIME
type
 Android User Interfaces

Different Layouts Hierarchy of Screen Elements

Linear Layout
Absolute Layout
Table Layout
 Comparing Android UI Elements to
Swing UI Elements
Comparing Android UI Elements to Swing UI Elements

Activities in Android refers almost to a (J)Frame in Swing.

Views in Android refers to (J)Components in Swing.
TextViews in Android refers to a (J)Labels in Swing.
EditTexts in Android refers to a (J)TextFields in Swing.
Buttons in Android refers to a (J)Buttons in Swing.
 AndroidManfest.xml

<manifest>
This is the root node of each AndroisManifest.xml. It contains the package-
attribute, which points to any package in out Activity. Other Activities-path
will base relative to its value.
<application>
Root element containing declarations of the application-level components
contained in the package. This element can also include global and/or default
attributes for the application, such as a label, icon,theme, required permission,
etc.Quantity: 0 or 1.

<activity>
An Activity is the primary thing for an application to interact with the user. The initial
screen the user sees when launching an application is an activity, and most other
screens they use will be implemented as separate activities declared with additional
activity tags.

<intent-filter>
Declares what kind of Intents a component supports. In addition to the
various kinds of values that can be specified under this element, attributes
can be given here to supply a unique label, icon, and other information for
the action being described.
 <action>
An action-type that the component supports. Example:
.

<category>
A category-type that the component supports. Example:

Some other Tags Available……

<meta-data>
<receiver>
<service>
<provider>
 Application Development Steps

• Download and Install the Android SDK

and Test the Emulator.
• Installing JDK and JRE(1.5 or above)
• Install Eclipse.
• Install ADT plugin for Eclipse

Creating HelloWorld
Application
Application development contd.,
New > Project…

Select Android project in wizard menu

Application development contd.,
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Main Activity>>

Main.xml>>
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AndroidManifest.xml>>
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>>Running Your First Application
Application development contd.,
Output in the emulator
Application development contd.,
Uis using Java way
 Porting Applications to
Mobile
• Resource files are bundled to .apk file
archive
• Bundled by aapt tool
• One .apk file archive is a Single
application
Interesting things to do
• Android is open source
• Opportunities for researchers
• Get the source, compile and update the
device image
 References
• http://developer.android.com
• http://code.google.com/android
• http://anddev.org
Thank You

Queries