Ken Kousen Android Development Series (O'Reilly)

Ready to launch your dream app on Android? In this video course, Java consultant Ken Kousen walks you through the Android Studio wizard for creating a new app. You’ll learn the basics in developing for Android devices, and where to find the tools and technologies you need. The Android Developer website offers dashboards, version numbers, and market distributions. You’ll also find design guidelines, a review of available tutorials, and API docs.

With this video, you’ll learn how to:

• Use the basic XML layout and activity class generated by the Android Studio wizard
  
• Work with the default multi-project Gradle build files
  
• Create and configure an emulator, using the AVD Manager
  
• Increase functionality by changing themes and adding widgets
  
• Understand Android’s activity lifecycle by charting callback methods associated with activities
  
• Learn how to save and restore state variables in activities
  
• Add alternative layouts by using qualifiers on the "res" directory
  
• Learn about internal and external storage for managing persistent data
  
• Use the SQLite database available to every Android application
  
• Access a RESTful Web Service to deal with asynchronous tasks
  

Ken Kousen, president of Kousen IT, Inc., is a technical trainer, mentor, and consultant in all areas related to Java, specializing in Android, Spring, Hibernate/JPA, Groovy, and Grails. He is the author of Making Java Groovy (Manning) and the upcoming O’Reilly book, Gradle for Android.

Contents:

Welcome
01-Course Overview 02m 36s
02-The Android Developer Web Site 07m 06s
Tools and Technologies
03-Android Design Guidelines and Developer Docs 09m 39s
04-Android Studio 04m 04s
A "Hello, World" Application
05-Starting a New Android Application 11m 08s
07-A Blank Activity And Associated Layout 09m 12s
08-Gradle Build Files for Android 11m 15s
09-The Manifest, Layout, and String Resources 09m 38s
10-The AVD Manager 09m 08s
Adding Functionality
11-Changing Themes and Adding Widgets 10m 47s
12-Updating our Activity Subclass 13m 35s
Understanding Activities
13-The Activity Lifecycle 17m 02s
Providing Alternative Resources
14-The "res" Directories 21m 00s
15-Changing Keyboards 09m 11s
Intents and Saving State
16-Intents 19m 11s
17-Removing Hard-Coded Strings from Java 05m 37s
18-Saving Activity State 08m 09s
Working with Persistent Data
19-Storage Options 12m 38s
20-Using SQLite 21m 47s
21-List Adapters 09m 50s
22-Responding to Clicks and the Android Debug Bridge 08m 18s
Accessing a RESTful Web Service
23-Asynchronous Tasks 17m 22s
24-Spring for Android 12m 30s
25-Accessing the Service 14m 17s
26-Action Bar 11m 56s
27-Preferences 11m 30s
Summary
28-Course Review 03m 46s






In this follow-up to his Learning Android video, Java consultant Ken Kousen provides practical tips to further enhance your Android skills. In the previous course, you developed a simple application and tested it. In this video, you’ll learn how to create alert dialogs so your app will send data to an alert, and configure dialog buttons so they react to clicks. This includes creating an interface that the activity implements. Ken also reviews the Google Play store and deployment process.

You’ll also learn how to:

• Add sharing capabilities to the ActionBar with ShareActionProvider
  
• Use postDelayed to repeat an action
  
• Present a list of titles, with fragments for the details. Add string arrays to a Resources file, and keep fragments independent
  
• Use NotificationBuilder: the builder pattern, fluent interfaces, and how to add notifications
  
• Implement services the easy way: extend the IntentService class
  
• Implement services the hard way: use bindable services and complexity
  
• Configure the Gradle build for deployment, and generate a production build
  

Contents:

Review
01-Review of Previous Course 16m 31s
02-Activities and Intents 13m 16s
03-Persistent State 12m 14s
Interactive Lists
04-Making a ListView Responsive 08m 51s
Alert Dialogs
05-Creating an AlertDialog 15m 44s
06-Configuring Dialog Buttons - Part 1 07m 46s
07-Configuring Dialog Buttons - Part 2 13m 02s
Accessing a Web Service
08-AsyncTask and ActionBars 09m 16s
Action Bar Capabilities
09-Using a Preferences Fragment 08m 17s
Implicit Intents
10-ShareActionProvider 17m 43s
11-Receiving an Intent 14m 52s
Handlers
12-Adding a Repeat Handler 10m 13s
Fragments, For Real This Time
13-A Master/Detail Application 10m 51s
14-Displaying a Detail Fragment 10m 18s
15-Using a List Fragment 06m 19s
16-Communicating with the Activity 10m 01s
17-Switching Displays Between Portrait and Landscape Mode 13m 27s
Notifications
18-Using a NotificationBuilder 18m 15s
Services
19-IntentService: the Easy Way 23m 55s
20-Bound Services 15m 30s
Deployment
21-Deploying an App 14m 59s