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Building Your First Android Experience Web 2.0 • Tony Hillerson

Tony Hillerson Software Architect - EffectiveUI Rails, Flex, Java

‣ Mobile ✦ iPhone and Android

http://thillerson.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/thillerson http://brightkite.com/people/thillerson

http://github.com/thillerson/first_android_experience/ http://slideshare.com/thillerson/first-android-experience

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Agenda Introduction Tour Our First Project Cooking with Android

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an•droid ¦ an droid¦ noun a robot with a human appearance. - Encyclopedia Galactica

What’s an Android? Operating System for Mobile Devices HTC G1

SDK Compiler, tools and IDE

Market Free or paid

A Platform for your Applications

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android Your plastic pal that’s fun to be with! - Sirius Cybernetics Corporation

Open Handset Alliance http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/ Over 40 members Device Manufacturers, Networks, Chipmakers, Software Companies, etc

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Open Source Framework Open it! - http://source.android.com/ SDK - http://developer.android.com IDE Runs in Eclipse

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Platform

Linux 8

Native Libraries

• Surface Manager • 2D+3D Graphics (OpenGL) + Media • SQLite • Browser (webkit)

Linux 9

Runtime + Dalvik VM

• Lightweight Java VM • Efficient Bytecode

Native Libraries Linux 10

Android Framework

• Activity Manager • Content Provider • Location Manager • Notification Manager

Runtime + Dalvik VM Native Libraries Linux 11

System Apps

• Contacts • Phone Dialer • E-mail • Web Browser

Android Framework Runtime + Dalvik VM Native Libraries Linux 12

System Apps + Ur Appz Android Framework Runtime Native Libraries Linux 13

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Vocabulary

Activity: A single screen. Your app is made up of one or more Activities

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Service: A task that can be running while not visible. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, iPhone.

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Intent: Code to accomplish a verb, like “call number” or “open comic”. Facilitates app to app communication.

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Content Provider: Data and an API that any app can access. Android provides contact information through a Content Provider.

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Resource: Text, pictures, sound, etc. Everything is broken out of the code into a resource, which is compiled into a class called R

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Drawable: A bitmap or xml definition of something that can be drawn.

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Getting Android http://developer.android.com

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Where to find Help http://developer.android.com/community/index.html Google’s Forums

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/ Dev’s Blog

http://developer.android.com/reference/packages.html Docs

http://code.google.com/p/apps-for-android/ Sample Apps by Googlers

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A Tour

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Our First App

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Cooking with Android

Pictures Camera Image Library

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Persistence Settings SQLite

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Location Location Location LocationProvider Geocoding

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Hiding Your Threads in UserTasks Google’s UserTask

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Prettying Things Up Styling common widgets Themes Digging into existing styles

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Reading the Source SDK Android source and Apps

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Bob

Your Father

You

Thanks! Tony Hillerson http://slideshare.com/thillerson http://github.com/thillerson http://thillerson.blogspot.com http://effectiveui.com

Twitter: thillerson Brightkite: thillerson

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