Building Your First Android ExperienceWeb 2.0 • Tony Hillerson

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Tony HillersonSoftware Architect - EffectiveUIRails, Flex, Java‣ Mobile

✦ iPhone and Androidhttp://thillerson.blogspot.comhttp://twitter.com/thillersonhttp://brightkite.com/people/thillerson

http://github.com/thillerson/first_android_experience/

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

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AgendaIntroduction

Tour

Our First Project

Cooking with Android

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What’s an Android?Operating System for Mobile DevicesHTC G1

SDKCompiler, tools and IDE

MarketFree or paid

A Platform for your Applications

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an•droid |ˈanˌdroid|nouna robot with a human appearance.- Encyclopedia Galactica

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

Open Handset Alliancehttp://www.openhandsetalliance.com/

Over 40 membersDevice Manufacturers, Networks, Chipmakers, Software Companies, etc

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Open Source FrameworkOpen it! - http://source.android.com/

SDK - http://developer.android.com

IDERuns in Eclipse

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Platform7

Linux

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Linux

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

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Linux

Native Libraries

Runtime + Dalvik VM • Lightweight Java VM• Efficient Bytecode

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Linux

Native Libraries

Runtime + Dalvik VM

Android Framework• Activity Manager• Content Provider• Location Manager• Notification Manager

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Linux

Native Libraries

Runtime + Dalvik VM

Android Framework

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

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Linux

Native Libraries

Runtime

Android Framework

System Apps + Ur Appz

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Vocabulary14

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 Androidhttp://developer.android.com

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Where to find Helphttp://developer.android.com/community/index.htmlGoogle’s Forums

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

http://developer.android.com/reference/packages.htmlDocs

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

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A Tour23

Our First App24

Cooking with Android25

PicturesCamera

Image Library

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PersistenceSettings

SQLite

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Location Location LocationLocationProvider

Geocoding

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Hiding Your Threads in UserTasksGoogle’s UserTask

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Prettying Things UpStyling common widgets

Themes

Digging into existing styles

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Reading the SourceSDK

Android source and Apps

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Thanks!Tony Hillersonhttp://slideshare.com/thillersonhttp://github.com/thillersonhttp://thillerson.blogspot.comhttp://effectiveui.com

Twitter: thillersonBrightkite: thillerson

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