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Objectives

• In this seminar, you will be introduced to: – The changing lifestyle

– The Smartphone & mobile device landscape

– Android as an open source mobile device platform

– Steps to configure and use the key features of Android devices

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Session Breakup

• Session I: Changing Landscape

• Session II: Work with Android-enabled Devices

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Session I: Changing Landscape

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Times Have Changed

View the YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-AbGaKdCbs

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Times Have Changed (Contd..)

View the YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUDGjT4KG6c

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Changing Lifestyles

People no longer are restricted by face-to-face dialogue to communicate.

Communication has taken yet another leap

Social Networking (the new buzz word...)

Most people today are at the forefront of the social networking craze.

Posting, Poking and Twittering nearly 24x7!!!

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Scenario: Two friends meet up outside their college

Hey Akshat, “Since I missed last week’s lectures, could you please share the notes that you would have made. I don’t want to go unprepared in the next lecture.”

"What a joke," Samir whined in an annoying voice, “How can that be – It is just a phone !"

No! I am not Joking, Askhat said amusingly!

“Oh! So your phone can store notes! But doesn’t it have storage limitations and what about the diagrams that the Professor would have drawn on the whiteboard“.

Immediately, Samir recalled that Akshat had boasted about getting a

new mobile phone on the Facebook, the other day.

Samir looked puzzled and started wondering what all information and how

can all such information be stored in a phone.

“Why not, it is all there in this,” Akshat flashing his newly bought mobile phone.

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What Did Akshat Do?

• Recorded the lecture sessions using a Voice Recorder

• Captured diagrams of the whiteboard using a Camera

• Wrote important points in a Notepad/Memo apps

• Scanned/converted points on the whiteboard into digital text

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My Life in My Pocket…

My Phone My Schedule

My Notes My Favorite Music My Favorite Videos

My Camera My Contacts

My PC: – Internet – E-mail

and much more!

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How many of you surf the Internet on your mobile phones?

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Gartner Research Summary….

By 2012, the total number of PCs in use will reach 1.62 billion units, and by the same time the combined installed base of Smartphones and browser-equipped enhanced phones will

exceed 1.69 billion units.

Smartphones will overtake PCs as the most common primary device for Web access in 2015.

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Did You Know?

Sachin Tendulkar has about 8.20 Lakh twitter followers, second to Shashi Tharoor (Current

MP and former Minister) – 9.23 Lakhs (ranked 362 – compared globally), followed by

Priyanka Chopra with 8.06 Lakh and Sharukh Khan with 7.67 Lakh followers.

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Convergence of Devices today….

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Biological Convergence!!!

Smart & Rich Mobile Devices

Computing

Communication

Cloud

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Today, Your ONE Device can be A Phone

An Internet Surfing Device

An E-Book Reader

A Camera

A Camcorder

A Music Player

A Video Player

A Social Media tool

A Language Translator

A Sound Recorder

A GPS Navigator

A PC (Tablet)

• E-Mail

• Docs/E-Books /File Manager

and much more!!!

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In Future, Your ONE Device can be

Phone

Virtual Personal Assistant

High Quality Camera (still & video)

Portable Music Player

Portable TV/Video Player/Radio

Laptop

Gaming Console

GPS Navigator

Language Translator

Book Reader (I don’t read, It reads to me)

Car/Home/Office Key

Remote Control (Garage, TV, …)

Credit Card/Driver’s License/ Passport

Cash on Demand

Psychologist/Mentor/Adviser

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Laptops Mobile Phones

Wide Variety and Range of Mobile Devices..

PDAs Netbooks Ultra-Mobile PCs

E-Book Readers Tablets

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Did You Know?

The first laptop “Osborne 1” released in 1981 – weighed just about 12 Kilograms.

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Let us leap back into history…

Cell Phones

Used for making calls

Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs)

Used as personal organizers, to maintain to-do list, receive e-mails

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Smartphones

Cell phones gained messaging capabilities

Smartphone

PDAs gained cellular phone features

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Smartphones (Contd..)

• Few years back, apart from core communication features these Smartphones had limited features such as:

– Basic personal organizer apps

– Basic productivity apps

– Low resolution Digital Camera

– Plain-featured Internet content

• They were quite expensive!

• Based on proprietary and non-flexible platform

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Smartphones of the New Decade

• Today’s phones are fully featured–just like a mini-PC.

• Some of the key features are: – QWERTY keyboard

– Messaging

– Web access

– Operating system

– Software/Applications

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Smartphones of the New Decade (Contd..)

• Smartphones generally are of three types: – Bar

– Slate

– Slider

• Available in the following categories based on usability: – Business phones

– Entertainment phones

– Messaging/Broadband

– Fashion and style

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Did You Know?

The first public cell phone call was made on April 3, 1973 by

Martin Cooper using a Motorola phone, which weighed

approx. 2 Kilogram.

Last year, he also predicted that: “The mobile phone in the long range is going to be embedded under your skin behind your ear along with a very powerful computer who is in effect your slave.”

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What is Common?

Device/Hardware (Memory, Processor)

Operating System

Software

Applications

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Soul of Your Device

• A mobile operating system, also known as a mobile platform, or a handheld operating system: – Controls the functioning of a mobile

device and manages applications

• Some popular mobile platforms:

– Symbian OS

– Android

– iOS

– Windows Mobile

– MeeGo

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Do you know which mobile platform are you using?

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Imagine a Life without…

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Did You Know?

• 35 billion searches are performed using Google every month.

• 160 billion e-mails are sent daily, 97% of which are spam.

• 24 hours of video is uploaded every minute on YouTube: • About 20% of the videos on YouTube are music-related.

• 15 billion videos are viewed online every month.

• 2.5 billion photos are uploaded to Facebook every month.

• 126 million are the number of blogs on the Internet.

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The World Now Captured on…

powered by: Google

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Why Android?

• Android is open, making it easier to quickly gain developer support and in a way opens tremendous possibilities for innovation and ideas.

• Android runs on phones and a variety of mobile devices from several manufacturers, which helps it to quickly capture the marketplace:

– Major players such as HTC, Motorola, LG, Sony-Ericsson and Samsung are already supporting handsets.

• Android is improving rapidly. Within two years there have been 5 significant releases.

• Android combines the best of what’s out there: – Offers iPhone-like menus and apps

– With Windows mobile-esque icons

– With Palm Pre-like multitasking

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Introduction to Android

Fastest growing Mobile Device platform

Powered by Linux operating system

Open Source under the Apache 2 license

Open Source application development

(Java and other native libraries)

Product of Open Headset Alliance Mobile Operators, Software companies, Semiconductor companies, and Device manufacturers

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Current Releases

Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)

released. Location-based services, Improved Audio/video

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Acceptance by All!!

End Users • A flexible yet powerful software that takes

full advantage of the device capabilities • Variety of internet services with desktop-like browsing experience • Open access to the limitless possibilities

with countless applications

Mobile Handset Manufacturer • Complete, open source and free mobile phone stack • Reduced software costs • Extensive support for customization

Mobile Network Operator • Powerful software platform to promote data usage and premium services • Extensive support for add-on services and customization • Simplified content distribution and revenue-share model

Application Developer • Simple yet powerful application development framework (C++/Java and XML) and SDK • Open access to APIs to build richer apps • Simple applications distribution model

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Did You Know?

The Top 10 Smartphones shortlisted in the largest International Consumer Electronics held in January this year

have 9 Smartphones based on Android.

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Advt. Dt. 29th Jan 2011

Today you can happily own a rich Smartphone @ a price as low as 5K!!

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Android Platform Features

• Android supports a variety of features such as:

– Integrated Google/Cloud services:

• Search, Social Media (Facebook etc.), Maps, Docs etc.

• Surfing/Corporate and Personal e-mails

– LCD/AMOLED touch screens

– Connectivity options:

• Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and wireless data over a cellular connection (GPRS, EDGE, 2G, 3G and 4G services)

– Multimedia (audio/video)

– Camera

– Personalization

– Hardware sensors (GPS, accelerometer, gyroscope, barometer, light etc.)

– Android Marketplace

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Android Marketplace • Official directory of applications:

– Free & Paid

– Browse and search from range of categories:

• Books and Reference

• Business

• Communication

• Education

• Finance

• Games

• Health & Fitness

• Music and Audio

• News and Magazines

• Photography

• Shopping

• Social

• Sports

• Additional Android App stores building up - backed by Amazon, Verizon, and Vodafone.

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The Desktop

• Also known as Home Screen or Idle Screen

• Multiple panels to reflect different interests

• Windows-like user interface:

– Icons:

• Shortcuts

• Folders

• Widgets

– Background/Wallpapers:

• Live wallpapers:

– For richer, animated, interactive backgrounds

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Touch Screen • Scroll:

– Swipe up to scroll down, and swipe down to scroll up.

• Click:

– Press down briefly on an item.

– Press and hold for sometime to perform associated alternative actions such as moving an icon etc.

• Double Click:

– Double-tap quickly twice on a webpage, map, or other screen to fit the width of a screen.

• Pinch to Zoom:

– Picture Gallery and some document viewers allow your fingers to zoom in and out of an image.

• Rotate:

– Orientation of the screen rotates with the phone as you turn it from upright to its side and back again.

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Other Forms of Input

• Voice: – Be it search or storing text, or any command

you can instruct your phone to perform actions or input text.

• Trackball: – Alternative to touch screen input

– At times very handy in case working with text or screens with form factor limitations

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Getting Around • Handset Buttons

• Menu

• Keypads & Shortcuts

Menu / Options

Home

Back

Search

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Menus

Similar to PCs, menus here enable functionality and navigation path for apps with limited screen size.

• Android platform supports two types of menus known as:

– Options menu: Is activated by pressing the Menu button on the device.

– Context menu: Is raised by a tap-and-hold on the item associated with the menu.

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Keypads

• Android keyboard layout: – Depending upon the type of device and

manufacturers features, you may get additional keypads such as:

• QWERTY Keypad

• Handwriting Boxes

• Swype keypad: – You can just trace a path through the letters of a

word, rather than tapping each and every letter on the keypad.

If you require typing with both fingers, then turn your phone sideways (Landscape orientation) and the keyboard will

rotate automatically.

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Summary

• In this session, you learned about: – Changing lifestyle and mobile device landscape

– Features of mobile devices such as Smartphones

– Android: An Open Source mobile device platform

– Features of Android platform