Building Your First App

By:-Anish Shrestha (@anixification)Prayag Raj Upd. (@JVMThreadDump)Rittesh Bhattarai (@Ritties)Samrakchan Ghimire ( @samrakchan)

Development Environment Config.

1. JDK (Java Development Kit)

2. Android SDK

3. Eclipse or IntelliJ or AIDE mobile app

4. ADT (Android Development Tools) for eclipse

5. AVD (Android Virtual Device)

Creating Android Project

Android Directory Structure

Activities

1. Activity

2. ListActivity

3. TabActivity

4. PreferenceActivity

5. ExpandableListActivity

6. FragmentActvity

7. NativeActivity (C/C++)

Developing Professional App

Handling android life cycle stages (onResume, onDestroy, onOrientationChange, onPause)

Lazy Loading on Images

On Scroll loading of data

User Preferences

Custom View

Background Tasking

Common External Libraries

Google Map API

Facebook Graph API (Hackbook)

PayPal MPL Library

Openstreetmap Library

Learning Material

Book:● Beginning Android 2 (or 4), Apress Publication, Mark

Murphy● Professional Android 2 App Development Wrox, Reto

Meier

Video:● Android Boot Camp

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE08A97D36D5A255F&feature=plcp

● Google I/O Videos

Open Source GitHub projects

Yatayat : https://github.com/iPrayag/Yatayat[Internet Connection, JSON Parsing, Openstreetmap, Auto Completion of Text, Custom ListView, Background Tasking]

Client Detail : https://github.com/samrakchan/ClientDetails[SQLite, Exporting SQLite, Exporting Data into SD card, Custom ListView]

Thank You Google!!