1. Creating Views programmatically

- creating buttons, text fields, listviews and layouts

- setting views’ parameters

- adding views dynamically

2. Action Bar Sherlock

- how to import a library into a project

- how to use ABS Template

3. Continuation of Database: Working with external database

- connection of an android app with a php script

- avoiding crashes with unavailable connectivity

4. AdMob Advertisement Introduction

- how to plant an advertisement banner inside your app

Our module for Basic Android Workshop [Level 1] :

1. Setting up Android Development Toolkit & Workspace

-Download Toolkit from Android Developer Website

2. Creating the first app

-Naming the app

-Understanding Eclipse workspace

-Exploring project tree: packages, classes, layouts, manifest, generated files, values.

3. Basic methods in Activity

onCreate, OnClickListener, Activity lifecycle

4. Playing with XML

xml layouts: buttons, edittexts

findViewById, R.java, values xml

5. Changing between pages (Intent)

Declaring Intent, setting intent’s class, startActivity

Learning outcome:

- You know how to create basic apps such as :

Calculator app, Book app (navigation between pages), Form app etc.

- You know how Activity in Android works.

-You know how code completion works.

[ It is suggested that the fee for a person would be *RM20 per student for this course. ]

*this price applies for JAVA programmers, for non-JAVA programmers, there might be some extra classes for understanding JAVA.

Android Workshop 2 Module : 

1. Working with ListView

- understanding ListAdapter

- OnItemClickListener

2. Working with ImageView

- changing images

3. Working with WebView

- loading a page

- WebView controls

4. Working with SQLite database

- understanding database

- database functions and open helper

Learning outcome:
- Able to create an app that loads a custom webpage

- Able to play with database

- Able to create ListViews

[ Price for students: RM 20 ]

1. Posts
- How to post
- Create categories
- Create tags

2. Pages
- How pages appear

3. Media
- Uploading media

4. Users
- Create new users
- Roles

5. Themes
- How to install themes
- Where is theme located

6. Widgets
- How to use widgets

7. Menus
- Usage of menu

8. Appearance editor
- HTML, CSS and PHP!

9. Plugins
- Installing plugins

10. Tools
- Import and Export

11. Settings
- Writings, Readings and Permalinks

12. Gantry Framework
- A nice and cool framework!
- Usage of Gantry framework

Main HTML elements:
Html – html tag
Head – head tag
Body – body tag
Div – division tag
Style – where css is placed
Link – external css reference
Script – javascript
P – paragraph

What is CSS?
Cascading Style Sheet is a code for styling html document.

Main CSS property:
ID selector
Class selector
Parent-child selector
#css,.css,html css{}

Learning Outcome :

- You know how web pages render document
- You know the functions of normally used tags
- You know where to put css codes as well as javascripts
- You know how to debug html using Google Chrome

Main php elements:

Echo

If-else

Function

$vars

Post and Get

Isset

Header – redirection

MySql functions

MySql

Create, Retrieve, Update and Delete syntax for SQL

Drawing table from the database

Creating forms to be submitted to the database

Learning outcome:
- You know how to use XAMPP

- You know how to code php in a php file

- You know how to mix html and php and how they work together

- You know how to establish connection to database using php function

- You know how to retrieve database using functions of php

- You know how Structured Query Language works and how to code it

1. This week, fetching and putting events on the server will be done.

2. Next focus is the layout of events, then icons.

3. We will organize Android workshops to search for developers.

4. Secondary focus is the game developed by ATU. We can use Corona SDK or Game Salad. Game Salad research will start soon.

5. We will attach advertisements as to fund our project. This includes maintenance etc.

Recorded by asfwan@asfwan-dev

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