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Week 1 Android UI

Announcements

• Download Android Studio
  • soon
  • here or far, far away from here?
• Devices available in the DM lab
• Atlanta Java Users Group (AJUG) info
•  Meetup
  • Tuesday, Sept 10th 6:30p, Big Nerd Ranch
  • Android Club 
• About Microsoft Teams
  • register with link in D2L
  • Meet Now
•  MOOCs / Resources for Android
  • http://learning.safari.com
  • Coursera
  • Udacity
  • lynda.com – Android App Development
• Android developer certification
• DROP/ADD deadline August 20th
• Final scheduled — see below (in red!)
• Week to week topics will change …
• Increasing difficulty in assignments
• Please Build->Clean before zipping your project
• Lab Machines
• Please don’t submit work during activity/lecture

Readings and Assignments

• Chapter 1 (zybooks)
• Assignment 1 – Introduction (zybooks, participation activities)
• Assignment 2 – Enhanced Pizza Party App (for 9/2)

Topics

• Syllabus
• Introductions
• Two Exams
  • in Week 5-6 and 11-12
  • concept + coding
• Android Studio Intro
  • Palindrome screencast
  • Zip file of Android Studio Project on OneDrive
  • gist
  • Events, Patterns, Logging
• Wiki Review
  • Video link (‘first take’ caveats apply)
  • How to Edit a Wiki
  • Many others online
  • others ok: github wiki, Colabratory / Markdown, etc.

Week 2 Layouts and Widgets

Announcements

• Grading and attendance are up to date
• Links to palindrome example posted under Week 1

Readings and Assignments

• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Assignment 2 – Pizza Party App

Topics

• Introductions
• Issues with text, Teams, Android Studio, Emulators, devices?
• Palindrome — continued
  • Review code
  • Events, Patterns, Logging, Debugging
• Decent ConstraintLayout Tutorial (optional, if you want to dig deeper)

• Constraint Layout
  • Screencast Part 1 Part 2
  • Project zip file under Week 2 in course OneDrive folder
  • Old Screencast

Week 3 Activities and Intents

Announcements

• Lab Machines
• Wiki class list / project pages

Readings and Assignments

• Chapter 3 – Activities and Intents
• Chapter 4 – for next week
• Assignment 4 – Campus Map App
• Assignment 5 –  Activities and Intents (zybooks)

Topics

• Other items
  • Context Matters
    • Single v. Multiple Platform
    • Browser UI v. App
  • Polyglots!
    • Oracle’s Stuart Marks link
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3112882/how-many-classes-are-there-in-java-standard-edition
    • Android API’s : ~4700 (1/2018)
• Explicit Intents
  • Bruschetta — new walkthrough
  • zip in OneDrive
  • Bruschetta — Old walkthrough
• Implicit Intents
  •  Poor SMS — new walkthrough
  • zip in OneDrive
  • Poor SMS — Old screencast
• Device Deployment
• Debug on device
• Logging

Week 4 Menus, Dialogs and Touch

Announcements

• Grades are not up to date and Attendance is up to date
• Increasing difficulty in assignments
• Please Build->Clean before zipping your project
• Exam in Week 6
  • Open Book / Open Notes
  • Concept 25
  • Coding 75

Readings and Assignments

• Chapter 4
• Assignment 6 – Enhanced Dice Roller
• Assignment 7 – Fragments (zybooks chapter)

Topics

• Nav Up
  • screencast
  • Zip is in Week 4 folder in course Onedrive folder
• Watch Variables in Debugger
• Dice Roller
  • NavigateUp App Part 1 Screencast Part 2 Screencast
• Medium Article

Week 5 Fragments

Announcements

• Exam next week
  • Be familiar with Assignment 2 and 4
  • Chapters 1,2 and 3
• Attendance and Grading are not up to date
• Assignment Submission Reminders
  • when recording videos …  remove outtakes
  • please follow template
  • remember to clean/zip
  • demo all features (for example — logging)

Readings and Assignments

• Chapter 5

Topics

• Color Chooser Prototype
  • screencast
  • zip of project in the Week 5 folder on OneDrive

Week 6 Fragments

Announcements

Assignments and Readings

• Chapter 5
• Assignment 8 – Posted Soon

Topics

• Exam 1
• Fragments
  • Building zybook’s Band Database App w/ Master/Detail screencast

Week 7 Fragments

Announcements

• Assignment submission changes
  • Dice Roller due Friday 6:30pm
• Grades ….
• Pandora Open House

Readings / Assignments

• Chapter 5
• Assignment 8 – Dice Notation w/ Fragments
• Assignment 10 – Working With Data (zybooks)

Topics

• Exam 1 Recap
• Assignment 8

Week 8 Working With Data

Announcements

• The grades are up to date, except Enhanced Dice Roller
• Attendance is up to date
• Course Progress
• PSI Recruiting

Readings / Assignments

• Chapter 6
• Assignment 8 – Dice Notation with Fragments

Topics

• Working with Data

Week 9 Running Background Tasks, RESTful Programming

Announcements

Readings / Assignments

• Chapter 7

Topics

Week 10 Graphics, Animation and Sound

Announcements

Readings / Assignments

• Chapter 8 Graphics, Animation, Sound (zybooks)

Topics

Week 11 Sensors, Cameras and Location

Announcements

Readings and Assignments

• zybooks Chapter 9

Topics

• Exam 2 tentative

Week 12 Testing, Publishing 

Announcements

Readings and Assignments

Topics

• Exam 2 tentative

Week 13 Flutter 1 of 3

Announcements

• Academic Integrity Reminder

Readings and Assignments

Topics

Week 14 Flutter 2 of 3, Project

Announcements

Readings and Assignments

Topics

Week 15 Flutter 1 of 3, Project, Review

Announcements

Readings and Assignments

Topics

Week 16 Final Exam

ITEC 4550-01 Friday Dec 6th, 6:30p – 9:00p, W-3201

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