day 1 android: before getting started
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Some information regarding the domain of Android application development.TRANSCRIPT
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Android Application Development
Ahsanul Karimhttp://androidstream.wordpress.com
Before Getting Started
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Before Proceeding Any Further
Total Duration: 100 hoursSessions Per Week: 5Hours Per Session: 4 hours
Schedule
Days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
We’ll take 2 days off: Saturday and Friday
Course WorkLecture: 2-3 hoursQ/A and Assignments: 1-2 hours
Tutorial Driven ApproachWeekly Assignments
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Outline
1. Get Basic Idea on Mobile and Smartphone Applications2. Get Basic Idea on Mobile, Smartphone & Tablet Platforms3. Identify the Position of Android Platform4. Background and History of Android5. Get the Idea: Why Should We Learn Android Platform6. Opportunities7. Some App Demos8. System Architecture9. Environment Setup to Kick-start10. Development Environment11. Application Structure
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Mobile and Smartphone ApplicationsSmart Phones
1. A smartphone is a mobile phone that offers more advanced computing ability, Features and connectivity than a contemporary mobile phones.
2. Smartphones may be thought of as handheld computers integrated with a mobile telephone.
3. They also provide their own Operating System with Application Development Framework
To learn about smart phones in details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone
You’ll get detailed history about how this technology evolved over the years
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Mobile and Smartphone ApplicationsSmart Phones Platforms
Android iPhone Palm PreBlackBerry
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Mobile and Smartphone ApplicationsTablet Platforms
Android: Galaxy Tab Apple: iPad
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Overview of Application Platforms (alphabetically)
Platform Language (s) Remarks
Android Java, C, C++ Open Source OS (Based on Linux)http://developer.android.com
bada C, C++ Samsung’s mobile platform running on Linux or RealTime OShttp://developer.bada.com
BlackBerry Java, Web Apps Java, Web Apps, Java ME compatible, extensions enable tighter integrationhttp://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers
iOS Objective-C, C Requires Apple Developer Accounthttp://developer.apple.com/iphone
MeeGo Qt, C++, others Intel and Nokia guided open source OS (based on Linux)http://meego.com/developers
Symbian C, C++, Java, Qt, Web Apps, others
OS built from the ground up for mobile deviceshttp://www.forum.nokia.com/symbian
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Overview of Application Platforms (Cont.)
Platform Language (s) Remarks
webOS HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C
Supports widget style programming (based on Linux)http://developer.palm.com
Windows Mobile
C#, C .NET CF or Windows Mobile API, most devices ship with Java ME compatible JVMhttp://developer.windowsmobile.com
Windows Phone
C#, VB.NET Silverlight, XNA Frameworkshttp://create.msdn.com
Source: http://mobileplatforms.wikidot.com/
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Application Platforms
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Why Android
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Why Android (Cont.)
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Why Android (Cont.)
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Why Android (Cont.)
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Why Android: Google TV
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Why Android: Finally BlackBerry Gives In
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Open Handset Alliance (Nov 2007)Manufacturers: Designing the Android Handsets
Content Providers: Developing Apps Mobile Operators
Markets: Distribution
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Why Android (Cont.)Technical Advantages
No need to pay for any developer’s program to develop and test apps in real devices
Open source platform with scope of more innovation (Less proprietary restrictions)
Java programming language
Rich and easy to integrate feature sets
Easy, effective and cost-effective prototyping for research and business
Development Environment Support in Windows, Mac & Linux (Ubuntu)
Imagination is the Limit
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Why Android (Cont.)Business Advantages
Google Play: Integrated market appOne time low registration fee
Many Distribution Channels:(We’ll see next)
Low Barrier to Market:No approval processLess restrictions with copyright issues
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Why Android (Cont.)Opportunities
Google Play: (http://market.android.com)Integrated Android Market Application in phones can ensure your reach to
millions of users without any approval process.
Amazon Appstore for Android: http://www.amazon.com/mobile-apps/b?ie=UTF8&node=2350149011
Enterprise Market:https://marketplace.cisco.com/
3rd Party Distribution Channels :7.Andspot 2. Handango 3. GetJar 4. SlideMe 5.AndAppStore6. AndroLib 7. AppBrain and many more…
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Why Android (Cont.)Opportunities
Android Market: (1) Analytics to help decision making
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Why Android (Cont.)Opportunities
Google Play: (2) Crash log to support bug fixes
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Why Android (Cont.)Opportunities
Google Play: (3) Requirements
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Why Android (Cont.)Opportunities
Amazon Appstore for Android:
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Why Android (Cont.)Opportunities
Enterprise Market:
$ $ $ $ $ $ $
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Why Android (Cont.)Monetization Opportunities
Paid Apps $ $ $ $ $ $ $ In-App Billing Free Apps with Ads
AdMob AdWhirl Mobclix and many more
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Game Development OpportunitiesWhy Android (Cont.)
Case Study: AhhhPah http://ahhhpah.com/
Simplified Game frameworks
1. Libgdx: http://code.google.com/p/libgdx/2. AndEngine: http://www.andengine.org/3. Unity3d: http://unity3d.com/
Development Time: 8 hoursDownloads: millions
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Some Interesting AppsWhy Android (Cont.)
ShazamHear a song you don't know? Shazam identifies it instantly.
INSTALLS:10,000,000 - 50,000,000
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Some Interesting AppsWhy Android (Cont.)
Guitar : Solo LiteINSTALLS:10,000,000 - 50,000,000
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My StoryWhy Android (Cont.)
ProTranslate INSTALLS: 50,000 - 100,000
Features:2. Support for wide range of
languages3. Share translated text
(Email,SMS,twitter,facebook)Pronounciation and speech output
4. Website translationDocument translation and share via email
5. Auto-prompt to translate SMS received
6. Optimized for all Android devices
It gave us Google’s Device Seeding Program Award
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My StoryWhy Android (Cont.)
ProTranslate
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Research OpportunitiesWhy Android (Cont.)
Easy Prototyping of any idea is possible in Android. Some of the advanced research based projects are prototyped in Android.
Computer Vision
MINDdroidCV(http://www.jataka.hu/rics/nxt_android_opencv/index.html)
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Research OpportunitiesWhy Android (Cont.)
Easy Prototyping of any idea is possible in Android. Some of the advanced research based projects are prototyped in Android.
mHealth
Developed by the Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education, eMOCHA uses video, audio, touchscreen quizzes, GPS and SMS to collect and analyze large amounts of data.
eMOCA (www.emocha.org)
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Research OpportunitiesWhy Android (Cont.)
Easy Prototyping of any idea is possible in Android. Some of the advanced research based projects are prototyped in Android.
mHealth
Developed by ClickDiagnostics, uses video, audio, touchscreen Quizzes to upload data to server to reach the consultants.
ClickDiagnosticshttp://clickdiagnostics.com/
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Research OpportunitiesWhy Android (Cont.)
mHealth
Clinical diagnosis + Data acquisition
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Research OpportunitiesWhy Android (Cont.)
Android + Arduino = Innovation Unlimited
Arduino (http://www.arduino.cc/)
1. Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform2. can sense the environment by receiving input from a variety of sensors and can affect its
surroundings by controlling lights, motors, and other actuators.
http://arduino.cc/blog/2011/10/12/android-open-2011-massimo-banzi-arduino-android-infinite-possibilities/
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Research OpportunitiesWhy Android (Cont.)
Android in Disaster Management
A Mobile Disaster Management System Using the Android Technologyhttp://www.naun.org/journals/communications/19-280.pdf
Implementation of an Android based disaster management systemhttp://www.bcdph.com/download/android.pdf
Android Incident Reporting for SAHANA Disaster Management Systemhttp://code.google.com/p/sahana-incident-reporter/
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Application Development OpportunitiesWhy Android (Cont.)
Augmented Reality
Some more: http://techsplurge.com/3214/mega-list-33-awesome-augmented-reality-apps-games-android/
Real World Environment+ Sound, Video, Graphics data generated by systems= AR
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Cross-platform Development1. RhoMobile http://rhomobile.com/
2. Appcelerator http://www.appcelerator.com/
3. PhoneGap http://www.phonegap.com/
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Resources: Android Developers’ Sitehttp://developer.android.com
1. Tutorials & Design Guidelines2. SDK References3. Articles on Pragmatic & Good Practices4. & anything you’ll need including Google IO Videos
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Resources: Open Source Projects1. http://code.google.com/p/apps-for-android/2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_Android_applications
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Questions?