Course description
This course provides students the opportunity to learn and develop advanced Android applications. It covers threading and asynchronous processing, services, connecting to local and remote database, notifications, common Android APIs.
Majority of the coursework would be in the form of programming projects. The students would be given several case studies/projects that they need to analyze, assess/evaluate, design, and implement.
This course may also be taught using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, React Native, Flutter, or other similar frameworks.
Learning activities
Lecture, seminars, laboratory assignments, reading, and research
Means of assessment
Labs/Projects 20% - 30%
Midterm Examination 30% - 40%
Final Examination* 30% - 40%
Total 100%
* Practical hands-on computer programming exam
In order to pass the course, students must, in addition to receiving an overall course grade of 50%, also achieve a grade of at least 50% on the combined weighted examination components (including quizzes, tests, exams).
Students may conduct research as part of their coursework in this class. Instructors for the course are responsible for ensuring that student research projects comply with College policies on ethical conduct for research involving humans, which can require obtaining Informed Consent from participants and getting the approval of the Douglas College Research Ethics Board prior to conducting the research.
Learning outcomes
At the end of this course, the successful student will be able to:
- Explain threading and asynchronous processing
- Explain the importance of processing asynchronously
- Implement using AsyncTask, Thread, and Loaders class
- Explain the Service Lifecycle and determine when to use it
- Create and control a Service
- Implement a remote interface
- Explain how to store, query, and use SQLite
- Implement application using SQLite application database and remote database
- Design persistent databases
- Implement Android Content providers
- Explain how Broadcasting and Receiving intents work
- Implement sending and receiving broadcasts
- Explain and implement some common Android APIs in the following areas
- Network
- Web
- Mutimedia
- Telephony
- Analyze and assess user/project requirements
- Design and implement an Android and backend applications
Textbook materials
Annuzzi, Joseph Jr. , Darcey, Lauren, Shane, Conder, Advanced Android Application Development, Latest edition, Addison Wesley