CMPT 276 Spring 2013 (D100 Surrey) - Dr. Fraser

Course Info

• Course Outline on CS Website.
• CourSys: View grades or submit electronic assignments.
• Source code from 1st edition of Android in 24H text.
• You may request your app be posted to the Google Play store. See the guide to listing application on Google Play store.

Tools

• Eclipse for Android: The SDK and ADT (Android Developer Tools) in one package. Download and extract zip file; run eclipse.exe.
• Android is working in the Surrey Linux and Windows CSIL lab :
  Linux:
  - Launch from the menu (top left) under programming.
  - Android tools are already installed; do not re-download them: They are under your home directory in an Android folder (such as /home/bfraser/Android).
  - Point the ADT tools in Eclipse to this directory, and you'll be up and running.
  Windows:
  - Launch Eclipse from the desktop.
  - When asked for the Android SDK, browse to C:\Android.
• TortoiseSVN - a Windows shell program for accessing SVN repositories.
• AgroUML - Open-source UML tool.
• ObjectAid - UML Class Diagram tool which generates diagrams from code. Plugs into Eclipse.

Brian's YouTube Demos

Basic Android Videos

• Creating a button.
• SharedPrefernces and TextView.
• Switching activities.
• UI Layouts.
• Forcing activity orientation (to portrait or landscape mode).
• UI & model separation: Separate business logic (Java classes) from the UI (Activities); a pet rock.
  Highly recommended!
• ImageButton.
• Resource by Name: accessing a resource (image) by its name, not its ID.
• Context menu.
• Trouble shooting: resource problems, Java problems, cleaning a project, and working with R file problems.
• ListView: basic ListView with text (from an Array).
• Complex ListView: ListView with text and images from an list of objects (source code).
• Google Maps API v2: Getting started, and moving the camera (source code).
  Students in the class can access the following guide for the emulator.

Database

• SQLite database: simple example (source code).
• DB to ListView: Populate a complex ListView with text & image IDs from the SQLite database (source code).

Application Server

• Web user interface for the project server. Great for debugging.
• AsyncTask for processing on background thread.
  
• Android client to download data using a background thread.
  Full Eclipse project from tutorial.
• Android client to create/update data.
  Full Eclipse project from tutorial (same as above file).

SVN Videos

• SVN Demo (basic): install, share, commit, update, check-out new project.
• SVN Demo (merge): project checkout, non-conflicting changes, merging conflicting changes, docs/ folder.

Testing

• Creating a Java project for JUnit 3 (not Android specific).
• Creating a Robotium test project.

Other

• Export ZIP from Eclipse: How to export a project as a ZIP file from inside Eclipse.

Other Android Links

• Android + Junit tutorial.
  Errors:
  • Step 2: first LinearLayout missing android:id="@+id/mainLayout"
  • Step 15: 3rd section of code repeated. See sample code for correct code.
  Notes:
  • Superclass for test class must be: extends ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2
  • Constructor must take no parameters!
  • sendKey: must space out inputs - "MINUS 2 2 ENTER "
• Tutorial on BaseAdapter - For populating complex elements in a list view.
• Android Design: design guidelines for Icecream Sandwitch (Android 4.0).
• Video tutorials on many aspects of Android programming.
• Robotium home page.
  - Cached copy of quick-start guide.
• Books on Android Game Programming (free online via library):
  Beginning Android Game Programming (2nd ed).
  Beginning Android Tablet Games Programming

Student Apps on Play Store

• Ship, Captain, Crew by Hasiba Arshad (2013).