Mobile Programming Practice

▪ Course Overview

▪ Lecture Schedule

▪ Contact

▪ Today’s Task

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Prof. Hwansoo Han

T.A. Sung-in Hong

Course Overview

▪ Lecture + Lab

• Lecture: ~1 hour basic Android features

• Lab: ~2.5 hours programming practices

▪ Programming projects

• Almost 10 lab practices

• 2 assignments

• 1 term project (2-3 in a team)

• No exams

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Course Overview

▪ Prerequisites

• Introduction to computer science

• ***Experience of Java programming***

• Data structure

▪ Grading factors

• Attendance 10%

• Lab practice 10%

• Assignment 40%

• Term Project (proposal 10% + final 30%)

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Grading Policy

▪ Must – otherwise you will get ‘F’ grade

• Submit two programming assignments

• Submit term project assignment

▪ You will also get ‘F’ if you…

• Absent more than 3 times

• Attending after lecture will be counted by late (2 lates = 1 absence)

• Turn in a completely duplicated assignment

• Allow another student to turn in your work as his/her own

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Lecture Schedule

Spring 2019 (Tuesday)

This schedule can be changed

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5 12 19 26

IntroductionAndroid overview

& basic layoutLayout Advanced UI

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2 9 16 23 30

Broadcast receivers

PA#1Services Project proposal

MID TERM

(no exam)

Content providers

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7 14 21 28

Advanced concepts

(1)

APIs (1)

PA#2APIs (2) Profile

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4 11 18

Intro. to the Kotlin

Project

Final

Presentation

END TERM

(no class)

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Contact

▪ Office (컴파일러및시스템연구실)

• 85565, Corporate Collaboration Center

▪ TA

• Sung-in Hong

• sungin@arcs.skku.edu

▪ Feel free to contact me by e-mail

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Today’s Task

▪ Briefly understanding Android

▪ Install Android Studio on Microsoft Windows

• Ask TA if you do on Ubuntu or other with your laptop

• Highly recommended to use Intel. CPU

▪ Run your app on Android Studio

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Android OS

▪ A mobile operating system developed by Google

▪ Based on a modified version of the Linux kernel

and other open source softwares

▪ A multi-user Linux system in which app is a

different user

▪ Designed primarily for touchscreen mobile

devices such as smartphone and tablets

▪ Android history:

• https://www.android.com/history/#/marshmallow

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Android architecture

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Ref. : The impact of Big Data on the Android Mobile Platform for Natural Disaster

Situations - Scientific Figure on ResearchGate. Available from:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Android-Architecture-2_fig1_322941237 [accessed

4 Mar, 2019]

Android application

▪ Can be written using Kotlin, Java, and C++

languages.

▪ The Android SDK tools compile your code with any

data and resource files into APK an archive file with

an .apk suffix

▪ Each Android app lives in its own security sandbox,

protected by Android security features

• More info.

https://developer.android.com/guide/components/fundamental

s.html

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Glossary of Android

▪ Component

• The essential building blocks of an Android app.

• Activities, services, broadcast receivers, and

content providers

▪ Activity

• The end point for interacting with the user

▪ Service

• A general-purpose entry point for keeping an app

running in the background for all kinds of reasons.

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Glossary of Android

▪ Broadcast receiver

• A component that enables the system to deliver

events to the app outside of a regular user flow,

allowing the app to respond to system-wide

broadcast announcements.

▪ Content provider

• A content provider manages a shared set of app data

that you can store in the file system, in a SQLite

database, on the web, or on any other persistent

storage location that your app can access.

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Glossary of Android

▪ Fragment

• Represents a portion of user interface in an Activity

▪ View

• The basic building block for user interface

• Buttons, lists forms, etc.

▪ Layout

• Visual arrangement of containers and views

▪ Intent

• Messages wiring components together

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Glossary for beginners

▪ https://developers.google.com/android/for

-all/vocab-words/?hl=en

▪ This glossary of Android and Java vocab

words supplements the Udacity Android for

Beginners course. This course is targeted at

those who are new to programming but want

to start building Android apps.

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Android Studio

▪ Android Studio is the official Integrated

Development Environment (IDE) for Android

app development, based on IntelliJ IDEA

▪ https://developer.android.com/studio

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Installation

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Download link : https://developer.android.com/studio

For windows 64bit

For other options

[Lab – Practice #0]

▪ edu.skku.cs.MyFirstApp

• Create new project wich contains basic Activity

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APPENDIX A –

how to install Java on Windows

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How to install Java

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①

②

https://www.oracle.com

How to install Java

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③

How to install Java

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④

⑤

How to install Java

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Detailed guide:

https://wiki.appcelerator.org/display/guides2/Installing+Oracle+JDK

Set Environment Variable

1. [Win_key + R]

2. Type “sysdm.cpl” and press enter

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Detailed guide:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2619584/how-to-set

-java-home-on-windows-7

Set Environment Variable

3. Move to “Advanced” tab

4. Click Environment Variables

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Set Environment Variable

5. Click “New…”

6. Create variable “JAVA_HOME”

with the Java Installation Path

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Set Environment Variable

7. Also create variable “CLASSPATH”

by “%JAVA_HOME%\jre\lib”

8. Modify variable “Path”

by adding “%JAVA_HOME%\bin”

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