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Week 3: Android App Programming

Week 3: Android App Programming. Jeff Gray, Ph.D. - Associate Professor Carnegie Foundation Professor of the Year (Alabama, 2008) University of Alabama Department of Computer Science gray@cs.ua.edu http://www.cs.ua.edu/~gray. Agenda for Week. Today General intro

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Week 3: Android App Programming

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  1. Week 3: Android App Programming Jeff Gray, Ph.D. - Associate Professor Carnegie Foundation Professor of the Year (Alabama, 2008) University of Alabama Department of Computer Science gray@cs.ua.edu http://www.cs.ua.edu/~gray

  2. Agenda for Week • Today • General intro • Introduction to App Inventor • Various Demos and Hands-on Exercises • Lunch: Ms. Lynsey Dill • Rest of week • See end of slides

  3. Camp Introduction • Liability forms • Photos throughout the week • Lunch each day – 11:30am-12:45pm • Today: Pizza lunch (Shelby 3438) • Tue-Thu: Lunch in the Freshens Food Court • Fri: Catered lunch • Restrooms • USB Stick • Assumption • Java background

  4. Camp rules • Camp Rules • No cell phone usage in class except for emergencies • No headphones while instructor is speaking • No surfing the web or playing games during lectures • No food or drink are allowed in the lab • Pay attention during class exercises; do not jump ahead and let us know if you fall behind

  5. General Info • Bleeding edge – may encounter various “issues” throughout the week; App Inventor barely a year old • Sharing of various Android phones • Much different than week 1 • Focus is on motivating you to practice Java on fun exercises • Developing your own creativity while implementing a customized app

  6. Why Smartphones?

  7. Motivation: Teaching CS – 1980s style • Typical example was text-based, trivial, and uninspiring

  8. Motivation: New and Exciting Contexts • Media Computation (Georgia Tech) • Programming in a more exciting context by manipulating images and sounds • Robots • Lego NXT • 2D/3D Animation Environments • Alice, Scratch, AgentSheets

  9. Motivation: Newest Context • Teen cell phone adoption at 84% • March 3, 2011 • Android marketshare (29%) passes Apple (27%) • Android sales soar 888% • Social networking and crowd sourcing a daily activity • Increasing adoption of smartphones in science and medical applications

  10. Android Overview

  11. Brief History • 2005 • Google acquires startup Android Inc. to start Android platform • Work on Dalvik VM begins • 2007 • Open Handset Alliance announced • Early look at SDK • 2008 • Google sponsors 1st  Android Developer Challenge • T-Mobile G1 announced • SDK 1.0 released • Android released open source (Apache License) • Android Dev Phone 1 released

  12. Brief History cont. • 2009 • SDK 1.5 (Cupcake) • new soft keyboard with an "Autocomplete" feature • SDK 1.6 (Donut) • SDK 2.0/2.0.1/2.1 (Eclair) • Exchange support; refine UI • Android runs on 3.5% of all smartphones • Gartner Inc. predicts 14% in 2012 • 2010 • Nexus One released to the public • SDK 2.2 (Froyo) • wifi tethering, Flash • SDK 2.3 (Gingerbread) • refine UI; improve keyboard copy/paste • Q4 Android passes Symbia as best-selling smartphone platform • 2011 • SDK 3.0 (Honeycomb) • Table only release; Motorola Xoom in 2 weeks • Ice-cream Sandwich (mid-2011) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)

  13. Android Facts • From Wikipedia • Modified version of Linux kernel • Android is composed of 12 millions lines of code • 3M SLOCs pertaining to XML • 2.8M SLOCS in C • 2.1M SLOCS in Java • 1.75M SLOCS in C++ • Linux kernel tensions • Oracle lawsuit

  14. Android Developer Challenge • http://code.google.com/android/adc/ • 2008: • 10 teams received $275k • 10 teams received $100k • Each of top 50 finalists received $25k • 2009 • 10 first prizes at $100k • 10 2nd prizes at $50k • 10 3rd prizes at 25k • Overall: 1st-$250k, 2nd- $50k, 3rd- $25k

  15. Open Handset Alliance • Established November 2007 • Competes against Microsoft, Apple, Nokia (Symbia), Palm, RIM, and Samsung (Bada) • Composed of 79 software and hardware companies • URLs: • http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/ • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Handset_Alliance

  16. Key Differences: Android vs. iPhone iPhone Android OS is open source OS can be licensed for any mobile device Apps written in Java No approval process for apps  Android Market All apps considered equal (choose your browser) • OS is proprietary • OS runs on iPhone or iPod Touches only • Apps written in Objective-C • Apple must approve all apps  Application Store • Some apps are more important than others (Safari is your browser)

  17. What is Google Android? • A software stack for mobile devices that includes • An operating system • Middleware • Key Applications • Uses Linux to provide core system services • Security • Memory management • Process management • Power management • Hardware drivers

  18. App Inventor Overview

  19. App Inventor Overview • URL: http://appinventor.googlelabs.com • Purpose • Teaching • Prototyping • Components of App Inventor • Designer • GUI builder • Block Editor • Provide behavior behind the GUI • Based on MIT OpenBlocks and Scratch

  20. App Inventor Overview

  21. Installing and Running • http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/learn/setup/index.html#setupComputer • Requires Java 1.6 • Install App Inventor setup • App Inventor environment loads in a web browser • Login using Google account • Run from a phone or the Android emulator • Stores programs in the cloud

  22. Designer • Provides a WYSIWYG editor for designing the visual parts of the app • Also provides ability to attach non-visual components

  23. Blocks Editor • Provides an ability to give behavior to an app; the programming part • Typical and expected basic predefined constructs (logic, conditionals, iteration) • Ability to refer to the components and their properties from the Designer • Very similar to Scratch • Built on Open Blocks library from MIT

  24. Limitations • File I/O • Custom objects • Printing your code! • Reliability

  25. Examples • Many tutorials available: • Developed by Dave Wolber (Univ. San Francisco) • http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/learn/tutorials/index.html • Standard Google Kitty app (embarrassing!) • http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/learn/setup/hellopurr/hellopurremulatorpart1.html • Other Examples • Where’s My Car, No Text While Driving

  26. Schedule • Monday • Intro to App Inventor • Think about an app idea • Tuesday • More on App Inventor • Java-based intro to writing Android Apps • Prepare project presentation (3 minutes each) • Wednesday • Start at 8:30am • Project proposal presentation • More Java-based Android • Start project implementation

  27. Schedule • Thursday • Project implementation • Late Afternoon: CS AP GridWorld • Mr. Martin and Mrs. Woessner • Friday • Project wrap-up and final presentations • Lunch • Say good-byes

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