IT 372 Introduction to Android Development
Summary
Introduction to the Android platform and life cycle, including Activities, Intents, layouts, resource files, and event handlers. Designing, implementing, and testing GUI applications that use widgets displayed in a layout, using images and audio files, displaying information from and storing information to a local database.
Texts
Griffiths and Griffiths, Head First Android Development, 2nd Edition, O'Reilly, 2017. ISBN: 978-93-5213-606-3
Grading
- Grading Breakdown: Take-home Final Exam: 20%, D2L Final Exam: 10%, Projects: 50%, D2L Quizzes: 10%, Attendance/Study Logs: 10%.
- Grading Scale: 94-100:A, 89-93:A-, 85-88:B+, 80-84:B, 75-79:B-, 70-74:C+, 65-69: C, 60-64: C-, 55-59: D+, 50-54: D, 0-49:F.
- Late Penalties: Late Penalties: 10% per day; no projects will be accepted more than 10 days late.
- Projects may not be resubmitted.
Prerequisites
(IT 313 or CSC 300) and (IT 240 or CSC 355)
Additional Regulations
- Class registration is not allowed after the first week of class.
- All projects must be submitted on D2L.
- Students must keep backup copies of all submitted projects.
- Extra credit assignments are not given.
- No late assignments will be accepted after the Sunday following finals week, 11:59pm.
- An incomplete is hard to get in CDM. It is only allowed for a major illness (typically requiring hospitalization) or a death in the family. In any case documentation is required, and more than one half of the work must be completed for the course.
- The late penalty for projects is 10% per day. No project will be accepted more that 10 days late. Exceptions to this policy require documentation and explanation submitted to the Dean of Students. In this situation, the late penalty may be reduced, but not entirely eliminated. Let the instructor and the Dean of Students know before the project is due, not several weeks later.
- If you have trouble submitting any project, email the completed project to the professor to prove that you completed it on time, then submit the assignment on the D2L system as soon as possible.
- Submitting a wrong version is not a reason to waive a late penalty for a project.
- This syllabus is subject to change as necessary during the quarter. If a change occurs, it will be announced during the class and posted on the course announcements page.
History of mobile computing, intro to Android Studio, app folder structure, creating the default app, using Java in Android apps. Ch 1.
XML files, resource files, layouts, event handlers. Ch 2.
Intents, multi-activity apps. Ch 3.
Activities under the hood, more about layouts. Ch 4, 5.
Constraint Layouts and GUIs. Ch 6, 7, 8
Creating a database. Ch 15.
Using databases. Ch 16.
Applications. Review for Final Exam.
Special Topics, work on Final Exam.
Special Topics. Final Project presentations in Week 11 on Monday, June 10, 2:30pm-4:45pm
This syllabus is subject to change as necessary during the quarter. If a change occurs, it will be thoroughly addressed during class, posted under Announcements in D2L and sent via email.
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