1. Introduction to the Android OS and the Android SDK   

• Android and its history, the Open Handset Alliance and the Android Open Source Project.
• Overview of Android OS architecture and internals, the Dalvik Virtual Machine.
• Overview of required Java concepts and libraries and key concepts of mobile device development.
• Overview of the Android platform components (the key classes and UI components).
• The Android Software Developer Kit installation and developing your first application in Eclipse.

 2. Exploring the Android SDK Tools

• Using the Eclipse IDE with the Android SDK (other IDEs will also be referenced)
• Using the command line to build applications: using
• ant and the SDK command line tools.
• An intro to Logging, debugging, and profiling with both Eclipse and DDMS (Dalvik Debug Monitor Server)
• An intro to the application life cycle: activities and tasks
• Using AppInventor and other rapid development tools.

 3. Designing a Mobile Application in Android: The User Interface

• From idea to code: from use cases to class diagrams with UML and related tools.
• Designing layouts with views and components declaratively with XML (and visually with Eclipse)
• When to design layouts programmatically, creating custom views and components.
• Widgets, UI Events, UI Themes and Styles
• All about the application manifest configuration file.
• Resources and Assets, screen size compatibility, localization and OS compatibility.

 4. Lists, Dialogs, Menus, Toasts and more

• Advanced Layouts, optimizing layouts using tools
• Lists and adapters, custom components
• Menus and submenus
• Using Toasts, Progress Bars, Spinners and more.
• The Webkit View

 5. Activities and Intents in Depth

• Tips for a successful activity lifecycle: avoiding the FC (force close)
• All about Intents and Intent Filters
• Designing efficient UI navigation, inter-activity communication

 6. Permissions, Maps and Persistence Part

• Security and Permissions
• An intro to the Google Maps API
• Shared Preferences
• File I/O and the SD Card

 7. Background processing: Services, Alarms and Notifications

• Writing and Using Services
• Alarms
• Concurrency in Android: proper use of Java Threads
• Handlers, AsyncTasks and synchronizing with the UI thread
• All about Notifications
• Interprocess communication

8. Android UI Inputs, Accelerometer and sensors

• User Input via touchscreen, keyboard, trackball and d-pad
• Using the accelerometer effectively
• Additional sensors: compass, proximity, orientation 
• Effective synchronization with UI and sensors. 

 9. Graphics with Canvas and Open GLES

• Drawing with Canvas, all about Drawables
• An OpenGL ES Primer: for both 2D and 3D
• Case Study in writing a 3D OpenGL game

 10. Location and Networking APIs

• Using GPS Effectively
• About HTTP and networking
• Webservices and RSS: XML and JSON parsing examples
• Advanced networking with Protocol Buffers

 11. Persistence Part 2, Broadcast Receivers

• Using the sqlLite database
• Data binding
• Content providers
• Broadcast Receivers: example SMS message handling
• Effective background processing

 12. Media: playing, streaming and recording audio and video.

• Basic MediaPlayer usage and its limitations.
• Using SoundPool effectively.
• Advanced examples using the AudioTrack class.
• Audio and video streaming. using RTSP

 13. Android 2.x and beyond: the latest APIs and Android Best Practices

• App Widgets and Live Folders and Live Wallpapers
• Using the Bluetooth API
• Using the Contacts API
• Gestures, Text-to-Speech and Speech Recognition
• Best Practices: Unit Testing, UI consistency, accessibility
• Best Practices: Profiling for performance, responsiveness and seamlessness
• Optimizations, tips and tricks to make development easier, faster

 14. Selling Your Application and Advanced Android Topics

• Publishing your application on the Android Market and other markets.
• About ads, app pricing, and alternative revenue streams and marketing.
• Using AdWhirl the open source multi-network ad server and client
• Intro to the Android NDK - when and not to use C/C++ code
• Contributing back to the AOSP, how to build the Android OS from source.
• Porting Android to new devices, interfacing with hardware