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Mobile devices vs. desktop devices, ARM and intel architectures ,Power Management, Screen resolution , Touch interfaces , Application deployment ,Development environments ,Native vs. web applications, Mobile-specific enhancements

Comparing and Contrasting architectures of all three- Android, iOS and Windows , Underlying OS (Darwin vs. Linux vs. Win 8) ,Kernel structure and native level programming , Approaches to power management , Security

Introduction to Java, Java Development Kit, Byte code and Java Virtual machine, operators, Conditional Statements and looping statements, Class, objects and methods, Inheritance, Polymorphism, Exception handling, Packages and interfaces

A little background about Mobile Technologies, Difference between Android and other Development environment, Setting up development environment, Introducing Development Framework, Dalvik Virtual Machine & .apk file extension, Developing with Eclipse, Android Virtual Devices and SDK manager, Android Architecture in detail, Android development tools(ADT), Android Debug Bridge(ADB), Android Asset Packaging Tool(AAPT), Android Libraries, Types of Android Applications, Activity Life Cycle

Basic Building blocks, Activities, Services, Broadcast Receivers, Content providers, UI Components, Views, notifications, JSON, Basics of DB, Components for Communication(Intents, Intent Filters, Android API levels(versions & version names))

Android UI Design, Introducing Views, Introducing Layouts, Resolution and Density independence, Creating and Using Menus

Explicit Intents, Implicit intents, Communication between activities, Pending Intents, Adapters, Introducing Dialogs

Android DataBases, Introducing Sqlite, Cursors, Working with SQLite Database, Creating new Content Provider, Using Content Providers

Saving Application Data, Creating and Saving Preferences, Retrieving shared preferences, saving and Loading Files, Including Static files as Resources, File Management tools.

Launching emulator, Editing emulator settings, Emulator shortcuts, Creating and setting up custom android emulators, Logcat usage, Introduction to DDMS, File explorer

Layouts, Xml introduction to GUI design, styles & themes, pop ups and menu

Basic vocabulary and grammar, English Tenses, Essay writing, Letter writing

Reference:

Murphy, Mark :. Beginning Android 

Pradeep Kothari : Android Application Development - Black Book