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Android Application Structure

Contents
• Android project structure
• Build the first application
• Android application components
Android project structure
Android project structure
Contains your stub Activity file, which is stored at
src/your/package/ActivityName.java.

All other source code files go here as well.


Android project structure

Contains application resources, such as drawable files, layout


files, and string values, animation,
Android project structure

For bitmap files (PNG, JPEG, or GIF), 9-Patch image files, and
XML files that describe Drawable shapes or a Drawable objects
that contain multiple states (normal, pressed, or focused)
Android project structure

For bitmap files (PNG, JPEG, or GIF), 9-Patch image files, and
XML files that describe Drawable shapes or a Drawable objects
that contain multiple states (normal, pressed, or focused)
Android project structure

XML files that are compiled into screen layouts (or


part of a screen)
Android project structure

The mipmap folder allows you to include different versions


of your app’s launcher icon, optimized for each screen
density. This ensures that the icon appears sharp and
clear on all devices, regardless of screen resolution.
Android project structure

For XML files that are compiled into many kinds of resource
Android project structure

Create other sub resource folders

• Asset folder: For arbitrary raw


asset files. Saving asset files here
instead of in the assets/ directory
only differs in the way that you
access them.

• Menu folder: For XML files that


define application menus

• Etc.
Android project structure
The control file that describes the nature of
the application and each of its components.
Android project structure

For miscellaneous XML files that configure application components.


Android project structure

Two build.gradle files


• Level project: config for all project
• Level module: config for modules in project. Each module has one
build.gradle file
Android project structure

This file defines how ProGuard optimizes and obfuscates your code
Build the first application
Start Android Studio
Create a project inside Android Studio
Pick activity template

• Choose templates for common


activities, such as maps or
navigation drawers.
• Pick Empty Activity or Basic
Activity for simple and custom
activities.
Name your activity
● Good practice:
○ Name main activity
MainActivity
○ Name layout
activity_main
● Use AppCompat
● Generating layout file is
convenient
Run your app 1. Select virtual or
physical device

2. Run
Create a virtual device
Use emulators to test app on different versions of Android and form factors.

Device Manager > Create Virtual Device


Configure virtual device
1. Choose hardware
2. Select Android version
3. Finalize
Run on a virtual device
Run on a physical device
1. Turn on Developer Options:
a. Settings > About phone
b. Tap Build number seven times
2. Turn on USB Debugging
a. Settings > Developer Options > USB
Debugging
3. Connect phone to computer with cable
Android Application Components
 Activities – visual user interface focused on a single thing a
user can do
 Services – no visual interface – they run in the background
 Broadcast Receivers – receive and react to broadcast
announcements
 Content Providers – allow data exchange between
applications
Activities
 Basic component of most applications
 Most applications have several activities that start each other as
needed
 Each is implemented as a subclass of the base Activity class
Activities – The View
 Each activity has a default window to draw in (although it may
prompt for dialogs or notifications)
 The content of the window is a view or a group of views (derived
from View or View Group)
 Example of views: buttons, text fields, scroll bars, menu items, check
boxes, etc.
 View(Group) made visible via Activity.setContentView() method.
Services
 Does not have a visual interface
 Runs in the background indefinitely
 Examples
 Network Downloads
 Playing Music
 TCP/UDP Server
 You can bind to an existing service and control its operation
Broadcast Receivers
 Receive and react to broadcast announcements
 Extend the BroadcastReceiver class
 Examples of broadcasts:
 Low battery, power connected, shutdown, time zone changed, etc.
 Other applications can initiate broadcasts
Content Providers
 Makes some of the application data available to other applications
 It’s the only way to transfer data between applications in Android (no
shared files, shared memory, pipes, etc.)
 Extends the ContentProvider class
 Other applications use a ContentResolver object to access the data
provided via a ContentProvider object
Classwork
• Build and Run a Hello app
References
• https://google-developer-training.github.io/android-developer-funda
mentals-course-concepts-v2/

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