CSE - AI & ML - Department Electives
22CS808 MOBILE APPLICATION
DEVELOPMENT
Hours Per Week :
L T P C
2 0 4 4
PREREQUISITE KNOWLEDGE: OOPs through Java, DDL & DML Commands – DBMS..
COURSE DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES:
This course guides the student in designing and building a mobile application using Android™. The main
objective of this course is to let the student learn basic Android programming concepts while building Source: [Link]
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MODULE-1
UNIT-1 8L+0T+16P=24 Hours
INTRODUCTION:
Introduction to Mobile Application Development - Mobile Applications and Device Platforms, Alternatives
for Building Mobile Apps; Introduction to Android, Android versions, Android Architecture.
Application Development Process - Developers Workflow basics, Installing the Android SDK Tools;
Anatomy of an Android Application.
Basic Building blocks - Activities, Services, Broadcast Receivers & Content providers; Intents &
Fragments.
View Group- Layout: Linear Layout, Relative Layout, Frame Layout, Grid Layout, constraint Layout,
Table Layout, and Absolute Layout.
UNIT-2 8L+0T+16P=24 Hours
VIEWS:
Views: Basic Views; Picker Views- Time Picker View, Data Picker View; List Views – List View, Spinner
View; Scroll View.
Activities: Creating an activity, Understanding the activity life cycle using Log and Toast, applying styles
and themes to an activity, and hiding the activity title.
Linking Activities using Intents: Introduction to Intents and its types with examples, passing data
between activities with intents, Activity Navigation- Implement up navigation with parent activities.
Fragments: Introduction to Fragment, the life cycle of a fragment, Adding fragments dynamically,
Interaction between fragments.
PRACTICES:
●● Setting up Android Studio:
a) Installing Android Studio
b) Select an empty activity to simulate the “Welcome App” Using Android Studio.
c) Exploring the interface of the Android Studio to understand the Project Structure.
●● Develop an Android application using controls like Button, TextView, and EditText for designing
a calculator having basic functionality like Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division.
●● Design the HelloToast app: The HelloToast app consists of two Button elements and one
Text View. When the user taps the first Button, it displays a short message (a Toast) on the
screen. Tapping the second Button increases a “click” counter displayed in the TextView, which
starts at zero.
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●● Design Silent Model Toggle application: This app allows the user to toggle the ringer mode
SKILLS: on the phone by simply pressing a button.
99 Design mobile
applications
for user
requirements.
99 Use of suitable
advanced
components to
design mobile
apps.
99 Utilization
of activities,
intents, layouts,
and views for
content.
●● In this assignment, students will create and build an app called Two Activities. Students will
build the app in four stages.
a) In the first stage, you create an app whose main activity contains one button, Send. When the
user clicks this button, your main activity uses an intent to start the second activity.
b) In the second stage, you add an EditText view to the main activity. The user enters a message
and clicks Send. The main activity uses an intent to start the second activity and sends the
user’s message to the second activity. The second activity displays the message received.
c) In the final stage of creating the Two Activities app, you add an EditText and a Reply button
to the second activity. The user can now type a reply message and tap Reply, and the reply is
displayed on the main activity. At this point, you use an intent to pass the reply from the second
activity to the main activity.
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●● Design an application with implicit intents: Create a new app with one Activity and three
options for actions: open a website, open a location on a map, and share a snippet of text. All
the text fields are editable (EditText) but contain default values.
●● Design Droid Café: In this practical, the student will create and build a new app starting with
the Basic Activity template that imitates a dessert-ordering app. The user can tap an image
to perform an action-in this case, display a Toast message-as shown in the figure below. The
user can also tap a shopping cart button to proceed to the next Activity.
●● Experiment with the android: inputType attribute for EditText elements. You add EditText
elements for a person’s name and address and use attributes to define single-line and multiple-
line elements that make suggestions as you enter text. You also add an EditText that shows a
numeric keypad for entering a phone number.
●● Other types of input controls include interactive elements that provide user choices. You add
radio buttons to Droid Cafe for choosing only one delivery option from several options. You
also offer a spinner input control for selecting the label (Home, Work, Other, Custom) for the
phone number.
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MODULE–2
UNIT-1 8L+0T+16P=24 Hours
CREATING A FEATURE-RICH APPLICATION
Creating a Feature-Rich Application: Display Orientation – Anchor Views, resizing and repositioning
Views, Managing changes to Screen Orientation; Notifications; Action bar; Dialog box; Adapters- Array
Adapters and Base Adapters; Recycler View.
UNIT-2 8L+0T+16P=24 Hours
SQLITE DATABASE
SQLite Database – Creating the database, Dealing with CRUD;
Firebase-Getting Started with Firebase, Add Firebase to your Android project, Firebase database-
Introduction to Firebase database, set up Firebase Real-time Database for Android, Read and Write
Data on Android; Publish the App in Play store.
PRACTICES:
●● Design an application to keep data when the user rotates the device, and when the screen
is rotated: When the user rotates the device, Android will normally destroy and re-create the
current Activity. You want to keep some data across this cycle, but all the fields in your Activity
are lost during it.
●● Create a Splash Screen for the existing project- Droid Café from Module-1.
●● Design a News App- Consider the following screen as reference:
NOTE: Use Recycle View to display the news under each category.
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●● Adding more features to Droid Café: In the previous assignments, you created an app called
Droid Café, using the Basic Activity template. This template also provides a skeletal options
menu in the app bar at the top of the screen.
a) Update that menu option as shown in the following images:
b) Add notification option: The app must notify the user when the user places the order.
●● Provide user authentication for the Droid Café using Firebase – Authentication or SQLite.
●● Save all the user preferences in the Firebase Real time Database to fetch whenever required.
COURSE OUTCOMES:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will have the ability to:
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Course Outcomes
No. Level No. with POs
Apply views, intents, and fragments to an existing
1 Apply 1 2
application.
Evaluate an existing app to enrich it with new
2 Evaluate 2 2, 3
features.
Analyse methods for storing, sharing, and
3 Analyse 2 5
retrieving data in an Android app.
Design and publish a mobile app in the play store
4 with a database forgiven real-time scenarios using Create 2 5, 10
modern tools- Android Studio, and Firebase.
TEXT BOOKS:
1. John Horton “Android Programming for Beginners: Build in-depth, full-featured Android apps
starting from zero programming experience”, 3rd Edition, 2021.
2. Wei-Meng Lee, “Beginning Android Application Development”, 1st Edition, John Wiley & Sons,
2012.
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Michael Burton,” Android App Development for Dummies “, 3rd Edition, A Wiley Brand, 2020.
2. Dawn Griffiths & David Griffiths, “Headfirst Android Development A Brain-Friendly Guide” 2nd
Edition, O’Reilly, 2015.
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