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App Development for Smart Devices
CS 495/595 - Fall 2013
Tamer Nadeem
Dept. of Computer Science
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Course Logistics
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• Timings: Monday 7:10pm to 9:50pm
• Location: Dragas 1117
• Instructor: Tamer Nadeem
Ph.D from Univ. of Maryland, 2006
Research in Networks, Dist Sys, Mobile Comp.
Email: nadeem@cs.odu.edu
Office: ECSB 3204
• Office Hours: Mon 1:00pm-2:30pm,
or by appointment
Welcome to CS 495/595
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• Teaching Asst.: Mostafa Uddin
Email: muddin@cs.odu.edu
Office: ECSB 3106
• Office Hours: Wednesday 10:00am-11:30am,
or by appointment
Welcome to CS 495/595
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• Prerequisites: Comfortable with Java
• Grading:
• Participation: 10%
• Midterm: 25%
• Programming Assignments: 40%
• Final Project: 25%
Welcome to CS 495/595
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• Class Webpage:
• http://www.cs.odu.edu/~cs495/
• Please check course website frequently
• Make up classes:
• Will be occasionally necessary due to travel
• Fixed schedule versus case by case basis?
Welcome to CS 495/595
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• Text:
• Required:
• Wei-Meng Lee, "Beginning Android 4
Application Development"
• Recommended:
• Reto Meier, "Professional Android 2 Application Development"
• James Steele, Nelson To, "The Android Developer's Cookbook“
• Android Developers (Dev Guide, Reference, etc.):
http://developer.android.com/index.html
Welcome to CS 495/595
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• Academic Integrity / Honor Code:
• "I pledge to support the honor system of Old Dominion
University. I will refrain from any form of academic
dishonesty or deception, such as cheating or plagiarism.
I am aware that as a member if the academic
community, it is my responsibility to turn in all suspected
violators of the honor system. I will report to Honor
Council hearings if summoned.“
• Please refer to ODU Honor Council’s webpage:
http://orgs.odu.edu/hc/
Welcome to CS 495/595
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• Course Policy:
• Grading:
• 90-100 A
• 80-89 B
• 70-79 C
• 0-69 F
• Late assignments are not accepted.
• Attendance
• Account & Email
Please refer to class webpage for more details.
Welcome to CS 495/595
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Course Overview
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This Course
• Introduces fundamentals of application development
for Android phones
• Goals of this course:
• Help you learn about mobile app development and best practices
• Provide you with the tools, knowledge, and excuse to create a novel
mobile app that helps solve a serious problem that strengthens your
programming portfolio
• Envisions new practical mobile applications/services
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Class Responsibilities
• I will lead lectures
• You present 1-2 paper(s) in entire semester (25 minutes)
• 2-3 students presentation per class
• Some classes will include coding
• For every class, read the readings list before the class
• Assignments should be on time
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Course Structure
• 1 mid term?, No Final Exam
• Tentative date of mid-term: Nov 11th
• Semester-long class project
• In groups of 2 (max 3).
• Individual projects are allowed by permission
• Focus on this from early on
• Class ends with a final project presentation & demo
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Participation / Presentation
• Ask lots of questions. Period.
• I strongly encourage you to ask, disagree, debate
• Class presentation
• You present 1-2 paper (25 minutes)
• Check class schedule by next week for reading papers
• Email me any paper you are interested in
• Pick 4 open slots (check class schedule)
• Earlier you pick, more options you have to choose from
• Deadline is Sep 06, 2013
• Email me your choice of paper (and date)
• Don’t worry about not knowing the topic of paper
• By that time, you will know enough
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Thoughts on Reading Assignments
• Know why you are reading the paper
• Reading for absorbing concepts (class assignment)
• Read fully, think, reread, ask, challenge
• Reading for excitement (deciding project topic)
• Read initial parts, don’t try to understand everything, get a feel
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Course Term Project
• Initial proposal due Oct 10 after Fall break
• 1- page progress report every 2 weeks (due Friday night)
• Final report + demo + presentation
• Projects consist of:
• Application/Service identification
• Solution design
• Implementation
• Discuss your thoughts and ideas with me
• They need not be cooked, and can have many flaws
• Statistically, every 18 ideas lead to one decent idea
• If you like an area/direction
• Search and Read many many related references
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More on Projects
• Project ideas take time … think now and then
• Spending 3 hours for 10 days better than 10 hours for 3 days
• Find a project partner(s) early
• Search and discuss App/Services ideas
• Everyone in the class will try/critique apps from other
teams
• At end of the course we will vote for the Top App
• Possible Application/Service domains:
• Transportation
• Education
• Health
• Energy
• Smart Home
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Labs/Facilities
• Development Environment:
• Your laptop
• ECSB 3104 (Open Research Lab)
• SmartApp Lab (under construction)
• Collaboration:
• Internet
• BlackBoard Discussion (http://clt.odu.edu/bb/)
• Friends/Colleagues
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INTRODUCTION
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• Driven by technology and vision
• wireless communication technology
• global infrastructure
• device miniaturization
• mobile computing platforms
• The field is moving fast
• “People and their machines should be able to access information and
communicate with easily and securely, in any medium each other or
combination of media – voice, data, image, video, or multimedia – any
time, anywhere, in a timely, cost-effective way.”, Dr. G. H. Heilmeier,
Oct 1992
• “The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the Internet
for most people in the world in 2020.”, PEW Internet and American
Life Project, Dec. 2008
Mobile Computing
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• A smart device is a ubiquitous computing device: a device
that exhibits some properties of ubiquitous computing
including artificial intelligence.
• Mark Weiser categorized ubiquitous devices:
• Tabs: accompanied or wearable centimeter sized devices,
e.g., smartphones, smart cards
• Pads: hand-held decimeter-sized devices, e.g., laptops
Smart Devices
• A smart device is a device that is digital,
active, computer networked, is user reconfigurable and
that can operate to some extent autonomously.
• Boards: meter sized interactive display devices,
e.g., horizontal surface computers and vertical
smart boards.
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Mobile Devices
• Multi-purpose devices (e.g., personal office, mobile phone, camera,
etc.)
• Mobility: loosely-bound vs. tightly-bound to users
• Personalized
• Operates as a single portal, e.g., a Web portal.
• Internal application services
• External services typically accessed local area wireless network
• Intermittent resource access
• A locus of control that resides in the smart device.
• Networked, distributed and transparently accessible.
• Context awareness
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Smart Devices at Home/Office
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Smart Devices on Move
Processor
Cellular
Apps
Processor
BT
Media
Processor
GPS
WLAN
Wimax
DVB-H
FM/XM
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Smart Devices on Road
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Smart Devices for Intelligent Transportation
Mobile Millennium Traffic in San
Francisco and the Bay
Area
Source:
http://traffic.berkeley.edu/
CarTel Project at MIT
Source:
http://cartel.csail.mit.edu/doku.php
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Smart Biomedical Systems
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' drug(delivery(systems(
' medical(robots(
' neural(implants((
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Smart Devices in Industry
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Smart Devices and Mobile Social Networking
Microsoft KIN
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Smartphones
Trend: everything in one small device
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Smartphones - Overview
• A smartphone is a high-end mobile phone
• Combines the functions of
• mobile phone
• personal digital assistant (PDA)
• portable media players
• camera phones
• high-resolution touchscreens
• web browsers
• GPS navigation
• Wi-Fi and mobile broadband access
• etc.
• Feature phone vs. Smartphone
• Feature phone
• proprietary firmware & limited platforms
• Smartphone
• open and complete mobile operating system
• tightly integrate with the user interface and phone features
• relies on a more powerful application programming interface (API)
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Smartphones - History
IBM Simon (1992) Nokia 9000 (1996)
Nokia 9110i (1998)
Nokia 9110i (2000)
Ericsson GS88 (1997)
Ericsson R380 (2000)
Ericsson P800 (2002)
Early Years:
Symbian: Nokia 9210 (2000)
Nokia 9500 (2005)
Nokia E90 (2007)
Nokia N95 (2007)
Nokia N8 (2010)
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Smartphones - History
Palm Kyocera
6035 (2001)
Windows CE Pocket
PC (2002)
Windows Phones 7
(2007)
Palm OS Treo
(2002)
iPhone (2007)
iPhone 3G (2008)
iPhone 4 (2010)
iPhone 4S (2011)
iPhone 5 (2012)
Palm, Windows, BlackBerry:
iPhone:
Android G1 – HTC Dream (2008)
Nexus One (2010)
Nexus S (2011)
Galaxy Note (2013)
RIM BlackBerry
(2002)
Android:
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Smartphones - Statistics
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Smartphones - Statistics
Chart by The Mac Observer, from Gartner data
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Tablets - Statistics
Chart by The Mac Observer, from Gartner data
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Mobile Applications
• What are they?
• Any application software that is developed for small low-
power handheld devices such as
personal digital assistants, enterprise digital assistants or
mobile phones.
• Users on mobile phone’s
• Typically check the news, weather, email, or their social networks
• Often have a choice between the mobile web version or a specially-
created mobile app.
• Mobile App Types
• Web apps: run in a web browser
• HTML, JavaScript, Flash, server-side components, etc.
• Native: compiled binaries for the device
• Not cross-platform, but more interesting options
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Web App vs. Native App
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Native Development Environments
• Options
• Java ME
• .NET Compact Framework (C++, C#, VB.NET) for
• Windows Mobile
• Qualcomm’s BREW (C or C++)
• Symbian (C++)
• BlackBerry (Java)
• Android (Java)
• iPhone (Objective-C)
Is having so many choices and so much industry
turmoil/competition a good thing?
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Development Environments
• Most platforms have an SDK that you can download
and build against
• Every platform has an emulator that you can use to test
your apps
• Most emulators are configurable to match a variety of
mobile devices
• Various screen sizes, memory limitations, tablets, etc.
• In practice, emulators quite limited
IDE - integrated development environment that provides tools
to allow a developer to write, test and deploy applications
into the target platform environment.
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xCode IDE & iPhone Emulator
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Eclipse and Android Emulator
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Smart Phone – the good
• Always with the user
• Increasingly powerful devices
• Typically GPS capable
• Typically have accelerometer
• Designed for communication
• 2+ types of wireless connections
• Many apps are free or low-cost
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Smart Phone – the not-so-good
• Limited battery life
• Limited processor speed
• Limited RAM
• Limited, unreliable, and slow network access
• Limited screen size
• Limited permanent storage capacity
• Limited or awkward input
• (none great: soft keyboard, phone keypad, touch screen, stylus, speech)
• Inconsistent platforms across devices
• High costs associated with data transfer
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Android
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Android
• Android, Inc. founded in Palo
Alto, California in October
2003
• Google acquired Android Inc.
in August 2005
• On November 2007, the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of several
companies (e.g., Broadcom, Google, HTC, Intel, etc. unveiled itself).
The goal is to develop open standards for mobile devices.
• Open Handset Alliance unveiled their first product, Android, a mobile
device platform built on the Linux kernel version 2.6
• Android OS (open source) released in October 2008
• Developed a mobile device platform powered by the Linux kernel
• Google marketed the platform to handset makers and carriers on the
premise of providing a flexible, upgradable system
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• Simple and powerful SDK
• No licensing fees
• Excellent documentation, and a thriving developer
community
• From commercial perspective
• Requires no certification for becoming an Android developer
• Provides the Android Market for distribution and monetization of your
application
• Has no approval process for application distribution
• Gives you total control over your brand and access to the user’s home
screen
Why Android
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• Initial: 1.5 (Cupcake) (Apr 2009) , 1.6 (Donut) (Sep’09)
• 2.0/2.1 (Eclair) (Oct’09/Jan’10): new web browser, new
user interface, support for HTML5, Geolocation API,
enhanced camera features / voice controls, 5
homescreens, animated backgrounds.
• 2.2 (Froyo) (May’10): speed improvement, Chrome v8
Android Version
JavaScript engine, Wi-Fi tethering, Adobe Flash support
• 2.3 (Gingerbread) (Dec’10): Near Field Communication
• 3.0 (Honeycomb) (Feb’11): tablet-oriented release,
supports multicore processors, hardware acceleration for graphics
• 3.1 (Honeycomb) (May’11): directly transfer content from USB devices
• 3.2 (Honeycomb) (July’11): adds several new capabilities for users and developer
(e.g., providing developers with more precise control over the UI)
• 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) (Oct’11): combination of Gingerbread and Honeycomb
• 4.1-4.3 (Jelly Bean) (Jul’12): improve user interface (4.1), Bluetooth Low Energy
support (4.3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history
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• Platform is adaptable to larger, VGA, 2D graphics library, 3D OpenGL
graphics library
• Storage - SQLite, a lightweight relational database
• Connectivity - supports connectivity technologies including GSM/
EDGE, IDEN, CDMA, EV-DO, UMTS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, LTE, NFC and
WiMAX.
• Messaging – SMS, MMS, threaded text messaging, Push Messaging
service.
• Multiple language support
• Web browser - based on the open-source WebKit layout engine,
coupled with Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.
• Java support – no Java Virtual Machine, Dalvik executables and run on
Dalvik
Features and Specifications I
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• Media support - audio/video/still media formats: WebM, H.263, H.264,
MPEG-4 SP, WAV, JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, etc.
• Streaming media support - RTP/RTSP streaming (3GPP PSS, ISMA),
HTML5 <video> tag, Adobe Flash Streaming (RTMP), HTTP Dynamic
Streaming, Apple HTTP Live Streaming
• Additional hardware support - video/still cameras, touchscreens,
GPS, accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, dedicated gaming
controls, proximity and pressure sensors, thermometers, accelerated
2D bit blits and accelerated 3D graphics
• Multi-touch
• Bluetooth - supports A2DP, AVRCP, sending files (OPP), accessing the
phone book (PBAP), voice dialing and sending contacts between
phones. Keyboard, mouse and joystick (HID)
Features and Specifications II
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• Video calling – no native video calling, but some handsets have a
customized version of the operating system that supports it. Video
calling through Google Talk is available in Android 2.3.4 and later.
Skype 2.1 offers video calling in Android 2.3, including front camera
support.
• Multitasking
• Voice based features - Google search through voice and voice actions
for calling, texting, navigation, etc.
• Tethering
Google describes Android as: “The first truly open and comprehensive
platform for mobile devices, all of the software to run a mobile phone but
without the proprietary obstacles that have hindered mobile innovation.”
Features and Specifications III
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Android Architecture
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• No licensing, distribution, or development fees
• Wi-Fi hardware access
• GSM, EDGE, and 3G networks for telephony or data transfer, allowing you to
make or receive calls or SMS messages, or to send and retrieve data across
networks
• Comprehensive APIs for location-based services such as GPS
• Full multimedia hardware control including playback and recording using the
camera and microphone
• APIs for accelerometer and compass hardware
• IPC message passing
• Shared data stores
• An integrated open source WebKit-based browser
• Full support for app that integrate Map controls as part of their user interface
• Peer-to-peer (P2P) support using Google Talk
• Mobile-optimized hardware-accelerated graphics including a path-based 2D
graphics library and support for 3D graphics using OpenGL ES
• Media libraries for playing/recording a variety of audio/video or image formats
• An application framework that encourages reuse of application
components and the replacement of native applications
Android SDK Features
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Application Types
• Foreground: An application that’s only useful when it’s in the
foreground and is effectively suspended when it’s not visible.
• Background: An application with limited interaction that, apart from
when being configured, spends most of its lifetime hidden. Examples of
this include call screening applications or SMS auto-responders.
• Intermittent: Expects some interactivity but does most of its work in
the background. Often these applications will be set up and then run
silently, notifying users when appropriate. A common example would be
a media player.
• Widgets: Interactive visual components that users can add to their
home screens. Usually used to display information such as battery
levels, weather forecasts, or the date and time.
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• Is well behaved
• Switches seamlessly from background to
foreground
• Is polite (e.g., stealing focus)
• Presents a consistent user interface
• Is responsive
Application Good behavior
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• Two conditions monitored
• Must respond to any user action
(e.g., key press) within 5s
• A BroadcastReceiver must return
from its OnReceive handler within
10s
Behavior police - process assassin
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• Online software store developed by Google for
Android devices
• As of December 2010 there were about 200,000
games, applications and widgets available on the
Android Market.
Android Market (https://market.android.com/apps)
• At end of June 2011 Google said there had been more than 6 billion
Android apps installed
• The operating system itself is installed on 130 million total devices.
• Only devices that comply with Google's compatibility requirements are
allowed to preinstall Google's closed-source Android Market app and
access the Market.
• The Market filters the list of applications presented by the Market app
to those that are compatible with the user's device,
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Android Market
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Android Tools
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• Understand Android Tools
• Setup Android Development Environment
• Create HelloWorld Application
• Understand HelloWorld Structure
• Familiarize with Android Application Types and
Components
• Understand the Role of Android Activity
• Know how to Build and Run Android Application
• Introduce Debug and Publish
Objective
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• Eclipse
• Android SDK
• Android Development Tools (ADT)
• Android Virtual
Devices (AVD) / Emulator
• Dalvik Debug Monitor Services (DDMS)
• The Android Debug Bridge (ADB)
Developing for Android
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Eclipse
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• Eclipse IDE for Java Developers
• Open http://www.eclipse.org/
• Select "Downloads"
• Select Eclipse IDE for Java
Developers, 149MB
• Select Windows32
• Extract zip file to c:\eclipse
• Installation Tutorial:
• http://archive.eclipse.org/technology/phoenix/europa/
EclipseIdeForJavaDevelopers/
• “Test First Development” Tutorial:
• http://archive.eclipse.org/technology/phoenix/europa/
TestFirstWithEclipse/
Eclipse
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• Check Your Development Computer
• Supported Operating Systems
• Windows XP (32-bit), Vista (32- or 64-bit), or Windows 7 (32- or 64-bit)
• Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later (x86 only)
• Linux (tested on Ubuntu Linux, Lucid Lynx)
• Supported Development Environments
• JDK SE 6.0 – 32bit version (including JRE)
• Eclipse IDE for Java Developers - Indigo version – 32bit version
• Android Development Tools (ADT) plugin
Android SDK
• Android SDK starter package
• installer_r12-windows.zip
• Android SDK Components
• Run Android SDK setup
• From “Available packages” window,
select all items and then click install
• SDK Installation
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• Start Eclipse, then select Help > Install New
Software
• Click Add, in the top-right corner.
• In the Add Repository dialog that appears,
enter "ADT Plugin" for the Name and the
following URL for the Location:
https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/
• Click OK
• Wait and you should see "Developer Tools"
in the Available Software dialog, select the
checkbox next to Developer Tools and click
Next.
• In the next window, you'll see a list of the
tools to be downloaded. Click Next.
• Click Finish.
ADT plugin
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Modify your ADT preferences in Eclipse to
point to the Android SDK directory:
1) Select Window > Preferences... to open the
Preferences panel (Mac OS X: Eclipse >
Preferences).
2) Select Android from the left panel.
3) You may see a dialog asking whether you
want to send usage statistics to Google. If so,
make your choice and click Proceed. You
cannot continue with this procedure until you
click Proceed.
Configure ADT plugin
4) For the SDK Location, locate your downloaded SDK directory. Click Apply,
then OK. (Spaces in path causes an error, if you are using Windows64. For example,
C:\Program Files(x86)\Android\android-sdk
!
C:\PROGRA~2\Android\android-sdk)
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Android Emulator Device
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Android Emulator Hardware Option
Characteristic Description
Device ram size The amount of physical RAM on the device, in megabytes. Default value is "96".
Touch-screen support Whether there is a touch screen or not on the device. Default value is "yes".
Trackball support Whether there is a trackball on the device. Default value is "yes".
Keyboard support Whether the device has a QWERTY keyboard. Default value is "yes".
DPad support Whether the device has DPad keys. Default value is "yes".
GSM modem support Whether there is a GSM modem in the device. Default value is "yes".
Camera support Whether the device has a camera. Default value is "no".
Maximum horizontal camera
pixels
Default value is "640".
Maximum vertical camera pixels Default value is "480".
GPS support Whether there is a GPS in the device. Default value is "yes".
Battery support Whether the device can run on a battery. Default value is "yes".
Accelerometer
Whether there is an accelerometer in the device. Default value is "yes".
Audio recording support
Whether the device can record audio. Default value is "yes".
Audio playback support
Whether the device can play audio. Default value is "yes".
SD Card support Whether the device supports insertion/removal of virtual SD Cards. Default value is
"yes".
Cache partition support Whether we use a /cache partition on the device. Default value is "yes".
Cache partition size Default value is "66MB".
Abstracted LCD density
Sets the generalized density characteristic used by the AVD's screen. Default value
is "160".
Trackball support Whether there is a trackball present.
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Android Emulator Controls
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• Select File -> New -> Project… -> Android
-> Android Project and create the Android
project
• right-click the project and
select Run As > Android
Application
Your First Android Project
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• src/ - Java packages. Each package can have
multiple .java files representing different classes.
• res/layout/ - XML files that specify the layout of each
screen.
• res/values/ - XML files used as references by other files.
• res/drawable-hdpi/, res/drawable-mdpi/, and res/
drawable-ldpi/ - high, medium, and low dots-per-inch
resolution pictures.
• res/color, res/menu, res/anim
• assets/ - additional non-media files.
• AndroidManifest.xml specifies the project to the Android
OS.
• Auto-generated files (do not modify):
Project Structure
• gen/ contains auto-generated code. Class R.java
generated by Android Asset Packaging Tool (aapt).
• default.properties contains project settings.
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Project Structure
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Resources, Package, Manifest
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Building Android Project
• Eclipse outputs an .apk file automatically to the bin folder of the
project
• Contains all information to run the application, such as
compiled .dex files, a binary version of AndroidManifest.xml, compiled
resources (resources.arsc) and uncompiled resource files.
• Eclipse automatically builds application, enables debugging and signs
the .apk with a debug key, by default.
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Running
• Running on the emulator
• To run (or debug) your application, select Run > Run (or Run > Debug)
from the Eclipse menu bar.
• Be certain to create multiple AVDs upon which to test your application.
• Enable Running on a device
• Ensure application is debuggable by setting android:debuggable="true" of
the<application> element in AndroidManifest.xml.
• Set up the device to allow installation of non-Market applications. On the device, go
to Settings > Applications and enable Unknown sources.
• Enable USB Debugging on the device. On the device, Settings > Applications >
Development > USB debugging.
• For Windows, use Device Manager to install a USB driver for adb tool (<android-
sdk>\extras\google\usb_driver)
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• Manual Installation using adb
• App Package: <workspace>\<Project Name>\bin\<Project Name>.apk
• Need adb tool located at <sdk>/platform-tools/
• Modify Device settings as in “Running on a Device”
• Connect the device to your host machine through USB
• In Command Prompt, type: adb [-d | -e] install <path>/<file>.apk
• Manual Uninstall
• On device, go to Applications Menu ->Settings->Manage Applications.
• Select the application which you want to Uninistall, and click on the
‘Uninstall’ button.
Manual Application Installation
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Questions?
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• Due Sun Sep 1st, 11:59pm
Requirement #1:
• Select three high-quality apps from the iPhone or Android Market that are
related to one of the following application domains:
• Increase driving safety
• Traffic monitoring
• Enhance education experience
• Monitor/support personal health
• Monitor/save energy consumption
• Support smart environments
• Pick applications that are innovative in some way (e.g., use new phone
functionality, easy-to-use, popular, or take an approach that is very different
from competitor apps.
• Critically evaluate the three apps
Assignment #1: Warming UP
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• For each app, create a one-page pdf write-up that includes the following:
• Your name and the name of the app evaluated.
• A summary paragraph that identifies key features of the app.
• A paragraph or bullet list describing what makes this app better than competitors.
Why did you select it?
• A list of positive characteristics (e.g. high-quality graphics, fun, indispensable tool).
Try to be as precise as possible about what makes it good. For example, don’t just
say it is addictive; try to explain why it is addictive. Don’t just say that it “looks
professional.” Explain what makes it look that way.
• A list of negative characteristics (e.g. force close, slow, confusing menu titles). What
could be done better? Be detailed
• A paragraph identifying the target audience for the app. Who might use this?
• A paragraph discussing what additional features and functionalities you would add to
enhance it.
• Few samples will be selected “randomly” to be presented and discussed
in upcoming classes (be prepared).
Assignment #1: Warming UP
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Assignment #1: Warming UP
Requirement #2:
• Send me an ordered list of only 3 recent reports/articles/papers you
mostly liked about phone applications/services/features!
• Again use instincts/guts
• Your presentation paper could be among this list
• Where to search:
• Internet
• Conferences: ACM PhoneSense, Mobicom, MobiSys, HotMobile,
IEEE SECON, IEEE PerCom
• Magazines
• Submission Format:
• Send all pages in a single PDF file
• Have a cover page with your name and your email
• Send the file as an attachment to me
• Make the subject line of the email: cs495_assignment_1
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• Refresh your Java programming
• http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/
• http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/index.html
• Have your Android development environment setup
• Programming: try out and explore “Hello World”
• Look for announcement about the reading papers. Send
me your choice of 4 papers by Sep 06, 2013
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