Students will have basic knowledge of programming and use of development environments, frameworks for Android mobile devices and smartphones.

Fundamentals of Physics, Fundamentals of Computer Science (inf-01), Object-Oriented Programming, Software Engineering 1

The course includes the following main topics:

• System structure Android operating system
  • Dalvik Virtual Machine
  • Sandbox principle
  • Life cycles of activities and services
• Surface design
  • MVC
  • Latheyts and views
• Intents
• Threads and processes
  • Inter Process Communication
• Data handling
  • SQLite
  • Communication via networks
  • Mobile client/server principles
• App Professionalization
  • Debugging
  • Security & Encryption
• Tests

The following basic literature will be used in the course:

• Becker, A., Pant, M.: Android 2, dpunkt.verlag, 2010;
• Fling, B.: Mobile Design and Development, O'Reilly Media, 2009;

Lecture with exercises, interactive teaching

Final grade comprised of

• Class participation (moderated exercise examples)
• Partial tests (continuous assessment)