About this course: This 4 week MOOC builds upon the overview of Java and Android covered in Course 1 by delving deeper into core Android app components, such as intents, activities, and broadcast receivers. You will learn by example how to program these core Android components together with Android concurrency frameworks and basic Java file I/O classes (such as File and InputStream) and Android storage mechanisms (such as Shared Preferences). You'll also learn how to use the Git source code management system. Throughout this MOOC you'll work incrementally on a project involving downloading, storing, and display images from remote websites. Each week you will add additional capabilities to the project, based on material covered in the lecture videos. You'll spend roughly 4 hours per week watching video lectures, taking quizzes, and programming assignments with Java and Android.
Taught by: Dr. Douglas C. Schmidt, Professor of Computer Science and Associate Chair of the Computer Science and Engineering Program
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Taught by: Michael Walker, Instructor - Graduate Student pursuing PhD in Computer Science
EECS
Taught by: Dr. C. Jules White, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
| Basic Info | Course 2 of 5 in the Android App Development Specialization |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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- Video: MOOC 2 Overview
- Reading: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) and PDF Versions of Slides
- Video: Module 1 Introduction
- Video: MOOC Contents, Organization, and Learning Strategies (Part 1)
- Video: MOOC Contents, Organization, and Learning Strategies (Part 2)
- Video: Overview of Android (Part 1): Hardware & OS Kernel
- Video: Overview of Android (Part 2): Middleware Infrastructure
- Video: Overview of Android (Part 3): Application Framework & Apps
- Video: Git Module Introduction
- Video: Git Introduction
- Video: Git Basics
- Video: Working With Remote Repositories
- Reading: Git Branching
- Video: Git Merge Conflicts
- Video: Git in Android Studio
- Video: Git Module Outro
- Video: Introduction to the Module on Android Intents
- Video: Overview of Android Intents (Part 1)
- Video: Overview of Android Intents (Part 2)
- Video: Elements of an Android Intent (Part 1)
- Video: Elements of an Android Intent (Part 2)
- Video: Android Intent Resolution and Filtering (Part 1)
- Video: Android Intent Resolution and Filtering (Part 2)
- Video: Concurrent Programming with Android Intents
- Video: MapLocation App Case Study
- Peer Review: Assignment 1: Downloader Introduction (Optional)
- Video: How to Peer Evaluate an Android Assignment (Optional)
- Video: Introduction to the Module on Android Activities
- Video: Introduction to Android Activities (Part 1)
- Video: Introduction to Android Activities (Part 2)
- Video: Activity Lifecycle Operations (Part 1)
- Video: Activity Lifecycle Operations (Part 2)
- Video: Activity Lifecycle Operations (Part 3)
- Video: Managing Multiple Activities and Task
- Video: Concurrent Programming with Android Activities (Part 1)
- Video: Concurrent Programming with Android Activities (Part 2)
- Video: Case Study: ImageDownloader App (Part 1)
- Video: Case Study: ImageDownloader App (Part 2)
- Video: Case Study: ImageDownloader App (Part 3)
- Peer Review: Assignment 2: HaMeRDownloader (optional)
- Video: Module Introduction
- Video: Introduction to Android Broadcast Receivers (Part 1)
- Video: Introduction to Android Broadcast Receivers (Part 2)
- Video: Registering, Implementing, & Invoking Broadcast Receivers (Part 1)
- Video: Registering, Implementing, & Invoking Broadcast Receivers (Part 2)
- Video: Registering, Implementing, & Invoking Broadcast Receivers (Part 3)
- Video: Android Broadcast Receiver Security
- Video: Case Study: ImageDownloader Broadcast Receiver Apps (Part 1)
- Video: Case Study: ImageDownloader Broadcast Receiver Apps (Part 2)
- Peer Review: Assignment 3: AsyncTaskDownloader (optional)
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great course
Overall I thought this course was great. Gave good conceptual knowledge to help understand the components listed above. Would have preferred trying to create an app from scratch rather than filling in a skeleton file. There are some concepts in the assignments that are not explained, and it would have been better to discover these through building a simple app from scratch rather than filling in the blanks. I can however appreciate that creating something from the beginning would be much more difficult to grade.
A compromise to this could be to have the optional assignments actually part of the final grade, so that we can more reliably review other people's solutions to the assignments.
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HM
Great course, content and teachers but not so didactic as the first course of this specialization, it should require the student to upload the assignments and grade them to evaluate more deeply the learning process