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Week 1

06/10/2021 - Course introduction

• Syllabus, teaching methodology and bibliography.
  • Evaluation
  • Resources

For reference:

• Lecture video (in Portuguese)

Week 2

13/10/2021 - Hello Android: Activities

• Android application development: introduction
  • Inversion of Control
  • Activity
    • Specifying its UI through a resource layout
    • The Legacy Android View hierarchy (overview)
      • View
      • Layouts
      • Constraint Layout
    • View Binding
• The Kotlin programming language

For reference:

• Lecture video
• Kotlin:
  • Null safety
  • Delegated properties
  • Lazy properties

15/10/2020 - Activity lifecycle

• The Activity as an execution host
  • Lifecycle
  • Threading model
• Building a UI using the legacy Android View hierarchy: introduction
  • Custom Views

For reference:

• Lecture video (in Portuguese)

Week 3

20/10/2021 - Building the Quote Of Day Demo

• Application resources
  • Language dependent: localization
• Building a UI using the legacy Android View hierarchy: continued
  • Custom Views
  • Rendering
• Connectivity
  • Permissions
  • Performing network operations using Retrofit and GSON
    • An alternative: Volley
• The Activity as an execution host, continued
  • Consequences of performing asynchronous operations (e.g. network requests)
  • View model as an alternative execution host
    • Overview
    • Dependencies:
      • Lifecycle components
      • Activity extensions

For reference:

• Lecture video (in Portuguese)
• Ngrok - Getting started

22/10/2021 - Laboratory

• Practical class dedicated to the course's project

Week 4

27/10/2021 - Building the Quote Of Day Demo, continued

• Android application reference architecture
  • ViewModel, revisited
  • LiveData
• Android application components: Application
  • Motivation
  • Lifecycle
• Building Android applications:
  • Navigation between Activities
    • Intents (explicit and implicit) and intent filters
    • User task and back stack
  • Options Menu and menu resource

For reference:

• Lecture video (in Portuguese)

29/10/2021 - Laboratory

• Practical class dedicated to the course's project

Week 5

03/11/2021 - State management: view state

• Characterizing state
  • UI state (a.k.a view state) and application state
  • Preserving view state across system initiated process terminations
• Activity lifecycle, revisited
  • onCreate(), onSaveInstanceState() and onRestoreInstanceState()
• Parcelable contract
  • Motivation
  • Manual implementation
  • Implementation with @Parcelize (a Parcelable implementation generator)
• Saved State module for ViewModel

For reference:

• Lecture video (in Portuguese)
• Android Debug Bridge (adb) documentation

05/11/2021 - Laboratory

• Practical class dedicated to the course's project

Week 6

10/11/2021 - Laboratory

• Practical class dedicated to the course's project

12/11/2021 - Laboratory

• Practical class dedicated to the course's project

Week 7

17/11/2021 - Laboratory

• Practical class dedicated to the course's project

19/11/2021 - Laboratory

• Practical class dedicated to the course's project

Week 8

24/11/2021 - Android Application Architecture

• State management: persistent application state
  • Persisting application state in a local relational DB using Room
  • Architectural elements:
    • Entities;
    • DAOs, and;
    • Database
• Building the UI: Displaying lists of items
  • Adapting data to views (Adapter pattern)
  • Using Recycler View
    • View Holder pattern
    • View recycling

For reference:

• Lecture video (in Portuguese)
• Saving data using SQLite

26/11/2021 - Android Application Architecture, continued

• State management: persistent application state, continued
  • Persisting application state in a local relational DB using Room, continued
  • Android threading model, revisited
    • Handlers and HandlerThreads
• Considerations on the design of android applications
  • Android application reference architecture, revisited For reference:
  • Lecture video (in Portuguese)

Week 9

01/12/2021 - National Holliday

03/12/2021 - Android Application Architecture, continued

• Considerations on the design of Android applications, continued
  • Android application reference architecture, revisited
• State management: persistent application state, continued
  • Persisting application state in a local relational DB using Room, continued
    • Type mappings in Room: TypeConverters
  • Android threading model, revisited
    • LiveData as a means to signal asynchronous operations completion
• For reference:
  • Lecture video (in Portuguese)
  • Property Animations
  • Write asynchronous DAO queries

Week 10

08/12/2021 - National Holliday

10/12/2021 - Android Application Architecture, continued

• Considerations on the design of Android applications, continued
  • Android application reference architecture, revisited
• Performing background work
  • Motivation
  • Definition of background work (i.e. non user facing)
  • Resource management, revisited
    • Processes
• Introduction to the Work Manager API
  • Purpose and motivation
• For reference:
  • Lecture video (in Portuguese)

Week 11

15/12/2021 - Performing Background Work

• Performing background work
  • Motivation
  • Definition of background work (i.e. non user facing)
  • Resource management, revisited
    • Processes
    • Processes and application lifecycle
  • Tradicional Android application architecture using BroadcastReceiver and Service components
• Introduction to the Work Manager API, continued
  • Purpose and motivation
  • Worker definitions and corresponding threading models
    • Worker
    • ListenableWorker
• For reference:
  • Lecture video (in Portuguese)

17/12/2021 - The Tic-Tac-Toe application

• Part 1 - Considerations on the design of android applications
  • Demo: The Tic-Tac-Toe application
• Part 2 - Laboratory
  • Practical class dedicated to the course's project
• For reference:
  • Lecture video (in Portuguese)

Week 12

05/01/2022 - Introduction to Jetpack Compose (extra curricular content)

• Android application development: a glimpse of the near future
• Introduction to Jetpack Compose
  • Purpose and motivation
  • Programming model
    • @Composable functions: State -> @Composable -> UI
    • Rules for composable functions: purpose and motivation
    • State management building blocks: remember and mutableStateOf
  • Execution model
    • For @Composable functions
    • For UI event handling
• For reference:
  • Thinking in Compose
  • Video lecture (in Portuguese)

07/01/2022 - Laboratory

• Practical class dedicated to the course's project

Week 13

12/01/2022 - Introduction to Kotlin's coroutines (extra curricular content)

• Android application development: a glimpse of the near future
• Introduction to Kotlin Coroutines
  • Purpose and motivation
  • Suspending functions
  • Coroutine builders, corountine scopes and dispatchers (introduction)
  • The official docs:
    • @ Android docs
    • @ Kotlin docs
• For reference:
  • Video lecture (in Portuguese)
  • Structured Concurrency
  • Conversation with Pedro Félix about coroutines (in Portuguese)
  • Using Kotlin Coroutines for Asynchronous and Concurrent Programming, by Pedro Félix

14/01/2022 - Laboratory

• Practical class dedicated to the course's project