Android is a sophisticated, multi-layered operating system encompassing a wide range of features, capabilities and components. This is organised into a 'Stack', whereby each layer communicates with the layer immediately below. Here we review this stack and briefly examine the primary components at each layer.
We review the structure, model and code in the MyRent 01 and 02 applications. The application at this stage has 2 views - sometimes called a 'Master-Detail' pattern. The Master presents a list of items which, if selected, will launch a detail view presenting the individual items. The List if items is randomly generated at application startup, and cannot be extended.
An overview of the Mobile Web Development & Enterprise Web Development assignments.
Central to almost all Android applications is the notion of an event. How events are intercepted and handled is an aspect of all android programmes. Here we review the underlying Java mechanisms used in this context
Our current version of MyRent (V01) only permits a single Residence to be entered. In this lab we seek to manage a list of residences. To do this we need to extend the model by including a new class - 'Portfolio' - to manage all our residences. We will also need a new Activity - ResidenceListActivity - to display the full portfolio of residences.
This is a short lab whose aim is to provide a detailed explanation of event handling via a simple standalone non-android application