Mobility landscape, Mobile platforms, Mobile apps development, Overview of Android platform, setting up the mobile app development environment along with an emulator, a case study on Mobile app development. Lab Practice: 1. Installation of Java Wireless Toolkit (J2ME) 2. Working with J2ME Features

App user interface designing – mobile UI resources (Layout, UI elements, Draw-able, Menu), Activity- states and life cycle, interaction amongst activities. App functionality beyond user interface - Threads, Async task, Services – states and lifecycle, Notifications. Lab Practice: 1. Working on Drawing and Images 2. Create a program which creates to following kind of menu Like cut, copy, paste , delete, select all and unselect all

Broadcast receivers, Telephony and SMS APIs , Native data handling – on-device file I/O, shared preferences, mobile databases such as SQLite, and enterprise data access (via Internet/Intranet) Lab Practice: 1. Developing Broadcast Receiver Applications using the IDE 2. Developing Telephone and SMS Applications using the IDE

Graphics and animation – custom views, canvas, animation APIs, multimedia – audio/video playback and record, location awareness, and native hardware access (sensors such as accelerometer and gyroscope) Lab Practice: 1. Developing Animated Applications using custom views, canvas 2. Developing Applications to play music in background

Debugging mobile apps, White box testing, Black box testing, and test automation of mobile apps, JUnit for Android, Robotium, MonkeyTalk, Versioning, signing and packaging mobile apps, distributing apps on mobile market place. Lab Practice: 1. Testing developed applications