Specification, grading guidelines and schedule for Assignment 1

Specification, grading guidelines and schedule for Assignment 2

Programming language heritage, characteristics & type systems

A simple algorithm expressed in Java, Groovy, Swift and Kotlin

A first look at the structure of an Android application a Kotlin activity.

The fundamental characteristics of the language

Rapid tour of the basic syntax of Kotlin

A deep dive into some key Kotlin features: Data Classes & Lambdas

This class enables a global application object to be defined, accessible from all activities

Managing lists is facilitated by the RecyclerView + Adapters - 2 key patterns in Android development

A tour of the common idioms in Kotlin

Snippets of the same code in Java & Kotlin

The Android Support Library implements AppCompatActivity + a range of general purpose components, including a ToolBar

Abstract the Placemarks data structure into PlacemarkStore interface + in-memory implementation.

Equip the Adapter with a Listener interface. Use this interface to communicate from the adapter to the host Activity

Encapsulate model data for transmission between Activities

Summary of the basic types in the Kotlin programming language

Collection examples: Java & Kotlin equivalents

Key features of the platform, the principle components + the activity model

A general term for all layout, strings, bitmaps and other XML artefacts in an Android Project

Creating and updating a Placemark. Updating the placemark list.

Support selecting image from phone gallery, and then displaying them in an activity.

Source files start with a package declaration. This can be used to access (import) features from the source file.

if, when, for and while statements

Control flow examples in Java and Kotlin

Key classes and relationships in the application.

Google Map Activity can be inserted into an app via a Wizard from Studio. API Keys must be acquired from google directly.

These abstractions enable the map view to be manipulated programatically, and facilitate direct manipulation by the user.

In kotlin, classes are more concise, explicit and fine-grained then Java

Functions in Java & Kotlin

When a simple file persistence strategy, CSV, Name/Value, YAML, XML & JSON are all potential candidate formats for file-based storage.

A detailed look at the syntax of JSON

A new PlacemarkStore implementation - PlacemarkJSONStore - to persist placemarks to a JSON file.

Kotlin properties and fields offer a richer set of features and variants over Java

Classes in Java & Kotlin

ConstraintLayout allows you to create large and complex layouts with a flat view

Introduce an activity to display all placemarks on a single map.

Kotlin interfaces largely follow Java 8 conventions

Classes, objects, interfaces, constructors, functions, properties and their setters can have visibility modifiers.

Overview of Model View Controller & Model View Presenter patterns

Detailed review of conversion of PlacemarkActivity to PlacemarkView & PlacemarkPresenter

Factor out common MVP features into BaseView/Presenter classes

The ability to extend a class with new functionality without having to inherit from the class

Classes whose main purpose is to hold data.

Sealed classes are used for representing restricted class hierarchies

The location APIs available in Google Play services

Using the Fused Location Provider to recover the last known location

Track the location, in real time, of the device.

Classes can be nested in other classes. Enums provide an elegant notation for a limited set of constant values

Objects, Singletons & Companion objects

A class can implement an interface Base by delegating all of its public members to a specified object

AndroidX is the open-source project that the Android team uses to develop, test, package, version and release libraries within Jetpack

A simple set of rules and requirements that dictate how version numbers are assigned and incremented

The Room persistence library provides an abstraction layer over SQLite

Implementation of PlacemarkStoreRoom, which stores placemarks in a SQLite database

A set of cloud services from google delivering app infrastructure

Signup, Login and Logout in Placemark

Storing & Retrieving placemarks to/from Firebase

Storing & Retrieving placemark images